Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon's arguments against surrendering the tapes was that they might be leaked, making private conversation public. Just such a leak occurred last week. A tape of a Nixon meeting with milk producers on March 23,1971, had been subpoenaed from the White House by Attorney William Dobrovir as evidence in a civil suit challenging the Administration's increase in milk-price supports. At a cocktail party in Washington attended by six other people, Dobrovir played five minutes of the tape "just...
...responsible for raising the security concerns in the White House that led to the organization of the "plumbers" unit. Kissinger acknowledges that he had a sense of outrage when the Pentagon papers were published. Not only did he think that it was morally wrong for Daniel Ellsberg to leak the papers, but he was deeply concerned that their publication would destroy negotiations with the North Vietnamese and the Chinese. Although Kissinger stressed the dangers of leaks in his talks with Nixon, he insists that he never in his wildest dreams believed that the White House response would be the plumbers...
Today Boudin is probably most widely known for his defense of Ellsberg. As he discusses the trial you get a peek into the many facets of the man's personality. There is Boudin the social wit: "Everyone makes leaks when they want to--Kissinger leaks, Ehrlichman leaks, the Justice Department leaks, government clerks leak, but when Ellsberg leaks everyone makes a big deal." As he finishes, he slowly breaks into a smile--deadpan is not one of his fortes...
...this point in TIME, let me be one of the first to leak the names of John Dean (the Squealer) and Daniel Ellsberg (the Stealer) for Men of the Year. Unquestionably, these two glib national figures left an indelible mark on 1973, thanks to their deification by a tendentious press...