Word: pentagon
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...dining, dancing and entertainment at the White House. It was an occasion of deep national appreciation that was used by Nixon for a self-serving purpose. As he emphasized in his press statement, there is no proper connection between his efforts to plug leaks of state secrets?including the Pentagon papers?and the political espionage at the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic National Committee last June. One purpose of his press release, he said, was to "draw...
...Sunday, June 13, 1971, the New York Times published the first installment of what came to be known as "The Pentagon Papers." ... There was every reason to believe this was a security leak of unprecedented proportions. It created a situation in which the ability of the Government to carry on foreign relations even in the best of circumstances could have been severely compromised...
Therefore during the week following the Pentagon Papers publication, I approved the creation of a Special Investigations Unit within the White House?which later came to be known as the "plumbers...
...Watergate statement last week, President Nixon blamed leaks for most of the security countermeasures that led to the present crisis. What information was actually leaked, and how important was it? The most celebrated case was that of the Pentagon papers of 1971, which embarrassed the Government by recounting the long series of deceptions through which the U.S. became involved in Viet Nam, but which disclosed no important secrets. The other three main incidents...
CAMBODIAN BOMBING. William Beecher, a Washington correspondent for the New York Times (now an official at the Pentagon), reported on May 9, 1969 that U.S. B-52s were bombing Communist targets in Cambodia for the first time in the Indochina war-and with the tacit approval of Cambodia's then ruler Norodom Sihanouk. The report seems to have had little impact upon enemy action since the Communists knew perfectly well that they were being bombed. But the disclosure itself clouded the Administration's credibility (as well as that of Prince Sihanouk), since Nixon had been trying to convince...