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Egil Krogh, Nixon 'Plumber' who authorized a pre-Watergate break-in, dies at 80
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Egil Krogh, Nixon ‘Plumber’ who authorized a pre-Watergate break-in, dies at 80
By Harrison Smith
Jan. 20, 2020 at 7:11 p.m. EST
Egil “Bud” Krogh Jr., a lawyer and Nixon aide who co-chaired the secret White House “Plumbers” unit and was sentenced to prison after approving a break-in at the office of Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist, died Jan. 18 at a hospital in Washington. He was 80.
The death of Mr. Krogh, a key player in the Watergate affair that brought down Richard M. Nixon’s presidency, came two days after the impeachment trial of President Trump began in the Senate. Mr. Krogh had suffered a stroke in 2015, said his son Peter Krogh, who did not give a precise cause of death.
A former deputy assistant to the president and undersecretary of transportation, Mr. Krogh was the first member of the Nixon administration sentenced to prison for his conduct in the White House. He later called the Ellsberg episode “a meltdown in personal integrity” and spent years teaching and lecturing about ethics, atoning for his crimes and teaching others how to avoid what he described as a historic error in judgment.
“If you compromise your integrity, you allow a little piece of your soul to slip through your hands,” he wrote in a memoir, “Integrity” (2007), with his son Matthew Krogh. “Integrity, like trust, is all too easy to lose, and all too difficult to restore.”
In the eyes of Mr. Krogh and many presidential historians, the 1971 break-in at the Beverly Hills, Calif., offices of Lewis Fielding, Ellsberg’s former psychiatrist, paved the way for a more notorious burglary at the Watergate complex in Washington nearly 10 months later, when two of Mr. Krogh’s former associates helped organize a break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters.
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Egil Krogh, Nixon ‘Plumber’ who authorized a pre-Watergate break-in, dies at 80
By Harrison Smith
Jan. 20, 2020 at 7:11 p.m. EST
Egil “Bud” Krogh Jr., a lawyer and Nixon aide who co-chaired the secret White House “Plumbers” unit and was sentenced to prison after approving a break-in at the office of Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist, died Jan. 18 at a hospital in Washington. He was 80.
The death of Mr. Krogh, a key player in the Watergate affair that brought down Richard M. Nixon’s presidency, came two days after the impeachment trial of President Trump began in the Senate. Mr. Krogh had suffered a stroke in 2015, said his son Peter Krogh, who did not give a precise cause of death.
A former deputy assistant to the president and undersecretary of transportation, Mr. Krogh was the first member of the Nixon administration sentenced to prison for his conduct in the White House. He later called the Ellsberg episode “a meltdown in personal integrity” and spent years teaching and lecturing about ethics, atoning for his crimes and teaching others how to avoid what he described as a historic error in judgment.
“If you compromise your integrity, you allow a little piece of your soul to slip through your hands,” he wrote in a memoir, “Integrity” (2007), with his son Matthew Krogh. “Integrity, like trust, is all too easy to lose, and all too difficult to restore.”
In the eyes of Mr. Krogh and many presidential historians, the 1971 break-in at the Beverly Hills, Calif., offices of Lewis Fielding, Ellsberg’s former psychiatrist, paved the way for a more notorious burglary at the Watergate complex in Washington nearly 10 months later, when two of Mr. Krogh’s former associates helped organize a break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters.
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