Prologue: Feasibility Study
Details of Hunt and Liddy scouting Fielding’s office are found in: Liddy, Will, 224–227; Hunt, Undercover, 164–166; Wells, Wild Man, 9–10.
“Daniel Ellsberg is the most dangerous”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 434; Hirsh, Price of Power, 385.
“Señora, somos doctors”: Hunt, Undercover, 166.
“Did you have time”: Hunt, Undercover, 166.
Cold Warrior
“Kind of a nerd” and other childhood details are from: Wells, Wild Man, 53–60; Ellsberg, Secrets, 24–25.
“I was terrible”: Wells, Wild Man, 63.
“I had become”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 24.
“I didn’t seem the type”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 26.
“To act reasonably”: Ellsberg, Risk, Ambiguity, and Decision, 1.
Ellsberg’s meeting with McNaughton, including quote “Vietnam is one crisis after another”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 35–36.
Background information on Vietnam and “I’m not very organized” quote found in: Prados, Inside the Pentagon Papers, 31.
For details of rising tension in Gulf of Tonkin: Moise, Tonkin Gulf, 74–106; and McNamara, In Retrospect, 130–132.
Details of first day at the Pentagon are from Ellsberg, Secrets, 7–10, and from author interview with Daniel Ellsberg.
“My very first day”: documentary film, The Most Dangerous Man in America, by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith.
Day One
“Am under continuous torpedo attack”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 7.
“We’re going to really strike”: Wells, Wild Man, 203.
McNamara background and “smartest man” quote: New York Times, July 6, 2009; Washington Post, July 7, 2009.
“Yes, Bob”: Phone conversation, LBJ tapes, Aug. 4, 1964.
Stockdale’s flight above Gulf of Tonkin, including his quotes in: Stockdale, In Love and War, 15–21.
“What in the hell has been going on”: Stockdale, In Love and War, 22.
Herrick’s “Review of action” cable is from: McNamara, In Retrospect, 133.
Stockdale’s own doubts are described in: Stockdale, In Love and War, 23.
McNamara describes meeting with LBJ and top staff in: McNamara, In Retrospect, 133.
“All right. Let’s go”: Goulden, Truth, 35.
“I wish the hell”: Goulden, Truth, 151.
“The latest dope”: McNamara, In Retrospect, 134.
“Do we know for a fact”: Mann, Grand Delusion, 351.
“For all I know”: Goulden, Truth, 160.
Everett Alvarez describes his preflight jitters and takeoff in: Alvarez, Chained Eagle, 20–21.
Hostile Action
Ellsberg describes scene in McNaughton’s office in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 11–12.
“My fellow Americans”: Lyndon Johnson, televised address to the nation, August 4, 1964. Available online at Miller Center [millercenter.org/president/speeches/detail/3998]
Alvarez describes his mission and shoot-down in: Alvarez, Chained Eagle, 22–26.
“The attacks were deliberate”: Dallek, Flawed Giant, 153.
“Congress approves and supports”: Joint Resolution of Congress, August 7, 1964. Available online at avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/tonkin-g.asp
Wayne Morse gets late-night call in: Karnow, Vietnam: A History, 391.
“Hell, Wayne”: Goulden, Truth, 49.
“I am unalterably opposed”: Mann, Grand Delusion, 359.
“Our Navy played absolutely no part”: Mann, Grand Delusion, 360.
“Our national honor”: Dallek, Flawed Giant, 273.
Ellsberg describes his reaction to the Gulf Resolution in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 12–16.
“I really looked down”: Prados, Inside the Pentagon Papers, 44.
“We were all cold warriors”: Prados, Inside the Pentagon Papers, 37.
Welcome Americans
Ho Chi Minh background is described in: Karnow, Vietnam, 130–138.
Henry Prunier’s experience in Vietnam is described in: Appy, Patriots, 38–39.
Ho’s declaration of independence is described by Archimedes Patti, an OSS agent present at the event, in: Patti, Why Viet Nam? 249–252.
Truman’s response to Ho’s declaration in: Patti, Why Viet Nam? 379–382.
“Your rifles”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 26.
Conditions in North and South Vietnam after Geneva Accords are described in: Karnow, Vietnam, 239–241.
“You have a row of dominoes”: Appy, Patriots, 46.
“Lyndon Johnson is not going down”: Logevall, Choosing War, 77.
Wider War
Ellsberg describes his job and daily routine in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 37–40; and from author interview with Daniel Ellsberg.
Details of Ellsberg’s family life, including divorce, are described in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 34; Wells, Wild Man, 175, 189.
“He was sad”: Wells, Wild Man, 207.
“All this was exciting”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 46.
McNaughton nearly fires Ellsberg in: Secrets, 40.
“You will stay here” and details of Alvarez’s first months as a POW are described in: Alvarez, Chained Eagle, 64–79.
“We know there’s going to be a war”: Alvarez, Chained Eagle, 110.
“We are not about”: Hunt, Lyndon Johnson’s War, 83.
The “Johnson Treatment” is described in every LBJ biography, including: Dallek, Lyndon B. Johnson, 86–88.
“I don’t think it’s worth”: Dallek, Flawed Giant, 145.
Goldwater calling Johnson “soft”: Dallek, Flawed Giant, 141.
Goldwater threatens to use atomic bombs in: Randall, LBJ, 513.
“We seek no wider war”: Dallek, Flawed Giant, 146.
“We all knew that”: Ehrlich and Goldsmith, Most Dangerous Man film.
“On the day the electorate”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 51.
“The time has come” and details of the meeting with Johnson: Karnow, Vietnam, 427; McNamara, In Retrospect, 167.
“I feel like a hitchhiker”: Karnow, Vietnam, 412.
Ellsberg describes his memories of seeing films of World War II bombings in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 22–23.
“An order from McNamara”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 68.
Patricia
“I need blood”: Ellsberg describes this scene in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 68–70; and in the Erlich and Goldsmith documentary film, The Most Dangerous Man in America.
“That night’s work”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 72.
“Now we’re off to bombing”: Beschloss, Reaching for Glory, 194.
“We seek no wider war”: Mann, Grand Delusion, 407.
“The brutal fact”: Dallek, Flawed Giant, 255.
“I guess we’ve got”: Beschloss, Reaching for Glory, 211.
“Oh my god!”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 73.
Marines arrive at Da Nang: Esper, Eyewitness History, 53.
Caputo’s first impressions are described in: Caputo, A Rumor of War, 53–56.
Patricia Marx background information is found in: Wells, Wild Man, 215–217; Edmondson, Women of Watergate, 105–106. Archives of her radio show, Patricia Marx Interviews, are available at WNYC [archives].
“Stay away from him”: Marx tells this story in: Erlich and Goldsmith, The Most Dangerous Man in America, a documentary.
“I thought Dan was interesting”: Wells, Wild Man, 220.
“I opened the door”: Wells, Wild Man, 221.
“I saw that she had”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 75.
“I have tomorrow off”: Ellsberg describes asking Marx for a date in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 75; and in the film, The Most Dangerous Man in America.
“I hope this is not going”: Ellsberg describes the war protest in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 76; and in the film, The Most Dangerous Man in America.
“How can you be going”: Marx tells this story in the film, The Most Dangerous Man in America.
“Despite the fact”: PBS press tour for the film, The Most Dangerous Man in America. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpvwx762aSk
“By the next morning”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 77.
“I was falling in love”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 138.
Limited Operations
“The U.S. Marine Force will not”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 73.
Caputo describes his first patrol in: Caputo, A Rumor of War, 76–94.
Deteriorating conditions in South Vietnam are described in: Karnow, Vietnam, 437.
“If I were Ho”: Dallek, Flawed Giant, 261.
“You don’t come here”: Logevall, Choosing War, 371.
“Are we sure to win”: Wells, Wild Man, 206.
Ellsberg describes McNaughton’s bookcase and secret binder in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 79–80.
“I want to be”: Patricia Ellsberg, interview with the author
“The conflict in Southeast Asia”: McNamara, In Retrospect, 187.
“Of the thousands of cables”: McNamara, In Retrospect, 187.
“The decision you face now”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 82.
“Their staying power”: Karnow, Vietnam, 439.
“Cut our losses and withdraw”: McNamara’s options detailed in: Kearns, Lyndon Johnson, 280.
“He had no stomach”: Dallek, Flawed Giant, 249.
“I knew from the start”: Johnson describes his sleepless nights and fears in: Kearns, Lyndon Johnson, 251.
Diving Board
“It was too much for me”: Ellsberg describes this scene in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 81–82.
“How had McNaughton”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 84.
“I asked Secretary McNamara”: Kahin, Intervention, 371–374; includes selections from the transcript of Johnson’s July 22 meeting.
“We did not choose”: Lyndon Johnson televised address to the nation, July 28, 1965.
“What? Has he changed”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 95.
The reaction of top military leaders to Johnson’s announcement is described in: Perry, Four Stars, 156.
“We felt that it would be desirable”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 96.
Ellsberg’s new office, diminished role in the Pentagon is described in; Wells, Wild Man, 224.
“If you can’t live”: Conversations with History: Daniel Ellsberg, University of California Television.
Ellsberg describes the appearance of the German poet in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 98; I also asked him about it in one of our interviews, and he told me the story, adding a few details that, at Patricia’s request, he had not included in his book. Patricia Ellsberg filled in further detail during a separate interview.
Kill Ratio
“I was death’s bookkeeper”: Caputo, A Rumor of War, 169.
“How recent are those figures”: Caputo describes this scene in: Caputo, A Rumor of War, 171–172.
“If he’s dead and Vietnamese”: Caputo, A Rumor of War, 229.
“If that general’s going”: Caputo, A Rumor of War, 176.
“Come on in, Major”: Cooper describes his visit to the White House in: Appy, Patriots, 122–123.
“You’re safest in a single”: Ellsberg describes his long drives with Vann in: Ellsberg, Papers on the War, 145–154.
Interactions with Vietnamese children: Ellsberg, Secrets, 134; Ellsberg, Papers on the War, 138.
“I remember my children”: Ellsberg, Papers on the War, 138.
“There’s little doubt”: Ellsberg, Papers on the War, 152.
Escalation
Stockdale describes his shoot-down and trip to prison in: Stockdale, In Love and War, 102–113.
“Not that I was ready”: Wells, Wild Man, 263.
“I was impressed”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 139.
“It wasn’t totally clear”: This and the following two Patricia Marx quotes in: Wells, Wild Man, 264.
“A military solution”: McNamara describes meeting with Johnson and growing skepticism about the war in: McNamara, In Retrospect, 224.
Krulak’s report and meeting with McNamara described in: Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, 630–632; Hendrickson, The Living and the Dead, 232.
Johnson wrestling with decision about troops is described in: Dallek, Flawed Giant, 343, 359.
For a description of the draft up to and including early years of Vietnam War: Foley, Confronting the War Machine, 35–39; Caputo: 10,000 Days, 88.
“I had a personal desire”: New York Times, December 12, 1971.
Ellsberg describes the scene with the girl finding her doll in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 128.
Break-Up
“We had made a desert”: Ellsberg describes this flight and his conversation with the pilot in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 135–136.
McNamara’s conclusion in: Hendrickson, The Living and the Dead, 235.
“No amount of bombing”: Karnow, Vietnam, 233.
CIA report described and Johnson’s response in: Perry, Four Stars, 159.
“I looked at those kids”: New York Times, December 12, 1971.
“What’s going to happen”: Patricia Marx’s interview with Neil Sheehan. This and many other of Marx’s WNYC interviews online at www.wnyc.org/story/neil-sheehan/
“How can you”: Ellsberg describes this argument in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 140; both Ellsberg and Marx comment on the fight in: Ehrlich and Goldsmith, The Most Dangerous Man in America.
“I thought she was unreasonable”: Moskin, “Ellsberg Talks,” 40.
Making Progress
“Komer here is saying”: Ellsberg describes his conversation in the plane with McNamara in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 141; and in Ehrlich and Goldsmith, The Most Dangerous Man in America.
“Gentlemen, I’ve just come back”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 142. You can see film of McNamara delivering this line in: Ehrlich and Goldsmith, The Most Dangerous Man in America.
“I hope I’m never”: Ehrlich and Goldsmith, The Most Dangerous Man in America.
McNamara describes his eventful visit to Harvard in: McNamara, In Retrospect, 254–256.
“How many innocent women”: The student who led McNamara to safety was Barney Frank, later the first openly gay member of Congress. He describes the day in: Weisberg, The Story, 61–63.
“For the first time”: McNamara, In Retrospect, 256.
“I have only a few years left”: Visit with the elderly couple described in: Ellsberg, Papers on the War, 185–186.
“I would make myself”: Wells, Wild Man, 266.
“I’m thirty-six”: Wells, Wild Man, 266.
Search and Destroy
“You’ll be mortared tonight”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 145.
Ellsberg describes the mortar attack and shell landing near his bed in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 146–147.
Ellsberg describes his first experiences in combat in: Moskin, “Ellsberg Talks,” 33; and in Ellsberg, Secrets, 152–155.
Additional details of life for infantrymen in Vietnam are from: Caputo, 10,000 Days, 6–7.
Firefight on January 1, 1967, is described in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 155–160.
“Sergeant, do you ever feel”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 160; and Ehrlich and Goldsmith, The Most Dangerous Man in America.
Lasting Impression
Ellsberg describes his final march in Vietnam in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 161–167.
Ellsberg’s bout with hepatitis is described in: Wells, Wild Man, 267; Ellsberg, Secrets, 174.
The car accident is described in: Wells, Wild Man, 70–72; Ellsberg tells the story in: Ehrlich and Goldsmith, The Most Dangerous Man in America.
“I think it probably left an impression”: Ehrlich and Goldsmith, The Most Dangerous Man in America.
Credibility Gap
“You will write apology”: Alvarez describes interrogations and torture in Alvarez, Chained Eagle, 158–162. Many of the pilots held in North Vietnamese prison camps later wrote memoirs, and all describe being tortured and abused. Stockdale details his experiences in: Stockdale, In Love and War; McCain describes his in: McCain, Faith of My Fathers.
Tap code shortcuts are described in: Stockdale, In Love and War, 160.
April 15 protests are described in: Wells, The War Within, 133–134.
Protests hitting home with top officials is described in: Wells, The War Within, 105–108.
“I’m not going to be”: Dallek, Flawed Giant, 500.
“This war could go”: Dallek, Flawed Giant, 459.
“When we add divisions”: Karnow, Vietnam, 518.
“That military genius”: Wells, The War Within, 219.
Johnson describes his decision to approve escalation: Johnson, The Vantage Point, 370.
“We are very sure”: Dallek, Flawed Giant, 472.
Marx’s anger with Ellsberg and “Bug off” line: Wells, Wild Man, 270.
“Dan, it looks very good”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 184; Halberstam, Best and Brightest, 637.
“I was mad”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 183.
“I don’t think we can have”: Bundy conversation described in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 183.
“We had failed”: McNamara, In Retrospect, 280.
“Tell your researchers”: McNamara, In Retrospect. 280.
Early work on the Pentagon Papers, including Ellsberg’s small role is described in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 186–187.
“They could hang people”: Halberstam, Best and Brightest, 633.
The Power of Leaks
“An emotional basket case”: Wells, The War Within, 198.
“The goddamned Air Force”: Wells, The War Within, 198.
“He does it all the time”: Wells, The War Within, 198.
McNamara’s break with Johnson and move to the World Bank is described in: Karnow, Vietnam, 524–525.
“I do not know to this day”: McNamara, In Retrospect, 311.
“I have never been more”: Wells, The War Within, 222.
“A new phase is now starting”: Willbanks, Tet Offensive, 197.
Preparations for Tet attacks are described in: Oberdorfer, Tet, 4–5.
“They’re coming in!”: Oberdorfer, Tet, 8.
Additional details of attack on the U.S. embassy are in: Willbanks, Tet Offensive, 34–35; Oberdorfer, Tet, 6–16.
“Looks like some trouble”: Oberdorfer, Tet, 18.
Overview of Tet Offensive is described in: Caputo, 10,000 Days, 74.
“The enemy’s well-laid plans”: Willbanks, Tet Offensive, 201.
“The reporters could hardly believe”: Willbanks, Tet Offensive, 35.
“What the hell is going on”: Randall, LBJ, 825.
“I wanted to be free”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 181.
“I used to take a shower”: Ellsberg’s new life and beach shack are described in: Wells, Wild Man, 272.
“We couldn’t break him”: Gilbert, The Tet Offensive, 19.
“We face a situation”: Westmoreland, A Soldier Reports, 352.
Ellsberg learns of secret troop request in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 202.
New York Times breaks troop request in: New York Times, March 10, 1969.
“As I observed the effect”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 204.
Low Point
“But once a decision”: LBJ describes reaction to the leak in: Johnson, The Vantage Point, 403.
“A majority of people”: Kearns, Lyndon Johnson, 337.
Johnson’s speech on March 31, 1969, including “I shall not seek”: Kearns, Lyndon Johnson, 348.
“We have just toppled”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 211.
Ellsberg describes hearing of the Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Robert F. Kennedy assassinations in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 220–221.
“If in November” and Nixon’s promises of “peace with honor”: Summers, The Arrogance of Power, 293.
“Things were spinning”: Caputo describes his firsthand view of the Chicago riots in: 13 Seconds, 10–12.
“Most of my energy went”: Ellsberg describes this personal low point in: Secrets, 224.
“I’m going to seek peace”: Dallek, Flawed Giant, 579.
“It wasn’t a big contribution”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 225.
“The bombing halt undercut”: Nixon, RN, 328.
“Anna, I’m speaking”: Dallek, Nixon and Kissinger, 74. The episode of Nixon undercutting peace talks is also documented in: Berman, No Peace, No Honor; and Ambrose, Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician, among other sources.
“I am regularly in touch”: Berman, No Peace, 33.
“The prospects for peace”: Ambrose, Nixon, 212.
“This is treason”: Mann, Grand Delusion, 621.
“It would rock the world”: Berman, No Peace, 34.
“I want to talk to you”: President Johnson conversation with Senator Everett Dirksen, November 2, 1968. Recording of this conversation online at the LBJ Presidential Library: www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/Dictabelt.hom/highlights/may68jan69.shtm
Madman Theory
The entire (and incredible) Nixon-Johnson phone conversation of November 3, 1968, is online at LBJ Presidential Library:
www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/Dictabelt.hom/highlights/may68jan69.shtm
“The materials are so explosive”: Berman, No Peace, 33.
“I play it gloves off”: Kutler, Abuse of Power, 9.
“I hope it’s right” and details of final day of the campaign are described in: Nixon, RN, 330–331.
Nixon describes waiting for returns, finding out he won in: Nixon, RN, 333–334.
“Richard Nixon is not fit”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 228.
Ellsberg’s impressions of Kissinger and working for him are described in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 230–232.
“Dan, you don’t have a ‘win’ option”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 234.
Nixon’s social awkwardness is discussed in: Dallek, Nixon and Kissinger, 90–92.
Johnson recalls the awkward scene in the White House Red Room in: Johnson, The Vantage Point, 563.
“I reflected on how inadequate”: Johnson, The Vantage Point, 565.
Nixon’s first night in White House with family: Nixon, RN, 366.
“I call it the madman theory”: Hersh, Price of Power, 53; Haldeman reported this conversation in his memoir: Haldeman, The Ends of Power, 122.
The Pentagon Papers
“A very odd man”: Dallek, Nixon and Kissinger, 91.
“Gentlemen, we have reached”: Nixon, RN, 381.
Situation in Vietnam as Nixon takes over is described in: Ambrose, Nixon, 241.
“But we have to look at”: Nixon, RN, 381.
“My administration was only”: Nixon, RN, 382.
Nixon’s duel reporting system on Cambodia bombing is discussed in: Karnow, Vietnam, 607.
Ellsberg gets a copy of Pentagon Papers in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 243.
“The same old spark”: Wells, Wild Man, 309; “It was exciting”: author interview with Ellsberg.
“Outrageous”: scene described in: Reeves, President Nixon, 75.
“Find out who leaked”: Dallek, Nixon and Kissinger, 122.
“It’s right”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 260.
“I couldn’t make anyone”: Hersh, Price of Power, 326; Ellsberg, Secrets, 331.
Ellsberg describes his visit to Ohio University and reflections that the visit inspired in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 247–248.
“Let me put a question”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 248.
Ellsberg describes the painful process of reading the Pentagon Papers in Ellsberg, Secrets, 250–257.
“What I had in my safe”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 289.
Whole Vote
“The same sets of alternatives”: Rudenstine, The Day the Presses Stopped, 40.
“Only atomic bombs”: Sheehan, The Pentagon Papers, 571.
“No American president”: Moskin, “Ellsberg Talks,” 34.
“A worthy effort gone wrong”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 256.
“It wasn’t that we were”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 257.
Nixon’s early strategy in Vietnam: Ambrose, Nixon, 277–278; Nixon, RN, 390–392.
“But at the same time”: Nixon, RN, 396.
“I refuse to believe” and plans for the “savage blow”: Hersh, Price of Power, 126; Ambrose, Nixon, 299.
“I will not be the first”: Ambrose, Nixon, 300.
“Cast your whole vote”: Ellsberg describes this pivotal scene in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 263–269. Randy Kehler shared his recollections of the event with me in an interview in 2014. The text of Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” is available online at: xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER2/thoreau/civil.html
“Yesterday our friend Bob”: this scene is described in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 271–272; author interview with Randy Kehler.
Night Work
“I want to come over”: Wells, Wild Man, 321.
Russo describes his background and firing from Rand: Russo, “Inside the RAND Corporation,” 45–55.
“Dan, you should leak that”: Ehrlich and Goldsmith, The Most Dangerous Man in America film.
“You know the study”: This conversation is described in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 295; recalled by Russo in Ehrlich and Goldsmith, The Most Dangerous Man in America.
Ellsberg’s exit from Rand with the first batch of documents is described in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 299–300.
“I wanted to help”: Wells, Wild Man, 322.
The scene at Lynda Sinay’s office during the first night of copying is described in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 301–302; and by both Ellsberg and Russo in Ehrlich and Goldsmith, The Most Dangerous Man in America.
“In a month or so”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 303.
“Within a couple of weeks”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 305.
Scene with Robert Ellsberg at the restaurant is described in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 306.
“I had a sense of being included”: Wells, Wild Man, 329.
“Your alarm’s gone off again”: Ellsberg describes this scene in: Ehrlich and Goldsmith, The Most Dangerous Man in America.
“I learned how to work a Xerox”: Wells, Wild Man, 329.
Troublemaker
“I went ballistic”: Wells, Wild Man, 330.
“I need to talk to you right away”: Cummings-Ellsberg confrontation in: Wells, Wild Man, 331–332.
“Don’t get rattled”: Antiwar demonstrations and Nixon’s response are described in: Ambrose, Nixon, 304; Nixon, RN, 402–403.
“I knew that after all the protests”: Wells, The War Within, 377.
Mary Ellsberg describes her night of photocopying in: Wells, Wild Man, 332–334.
“I asked her that night”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 329.
Russo’s innovation and “Instant declassification”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 308.
“It was a touchy situation”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 324.
Ellsberg and Marx leave for DC together, with Papers in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 324.
“Let us all understand”: Nixon’s famous “silent majority” speech is described and excerpted in: Dallek, Nixon and Kissinger, 164–165. Transcript at: www.nixonlibrary.gov/forkids/speechesforkids/silentmajority.php
“I had the public support I needed”: Nixon, RN, 410.
“He was articulate”: Wells, Wild Man, 351; Ellsberg describes Fulbright meeting in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 326–328.
“Now we were agreeing”: Wells, Wild Man, 309.
“She still wasn’t sure”: author interview with Ellsberg.
“He’s a troublemaker”: PBS press tour for the film, The Most Dangerous Man in America.
Behind the Mask
Alvarez describes visit to Museum of the Revolution in: Alvarez, Chained Eagle, 218.
Kissinger-Tho talks in Paris are described in: Berman, No Peace, 65–67.
“We had to think about initiatives”: Hersh, Price of Power, 170.
Cummings calls with news of FBI visit in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 333.
“Have you been talking”: Wells, Wild Man, 334.
Cummings explains how the FBI heard of Ellsberg’s photocopying in: Wells, Wild Man, 334–335.
“It’s too bad it has to end”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 334.
“If I had to choose”: contemplating Forster quote: Wells, Wild Man, 345.
“It’s possible that the campuses”: Ambrose, Nixon, 344.
“To protect our men”: Nixon quotes from his Cambodia speech in: Nixon, RN, 451.
Caputo describes trip to Kent State and scene there in: Caputo, 13 Seconds, 21–24.
“To answer stones and bad language”: Caputo, 13 Seconds, 25.
“Those few days after Kent State”: Nixon, RN, 457.
Campus protests are described in: Ambrose, Nixon, 351. Kissinger describes protesters at his apartment in: Kissinger, Ending the Vietnam War, 170.
“The purpose was to keep”: Krogh, Integrity, 109.
“He’s very disturbed”: Dallek, Nixon and Kissinger, 202.
“Searchlight is on the lawn”: Krogh describes this scene in: Krogh, Integrity, 105–106.
“I know that probably most of you”: Soon after Nixon’s late-night visit to the Lincoln Memorial, he dictated a detailed memo about the experience, which is excerpted in: Nixon, RN, 461–466.
Krogh arrived to witness the scene at the Capitol, which he records in: Krogh, Integrity, 115.
Bridges Burned
The Ellsberg-Marx wedding is described in: “Daniel Ellsberg of M.I.T. Marries Patricia Marx,” New York Times, August 9, 1970.
Ellsberg describes his meeting with Kissinger in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 346–348.
“That wasn’t the way you talked”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 348.
The Ellsbergs’ Cambridge apartment is described in: Wells, Wild Man, 373; and in: “After the Pentagon Papers,” New York Times, December 12, 1971.
“I want to do it”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 362.
“I’m sorry, I can’t do it”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 363.
Russo’s helicopter plan is described in: Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 79.
“These senators don’t seem” and Patricia Ellsberg’s reaction to reading the Papers in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 363–364.
Kissinger-Ellsberg confrontation at M.I.T. is described in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 352–353; Kissinger would later describe this scene to Nixon in: Nixon White House recordings, June 17, 1971.
“You know, boys, it’s a good thing”: Ambrose, Nixon, 423; history of presidential recordings: Prados, The White House Tapes, 1–12.
“Mr. President, you’ll never remember”: Prados, The White House Tapes, 13.
“Absolutely not”: Dallek, Nixon and Kissinger, 248.
“bulldog tenacity,” and Sheehan’s reputation in: Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 17–18.
Ellsberg describes spending night at Sheehan’s in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 368.
War Room
“We can’t get into something”: Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 80. Salisbury, a colleague of Sheehan at the Times, provides a detailed inside account of the Pentagon Papers story from the newspaper’s point of view.
“You have my permission”: Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 83.
“You’ve been talking”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 371.
“As soon as I got together”: Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview,” 33.
The scene in Spencer’s apartment is described in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 372–373.
“If this is the quality”: Ungar, The Papers and the Papers, 88.
“Well, we’ve got to get enough”: Nixon White House recording, March 19, 1971.
The Treadway Motor Inn scene is described in: Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 35; Rudenstine, The Day the Presses Stopped, 52–53.
“What the hell is going on”: Frankel, The Times of My Life, 325.
Ellsberg out of the loop: Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 134.
“the greatest story”: Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 93.
“Have you heard about”: Goodale describes the meeting with Times bosses in detail in: Goodale, Fighting for the Press, 45–47.
“Everyone has to remember”: for another account of this meeting, including this quote, see: Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 118–123.
A Matter of Patriotism
Ellsberg’s visit to Kehler at La Tuna was described to me in an interview with Randy Kehler.
“Each day someone has to die”: John Kerry’s testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, April 22, 1971. Online at: www.c-spanvideo.org/program/181065-1
“Man, am I glad”: Prados, Inside the Pentagon Papers, 63. Room 1106 is also described in: Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 165.
“It’s a matter of patriotism”: Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 171.
“I have to stop you right now”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 383.
“That study you showed me”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 385.
“He hasn’t given me any warning”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 386.
“Let it be four thirty”: Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 6.
“I would prefer to have it in the Rose Garden”: Nixon describes the day of Tricia’s wedding in: Nixon, RN, 504–507; more in: Ambrose, Nixon, 445.
Ron Ziegler gets a message from New York Daily News: Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 207.
“I owe him this”: Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 214.
Howard Zinn describes his night with the Ellsbergs in: Wells, Wild Man, 410–411.
“Well at least I’m standing”: Haldeman, The Haldeman Diaries, 299.
Times headlines: New York Times, June 13, 1971.
“I may be going out of town”: Wells, Wild Man, 413.
Slow Build
Nixon’s morning and initial reaction are described in: Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 232.
“We must be exceedingly careful”: Wells, Wild Man, 459.
“The key for us”: Prados, Inside the Pentagon Papers, 78.
Goodale’s reaction is described in: Goodale, Fighting for the Press, 1.
“The story is a bust”: Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 215.
“Oh my God. It has hit”: this and reactions of Carol Cummings and Robert Ellsberg in: Wells, Wild Man, 415.
“This has got to have been”: Wells, Wild Man, 414.
The reaction at Rand is described in: Wells, Wild Man, 416–417.
“It is unconscionable”: Nixon White House recordings, June 13, 1971. Transcript and recording online at: whitehousetapes.net/transcript/nixon/005-059
“A Consensus To Bomb”: New York Times, June 14, 1971.
“If the police come”: Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 238.
“I tell you Bob”: Prados, Inside the Pentagon Papers, 79.
“Unfortunately for Henry”: Prados, Inside the Pentagon Papers, 78.
“Don’t give ’em anything”: Goodale, Fighting for the Press, 73.
“You mean to prosecute the Times”: Nixon White House recording, June 14, 1971.
“What is your advice on that Times thing”: Nixon White House recording, June 14, 1971.
“Patricia and I listened”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 387.
“Something must be going on”: Goodale, Fighting for the Press, 74.
“The material published in the New York Times”: the text of Mitchell’s telegram is printed in: Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 240.
“You can’t stop publishing”: Goodale, Fighting for the Press, 74.
“What does Louis say”: scene on the 14th floor is described in Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 243–244; Goodale, Fighting for the Press, 74–76.
Mr. Boston
“Go ahead”: Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 243–244.
Goodale’s late night calls are described in: Goodale, Fighting for the Press, 77.
“Mitchell Seeks to Halt Series on Vietnam”: New York Times, June 15, 1971.
“We’re convinced you’re the source”: “The Suspect: A Hawk Who Turned Dove,” Newsweek, June 28, 1971, 16.
“It wasn’t any one page”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 389.
“This is a very bad situation”: Nixon White House recording, June 15, 1971.
Goodale describes finding lawyers to take the case as well as the scene in the courtroom in: Goodale, Fighting for the Press, 78–82.
“But there has never been a publication”: Goodale, Fighting for the Press, 83.
“The judge wants us to stop”: Goodale, Fighting for the Press, 84.
“Call Mr. Boston”: Bagdikian, Reflections, 3. Bagdikian provides a detailed account of his role in the Pentagon Papers story in this memoir.
“An old friend has an important” and conversation with Ellsberg: Bagdikian, Reflections, 4–5.
“Judge, at Request of U.S.”: New York Times, June 16, 1971.
“If we don’t publish”: Ungar, The Papers and the Papers, 134.
“Do you have back trouble”: Bagdikian, Reflections, 7.
Bagdikian describes picking up the boxes and meeting Ellsberg in the motel in: Bagdikian, Reflections, 7–12.
“We can’t go back”: Ehrlich and Goldsmith, The Most Dangerous Man in America.
Underground
Marina’s lemonade stand as described in: Prados, Inside the Pentagon Papers, 69.
Scene inside Bradlee’s home, including Graham’s “go ahead” is described in: Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 293; Prados, Inside the Pentagon Papers, 68–70.
“Curse that son of a bitch”: Nixon White House recordings, June 17, 1971. Transcript and recording at: whitehousetapes.net/transcript/nixon/525-001
“By the end of the meeting”: Dallek, Nixon and Kissinger, 312.
“I want him exposed”: Prados, Inside the Pentagon Papers, 84.
“Documents Reveal U.S. Effort in ’54”: Washington Post, June 18, 1971.
“I’m sure you will understand”: Ungar, The Papers and the Papers, 153.
Gravel describes his meeting with Bagdikian in: Ehrlich and Goldsmith, The Most Dangerous Man in America.
“The security of the nation”: Gurfein’s famous statement excerpted in: Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 312.
“I tried to stay one step ahead”: Ungar, The Papers and the Papers, 191. Ellsberg describes his time as a fugitive in: Ellsberg, Secrets, 393–408.
“Daniel gave up everything”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 398.
“The whereabouts of Daniel Ellsberg”: Boston Globe, June 20, 1971.
Tom Oliphant and the Boston Globe’s role in the story are described in: Ungar, The Papers and the Papers, 178–180; and Wells, Wild Man, 427–429.
“Secret Pentagon Documents Bare JFK Role”: Boston Globe, June 22, 1971.
“Well, Tom, I see you’re in the act”: Ungar, The Papers and the Papers, 180.
“I showed up at the courthouse”: Russo, “Inside the RAND Corporation,” 54.
Lynda Sinay’s arrest is described in: Wells, Wild Man, 449.
“Where is Dan”: Wild Man, 441.
Gordon Manning describes his dealings with Ellsberg’s team in: Wells, Wild Man, 436–437.
Arrest
“Mr. Cronkite”: Cronkite tells this story in: Wells, Wild Man, 438–439.
“During the controversy”: A transcript of the interview can be found in: Boston Globe, June 24, 1971.
Other papers publish on June 24: Rudenstine, The Day the Presses Stopped, 249.
“I can’t do that”: Ellsberg indicted and talks to lawyer: Ellsberg, Secrets, 404–405.
“After the last two glorious weeks”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 405.
“It was like going from Yankee Stadium”: Goodale describes Supreme Court scene in: Goodale, Fighting for the Press, 159–163.
“Wouldn’t we then—the federal courts”: Salisbury, Without Fear or Favor, 332.
“I think I’ve done a good job” and arrest scene in: Boston Globe, June 29, 1971; Washington Post, June 29, 1971; Ehrlich and Goldsmith, The Most Dangerous Man in America.
Fame
“I have in my possession the Pentagon Papers”: Ungar, The Papers and the Papers, 259–262; Gravel tells his story in: Prados, Inside the Pentagon Papers, 72–74; he is also featured in: Ehrlich and Goldsmith, The Most Dangerous Man in America.
“In revealing the workings”: Ungar, The Papers and the Papers, 244.
Reactions at newspapers are described in: Ungar, The Papers and the Papers, 250.
“Daniel Ellsberg is the most dangerous”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 434; Hirsh, Price of Power, 385.
“We’ve got to get him”: Nixon White House recordings, June 30, 1971.
“I really need a son of a bitch”: Nixon White House recordings, July 1, 1971.
“Thanks to the drama”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 413.
“Mr. Ellsberg has been hailed”: Ehrlich and Goldsmith, The Most Dangerous Man in America.
“We’ve just been informed”: Wells, Wild Man, 506.
“It was a tremendous boost”: Wells, Wild Man, 507.
“You have done a great duty” and other letters to Ellsberg in: New York Times, December 12, 1971.
“I was typhoid Mary”: Ehrlich and Goldsmith, The Most Dangerous Man in America.
“Hang him from the highest” and other reactions at Rand: Wells, Wild Man, 453.
“close to treason”: Wells, Wild Man, 458; Cavett mentions the Benedict Arnold comparison in his interview with Ellsberg, transcript in: Boston Globe, July 22, 1971.
Patricia Ellsberg describes her father’s reaction and her response in: Wells, Wild Man, 451–452.
“As I read, Ehrlichman told me”: Krogh describes this fateful day in: Krogh, Integrity, 14–18.
“I certainly wasn’t in the habit”: Krogh, Integrity, 30.
The Plumbers
Krogh meets Liddy and describes early days of the Plumbers in: Krogh, Integrity, 35–41; Liddy gives his version in: Liddy, Will, 145–149; Hunt gives his version in: Hunt, Undercover, 146–148.
“I could kill a man”: Wells, Wild Man, 16.
“A short, dapper man”: Krogh, Integrity, 39.
“A mood of manic resolve”: Krogh, Integrity, 41.
“Unstable, self-righteous”: Wells, Wild Man, 16.
“The picture that emerged”: Wells, Wild Man, 17.
“The more Liddy and I discussed”: Hunt, Undercover, 163.
“black bag job”: Liddy, Will, 158.
Krogh describes the memo and Ehrlichman’s response in: Krogh, Integrity, 67.
Hunt and Liddy meet “Steve” in: Liddy, Will, 162; Hunt, Undercover, 164.
“I am not guilty”: New York Times, August 17, 1971.
“It was almost like he glowed”: Wells, Wild Man, 509.
FBI investigating Ellsbergs is described in: New York Times, August 30, 1972.
“They asked me a whole lot”: Wells, Wild Man, 475; additional details of investigation are on pages 478–481.
“Psychologically, it’s not so bothersome”: New York Times, August 30, 1972.
“First your guys give me”: Hunt, Undercover, 165.
“Very few of the pictures”: Krogh, Integrity, 71.
Final approval of project and money from Colson are described in: Krogh, Integrity, 72; Liddy, Will, 164.
“Now for God’s sake”: Liddy, Will, 165; Hunt, Undercover, 168.
Bag Job
“All was as it should be”: Hunt, Undercover, 169.
“Well, we’d like to get”: scene is described in: Wells, Wild Man, 19.
Liddy helping the team break-in is described in: Liddy, Will, 167–168; Barker gives his version of events in: Wells, Wild Man, 19–21.
“George, this is Edward”: Hunt, Undercover, 170.
“What’s happened” and heading with Liddy for the building: Hunt, Undercover, 171; Liddy, Will, 168.
“I bet Krogh’s pissing”: Hunt, Undercover, 172.
“Eduardo, there was nothing”: Hunt, Undercover, 172.
“Do you think there is an Ellsberg”: Hunt, Undercover, 174.
“Would you really have used it”: Liddy, Will, 169.
“Get them away from there”: Ehrlichman, Witness to Power, 400; Krogh, Integrity, 75.
“The White House Plumbers”: Appy, Patriots, 439.
“A botched break-in”: Krogh, Integrity, 77.
Consequences
“I wasn’t discouraged”: Liddy, Will, 170.
“We’ll make waiters out of them”: Wells, Wild Man, 509; Liddy discusses the LSD plan in: Liddy, Will, 170–171.
“Brothers and sisters”: the scene and Ellsberg’s talk are reported in: “Secret Papers Figure Feted by U.S. Workers,” Washington Post, September 24, 1971.
Ellsberg to LA, visiting Russo: “The Busy Life of Daniel Ellsberg,” Boston Globe, December 19, 1971. This is a particularly interesting article because the writer, Anthony Lucas, spent several weeks with Ellsberg during this stressful time.
“I realized how many”: “After the Pentagon Papers: A Month in the New Life of Daniel Ellsberg,” by Anthony Lucas, New York Times, December 12, 1971.
New charges added to indictment: Wells, Wild Man, 528–529.
“Dan and I are charged”: Russo, “Inside the RAND Corporation,” Ramparts magazine, April 1972, 55.
“Both Haldeman and Henry”: Nixon, RN, 589.
“That’s why we’ve got to”: Dallek, Nixon and Kissinger, 371.
“I still think we ought to”: Nixon White House recordings, April 25, 1972.
“This period was one of the most intense”: Ellsberg, Patricia, “Got to be True,” article on her website.
“If heads are knocked”: Wells, Wild Man, 492.
“Our mission is to hit him”: Schrag, Test of Loyalty, 124.
Capitol protest and assault are described in: Wells, Wild Man, 496–500.
Plumbers scout Watergate in: Liddy, Will, 220.
“I remember feeling”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 419.
“For this I’m going to do”: Wells, Wild Man, 514.
Preposterous
“a comedy of errors”: Nixon White House recordings, June 23, 1972. This meeting also includes the infamous “smoking gun” conversation; transcript and recording online at: www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresearchers/find/tapes/watergate/trial/transcripts.php
Early attempts at Watergate: Hunt, Undercover, 222–225; for a great source on key players and timeline of Watergate see: http://www.washingtonpost.com/watergate/
“Gordon, I know you like scotch”: Liddy, Will, 318.
“There’s flashlights”: Liddy, Will, 335–336; Hunt, Undercover, 241–243.
“Is that you”: Liddy, Will, 338.
“Ground Combat Role Nears”: headlines and Nixon’s reaction are described in: Nixon, RN, 625–626; Ambrose, Nixon, 560.
“The White House has had no involvement”: Ambrose, Nixon, 567.
“Is it Liddy”: Nixon White House recordings, June 23, 1972.
Ellsberg preparing for trial is described in: “The World of the Ellsberg Trial,” New York Times, February 5, 1973.
“Louis Marx presently refuses”: “Daniel Ellsberg’s Closest Friend: His Wife, Patricia,” New York Times, August 30, 1972.
“That’s great. So I’m home free”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 431.
Peace with Honor?
“Henry, you tell those sons of bitches”: Ambrose, Nixon, 592.
Breakthrough in peace talks is described in: Hersh, Price of Power, 561.
“The most important thing”: Hersh, Price of Power, 563.
“The South Vietnamese people”: Berman, No Peace, 167.
“I wanted to punch Kissinger”: Berman, No Peace, 164.
Nixon describes painful tooth incident in: Nixon, RN, 715.
“I am at a loss to explain”: Nixon, RN, 717.
“I repeat my personal assurances”: Berman, No Peace, 187.
“Both North and South Vietnam”: Kissinger-Tho showdown is described in: Berman, No Peace, 189.
“We have no choice”: Hersh, Price of Power, 618.
“Atta boy”: bombing described by prisoners in: Alvarez, Chained Eagle, 248–250; Stockdale, In Love and War, 431.
“Despair. Horror”: Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview,” 10.
“savage and senseless”: Karnow, Vietnam, 667; “War by tantrum”: Nixon, RN, 738.
“Perhaps no more than 400 to 500”: Hersh, Price of Power, 625.
“If both sides now return”: Hersh, Price of Power, 627.
“It was not my responsibility”: Hersh, Price of Power, 632.
“You have tarnished”: Dallek, Nixon and Kissinger, 452.
“You have my assurance”: Karnow, Vietnam, 672.
Judge Byrne and the courtroom are described by Peter Schrag, who covered the trial, in: Schrag, Test of Loyalty, 174, 225; Wells, Wild Man, 538.
“The odds are in favor”: Moskin, “Ellsberg Talks,” Look magazine, 42.
“Send over whatever agent”: Dallek, Flawed Giant, 622.
“I have asked for this radio”: Nixon Address to the Nation, January 23, 1973. Online at: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=3808
“I came away”: Berman, No Peace, 261.
Liddy, McCord conviction is described in: “Last Two Guilty in Watergate Plot,” Washington Post, January 31, 1973.
Bizarre Events
“There it is”: Alvarez, Chained Eagle, 256–259.
“When things are going well”: “Only Few Memorable Moments Enliven Pattern of Tedium at the Ellsberg Trial,” New York Times, February 20, 1973.
“Any American who knew what we did”: Schrag, Test of Loyalty, 318.
Ellsberg on the stand: Schrag, Test of Loyalty, 319–324.
“If at any time”: Ehrlichman, Witness to Power, 375; Schrag, Test of Loyalty, 333.
“I know about that”: Ehrlichman, Witness to Power, 405.
“This is to inform you”: Schrag, Test of Loyalty, 329.
“Mr. Ellsberg, I don’t need to reveal”: Ellsberg, Secrets, 449; “Trial Will Go On,” New York Times, April 28, 1973.
“I wish I could say”: Schrag, Test of Loyalty, 331.
“Today, in one of the most difficult”: Nixon Address to the Nation, April 30, 1973.
“The White House, by initiating this meeting”: “Judge Rules Ellsberg Trial Must Continue,” Los Angeles Times, May 1, 1973.
“The conduct of the President”: Schrag, Test of Loyalty, 342.
Ellsberg visits saloon: Schrag, Test of Loyalty, 345.
“We have the rocky situation”: Nixon White House recordings, May 11, 1973.
“Commencing on April 26”: dismissal scene described in: Schrag, Test of Loyalty, 352–356; Wells, Wild Man, 556; Ellsberg, Secrets, 455–456; “This Was The Right Way to End it, Ellsberg Says,” Washington Post, May 12, 1973.
Painful Truth
“Aren’t you just as glad”: Nixon White House recordings, May 12, 1973.
“But I personally have thought enough”: press conference covered in: “Two Defendants Say Trail Told ‘Painful Truth,’” New York Times, May 13, 1973.
“And let me say”: Nixon’s “Remarks at a Reception for Returned Prisoners of War,” online at www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=3856; Ellsberg describes his reaction in: Wenner, “The Rolling Stone Interview,” 15.
“If the Communists dare put”: Berman, No Peace, 243.
“With every passing day”: Hersh, Price of Power, 637.
“Watergate junkie”: Wells, Wild Man, 558.
“Nixon’s effort to get me”: Appy, Patriots, 436.
“If it were not for domestic”: Berman, No Peace, 261.
“This is the thirty-seventh time”: Nixon Address to the Nation, August 8, 1974; Nixon gives his recollections of the scene in Nixon, RN, 1083.
“That depends, Henry”: Nixon, RN, 1084.
“Good luck, Mr. President”: Nixon, RN, 1089.
Caputo’s description of the American evacuation in: Caputo, A Rumor of War, 338–346.
Casualty figures are described in: Appy, Patriots, 163–164; for detailed breakdowns see: www.archives.gov/research/military/vietnam-war/casualty-statistics.html#category
“The evacuation has been completed”: Berman, No Peace, 272.
Epilogue: History Repeats
For a moment-by-moment account of Snowden’s initial contacts with Poitras and Greenwald, see: Harding, The Snowden Files, 62–79.
Another very detailed account: “How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets,” New York Times Magazine, August 13, 2013.
“I do not want to live in a world”: Watch Snowden’s first interview from Hong Kong hotel room at: www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-interview-video
For both sides of the Snowden hero vs. traitor debate, see “Why Edward Snowden Is a Hero” and “Edward Snowden Is No Hero,” The New Yorker, June 10, 2013.
“If any individual who objects”: Remarks by the president, January 17, 2014. www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/17/remarks-president-review-signals-intelligence
“Edward Snowden is a coward”: Bamford, “The Most Wanted Man in the World,” Wired, August 2014.
For Ellsberg’s opinion, in his words: “NSA Leaker Snowden Made the Right Call,” Washington Post, July 7, 2013.
Don Lemon’s introduction and interview with Ellsberg: CNN, June 9, 2013. www.cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2013/06/10/exp-pentagon-papers-whistleblower-on-nsa.cnn