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Showed me hundreds of patrols going out every night going out on patrol. i picked a particular patrol, the chart was entirely a hoax, like all the optimistic statistics that had been coming in for years. there were no night patrols by our vietnamese forces. only the vietcong were out at night, they owned the country at night. >> we were very much in love. i joined dan in vietnam, and on that trip, he asked me to marry h him. we went to this party where

Betraying a friend, i hope i have the guts to betray my country. i remember when that was quoted at first, i don't agree with that at all. we're talking about many, many, many lives here. >> i was at a conference at ucla. there were at least a dozen people at that conference. and not one of them would shake hands with dan. not one would sit near him. they treated him as a traitor. and what did they. a traitor to his country or a traitor to his organization? it's hard to know. >> i was typhoid mary. i waslepper with a bell

Ellsberg was a leading, if not the leading young war thinker. >> the atomic bomb had changed so much. and the military knew that they needed fresh thinking. and they established rand and deliberately located it on the west coast of the united states so that it would be beyond the reach of anybody in washington who wanted to meddle in it. and essentially people were encouraged to think knew thoughts, to think big. >> dan really impressed people, smart, imaginative, good at technical reasoning, good at loc. he could collect ideas from anywhere. he could read short stories and get ideas. >> my wo...

Here, if they were known to the public would cause public opinion to stern against the war. he said, yeah, i got a set too. >> there was a culture of timidity in the congress, accused of being revealing the military secrets. didn't want to do anything with the papers dan ellsberg offered them. >> i had told my former wife what i was doing. she had told her stepmother who had then told the fbi it turned out. and the fbi came to harry rowan,

Appreciated what the meaning and importance and separation of powers is so much in the last week. >> when dan ellsberg released the pentagon papers he was doing it to stop the war. perhaps the most important legacy he left us with, though, was a supreme court case. the pentagon papers case, which is the most important first amendment decision in the court's history, i can guarantee you every day there's a first amendment lawyer out there citing the pentagon papers case. >> when we finally won the right to continuing publication, from the supreme court. this was a firm ruling that national secu...