Word: rosenthaler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Replying to critics who claimed that the Times had only started the series to make money, Managing Editor Abe Rosenthal said that there was no increase in circulation at all until the Government took the Times to court (then on one day it jumped about 60,000). But the cost...
Neither Sheehan nor the Times is talking about the source of the material. But the evidence is that Daniel Ellsberg, a former Defense Department analyst, is the man (see THE NATION) who volunteered the files to Sheehan. The reporter wrote a long, controversial book-review essay in March, weighing the...
Rosenthal dispatched Assistant Foreign Editor Gerald Gold to Washington, where he set up headquarters with Sheehan in a hotel room. But it soon became obvious that the project was too big for two people. On April 22, Sheehan and Gold moved their crates of paper into a five-room suite...
At the Times, editors were outlining the project to Publisher Arthur ("Punch") Sulzberger in his paneled, 14th-floor office. His reservations against running the news stories were minor, but on the advice of at least one Times lawyer, he hesitated at printing the related documents. A few days before press...
Satisfying Headline. After being virtually ignored all Sunday, the story's impact hit the next day. Callers to the Times were informed that there would be no comment whatsoever from any Timesman. Sulzberger himself finally broke the official silence. The report, he said, is "a part of history that...