David Young (Watergate)
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| Born |
November 11, 1936 Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
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Wheaton College, Illinois Queen's College, Oxford Cornell University |
David R. Young (born November 10, 1936) is an American lawyer, businessman and academic. He served as a Special Assistant at the National Security Council in the Nixon administration and an Administrative Assistant to Henry Kissinger. He has lived in the United Kingdom since the mid-1970s.
Young was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He received degrees from Wheaton College, Illinois, and Queen's College, Oxford, as well as a law degree from the Law School at Cornell University, New York. In 1965, he was employed with law offices of Millbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy, New York.
He is married to Suzy, and they have five children: Bradden, Catherine, Christina, Davy, and Cameron.
Young began his work for the Nixon administration in 1969 when he was appointed Special Assistant to the National Security Council. In 1971, Young 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"). (It is said that Young's grandfather was a plumber, and that this was his inspiration for the name.)
E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, of the Plumbers unit, participated in clandestine (and ultimately illegal) activities, the most notorious being the attempted 1971 burglary of the offices of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist and the attempted 1972 burglary of the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate complex.
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