William Ruckelshaus, Who Defied Nixon In ‘Saturday Night Massacre,’ Dies At 87
Then-acting FBI Director William D. Ruckelshaus pauses during a May 1973 news conference in Washington, D.C. Ruckelshaus died Wednesday at the age of 87. William D. Ruckelshaus, the nation’s first administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and a former deputy attorney general who was perhaps best known for defying President Nixon during the Watergate scandal, […]
