The Ordeal Of Daniel Ellsberg
October, 1972
It was, by almost any standard, a heroic act. In terms of scope, the personal risk involved, its potential effect upon the course of a nation, Daniel Ellsberg's decision to make public the Pentagon papers was the stuff of which, in another age, an epic might have been formed. Confronted by what seemed a moral imperative, Ellsberg challenged--in a way that no one before him had dared--the apparently limitless authority of the Executive branch of the United States Government. He saw his nation usi...
