A 'Saturday Night Massacre' Veteran Offers Trump Some Advice - By William D. Ruckelshaus
By WILLIAM D. RUCKELSHAUS JULY 27, 2017
William D. Ruckelshaus, a former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, was the acting F.B.I. director and deputy attorney general under President Richard Nixon
On Monday, Oct. 15, 1973, I stuck my head in Attorney General Elliot Richardson’s office to tell him I was going to Grand Rapids, Mich., to oversee the F.B.I.’s background investigation into Gerald Ford, President Nixon’s choice as his new vice president. I was the deputy attorney general.
Five days earlier, Spiro Agnew had pleaded no contest to a tax evasion charge and had been forced to resign as vice president.
Elliot and I and his immediate staff had spent most of the summer working on the Agnew case. It had been intense and emotionally exhausting. The vice president was facing criminal charges not only for tax evasion but also for taking kickbacks from contractors while governor of Maryland.
As I was about to leave, Elliot said, “We’ve got an even worse problem than Agnew.”
That’s not possible, I replied.
“Yes, it is,” he said. “The president wants to fire Cox.”
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