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Book SynopsisNOW A FIVE-PART HBO SERIES, STARRING WOODY HARRELSON AND JUSTIN THEROUX
The true story of The White House Plumbers, a secret unit inside Nixon''s White House, and their ill-conceived plans stop the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, and how they led to Watergate and the President''s demise.
On July 17, 1971, Egil Bud Krogh was summoned to a closed-door meeting by his mentorand a key confidant of the presidentJohn Ehrlichman. Expecting to discuss the most recent drug control program launched in Vietnam, Krogh was shocked when Ehrlichman handed him a file and the responsibility for the Special Investigations Unit, or SIU, later to be notoriously known as The Plumbers.
The Plumbers' work, according to Nixon, was critical to national security: they were to investigate the leaks of top secret government documents, including the Pentagon Papers, to the press. Driven by blind loyalty, diligence, and dedication, Krogh, along with his co-director, David Young,
