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'We're going to publish': An oral history of the Pentagon Papers

By The New York Times
New York Times·
38 mins to read
'We're going to publish': An oral history of the Pentagon Papers
'We're going to publish': An oral history of the Pentagon Papers

On October 1, 1969, Daniel Ellsberg walked out of the RAND Corp. offices, where he worked as a Defense Department consultant, into the temperate evening air of Santa Monica, California. In his briefcase was part of a classified government study that chronicled 22 years of failed United States involvement in

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