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When he wrote that, Ellsberg was laid up in Bangkok with a severe case of hepatitis. He felt that "the alternatives before me are to stay on with the Government in Viet Nam or to return home to research and consult: a choice between the engine room and the belly of the whale." The hepatitis helped him to make up his mind, and Ellsberg returned to the Rand Corp. in 1967, working basically out of the Santa Monica, Calif., office. He kept all of his top-level security clearances and remained active as a Government consultant. Ellsberg worked with Henry...
...article: "I have seen him steadfast and imperturbable with shells exploding around him (a ship chose the field in which he was setting up tests for its target during gunnery practice). I have also seen him steadfast when figurative bombshells were bursting about him after he had refused to consult further with the military, on account of his opposition to the Vietnam...
...rare here, perhaps because, as it is popular to suggest, we are a selfish, private people. But perhaps also because we have come to expect instant results to our actions. In a country where we can pick up a telephone rather than wait for a letter, where we can consult a computer for the results of an election minutes after the polls close, it becomes difficult to understand that political actions will have a delayed rather than an immediate effect...
Minister, has run a one-man show in The Hague, making all major decisions himself and often dismaying his civil servants by failing to consult with them...
...opposed, however, the role of the Standing Committee, which, according to the report, "shall consult directly with any department whose report [to the Dean on hiring of women] is unsatisfactory...