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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, March 17 2013 @ 07:07 AM EDT |
The Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers on June 13,
1971, and the disclosures touched off a public firestorm.
Trying to tamp down the blaze, Nixon took extraordinary
legal steps to stop dissemination of the secrets, ultimately
failing in the U.S. Supreme Court.
But Nixon had an even more acute fear. He knew something
that few others did, that there was a sequel to the Pentagon
Papers that was arguably more explosive – the missing file
containing evidence that Nixon had covertly prevented the
war from being brought to a conclusion so he could maintain
a political edge in Election 1968.
If anyone thought the Pentagon Papers represented a shocking
scandal – and clearly millions of Americans did – how would
people react to a file that revealed Nixon had kept the
slaughter going – with thousands of additional American
soldiers dead and the violence spilling back into the United
States – just so he could win an election?
A savvy political analyst, Nixon recognized this threat to
his reelection in 1972, assuming he would have gotten that
far. Given the intensity of the anti-war movement, there
would surely have been furious demonstrations around the
White House and likely an impeachment effort on Capitol
Hill.
So, on June 17, 1971, Nixon summoned Haldeman and Kissinger
into the Oval Office and – as Nixon’s own recording devices
whirred softly – pleaded with them again to locate the
missing file.
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| Authored by: albert on Monday, March 18 2013 @ 12:41 PM EDT |
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