Nixon Was Living With a Drip

To be filed under the Truly Trivial category:

It must be the heat. (It couldn't be the humidity.) What else explains why we became preoccupied with the question: Why White House Plumbers?

It seems obvious once you know the answer (and it's given away in the title for this post), but it turns out the White House Plumbers, sometimes simply called the Plumbers, were a covert Special Investigations Unit established on July 24, 1971 during the presidency of Richard Nixon. Its task was to stop the leaking of classified information to the news media, hence the code name Plumbers. Its members subsequently branched out into various nefarious activities, including the Watergate break-ins, as operatives for the Committee to Re-elect the President.

So there you go. In case you didn't know. Don't know how good those guys were at really stopping leaks, but they caused quite a scandal trying. And we're betting they don't know squat about real plumbing. For that, you better call us - Boden Plumbing. We'll put a stop to your leaks - strictly on the up-and-up.

White House Plumbers on wikipedia

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