Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keeps lists of political enemies. To the skeptical observer this doesn't seem like quite enough of a basis for a political party, or even for an attack on a rival political party. One might have expected Kennedy to attack Nixon for attempting to bribe the judge in the Pentagon Papers trial, for approving--by his own admission--a national security program he knew was illegal, for extorting secret campaign contributions from large corporations. To attack him for keeping lists of his enemies is a little bit like attacking the terror bombing of Hanoi on the grounds that...
...history of American involvement in Vietnam. Each leak, therefore, led to new repressive attempts to stop the pipelines. When someone from Kissinger's staff revealed that Cambodia was being bombed, Kissinger had wiretaps placed on all his subordinates to find out who was responsible. When Ellsberg gave the Pentagon papers to the American people in whose name they had been compiled, the government wanted so badly to punish him that it tried to bribe his judge. When antiwar Democrats began denouncing the war, the Democratic Party added VVAW, the Panthers and the Communist Party to the list of organizations against...
...were a briefcase containing "loose wires, Chap Sticks with wires coming out of them, and instruction sheets for walkie-talkies." The papers included a fake State Department cable linking the Kennedy Administration to the 1963 assassination of South Viet Nam's President Diem and a psychological profile of former Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg. Dean considered these "political dynamite." He asked Ehrlichman what to do with them...
Even the pro-Nixon summary contains the admission that the President was told by Dean on March 17 about the burglary of a Los Angeles psychiatrist's office to seek information about Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg. This was more than a month before the Administration informed the judge in the trial about it. The White House-ordered bag job contributed to dismissal of the case. Nixon had implied in a May 22 statement that he learned of this burglary on April 25 and then had "immediately" informed the court...
...Despite Nixon's past denials, the President ordered the 1971 burglary of a Los Angeles psychiatrist's office in search of information about Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg-a burglary that contributed to dismissal of the case. Dean claims he was told this by Egil Krogh Jr., a member of the five-man White House "plumber" team assigned to plug news leaks...