But if there’s a thesis to “White House Plumbers,” the new HBO political drama series which premieres Monday, it’s that the Watergate scandal orchestrated and carried out under President ...

Mr. Krogh’s actions during the Watergate hearings infuriated his ... HBO said it was planning a five-part series, ‘‘The White House Plumbers,’’ based in part on Mr. Krogh’s memoir.

But it was two months after that, in March 1973, when the Watergate affair truly came back with a bang. McCord, a former CIA agent, accused senior White House officials of pressuring him to give ...