Article May 7, 2001 Issue

Egil Krogh—integrity intact

The conscience of a Nixon White House "plumber."

with contributions from Egil "Bud" Krogh

Thirty Years Ago this summer, Egil "Bud" Krogh, a very young, very intense White House lawyer, was directed to form the "plumbers"—Richard Nixon's secret special investigations unit, charged with stopping leaks of top-secret information.

While Krogh became an icon of that cynical era—the first White House aide sentenced to prison as a result of the Watergate crimes—the headlines faded before they captured the larger, perhaps more telling spiritual story of a citizen's redemption and his crusade for integrity in government and business.

In his memoir "Confession and Avoidance," Leon Jaworski, the Watergate special prosecutor, wrote about his "admiration" of the man he sent to jail: "The enduring question of Watergate is whether we, as a people, will learn from it. Some have."

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