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Daniel Ellsberg
@DanielEllsberg
My son
@RobertEllsberg
has it right. He knows the story intimately, having lived through it. These are among the facts I would have told Janny Scott at the
@nytimes
had she asked me for comments before publishing her article.
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@RobertEllsberg
“Now It Can Be Told” runs the headline on a breathless @nytimes story of how Neal Sheehan got the Pentagon Papers from my father @DanielEllsberg. Sheehan wanted to counter the usual (accurate) narrative that my father gave the papers to the Times. . . nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/
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Mike Phillips
@MikePhi86339109
Thanks for sharing. Without history taught we are bound to commit the same mistakes. And when shared, it helps identify those responsible... yesterday and today. ✊🏽
John Simpson
@JohnSimpsojh
I saw you speak about Vietnam at the University of Manitoba, in Canada, perhaps in 1972 or 3. It was a packed house and you were an inspiration. Dick Gregory and Daniel Berrigan may also have been on the bill.
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Thomas Drake
@Thomas_Drake1
Stunning deceit by Sheehan as reporter violating integrity of
@DanielEllsberg
in stringing him along. No wonder he didn’t want his spin on truth let out. Shame on
@nytimes
not fact checking w/ Ellsberg 1st. Good news? Pentagon Papers on Lie of Vietnam published in public interest
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Ken Macdonald
@KennethMLK
Far away, over here in Scotland, my 80 year old Dad knows all about what you did. He found me an old copy of the Pentagon papers in a charity shop after I gave him your recent nuclear book (I also gave him Robert's daily saints book, which he loves). People know.
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