A Watergate Casualty NYTimes Egil Krogh Jr. MAY 10 1973

By LINDA CHARLTON Special to WASHINGTON, May 9- A former White House aide, Egil Krogh Jr., resigned to- day as Under Secretary of Transportation, saying that his "overriding desire" was "to accept full responsibility for my acts and decisions and to assist in bringing all the facts and circumstances into the o p e n." The Man 33-year-old form- in the , er top assistant to John D. Ehrlich- News man, former do- mestic adviser to President Nixon, assumed the Transportation Depart- ment post Feb. 2. In leav- ing, he said that he was "making truth my guide." In Associated Press his long letter of resignation, "Almost a caricature of addressed to Mr. Nixon but the dynamic executive." released by the Transporta- tion Department, he gave one of the fullest statements of degree and joined a Stanford motivation that have been University Research Institute forthcoming from any of team studying Vietnamese those involved in the inci- land reform for the Agency dents growing out of the for International Develop- Watergate affair. ment. And the next year, in May, Mr. Krogh, who has a Without referring directly wife and two children, came to the break-in at the office to Washington as deputy of Dr. 's psy- counsel to the President. chiatrist, which he has pre- A few months later, in No- viously admitted authorizing, vember, he was promoted to Mr. Krogh wrote: deputy assistant to the•Pres- "Under the circumstances ident for domestic affairs, which prevailed in the sum- working closely with Mr. mer of 1971 [the time of the Ehrlichman, whom some ob- break-in] and based on the servers say he somewhat best information available to resembles in style. me at the time, I believed His other White House that my decision was dictated jobs, until he was nominated inescapably by the vital na- to the Transportation post tional security interests of by Mr. Nixon last December, the United States. included that of assistant di- "I see now that this judg- rector of the Domestic Coun- ment may well have been in cil staff, executive director error though prompted by of the Cabinet Committee on what was then my highest International Narcotics Con- sense of right. Its conse- trol and the White House quences, to my eternal re- liaison with the District of gret, have proved injurious Columbia government. both to a number of Innocent A man who worked with persons and to that reverence him in the last post recalled for law on which our society is founded." him today as "one of these Mr. Krogh's acknowledge- caricatures of the brisk, po- ment of moral issues seems lite, young, dynamic execu- much in character with his tive—he had all the facts, reputation. Three persons he'd done his homework, who know him described him never mussed, never damp, as "straight as an arrow." absolutely spic and span, but All three also cited his deep very pleasant." religious convictions. He is a The man added, "He Christian Scientist, like Mr. seemed to have a sort of con- Ehrlichman, who was his im- trolled impatience," to be mediate superior and a part- perpetually wishing that ner in the , Wash., everyone would move and law firm for which Mr. speak a litle more rapidly, Krogh worked when he was "but he never let it get out a law student. of band." Egil Krogh Jr (pronounced Mr. Krogh was reportedly, Eejil Krogue) was born in "never heavy-handed about on Aug. 3, '1939, and coming from the White graduated from Principia Col- House, " although "he seemed lege, a in- to have a really good pipeline stitution in Elsah, Ill., in into the upper reaches—you 1961. From 1962 through weren't dealing with an 1965 he served in the Navy underling." as a communications officer He was, said someone else and then went on to law who knew him only slightly, school at the University of "sort of like a junior Ehrlich- Washington and work in the man—a glutton for hard Seattle law firm of Hullen, work, a devout Christian Sci- entist who neither drank nor Ehrlichman, Roberts & Hodge. smoked, nervous of pub- In 1968 he received his law licity."