and that was the end of wally hickle's tenure of u.s. secretary of the interior. at that time nixon was firing walter j. hickle, he was doing something really important when it came to the u.s. the government and the specifically the way the u.s. government works on issues that were totally relevant to hickle's cabinet agency, this agency run by the dreaded wally hickle, president nixon was then reorganizing the way the u.s. government dealt with those kinds of auxiliaries department of the interior kinds of issues. in 1970, richard nixon was needle of creating a new federal agency called noaa. even though it was a new agency being ceded in 1970, the component part of weren't new. dating back to the weather bureau, which was founded in 1870 or the bureau of commercial fisheries, founded in 1871, parts of it been traced back to 1807, the survey of the coast, an awesome name for a governments function. all this stuff about the oceans and the land and the weather, it's really fundamental old stuff for the u.s. federal government. and there had been a few earlier effor

hickle was known as wally when he was a kid. born in kansas, grew up to be a golden gloves boxer. ultimately he made his way alone up to alaska. his obituary in "the new york times" after he died said that he started in alaska working as a bartender, then a carpenter, then he was an aircraft inspector. then he bought a half-finished house, sold it, bought two more houses, sold them, eventually he became a home builder in alaska. ultimately he opened a shoppg