Riding horses and clearing brush at his rustic California retreat, the aging Ronald Reagan showed voters that he was still vigorous and down-to-earth.

James Watt, a conservative hardliner and foe to environmental activists who served as the Reagan administration's first interior secretary, has died. He was 85.

The Reagan administration's sharp-tongued, pro-development interior secretary was beloved by conservatives but ran afoul of environmentalists. Watt even managed to offend Beach Boys fans.

Dennis Quaid, who stars as President Reagan, sits in the plane with Penelope Ann Miller, playing first lady Nancy Reagan, in an interior scene filmed at the Simi Valley museum’s Air Force One ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — James Watt, the Reagan administration’s sharp-tongued, pro-development interior secretary who was admired by conservatives but ran afoul of environmentalists, Beach Boys fans ...

The Interior secretary James G. Watt with President Ronald Reagan in 1982. From the outset, Mr. Watt set about transferring control of many of the nation’s natural resources to private industry. UPI ...

James Watt, the Reagan administration’s sharp-tongued, pro-development Interior secretary, has died. He was 85.

Dennis Quaid, who stars as President Reagan, sits in the plane with Penelope Ann Miller, playing first lady Nancy Reagan, in an interior scene filmed at the Simi Valley museum’s Air Force One ...

James Watt, the Reagan administration’s sharp-tongued, pro-development interior secretary who was beloved by conservatives but ran afoul of environmentalists, Beach Boys fans and eventually the ...

James Watt, the Reagan administration’s sharp-tongued, pro-development interior secretary who was beloved by conservatives but ran afoul of environmentalists, Beach Boys fans and eventually the ...

James Watt, the Reagan administration’s sharp-tongued, pro-development interior secretary who was beloved by conservatives but ran afoul of environmentalists, Beach Boys fans and eventually the ...