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Some suspicion that dr. elsberg had access to the more recent war plans that had been developed by the nixon administration and would be able to release those documents. i came from that meeting feeling very strongly that i was dealing with a national security crisis and i was to take any means necessary to respond to it. >> the difficulty is that all the good lawyers always say well, we got to win the court case. screw the court case. but get the son of a bitch in the press. that's how it's done. >> the president decided to set up a special investigation unit in the white house. >> we have to...

Mind was ghandi's victim. you should not cooperate with evil. the pentagon papers drama changed abruptly into the pentagon papers media freak out and farce as the documents arrived at the senate. >> i think dan was disappointed in that he may have expected too much from the publication of the papers. he may have expected the publication of the papers would create a greater sensation than it did. of course, it created a sensation. >> where is mr. elsberg? >> i hope he's in jail.

Elsberg was walled off by newsmen and supporters as he admitted he was the man who brought the pentagon papers to the press and congressional leaders. >> i did this clearly at my own jeopardy and i am prepared to answer to all the consequences of these decisions. >> have you thought about the possibility of going to prison for this? >> wouldn't you go to prison to help end this war? >> in one of the most important judicial decision in the history of the country, the supreme court today ruled that the "new york times" and "the washington post" may continue to publish the secret pentagon papers....

Proposal was made by e. howard hunt to get information that could be used to discredit elsberg. a covert operation had to be undertaken to examine all the files held by his psychiatrist, john fielding. this went to john. he wrote his large e after approve and then put in under your assurance, it is not traceable. >> the fbi came one day and said i'm afraid we have a subpoena for you to testify today at the grand jury. my father was very upset. he somehow thought that there was something more my mother could do to prevent this somehow, she had better legal advice or whatever her attitude was, y...

Probably some good justification for the strong feelings nixon had. he would make a decision in the national security council and the next day read it on the front page of the "new york times" or some other newspaper. this makes it virtually impossible to govern. >> just because some guy is going to be a mart er, we didn't in a position of allowing the fellow to get away with it. we have to keep our eye on the main ball, the main ball is elsberg. ♪