![]() ![]() With his greasepaint-black hair and mustache and his pulp-fiction posturing, Liddy was in life already three-quarters of the way to a caricature. (Even Nixon, on his infamous tapes, can be heard calling it a “comedy of errors.”) ![]() The bungling of the break-in - there was more than one, trying to get it right - borders on farce. ![]() When Liddy and Hunt go to reconnoiter the psychiatrist’s office, they wear terrible wigs by way of disguise. The Watergate gig - the least extreme of Liddy’s ideas for messing with the opposition - famously followed.Įven before starting to watch, one would expect a comedy, and that “White House Plumbers” comes from writers Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck and director David Mandel, who all worked on HBO’s “Veep,” only doubles that expectation. Krogh (Rich Sommer) gave them their first job, overseeing the burglary of the office of the psychiatrist of the Pentagon Papers leaker, Daniel Ellsberg, on a fruitless search for damaging information. Howard Hunt (Woody Harrelson) and ex-FBI agent G. Nominally based on the 2007 memoir “Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House,” by Egil “Bud” Krogh, head of Richard Nixon’s Special Investigation Unit - called the Plumbers, because its purpose was to stop leaks - the series focuses on the misadventures of brothers-in-abbreviated-first-names, former CIA operative E. A previous version of this story stated “Integrity” was first published in 2009. ![]()
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