Word: ellsberg
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...disclosures now burst upon the public: the details of the original Watergate break-in and wiretapping; the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist; the coverup; the use of governmental agencies to harass political opponents; and such juvenile escapades as the so-called enemies list-which in effect really amounted to a list of those not to invite to White House dinners, something that exists tacitly in every Administration. The immature second level of the Nixon White House managed to turn this triviality into another national scandal...
...denies any involvement in the Watergate cover-up or the break-in at Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office--the two crimes for which he served 18 months in federal prison. He pins the former caper completely on Dean, and hints quite strongly that Nixon commissioned the later. Far from admitting any wrongdoing. Ehrlichman claims that Nixon though of him as the "conscience" of the Administration. The problem with that story is simple: he enlists no new evidence in his cause and supplements, his charges with no compelling arguments. He merely stakes his word against Dean's, the prosecutors...
...passed through the Society's doors have gone on to become the country's most successful and influential educators. A good 50 of them are now at Harvard, including Dean Rosovsky, Walter Jackson Bate, William Bossert. Harvey Brooks, John V. Kelleher, Harry Levin. Albert Lord, and E.O. Wilson. Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times, was a junior fellow: so was historian and Kennedy scholar Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, poet Richard Wilbur, and McGeorge Bundy, the one-time dean of the Faculty who went on to be Kennedy's national security...
...Harvard you must learn why it is important to risk your job or go to jail to change things like this when playing by the rules of the game doesn't work," Ellsberg said...
...point in the discussion, Ellsberg began to cry as he recalled a friend who was jailed for refusing to go to Vietnam. Describing the need to show similar courage today to avoid nuclear war, Ellsberg said such courage will not guarantee our survival. "But it can work, because it did before, and given the stakes, it must," he said