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Nixon. and he at one point said dan, you don't have an option. i said, well, i don't think there is a win option. i said, you could double the number of troops and that would keep things quieter, but until they left. you can use nuclear weapons and kill off the people, i wouldn't call that a win. there just is no way to win. i too that opportunity to tell him something i long thought of telling somebody that was about to enter the world of really high secrecy. i said, henry, you're about to get a lot of clearances higher than top secret, that you did not know existed. that's going to have a se...

Of the pentagon papers that the white house had sent the plumbers to los angeles really i think broke open the watergate scandal. and then to top it all off, if the story needed topping, the fact that the president met with the presiding judge -- >> the man presiding over the ellsberg case, judge matthew byrne, today confirmed that ehrlichman had offered him the job of fbi director. >> it didn't seem possible but there were even more sensational developments today involving the white house. an admission from the federal bureau of investigation that it had listened to daniel ellsberg on wiretap...

Trusted man in america. >> good evening, daniel ellsberg, a former state department and pentagon planner and something of a phantom figure, agreed today to be interviewed at a secret location. i ask him what he considers the most important revelations to date from the pentagon documents. >> the people of this country can't afford to let the president run the country by himself. without the help of the congress, without the help of the public. >> dan does this interview which comes out on cbs, nationwide television, as the biggest fbi manhunt since the lindbergh kidnapping is going on looking f...

President, if you will, to what had happened it changed history. it was the cover-up of the ellsberg break-in that concerned the white house. and the seeds of all of watergate occur in the pentagon papers. >> the greatest result of what he did was to get president nixon out of office. that wasn't i'm sure any part of his expectation or his intention.

And we'd go out to dinner and double date, people were buzzing about it because he had been one of the top dogs. >> he did reports that ultimately got him fired about torture and various other reports they didn't like. after he left rand. he talked about lies and the studies he had done, lying that had gone on. i knew of a study, i read a study that revealed very high level lying. >> i said, dan, you should leak that to the press. >> keeping silent in public about what i had read and heard made me an accomplice. it was not only they who had kept all these decisions quiet, hidden from the ameri...