Egil Krogh (far right) during Elvis Presley's visit with Nixon on December 21, 1970.

Egil "Bud" Krogh, Jr. (born 1939) was an official in the Nixon administration who went to prison for his role in the what would be known as the Watergate scandals. Image File history File links WHPO-MPF-5364(22) Richard M. Nixon meeting with Elvis Presley, 12/21/1970 Pictured: Richard M. Nixon, Elvis Aaron Presley, Egil Krogh. ... Image File history File links WHPO-MPF-5364(22) Richard M. Nixon meeting with Elvis Presley, 12/21/1970 Pictured: Richard M. Nixon, Elvis Aaron Presley, Egil Krogh. ... December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... // Events January-March January 2 - End of term for Frank Finley Merriam, 28th Governor of California. ... Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the thirty-seventh President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ... The Watergate building. ...

Krogh was born and raised in Washington. After his service in the U.S. Navy, he went to law school and became a partner at the Seattle firm of John Ehrlichman, Krogh having family connections to Ehrlichman. He joined Ehrlichman in the counsel's office of Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign. After Nixon was elected, Krogh helped with the arrangements for the inauguration. Krogh joined the Nixon White House as an advisor on the District of Columbia and later served as liaison to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. It was there he met G. Gordon Liddy. State nickname: The Evergreen State Official languages None Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Governor Christine Gregoire (D) Senators Patty Murray (D) Maria Cantwell (D) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 18th 184,824 km² 6. ... The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... Downtown Seattle skyline City nickname: The Emerald City Location Location of Seattle in King County and Washington Government County King Mayor Greg Nickels NP/Democrat ¹ Physical characteristics Area      Land      Water 369. ... John D. Ehrlichman as Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs, May 13, 1969. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... An inauguration is a ceremony of formal investiture whereby an individual assumes an office or position of authority or power. ... ... Who cares ... The Bureau of Narcotic and Dangerous Drugs directly preceded the Drug Enforcement Administration. ... George Gordon Battle Liddy (born November 30, 1930) was the chief operative for President Richard Nixons White House Plumbers unit when they broke into the Watergate complex, which at the time was the headquarters of the Democratic National Convention, in 1972. ...

Because of his work with drugs, he handled the visit of Elvis Presley to the White House on December 21, 1970. Elvis had shown up at the gate with a letter for President Nixon requesting a personal meeting about how he could help the government fight the drug trade. The meeting took place and Nixon gave Presley an honorary narcotics agent badge. Krogh wrote a book about these events The Day Elvis met Nixon (Pejama Press, 1994). Elvis Presley Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), also known as The King of Rock n Roll or The King, was an American singer and actor. ... December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...

The Nixon Administration was obsessed with leaks to the press and Ehrlichman made Krogh head of the "Special Investigation Unit" in the White House; Krogh and his associates were familiarly known as the "Plumbers." It was an unlikely choice. Krogh had a reputation as a "Mr. Clean," so much on the straight-and-narrow his friends nicknamed him "Evil Krogh." Theodore White would write "to put Egil Krogh in charge of a secret police operation was equivalent to making Frank Merriwell chief executive of a KGB squad." Krogh brought Liddy into his new office. The White House Plumbers or simply The Plumbers is the popular name given to the covert Nixon White House Special Investigations Unit established July 24, 1971. ... Theodore White on a book cover Theodore Harold White (1915–1986) was an American political journalist, historian, and novelist, best known for his acclaimed accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, and 1972 presidential elections. ... The KGB emblem and motto: The sword and the shield KGB (transliteration of КГБ) is the Russian-language acronym for the Committee for State Security, (Russian: ▶(?); transliteration: Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti), and was the umbrella organisation name for (i) the principal Soviet internal Security Agency, (ii) the principal...

When the administration decided to pursue the Pentagon Papers leakers, it was Krogh who organized the September 1971 burglary of the office of Lewis Fielding, the psychiatrist seeing Daniel Ellsberg. Liddy and E. Howard Hunt would commit the actual break-in. Ehrlichman, who himself went to prison, would write in his memoirs this was an example of "such doubtful personal judgement . . . that it has to be said [Krogh] materially contributed to the demise of the Nixon administration." The Pentagon Papers is a 7,000-page, top-secret United States Department of Defense history of the United States involvement in the Vietnam War from 1945 to 1971. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Daniel Ellsberg ©1990 Jock McDonald Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is a former military analyst who precipitated a national uproar in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, the US militarys account of activities during the Vietnam War, to The New York Times. ... Image:Ehowardhunt. ...

On November 30, 1973, Krogh entered a guilty plea to federal charges of conspiring to violate Fielding's civil rights and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. He was sentenced to six months in prison, being released June 21, 1974. November 30 is the 334th day (335th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 31 days remaining, as the final day of November. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...