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Square circle. >> one of the things that stood out about dan was how severe dan's judgments were about himself more than most people i had met, it seemed to me he was still, a recent convert, he was still sort of transfixed by this question, how could i have done what i did. slowly he began filling in the blanks of this thing i had never heard of, the study. i obviously didn't believe in magic potions. but clearly he was referring to something that was so definitive, that it was capable of changing your view.

Demonstrate the anger against the war. a number of us gathered in my apartment. we went to washington, and formed ourselves as an affinity group. dan ellsberg was our squad leader. he took command and was telling us when to get up and sit down, and when to move, and where to move, he was very decisive, and we followed his orders. not exactly a democratic situati situation. >> we would sit down in the middle of a street, tear gas would be lobbed in our direction and we would run. the national guard was out, and the 101st airborne had descended on washington. the level of anti-war activity had b...

With great intensity, but nothing more so than this notion he had of his own culpability for everything he had done in the early years of the war. he had an important role in what became the most ridiculously disproportional bombing campaign in the history of the world. >> dan was not some passive bureaucratic participant in vietnam. he was a true believer. >> i saw our involvement in the context of a worldwide conflict

Guess it was a saturday night, dan, pat ellsberg and my wife, decided we would go to the movies. butch cassidy and the sundance kid. i could see dan was agitated in some way, i asked him what was going on. he said he called a friend on the new york times and this friend of his said, i can't talk to you now. the times building is encircled by armed guards. and the printing presses are rolling, and we are printing tomorrow a top secret government document. >> this weekend, portions of a highly classified document came to light for all the world to see.

That. wow! jesus, this is it. anything else? anything like this? anywhere else? this was the only incident of its kind they found. it may have been the only one in the vietnam war up to that point, involving americans. but one was enough for my report. at 6:30 a.m. i wrapped it up. a little after 9:00 mcnamara came back from the white house and told my boss to thank me for my input. it was exactly what he needed. that's in fact the most shameful episode i can think of, that i really did at a critical moment help mcnamara persuade the president, that he should start a systematic bombing. to whi...