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245	0	0	_aInside the Pentagon papers / _cedited by John Prados and Margaret Pratt Porter.
260			_aLawrence, Kan. : _bUniversity Press of Kansas, _cc2004.
300			_axii, 248 p. ; _c24 cm.
440		0	_aModern war studies
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-235) and index.
505	0		_a1. Creating the Pentagon Papers -- 2. Publishing the Papers -- 3. Nixon Intervenes -- 4. First Amendment Rights: The Papers in Court -- 5. What Was So Secret? -- 6. The Impact of the Pentagon Papers -- 7. Legal and Constitutional Issues, by Michael J. Gaffney.
520			_aPublisher description: Inside the Pentagon Papers addresses legal and moral issues that resonate today as debates continue over government secrecy and democracy's requisite demand for truthfully informed citizens. In the process, it also shows how a closer study of this signal event can illuminate questions of government responsibility in any era. When Daniel Ellsberg leaked a secret government study about the Vietnam War to the press in 1971, he set off a chain of events that culminated in one of the most important First Amendment decisions in American legal history. That affair is now part of history, but the story behind the case has much to tell us about government secrecy and the public's right to know. Commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, "the Pentagon Papers" were assembled by a team of analysts who investigated every aspect of the war. Ellsberg, a member of the team, was horrified by the government's public lies about the war-discrepancies with reality that were revealed by the report's secret findings. His leak of the report to the New York Times and Washington Post triggered the Nixon administration's heavy-handed attempt to halt publication of their stories, which in turn led to the Supreme Court's ruling that Nixon's actions violated the Constitution's free speech guarantees. Inside the Pentagon Papers reexamines what happened, why it mattered, and why it still has relevance today. Focusing on the "back story" of the Pentagon Papers and the resulting court cases, it draws upon a wealth of oral history and previously classified documents to show the consequences of leak and litigation both for the Vietnam War and for American history. Included here for the first time are transcripts of previously secret White House telephone tapes revealing the Nixon administration's repressive strategies, as well as the government's formal charges against the newspapers presented by Solicitor General Erwin Griswold to the Supreme Court. Coeditor John Prados's point-by-point analysis of these charges demonstrates just how weak the government's case was-and how they reflected Nixon's paranoia more than legitimate national security issues.
651		0	_aUnited States _xForeign relations _zVietnam _vCongresses.
651		0	_aVietnam _xForeign relations _zUnited States _vCongresses.
630	0	0	_aPentagon Papers _vCongresses.
651		0	_aVietnam _xPolitics and government _y1945-1975 _vCongresses.
650		0	_aVietnam War, 1961-1975 _vCongresses.
700	1		_aPrados, John.
700	1		_aPorter, Margaret Pratt.
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