Announcer: Birch Bayh was one of the Senators who thought the publication of the Pentagon Papers was the right thing to do. Birch Bayh: “The existence of these documents, and the fact that they ...
You know, and he’s an arrogant intellectual.” (JTA) — Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst whose leak of the classified “Pentagon Papers” exposed American deceit about the Vietnam War ...
During the oral argument before the Supreme Court in the famous Pentagon Papers case, a fascinating colloquy took place between Justice William O. Douglas and the lawyer for the government.