December 10, 2011
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I have been having some difficulty reading a few memorandums attached to the Pentagon Papers study in digital format. The National Archives did an absolutely wonderful job of making the entire text of the Pentagon Papers ‘selectable’ in Adobe PDF … Continue reading
June 13, 2011
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An NBC report on the US Government’s decision to release a full redacted accounting of The Pentagon Papers:
August 26, 2010
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Watching this documentary about Daniel Ellsberg reminded me of his rather extraordinary life that has not yet stopped. With the recent WikiLeaks sensation its worth reminding America how powerful documents can change people and governments. I read Ellsberg’s book Secrets: … Continue reading
December 31, 2009
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What can you learn from a Nixon staff lawyer who pleaded guilty to approving the break-in of Dr. Lewis Fielding’s office in 1971? Plenty to my surprise. Egil Krogh‘s Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White … Continue reading
July 1, 2007
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Writers are Heroes. David Halberstam wrote his groundbreaking The Best and the Brightest in 1972 but won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for reporting on Vietnam. Did Halberstam reveal the deep mistakes (in Vietnam) that are visible today in Iraq? … Continue reading
September 4, 2006
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Daniel Ellsberg‘s Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers is about his direct experience in Vietnam and more importantly his role in leaking The Pentagon Papers. Daniel’s lessons in both academic research and military battlefields helped me learn … Continue reading