| International Standard Book Number |
9781250909138
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| International Standard Book Number |
1250909139
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| Personal Name |
Krogh, Egil, 1939-2020. author.
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| Title Statement |
The White House Plumbers playaway : the seven weeks that led to Watergate and doomed Nixon's presidency / Egil Krogh, Matthew Krogh.
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| Edition Statement |
Unabridged.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Solon, Ohio : Playaway Digital Audio : [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC, 2023.
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| Physical Description |
1 sound media player (approximately 4 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 9 x 6 cm.
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| General Note |
Issued on Playaway LIGHT, a dedicated audio media player.
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| General Note |
Requires one set of earphones and one AAA battery for playback.
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| General Note |
Previously released by Macmillan Audio, 2022.
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| Participant or Performer Note |
Read by Peter Krogh.
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| Summary, Etc. |
On July 17, 1971, Egil "Bud" Krogh was summoned to a closed-door meeting by his mentor, and a key confidant of the president, John Ehrlichman. Expecting to discuss the most recent drug control program launched in Vietnam, Krogh was shocked when Ehrlichman handed him a file and the responsibility for the Special Investigations Unit, or SIU, later to be notoriously known as "The Plumbers." The Plumbers' work, according to Nixon, was critical to national security: they were to investigate the leaks of top secret government documents, including the Pentagon Papers, to the press. Driven by blind loyalty, diligence, and dedication, Krogh, along with his co-director, David Young, set out to handle the job, eventually hiring G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, who would lead the break-in to the office of Dr. Fielding, a psychiatrist treating Daniel Ellsberg, the man they suspected was doing the leaking. Krogh had no idea that his decisions would soon lead to one of the most famous conspiracies in presidential history and the demise of the Nixon administration. The White House Plumbers is Krogh's account of what really happened behind the closed doors of the Nixon White House, and how a good man can make bad decisions, and the redemptive power of integrity. Including the story of how Krogh served time and later rebuilt his life, The White House Plumbers is gripping, thoughtful, and a cautionary tale of placing loyalty over principle.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Krogh, Egil, 1939-2020.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
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| Subject-Corporate Name |
United States. White House. Special Investigations Unit History.
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| Subject-Title |
Pentagon Papers.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Presidents Staff United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States Politics and government 1969-1974.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Audiobooks.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Playaway (Brand name)
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Krogh, Matthew D. author.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Krogh, Peter. narrator.
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
Macmillan Audio (Firm)
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
Playaway Digital Audio.
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
Findaway World, LLC.
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