Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overseas, there has been little impact so far from charges that Kissinger was 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...
...Nixon. They revealed that the only discussion of Watergate occurred just after the chitchat about Ely?and where the hum began. Said Haldeman's notes: "What is our counterattack? PR [public relations] offensive to top this. Hit the opposition w/ their activities ... Do they justify this less than stealing Pentagon Papers ...? We should be on the attack for diversion...
...pleading guilty to a charge of violating the civil rights of Dr. Lewis Fielding, Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Krogh had authorized the burglary in 1971 of Fielding's Beverly Hills office in an effort to dig up dirt on Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon papers to the press...
More Austere. The Pentagon does have more capability of increasing supplies than civilian businesses do. Indeed, nearly half the deficiency caused by the Arab embargo can be made up by tapping the naval reserves at Elk Hills. Calif. The field's current output of 5,000 bbl. a day can be boosted to 160,000 bbl. a day in three months if Congress authorizes the increase, as the Energy Emergency Bill passed by the Senate and now before the House would have it do. But the oil-parched military, unable to wait, has invoked an existing...
...reader has to wade through dozens of 'what I thoughts' and 'how I felts.' (Mailer is careful here too: his Armies of the Night, even though relying heavily on his personal experiences and impressions, had an entire section, "The Novel as History," in which he dispassionately described the 1967 Pentagon march and the events leading up to it. Similarly, George Orwell, in Homage to Catalonia, talked about the background of the Spanish Civil War in addition to recounting his own experiences at the front...