Walter Hickel gave up his job as Governor of Alaska in 1969 to go to Washington as President Nixon's first Secretary of the Interior. That turned out to be a mistake because Nixon fired him less than a year later. Hickel made the observation, which then seemed presumptuous, that Nixon had cut himself off from the outside world; worse, he allowed that view to leak out to the public. In his current bid for a second term as Alaska's Governor, Hickel, 55, used his dismissal as a point in his favor, but it was not enough to win him victory.
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