White House Plumbers 2023 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