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...juxtaposition of Daniel Ellsberg, William E. Colby, and Victory Marchetti all in the same week (together, incidentally, with Canada's Boston Consul General, whose visit was unreported), was largely fortuitous. Colby was tentatively scheduled two months ago although his actual appearance was in doubt until late in the previous week; Marchetti was obtained by a Nieman Fellow who knew him, knew Colby was coming, and asked Marchetti to speak some time before or after Colby; and Ellsberg was booked on the day before his talk when he called me to say he was in town and I then invited...
...foregoing: first, whatever look of "balance" our speakers list may have acquired was accidental, though from my viewpoint serendipitous. But second, and more important, the presence of no one on that week's list "legitimize" any one else on that list, as some of your reports have suggested. Ellsberg did not "legitimize" Colby as a Nieman speaker any more than Colby "legitimized" Ellsberg or Marchetti. We don't happen to use such criteria in the selection of our guests, and we won't be held to using them in the future. James C. Thomson, Jr. Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism
...order is not in Magruder's book: they just said beat me up. Colson called him up. Take advantage of the fact, he said, that there is an antiwar rally at the same time that J. Edgar Hoover is lying in state. This will confuse the public mind that Ellsberg is demonstrating against Hoover. Which is what they told the Cubans--Hunt told the Cubans that they were to protect J. Edgar Hoover's catavault from desecration...
...history, but to do it all through sounding like a serious person, whereas Rostow managed to sound like a bubblehead and a pompous ass whenever he opened his mouth. I think Kissinger played one indispensible role, snowing the press. Now, are they dumb? Are they stupid? It's an Ellsberg rule--Ellsberg's Law of Bureaucracy, I'm not a bureaucratic theorist but what I learned in the Pentagon was: Anyone can be as dumb as he has to be to keep his job. The highest plum that any reporter can offer his boss is access to Henry Kissinger...
...Daniel Ellsberg '52 released the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times. These are excerpts from his talk with the Nieman Fellows last week...