Word: langere
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...Langer. What was the kind of thinking that led up eventually to the 1966 summer study which, at least according to the Times, turns out to have been so important...
...Langer. (Let me start by saying that) the assumption behind this interview is that the Pentagon Papers may have more serious implications than the level of public discussion so far has really indicated. It was conceived as a kind of fishing expedition to see what people like yourselves, who were in positions of some power--at least we were led to believe at the time--(and of) relative knowledgeability when some of the events were going on, made of the Papers...You were not familiar, at that time, with the plans and projections that were being made about the bombing...
...Langer. Does it strike you in retrospect as surprising that in your position you didn't know very much? I'm struck by the way you both sound like ordinary citizens, like the "man on the street," when in fact you both were in and out of Washington, knew a lot of people, and presumably had some power...
...Langer. In preparing for meeting with you today, I reread a story I wrote for Science in 1967 based on telephone interviews with everybody who had been on Scientists and Engineers for Johnson. The range of disaffection then was certainly very great, but the article ended up by commenting on the feeling of powerlessness of all the people who had been on that committee, and I remembered wondering to myself, if those people felt powerless, who was feeling powerful at that time? Who was feeling in control...
...Langer. You two, or you two with a large group...