Talk:William Ruckelshaus

Correct spelling of name
This article contains two spellings of the name; would someone with access to authoritative sources please clean it up? Thanks.

Saturday Night Massacre
The article states "In April 1973 he was appointed acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and in the same year was appointed Deputy Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice. In an event known as the "Saturday Night Massacre", Ruckelshaus and his boss, Elliot Richardson, famously resigned their positions within the Justice Department rather than obey an order from President Richard Nixon to fire the Watergate special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, who was investigating official misconduct on the part of the president and his aides."

I have a strong recollection that after Mr. Richardson resigned, Mr. Ruckelshaus did not resign but was dismissed for refusing to dismiss Cox. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Johhtfd (talk • contribs) 04:49, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't understand the relationship between this "in office as FBI-Chief till 9th Juli 1973" and the Saturday...Massacre. The Saturday Night Massacre occurs on 20.Oct.1973 - what happens on 9.July and/or between 9.July and 20.Oct.1973? --  Hartmann Schedel  Prost 17:16, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

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From an account supposedly written by Ruckelshaus, taken from http://crosscut.com/2012/03/29/history/22061/Bill-Ruckelshaus-Watergate-me/?page=single : "My resignation was sent over to the White House at the same time as Elliott’s. At 8 pm that Saturday evening, Ron Ziegler announced that Elliot Richardson had resigned and William D. Ruckelshaus and Archibald Cox had been fired.  Robert Bork was named Acting Attorney General.  Apparently, my resignation was not accepted by the President.  The following Monday, the President in a press conference announced that both Elliott and I had resigned.  I thus can lay claim to having resigned or been fired and often do, depending on the audience." Media accounts typically seem to refer to him as having been dismissed/fired. A letter from Nixon to Bork also said that Ruckelshaus resigned. There seems to be no dispute over the facts of what happened, it's just a matter of trying how to convey them, which is complicated by the ambiguity of the word "resigned." (As to whether "resigned" means merely that a resignation was offered, or whether it means that it was offered and accepted...Nixon seems to have meant the former.) 71.238.69.41 (talk) 21:53, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

EDF membership
The article states that Ruckelshaus was a member of the Environmental Defense Fund. I can find no other authoritative piece to corroborate that -- there is absolutely no mention of it at the EDF site, nor in any of his official biographies. What is the source for that statement? (Please, not Steven Milloy . . .)Edarrell (talk) 18:07, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

I have a statement from Mr. Ruckelshaus that he is not now, and never has been, affiliated with the EDF. 69.96.77.15 (talk) 19:42, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

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