This episode originally aired in May 2016. But his first reaction is a little surprising: The Pentagon Papers might make trouble for the Democrats – this instinct starts a chain reaction that helps bring down his presidency. President Richard Nixon wakes up to the biggest leak in American history. Soon, he was secretly copying the 7,000-page history that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers and showing them to anyone he thought could help. He wonders if leaking the top-secret report he’s read could help stop the war. When the Vietnam War flared, Ellsberg worried his worst fears would be realized. His work as a nuclear war strategist made him fear that a small conflict could erupt into a nuclear holocaust. When Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, he was turning his back on a long career close to power, immersed in government secrets. We hear the experiences of both Ellsberg and Rosenthal. Ellsberg, a former military analyst, leaked the secret papers to the press. Rosenthal was part of a team called in to publish the Pentagon Papers, an explosive history of the United States’ political and military actions in Vietnam that shattered the government’s narratives about the war. He was told to go to Room 1111 of the Hilton Hotel, bring enough clothes for at least a month and not tell anyone. In 1971, then-22-year-old Rosenthal got a call from his boss at The New York Times. He died last month at 92, and this week’s episode revisits a historic event along with our CEO and editor in chief, Robert “Rosey” Rosenthal.
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Please reload the page and try again.Īpple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | S titcher | Pandora | Amazon Musicīefore Jeffrey Wigand blew the whistle on the tobacco industry and Edward Snowden showed the National Security Agency could spy on all of us, there was Daniel Ellsberg, one of the original champions of free speech. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription.
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