David Young (Watergate)
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David R. Young, Jr. (born 1936, Jersey City, New Jersey) was a special assistant at the National Security Council in the Nixon Administration and an administrative assistant to Henry Kissinger.
In 1971, Young was assigned to the Domestic Council, where he worked with Egil Krogh, deputy to John D. Ehrlichman. This assignment was concerned with domestic and external security.
In this role, Young investigated information leaks within the Nixon administration, ultimately being jointly responsible with Egil Krogh for the founding of the White House Special Investigations Unit, subsequently known as "The Plumbers" ("We stop leaks").
(Trivia: it is said that Young's grandfather was a plumber, and that this was his inspiration for the name)
The Plumbers unit, which included E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy among its staff, participated in clandestine (and ultimately illegal) activities, the most notorious being the attempted 1971 burglary of the offices of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychatrist and the attempted 1972 burglary of the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate complex.
Investigation of these attempted burglaries resulted in Young's resignation from government service. Young was spared jail through the grant of limited immunity on the motion of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (the "Senate Watergate Investigation Committee") and the approval of United States District Judge John J. Sirica on July 5, 1973.
Young subsequently moved to Oxford, England, where he completed a doctorate and went on to found and run a consulting firm, Oxford Analytica, of which he is Managing Director.
[edit] Biography
- 1936 November 10 Born in Jersey City, New Jersey
- 1959 B.S., Wheaton College, Illinois
- 1963 B.A., Oxford University, England
- 1964 LL.B., Cornell University, New York and admitted to New York State Bar
- 1965 Associated with law offices of Millbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy, New York
- 1970 January 5 Appointed Special Assistant to the National Security Council
- 1971 July 1 Detailed to the Domestic Council at the White House
- 1973 April 30 Resigned from National Security Council (and detail to the Domestic Council) and departed from the White House
- 1974 August Accepted for graduate studies at Oxford University, England.
- 1975 Founded Oxford Analytica Ltd[1], a political research company.
- 1981 Successfully completed a D.Phil in International Relations, focussing on the internal politics of the Nixon Whitehouse. The content of this doctorate is allegedly only available to Readers at Oxford University's Bodleian Library, allegedly due to its national security content.
- 1982 July 1 Based in Oxford, England. Managing Director of Oxford Analytica Ltd.
