![]() ![]() And I think they.ĭAVIES: After several articles appeared, the Nixon administration secured a court injunction preventing the Times from publishing further stories. And they've been holding it for a juicy time. And I'm sure it was stolen at the time of the turnover of the administration. I mean, whoever - whatever department it came out of, fire the top guy. What about the - what about Laird? What's he going to do about it? Now, I just start right at the top and fire some people. NIXON: So what about the report? What about the - let me ask you this, though. HAIG: There are just a few copies of this. NIXON: Well, what's being done about it then? I mean, I didn't - did we know this was coming out? This is a devastating security breach of the greatest magnitude of anything I've ever seen. HAIG: Sir, the whole study that was done for McNamara and then carried on after McNamara left by Clifford and the peaceniks over there. I didn't read the story, but do you mean that was leaked out of the Pentagon? ![]() Nothing else of interest in the world?ĪL HAIG: Very significant, this goddamn New York Times expose of the most highly classified documents of the war. He learned about it in a phone call with Al Haig, who was then an assistant to national security adviser Henry Kissinger. The first article by Times journalist Neil Sheehan was published on June 13, 1971, when President Nixon was in office. policy in Vietnam and ways the American public was misled about how the war was conducted. The study came to be known as the Pentagon Papers. Fifty years ago this week, The New York Times published the first in a series of articles based on a classified Defense Department study that was leaked to the paper by Daniel Ellsberg. I'm Dave Davies, sitting in for Terry Gross. ![]()
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