Watergate, Elvis & Everest
Egil “Bud” Krogh tells great stories on himself – all with the punch line of hoping people will learn from his mistakes and lapses of integrity. Krogh, a young Seattle attorney who was just 29 when he became a top official in the Nixon White House, became head of the notorious “plumbers” who used national security as their justification for breaking into Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office to look for damaging materials. Krogh eventually decided to stop using national security as a…