"During the early years of the Nixon presidency, there was serious and lengthy discussion about using illegal means to get national security information from American citizens. On several occasions, wiretaps were placed without warrants.... We made our decisions in an emergency context. The nation faced serious foreign policy threats from the Vietnam War and the Soviet Union, while the White House staff struggled with President Nixon's penchant for secrecy, his fury at those who leaked classified documents, and his orders to investigate relentlessly those individuals he felt would compromise national security." Book jacket. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Although the Watergate scandal covers well-trod ground, Krogh has the perspective to provide a new angle on the Nixon administration and the perpetration of one of the most infamous political crimes in American history. Part of the book's appeal stems from the fact that Watergate itself is not the central focus, since Krogh was no longer involved with Nixon's "plumbers" at the time the scandal occurred. Instead, the political decisions leading up to the creation of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), the motivations of the individuals in that group and the break-in to Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office take center stage in Krogh's account, giving the reader a novel slant on a well known story. From his position as one of three leaders of the SIU (along with E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy), Krogh has a singular vantage point, and 30 years later he's had plenty of time to dissect the ethics and effects of the momentous decisions that led to the Nixon presidency's downfall. Krogh's conclusion is that the crimes have their roots in a breakdown of integrity, giving it wide applicability to the current age of government scandal and high crime. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From: Reed Elsevier Inc. Copyright Reed Business Information

Foreword	ix
Introduction	1
Part I A Criminal Conspiracy
1 Two Decisions in Two Days	13
2 The Plumbers Gather in Room 16	31
3 A New Leak for the Plumbers	43
4 Sparring with the CIA, the FBI, and "Deep Throat"	53
5 A Proposal Gone Awry	61
Part II The Making of a True Believer
6 Finding a Better Solution in Vietnam	81
7 Nixon at the Lincoln Memorial	105
8 Ensnared in Watergate by Blind Loyalty	119
Part III Consequences
9 Pleading Guilty	129
10 From Courthouse to Jailhouse	139
11 The Road Home	151
12 Making Amends	161
13 An Open Letter to the Bush Administration	185
14 Integrity in Public Life	195
Afterword: The Integrity Zone	205
Index	211

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