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...nominate Daniel Ellsberg for Man of the Year for throwing the monkey wrench into that perpetual-motion machine, Viet...
...conflict between the laws of God and the laws of man was obviously warring within Daniel Ellsberg. By following the dictates of his conscience, he has performed an invaluable service to the citizens of this country. The exposure of the unbelievably inept handling of an inexcusable war can have only positive long-term effects...
...report that Daniel Ellsberg "is particularly scornful of the [Viet Nam] war's apologists, such as Arthur Schlesinger and Richard Goodwin...
...Apologists" seems a curious word in view of the fact that both Mr. Goodwin and I published books exposing and condemning escalation in Viet Nam (Triumph or Tragedy: Reflections on Vietnam and The Bitter Heritage: Vietnam and American Democracy) at a time when Mr. Ellsberg was in there helping the war machine. I am glad that he has come over to our side, but his alleged scorn for those who saw the point long before he did seems singularly ungracious...
After the New York Times finished printing the ninth and last installment of the Pentagon papers last week, and then quickly published them as a paperback, the man responsible for spreading the documents to newspapers around the U.S. answered some questions. In Washington, Daniel Ellsberg observed that once the Justice Department tried to stop publication in the Times, it became "a matter of keeping a paper or so ahead" of the Government's court actions. Some newspapers were favored because Ellsberg thought they had reported Viet Nam to his taste in the past; others were chosen "rather arbitrarily...