Talk:Pentagon Papers
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What's the "credibility gap"? Maybe someone should start a stub for that. Kent Wang 07:07, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Within several months (as soon as the online interviews are active) someone should remove the link to http://www.bplcarnegie.org/oralhistory/ from this page to the "external links" section of the article -- the Boulder Carnegie Library's oral history program has a copy of a video interview with Daniel Ellsberg about the Pentagon Papers that will be put online sometime in the future.
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[edit] So what's the big deal ...
... about the Pentagon Papers? This article doesn't really say how or why their publication mattered, only that they were the start of a series of events leading to Watergate, etc. What did the PPs say that was so alarming? What was the broad consensus on their implications? LeoTrottier 16:54, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pentagon Papers
Second paragraph contains:
> the government had planned to go to Vietnam even when president Lyndon Johnson was promising not to
Johnson inherited Vietnam. The US began financial support for the French military there in the 1950's, and I think it was Kennedy who first sent American troops, although advisors etc. may have been sent by Eisenhower.
[edit] Nixon's Reaction
Nixon's reaction was initially calm and then developed into rage as can be ascertained from the White House tapes.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB48/nixon.html
[edit] period of papers coverage
Did the papers cover the period from 1945 until 1971, as the current article states, or was it from 1945 through 1968 (May of that year ?) as some other sources suggest ?
the pentagon papers are concerned with the period 1945 - 1967. the publication was made at the begining of 1971
[edit] Gulf of Tonkin
Someone deleted a reference to the Gulf of Tonkin resolution in the Papers -- it was my understanding that this was actually covered in the Pentagon Papers. Is this incorrect?--csloat 18:10, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
- It was covered, but it did not say that LBJ deliberately fabricated the whole thing. CJK 19:18, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
