Biggest rap on Richardson's resume is that he kow-towed to the enviromentalist whack-job lobby by refusing to allow brush clearance and undergrowth timber harvest in national forests and, as a result, we had huge swaths of forests burn down in the Rocky Mountain States on his watch.
If I recall correctly he tried to get Monica Lewisnsky a job in NYC to keep her quiet about her love affair with The Great Stainmaker.