From the Radio Room of the USS Yorktown to the Oval Office of the White House

Yorktown's Radio Department Officer Lt. jg EGIL (BUD) KROGH in 1963-1964 goes on to become an aide to President Nixon, meets with Elvis, heads up the "Plumbers" unit that precedes the Watergate crisis and Nixon resignation and eventually goes to jail.

Tom Straub, a Yorktown Radioman remembers his soon to be famous (or infamous) Officer. 

"After a mid-watch, Lt. jg Krogh made me stay up and write 500 times: "I will not forget to wake up the (next) OOD." When I ran into him later that day, he told me to forget about it.  It's a good thing, because I fell asleep and never finished.

 I also remember us being told not to tell anyone where the ship was going.  Radiomen always got the word first. Remarkably though, his wife seemed to appear at every port we went to." Tom Straub

 {Thanks to George Brubaker for cruisebook picture}

On December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley paid a visit to President Richard M. Nixon at the White House in Washington, D.C. The meeting was initiated by Presley, who wrote Nixon a six-page letter requesting a visit with the President and suggesting that he be made a "Federal Agent-at-Large" in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.

"The President and 'The King'"  (and former Yorktown Lt. jg Krogh) in the Oval Office at the White House

The events leading up to and after the meeting are detailed in the documentation and photographs  which include Presley's handwritten letter, memoranda from Nixon staff and aides Egil (Bud) Krogh, and the thank-you note from Nixon for the gifts (including a Colt 45 pistol and family photos) that Presley brought with him to the Oval Office.  click here for US National Achieves

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After being a successful Washington State lawyer at age 29 Bud began working for President Nixon at the White House.  In July, 1971 Nixon Aide Ehrlichman appoints Young and Egil "Bud" Krogh, Jr. to direct a Special Investigations Unit to investigate the leak of the Pentagon Papers. Young and Krogh's group become known as the "plumbers".  Bud was convicted, served time in prison and lost his license to practice.

Krogh was eventually readmitted to the Washington State Bar, and was hired by a Seattle law firm.

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