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Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House
PublicAffairs
September 2007
On Sale: August 27, 2007
220 pages
ISBN: 1586484672
EAN: 9781586484675
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
One of the "president's men" in the Watergate era recalls
how he lost his way and destroyed his life under the
pressure of politics and power, and provides lessons in what
integrity--and success--really mean. In 1971, Egil "Bud" Krogh was summoned to a closed-door
meeting by John Ehrlichman, his mentor and key confidant of
President Richard Nixon, in a secluded office in the Western
White House. Krogh thought he was walking into a meeting to discuss the
drug control program launched on his most recent trip to
South Vietnam. Instead, he was handed a file and the
responsibility for the SIU, Special Investigations Unit,
later to become notorious as "The Plumbers." The unit was to
investigate the leaks of topsecret government documents,
particularly the Pentagon Papers, to the press. The
president considered this task critical to national
security. Nixon said he wanted the unit headed up by a "real
son of a bitch." He got the studious, zealous, and
loyal-to-a-fault Bud Krogh instead. In that instant, Krogh was handed the job that would lead to
one of the most famous conspiracies in presidential history
and the demise of the Nixon administration. Integrity is
Krogh's memoir of his experiences--of what really went on
behind closed doors, of how a good man can lose his moral
compass, of how exercising power without integrity can
destroy a life. It also tells the moving story of how he
turned his life back around. For anyone interested in the
ethical challenges of leadership, or of professional life,
Integrity is thought-provoking and inspiring reading
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