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Egil "Bud" Krogh

Egil “Bud” Krogh (US’57, C’61) graduated with Highest Honors from Principia College and spent three years in the Navy serving during the early years of the Vietnam War. Bud attended the University of Washington Law School, where he was the editor of the Washington Law Review. After graduation, Bud was hired by a Seattle land use law firm, run by longtime family friend and mentor, John Ehrlichman. In 1968, at the age of 29, Krogh joined Ehrlichman in Washington, DC, on President Richard Nixon’s White House staff, where Ehrlichman served as Counsel to the President and Bud served as Deputy Counsel.

In 2007 Bud published his memoir title: Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House. Integrity is a history of Krogh's experiences--of what really went on behind closed doors, of how a good man can lose his moral compass, of how exercising power without integrity can destroy a life. It also tells the moving story of how he turned his life back around. The DKA award was presented to Bud by Helen Andrews, in July 2008.

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