| • Science | • People | • Locations | • Timeline |
In a 1973 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 CoxArchibald Cox, Jr. May 12, 1912 May 29, 2004), a native of Plainfield, New Jersey, was an American lawyer who served as United States Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy and was the special prosecutor for the Watergate Scandal. Before he bec, who was investigating official misconduct on the part of the president and his aides.
After leaving the Justice Department, Ruckelshaus returned to the private sector and the practice of law, serving for a time as the Senior Vice-President of Legal Affairs of WeyerhaeuserWeyerhaeuser Company ( NYSE:WY) is an American forest products company based in Federal Way, Washington. Weyerhaeuser is an international forest products company that operates five major business segments: • Timberlands — Grows and harvests trees in renew.
In 1983Events January January 1 Beat Raaflaub became Basel Boys Choir's new conductor January 1 the ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet. January 1 compulsory wearing of seat belts becomes law in the UK. January 2 The mu, with the EPA in crisis due to mass resignations over the mishandling of the Superfund project, President Ronald ReaganRonald Wilson Reagan ( February 6, 1911 June 5, 2004) was the 40th ( 1981 1989) President of the United States and the 33rd ( 1967 1975) Governor of California. Reagan was also an actor in films before entering politics. Early life and career Reagan was b appointed Ruckelshaus to serve as interim director, a position he held through most of the following year.