Book: Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, And Life Lessons From The White House The head of Richard Nixons SIU (Special Investigations Unit, also known as The Plumbers) pens a memoir of good people, bad choices, and life lessons learned from Watergate and the Nixon White House.
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 top-secret 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.
Details of Book: Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, And Life Lessons From The White House Book: Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, And Life Lessons From The White House
Author: Egil "bud" Krogh, Matthew Krogh
ISBN: 1586484672
ISBN-13: 9781586484675
, 978-1586484675
Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Date: Sep 2007
Publisher: Publicaffairs
Number of Pages: 220
Language: English