Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dying to know all about Watergate and the Pentagon papers, but then I was dying to know all about Chappaquiddick...
Former Attorney General John Mitchell, once Nixon's closest political adviser, was indicted for perjury and conspiracy to defraud; so was Nixon's chief campaign fund raiser, former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans. The arduously prepared prosecution of Daniel Ellsberg for leaking the Pentagon papers was dismissed because of Government wiretapping, burglary and other misconduct...
...Before the Government's case against Pentagon Papers Defendants Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo was thrown out of court (see page 28), unnamed Justice Department officials said that Nixon twice in the past three weeks had tried to keep the department from informing Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. that the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist had been broken into by covert agents operating on orders from people in the White House. Nixon reluctantly agreed to pass along this information only after high Justice Department officials repeatedly advised him that the Los Angeles court had every right to know...
DURING THE FINAL two weeks of the Pentagon Papers case, the public's only difficulty was in recalling which side was on trial. The jury never got to rule whether the unauthorized release of embarrassing political documents was a crime. But the disclosures of White House-directed theft, disappearing FBI records, and a network of clandestine intelligence probes directed at reporters and Federal officials further clouded the already murky waters of scandal in which the Nixon administration increasingly finds itself floundering...
...learned the art of briefing while on General Douglas MacArthur's staff during the Korean War. That job and then a case of hepatitis kept him from the fighting. He was late getting to Viet Nam because Defense Secretary Robert McNamara wanted to keep him in the Pentagon as a special assistant. Finally, in 1966-67, he commanded first a battalion, then a brigade in combat. He was seriously wounded and had several close brushes with death. As a colonel, he was asked to join Henry Kissinger's staff temporarily in 1969, and soon became Kissinger...