Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House

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PublicAffairs, 2007 M08 28 - 220 páginas
SOON TO BE AN HBO SERIES, "THE WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS," STARRING WOODY HARRELSON AND JUSTIN THEROUX

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.

 

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Introduction
1
Two Decisions in Two Days
13
The Plumbers Gather in Room 16
31
A New Leak for the Plumbers
43
Sparring with the CIA the FBI and Deep Throat
53
A Proposal Gone Awry
61
Finding a Better Solution in Vietnam
81
Nixon at the Lincoln Memorial
105
Ensnared in Watergate by Blind Loyalty
119
Pleading Guilty
129
From Courthouse to Jailhouse
139
The Road Home
151
An Open Letter to the Bush Administration
185
The Integrity Zone
205
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Egil "Bud" Krogh made headlines as a Nixon Administration official who went to prison for his role in what would be known as the Watergate scandals. He is a practicing lawyer in Seattle, Washington.

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