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Why are the media & Hollywood so obsessed with Richard Nixon? In Part Five, we explore President Richard Nixon’s extraordinary journey to his second term…and how it set the stage for the Establishment’s revenge.
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Previously on Red Pilled America.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
H Richard, Bill House Nixon do solemnly swear.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting
at one another.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
The message won him the White House, but by a
narrow margin.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Next up, for them the moon.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
This has to be the proudest day of our lives.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Kennedy went into court today and pleaded guilted.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
The left needed something to muddy up the man from
the Orblinda.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Portions of a highly classified Pentagon document came the light.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
The Pentagon paper story would become a turning point in
American politics.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Well, it's a re reasonable action on the part of
the backer to put it out.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Why are Hollywood in the media so obsessed with Nixon.
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Speaker 1 (02:34):
We're at part five of our series of episodes entitled
The Fighter. You've probably heard part four, but if you haven't,
stopped and go back and listen from the beginning. We're
looking for the answer to the question, why are the
media and Hollywood so obsessed with Richard Nixon by telling
the often ignored story of his life. So to pick
up where we left off, on June thirteenth, nineteen seventy one,
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the New York Times published a bombshell story. The report
cited top secret documents that came to be known as
the Pentagon Papers, and it was a brutal indictment of
both JFK and lbj's Vietnam War actions. The article claimed
that the two Democrat presidents lied about why the United
States was involved in the Vietnam War by publishing the
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classified documents. Nixon's then Attorney General, John Mitchell believed the
Times violated the Espionage Act and that it was the
government's obligation to enforce it. After some hesitance in much debate,
Richard Nixon gave the go ahead for Mitchell to send
a legal notice to The New York Times to demand
they stop further publishing of the documents. The Pentagon Papers
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did not in any way implicate Nixon, but in the
eyes of the Nixon administration, America could not have an
orderly government if such highly classified material could be stolen
then made available to the press. The Nixon team were
on to something. If there were no repercussions for the
publication of the Pentagon Papers, it would create a novel
line of attack on the White House. In essence, it
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would give a new power to unelected officials deep within
the federal government. This is clearly seen in the origin
of the leak's documents. The Pentagon Papers were originally commissioned
in nineteen sixty seven by President Lyndon B. Johnson's Secretary
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of Defense, Robert McNamara. LBJ believed that the Pentagon Papers
were initially created as a weapon to attack his presidency
and in the process helped McNamara's close friend Robert F. Kennedy,
who was preparing to challenge LBJ for the Democrat nomination.
And there's plenty of evidence to support this claim.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
In the early days of Vietnam, Secretary McNamara was one
of the leading proponents of America's involvement in the war.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
We believe this essential to help safeguard the freedom of
South Vietnam and to save the lives of those South Mcnamese. Americans,
Australians and Zealanders, and Koreans were fighting to ensure that freedom.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
The LBJ administration believed that of South Korea fell, the
entire region would fall to communism, to be known as
the domino theory, the belief that if a critical country
fell to tyranny, the surrounding regions would fall as well.
The theory made sense at the time the memory of
World War II was still fresh and Western leaders witnessed
how the Knatzi started a domino effect throughout Europe after
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taking over Berlin. In fact, the State Department in the
early nineteen sixties referred to the Vietnam area as the
Asian Berlin. Macnamara was a subscriber to this belief, but
by the fall of nineteen sixty six, while retaining his
belief in this theory, macnamara began coming to the conclusion
that the Vietnam War was unwinnable and at the same
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time was igniting violence throughout America. Adding to his concerns,
many of the intellectuals and academics that McNamara respected were
also turning on the war, so he tried to convince
LBJ to abandon the goal of victory and instead attempt
to persuade North Vietnam that the two were at a stalemate,
better to call a mutual ceasefire than continue the bloodshed,
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but lb JAY rejected the idea. It wasn't long until
the president's inner circle began to isolate McNamara. As time
went on, he became more and more distraught with lbj's
Vietnam policies. He contemplated resigning, but would eventually opt for
a different route.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
McNamara's closest friend, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, was becoming one
of the war's biggest critics, and in nineteen sixty six,
the two began venting to each other about the conflict.
Kennedy griped about how the country was being torn apart,
and McNamara confided that the war was not going well.
Possibly sensing McNamara's impending resignation, Robert F. Kennedy reportedly asked
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McNamara to leave behind a record of the Johnson administration's
Vietnam decision making process before his departure. In November nineteen
sixty six, McNamara reportedly received the same suggestion by the
faculty at the Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard University.
An idea began to take root. The idea to create
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a study that would trace the history of the United
States involvement in Vietnam, and it was planted by the
anti war set within the establishment. In June nineteen sixty seven,
McNamara decided to commission a report, but notably, he didn't
seek President Johnson's authorization to create the study. In fact,
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he kept it concealed from LBJ. To create the study,
macnamara avoided the team within the Department of Defense that
were responsible for handling historical records. Instead, he put together
a separate team. The consensus on the final Pentagon papers
is that the documents are an indictment against American involvement
in Vietnam. It was a harshly anti war document, but
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at the time there were very few at the Pentagon
or the State Department that were outright against the war,
and they appeared to align with the American people. The
media had a love affair with the anti war radicals
on college campuses, but throughout America there was a silent
majority that wanted to win the Vietnam War.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
Right now, we can't back out because we never lost
the war anything in our lives, Americans.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
If we back out of Vietnam right now, the via
Warren Bangkok, maybe six seven months later.
Speaker 10 (08:15):
And I'm back to president.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
The reason is that I think that they are on
the way to making peace, certainly not the beatnicks around
the streets.
Speaker 11 (08:23):
And he's right when he said US anarchy when they
allow this sort of thing to happen.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
I believe very strong that as long as we are there,
we'll have to fight them win.
Speaker 12 (08:30):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So for the report to have ended up with its
anti war slant, the team had to have been carefully selected,
and it was. McNamara eventually appointed a man named Leslie
Gelb to lead the day to day of the study,
and he directed Gelb to keep it secret. Gelb was
a thirty year old Ivy League grad PhD who had
recently been an assistant professor of government at Wesleyan University.
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He was cut from the same cloth as the intellectuals
that were vehemently opposed to the war at the time.
Gelb was the director of paulice he Planning at the
Pentagon and had become strongly opposed to American involvement in Vietnam.
Speaker 12 (09:08):
I wish I had turned against the war much sooner.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
That's Leslie Gelban a twenty eighteen interview.
Speaker 12 (09:14):
But eventually I did, and then I spent several years
in my life fighting against the Nixon policy and for
the early end of the war.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
As the director of the study, Gelb put together a
small team of analysts and promised them anonymity. The project
was launched when Secretary McNamara gave Gelb a place to start.
Speaker 12 (09:38):
We got a list from McNamara of one hundred questions.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Questions like has bombing been effective? The kind of questions
at Pentagon Press Secretary would field in a briefing. Most
of the topics didn't inspire Gelb, but there was a
small subgroup of questions that caught his eye.
Speaker 12 (09:56):
Eight of the hundred questions were historical, and I was
given six people to work on this these questions, and
we were given two months to get them done. We decided, well,
you know, it might be interesting if we could look
back into the files and maybe give more in depth
answers to the questions we had been answering more or
less from our daily experience, and inevitably you had to
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dip back into the history. We wrote up a list
of about twenty Summard monographs.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Monographs are short essays. Then Gil wrote a memo to McNamara,
presenting the essays as the potential format for the study.
Speaker 12 (10:33):
I sent the memo to McNamara and he wrote on
that memo, Okay, let it be encyclopedic and let the
chips fall where they may. But we were still enjoined
from telling people about it.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
McNamara continued to keep the study secret. He hid it
from lbj's entire inner circle. So the report was destined
to be one cited. It wouldn't include any executive branch
insight or documents because they couldn't ask the White House
for access without tipping them off. With no White House feedback,
the report could not illuminate the why to its decision making. Therefore,
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the Pentagon Papers would not be a definitive history. It
would be a document filtered through the minds of the
unelected anti war leadership conducting the study.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
The project started in June nineteen sixty seven. Two of
the analysts would later confess that they had the impression
that they were writing campaign documents for Robert F. Kennedy's
use in the nineteen sixty eight primary. McNamara would eventually
leave the Department of Defense in February nineteen sixty eight.
A few weeks later, LBJ announced he would not be
seeking a second term. A couple months after that, RFK
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was killed. The document could no longer benefit the presidential
hopeful or hurt lbj's re election prospects, but it could
affect a future administration's Vietnam policies. Work on the study
went on. Clark Clifford would eventually replace Robert McNamara as
Secretary of Defense. The director of the study, Leslie Gelb,
was initially suspicious of Clifford.
Speaker 12 (12:07):
We thought Clifford was sent to the Pentagon by Johnson
to sit on people like us who had begun to
ask questions about the war that the White House didn't like.
Clark Clifford sensed this right away and laughed and said,
you know, realize I've been against this for since nineteen
sixty five, just as.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
The Nixon administration would later claim the entire project was
being led by peace Nicks within the Pentagon.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Sure, it was a whole study that was done for
McNamara and then carried on after McNamara left by Clifford
and the Peacenicks over there.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
When the study was officially completed in early nineteen sixty nine,
it did not follow the type of protocol that signals objectivity.
It wasn't circulated for review by the Pentagon's top officials.
No one from the State Department, the CIA, the National
Security Council, the National Security Agency, or the White House
received a copy for review. The project was simply designated
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as complete by Leslie Gell in early nineteen sixty nine,
just days before Nixon's inauguration. Only a few copies of
the study were distributed, none to President Johnson or his
inner circle. The director of the study, Gelb, and two
other high level leaders, were concerned that the seven thousand
page report would be deep sixth so they kept personal
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copies in the top secret safe in the Washington offices
of the Rand Corporation. The finished document was chalk full
of classified material, so the three agreed that they would
not give access to anyone unless two out of the
three of them agreed. But then on June thirteenth, nineteen
seventy one, it became obvious that someone did in fact
get access to the documents.
Speaker 13 (13:44):
The New York Times began publishing top secret sensitive details
and documents from forty seven volumes that comprised the history
of the US decision making process on Vietnam policy, better
known as the Pentagon Papers.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
By the following evening, Nixon's Attorney General, John Mitchell already
had a potential name for the leaker.
Speaker 14 (14:03):
We've got some information we've developed as to where these
copies are and who they're likely to have leaked them
in A prime suspect. According to your friend Rossdell, you're
quoting as a gentleman by name of Ellsberg, who as
a left winger that's now with the Rand Corporation, who
also have a set of these documents.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Daniel Ellsberg was a former Pentagon analyst whose friend circle
included socialist intellectuals Nom Chomsky and Howard Zen. Initially a
supporter of the war, Elsburg grew sour on the conflict.
He'd eventually be asked to work on the Pentagon Study,
led by Leslie Gelb. Ellsberg distrusted President Nixon. Despite the
fact that Nixon was massively reducing troops and canceling draft
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calls for the end of nineteen sixty nine, Ellsberg believed
Nixon really meant to escalate the war, so in October
nineteen sixty nine, Ellsberg began smuggling the Pentagon Study out
of the safe at the Rand Corporation. He then secretly
made copies of the study to leak to the public.
He first began quietly divulging portions of the Pentagon papers
to the war's biggest critics in Congress. Elsburg took the
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angle that the papers showed both JFK and LBJ lied
to the public about their intentions in Vietnam. He argued
that Nixon was doing the same. The document could be
used to initiate investigations into the president's actions. The director
of the study, Leslie Gelb, later reflected on what Elsburg
was up to.
Speaker 12 (15:31):
Elsberg created the myth that what the papers show was
that it all was a bunch of.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Liwes, and gel would know he was the director of
the study. Gel believed the Pentagon papers showed some lying,
but that was nothing unique. What he believed the documents
really showed was that the JFK and LBJ administrations believed
in the mission of the war but had no idea
how to win. However, Daniel Ellsberg started creating a different narrative,
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and there was a likely reason for his approach. Elsberg
had an anti Nixon objective. He was using the Pentagon
papers as a weapon to raise doubts on President Nixon's intentions.
If Elsberg could sell his narrative, he'd create a new
line of attack against a president. Unelected officials deep within
the infrastructure of the federal government could shift public opinion
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against White House policy. Elsberg provided portions of the Pentagon
Papers to the anti war politicians, hoping they'd make them public,
but they didn't, so in March nineteen seventy one, Elsberg
allegedly leaked the entire top secret document to a New
York Times reporter. This was an unprecedented move. At the time.
Americans frowned on leakers. The public's reference point was Alger
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Hisss's classified Pumpkin Papers. Espionage leakers of top secret documents
were villains. Elsberg was attempting to be the hero, and
the leak broke precedent in another way as well. Publishing
the Pentagon Papers appeared to break a federal statute.
Speaker 15 (16:57):
All I knew was they had a bunch of classified papers.
And the question for me is a lawyer, there is
can you publish classified papers?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
That's James Goodale, New York Times General Counsel at the time,
reflecting on the newspaper's dilemma.
Speaker 15 (17:10):
The law here is a statue called the Espiona jack
and if you read it and stretched it and pushed it,
it was possible to apply it to the publication of
the Pentagon papers.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Several of the editors didn't think The Times should publish
the documents. They thought it hurt national security. The Times
debated the decision for three months, but ultimately they decided
to publish them.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
The unprecedented leak would eventually shock Nixon. In the wake
of the leak, Nixon spoke with his national security advisor
Henry Kissinger, recalling a conversation they'd had a few days earlier.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Boy, you're right about one thing. If anything was needed
to underline what we talked about Friday or Saturday morning,
about really cleaning house when we have the opportunity, By God,
this underlines it.
Speaker 16 (17:58):
Oh yea.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
And people have got to be put to the torch
for this sort of thing. This is terrible.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Nixon's team was beginning to see the implications of the situation.
Government could not function if leaks of top secret documents
were permitted, especially in a lopsided town like Washington, d C.
When Nixon was elected in nineteen sixty eight, Washington, d C.
Voted nearly eighty two percent for his Democrat Establishment opponent,
Herbert Humphrey. The media at the time was largely liberal
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and anti Nixon. If a process were set up were
Democrats within the federal government were allowed to leak classified
materials to a near universally liberal leaning media, a Republican
president would find it nearly impossible to govern. President Nixon
gave his Attorney General John Mitchell the ok to send
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The New York Times a legal notice. In it, Mitchell
demanded that they stop publishing the top secret material and
return all of the documents to the Justice Department. If
the newspaper didn't, the Justice Department would seek an injunction
forcing them to comply. The newspaper quickly responded, stating, quote.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
The Times must respectfully decline the request of the Attorney General,
believing that it is in the interest of the people
of this country to be informed of the material contained
in this series of articles.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
The next day, the Times published part three of the series.
Before the day's end, the court put a halt to
further publications.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
A federal court has ordered the New York Times to
stop publication temporarily.
Speaker 10 (19:27):
The government asked for and got an injunction against the Times.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
The New York Times complied with the injunction, canceling its
report scheduled to publish the next day.
Speaker 13 (19:37):
The Time said what was revealed had to be revealed,
that people have the right to know.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
The newspaper's publisher vowed to fight the injunction.
Speaker 11 (19:45):
Newspapers, I think, as our editorial said this morning, were
really a part of history that should have been made
available considerably longer ago. And I didn't dealer with any
any breach of national security in the sense that we
were giving secrets to the enemy.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
But of course by publishing the one sided Pentagon papers,
the outlet was impacting national security. The New York Times
was signaling to the Viet Cong that American leaders were
losing their resolve. Nix invented to an advisor about the
Times position, that was.
Speaker 17 (20:17):
Really what alcher his did.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You says, right, He put himself on a higher pedestal
and said, well, the Russians are entitled to know this,
and he passed the information, and The New York Times
dessently was among the papers that supported him. And that's
right now.
Speaker 14 (20:29):
The point is that here.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
What The Times has done is placed itself above the law.
Speaker 17 (20:33):
They say the law provides us, but we consider this
an immoral war.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
It's irresponsible to panic. No, God Dammach, you can't have
that thing in a free country.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
As the media frenzy continued, Nixon's Secretary of State William P. Rogers,
publicly addressed the administration's reasoning for seeking the injunction.
Speaker 18 (20:50):
The law clearly provides that secret documents and top secret
documents should not become public until they he classify. Secondly,
from my standpoint, it's going to cause a great deal
of difficulty with foreign government. And if government can't deal
with us in any degree of confidentiality, it's going to
be a very serious matter.
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Speaker 2 (23:11):
Welcome back to red pilled America. The Pentagon Papers led
every nightly news program for two weeks, and just as
the administration feared, the Democrats and the media used it
to attack President Nixon. In their view, if the two
previous administrations lied to get America into a war, what's
to say Nixon wasn't lying about getting America out.
Speaker 16 (23:33):
The existence of these documents and the fact that they
said one thing and the people were led to believe
something else is the reason we have a credibility gap
today and the reason people don't believe their government. This
is the same thing that's been going on over the
last two and a half years of this administration. There's
a difference between what the president says and what the
government actually does.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
They were following Daniel Elsberg's narrative.
Speaker 17 (23:54):
To a t.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Behind the scenes, Ellsberg was covertly fighting against the injunction.
With the New York Times on hold, he decided to
get the documents to the Washington Post. The Post picked
up where the New York Times left off, publishing additional
stories based on the Pentagon papers, but as quickly as
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they started, the Federal Court of Appeals issued an injunction
on the Post as well. Attorney General John Mitchell responded
to the News.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
He subscribed to the Bill of Rights, but they are
not absolute in any circumstance.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
It looked like the newspapers were going to be stopped
in their tracks, but then the Pentagon papers leaker began
to get bolder.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
My name has now come out as the possible source
of the time as Pentagon documents. It is that of
Daniel Ellsberg, forty years old, one time marine, later a
top policy analyst for the Defense and State departments during
the Vietnam build up, and now our researcher at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
At a secret location, Ellsburg was interviewed by Walter Cronkite,
who'd openly began a campaign against the Vietnam War. The
Narrative Machine went to work to humanize the leaker. To
the administration's surprise, the media was giving Elsberg the martyr treatment.
And that's because the media weren't just anti war, they
were anti Nixon. This was a cause that media could
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all get behind. They could come together to defeat the
anti communist from yor Belinda. With both the Times and
the Post on hold, Elsburg decided to flood the zone.
He gave portions of the Pentagon Papers to the Chicago
Sun Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the
Philadelphia Inquirer, the Christian Science Monitor, the Detroit Free Press,
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the Saint Louis Post Dispatch, and others. In total, he
planted the classified documents with reportedly seventeen organizations. The outlets
began running their own articles. The media picked aside and
it was against the man who took down Algerhiss with
the classified documents hid in a pumpkin. In fact, the
Pentagon Papers got their name from the Pumpkin Papers. It
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was kind of a middle finger to Nixon. President Nixon
vehemently believed the leak of the documents jeopardized forever the
orderly function of government, so he began to rally the
troops within the administration to take down the leaker.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
I told Holoman to day, and I also told the cabinet,
and I told Mitchello, We're going to fight all out
in this thing. While with the point is that the
Elsburg case, however it comes out, is going to get
all through this government among the intellectual types and the people.
Speaker 14 (26:34):
That have no loyalties, the idea that they.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Will be the ones that will determine what's good for
this country. That's right, Adlam that they weren't elected and
they're not going to determine it that way.
Speaker 17 (26:44):
I just say that we've got to keep our eye
on the main ball, the main balls, Elsberg. We got
to get this son of a bench. We can't be
in a possession of ever allowing it just because some
guys are going to be a martyr of allowing a
follow to get away with this kind of wholesale devers
or otherwise it's going to happen all over the government.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Nixon even attempted to bring the Liberals into the fold.
He argued to Democrat Congressman Wilbur Mills the importance of
punishing Daniel Ellsberg for the leak.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
This whole business of the way they're handling this, these
secret papers and stories, and the way too that Johnson's
people are rating on him, and it's just unconscionable, you know, I,
you know, I had my differences as a basically with
Johnson on a political basis, but dammit, he's a former
president of the United States. This son of a bitch Ellsberg.
He's a left winger who apparently carried all these papers out.
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He's much further left than mc namara was on the thing.
And then what the papers are printing are his views
about Johnson. Of course, we're getting people saying we're trying
to cover up. Hell, we're not trying to cover up.
We got nothing to cover up. This doesn't involve us,
and involved Johnson and Kennedy of course to do it.
I think, as you realized, we got a protect the
security system.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
As the newspapers flooded their pages with new stories in
the Pentagon papers, Nixon's advisor's fears were coming true. Daniel
Ellsberg was reaching hero status within the media.
Speaker 13 (28:17):
Daniel Ellsberg and MIT senior research associate surrendered to federal
authorities in Boston and admitted giving the papers to the press.
He was indicted by a grand jury in Los Angeles
on charges of having stolen and held secret documents.
Speaker 19 (28:30):
Even if the NBI had wanted to arrest him outside
the courthouse this morning, they probably couldn't have done it.
Ellsburg was walled off by newsman and supporters as he
admitted that he was indeed the man who brought the
Pentagon papers to the press and congressional leader.
Speaker 9 (28:44):
I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen,
I can no longer cooperate in concealing this information from
the American public.
Speaker 16 (28:54):
I did this clearly.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
At my own jopardy, and I am prepared to answer
to all the consequences of these.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
He faced life in prison, but was released on his
own recognissance. As Elsberg was given the martyr treatment, the
New York Times versus the United States oral argument was
being heard by the Supreme Court.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
The case, of course, raises important and difficult problems about
the constitutional right of pre speech and of the free press,
and we've heard much about that from the press in
the last two weeks. But it also raises important questions
of the equally fundamental and important right of the government
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to function. Great emphasis has been put on the First Amendment,
and rightly so. But there is also involved here a
fundamental question of separation of powers in the sense of
the power and authority which the Constitution allocates to the
President as chief executive and as Commander in chief of
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the Army and Navy.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Four days later, on June thirtieth, nineteen seventy one, the
Court reached a verdict.
Speaker 13 (30:09):
The argument moved swiftly to the Supreme Court, which ruled
six to three that the First Amendment guarantee of a
free press outweighed the government's claim to a potential harm
to national security.
Speaker 20 (30:19):
In one of the most important judicial decisions in the
history of the country, the Supreme Court today ruled that
the New York Times and the Washington Post may continue
to publish the secret Pentagon papers.
Speaker 10 (30:30):
The ruling was amazingly simple.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
It was that proving the need for prior censorship is
a heavy burden, and the government didn't meet that burden.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Daniel Ellsberg responded to the verdict.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
The decision was a great one.
Speaker 21 (30:42):
The story today is what the Constitution of this country
means to us. I really have I've never appreciated what
the meaning and importance of separation of powers is so
much as in the last week.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
It was a monumental turn of events. The verdict changed
the relationship between the government and the media. It created
a new weapon for unelected bureaucrats to attack a sitting president,
especially a Republican one. All they had to do was
create a document chalk full of innuendo and seemingly damning information,
give it credibility by branding it top secret, then leaking
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it to a compliant press. It didn't matter if it
was one sided or lacked objectivity. The media would run
with it and use it to cripple the president. And
in a city dominated by the Democrats, it was the
type of weapon that would always have Republicans in the crosshairs.
In essence, the deep state was born.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
While President Nixon was figuring out how to handle future leaks,
Hollywood was busy making Daniel Ellsberg a tinsel Town star.
Speaker 22 (31:40):
Well you welcome, please, the man who uugh made the
whole thing possible, Doctor Daniel Ellsberg.
Speaker 21 (31:48):
I think that the very revelation of the papers strikes
at the system of secrecy, which has in fact been
essential to perpetuate in this particular policy.
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Welcome back to red Pilled America. As a media frenzy
on the Pentagon papers calmed, Nixon navigated an extraordinary streak
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of monumental domestic and foreign policy events.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
We are certifying the twenty sixth Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
He presided over the extension of the right to vote
to the age of eighteen, the same age Americans were
asked to risk their lives in war.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
That amendment, as you know, provides for the right to
vote of all of our young people. Between eighteen and
twenty one, eleven million new voters. As a result of
this amendment that you now will see certified by the
GOSA Administrator.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Weeks later, in the midst of a financial crisis, Nixon
made a decision that many believed preserved American dominance in
the world currency wars. President Nixon officially decoupled the dollar
from gold.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
I have directed the Secretary of the Treasury to take
the action necessary to defend the dollar against the speculators.
I have directed Secretary Connolly to suspend temporarily the convertibility
of the dollar in the gold or other reserve assets,
except in amounts and conditions determined to be in the
interest to monetary stability and in the best interests of
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the United States.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
It was a controversial decision, but with the massively expensive,
unfunded programs of its predecessors, experts believed the dollar was
in effect already decoupled from gold and was now under
attack by foreign nations. If he avoided the move, some
have credibly are argued that there would have been a
complete collapse of the dollar, leading to its end as
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the world's reserve currency. At the time. Nixon's decision was
widely heralded, but its biggest accomplishments were in addressing his
nineteen sixty eight campaign promise to bring normalcy back to America.
By nineteen seventy two, the violent protests orchestrated by Marxist
college radicals and black militants had largely subsided. Gone were
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the constant campus takeovers and violent clashes of the previous decade,
and abroad, Nixon shepherded a long desired de escalation of
the Cold War.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
I might to express my very deep appreciation to all
of you who have come here to send us off
on this historic mission.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
In February nineteen seventy two, President Nixon embarked on a
historic trip to communist China.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
We, of course, are under no illusions that twenty years
of hostility between the People's Republic of China and the
United States of America are going to be swept away
by one week of talks that we will have there.
We must recognize that the government of the People's Republic
of China and the government of the United States have
had great differences. We will have differences in the future.
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But what we must do is to find a way
to see that we can have differences without being enemies
in war.
Speaker 10 (36:24):
The spirit of seventy six taxis to a stop on
the runway of the Peking Airport, and Premier joe In
Lye moves forward to greet the first American president to
set foot on Chinese soil. East meets West as a
handshake bridges sixteen thousand miles and twenty two years of hostility.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Nixon met with Chinese communist leaders Malse Tongue and Premier
Joe and Lai. For a week, he and his wife
pat toured the country, including the Great Wall of China.
Speaker 23 (36:55):
He sees all expectations and one stands there, sees the
wall going with the hoop of this mountain and realizes
that it runs for.
Speaker 24 (37:08):
Hundreds of miles, as a matter of fact, thousands of
miles over the mountains and through the valleys.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Of this country.
Speaker 24 (37:13):
That it was built over two thousand years ago. I
think that you would have to conclude that this is
a great wall, that it had to be built by
a great people.
Speaker 7 (37:24):
This magnificent banquet marks the end of ours day and
the People's Republic of China.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
We have been here a week.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
This was the week that changed the world.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
If we can find the common ground on which we
can both.
Speaker 25 (37:39):
Stand, where we can build the bridge between us and
build a new world, generations in the years ahead look
bad and thank us for this meeting that we.
Speaker 7 (37:52):
Have held in this past week.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Nixon's visit to China was met with near universal praise.
American leaders would later batch the balance of power with
the communist country, but President Nixon's historic visit was the
first step in cooling off Cold War tensions. He compounded
his China success a few months later with another historic
foreign visit.
Speaker 26 (38:12):
President Nixon and Soviet Communist Party leader Brezhnev conferred today,
twenty four hours in advance of the scheduled formal talks.
Mister Nixon's arrival at the airport outside Moscow was described
as cool but correct. About one hundred thousand persons lined
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the streets to welcome the President, the first United States
head of state ever to visit the Soviet capital. Later
in the day, a banquet was held at the Kremlin,
and mister Nixon criticized veiled criticism the Soviet Union as
a military supplier to Vietnam. Asident Nikolay Pudgourney responded by
saying that Moscow and Washington must work together to establish
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better and friendly relations.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
It was a truly remarkable first half of nineteen seventy two.
Richard Milhouse Nixon used his entire life experience as an
anti communist crusader to finally ease tensions that had been
rising since the end of World War II. The American
people had a leader for the ages, and it appeared
that he'd easily cruised to a re election, but on
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his return from Moscow, a bizarre news report hit the airwaves.
Speaker 6 (39:21):
The Democratic National Committee is trying to solve as fy mystery.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
It began before.
Speaker 6 (39:25):
Dawn Saturday, when five incruiders were captured by police inside
the offices of the Committee in Washington.
Speaker 8 (39:31):
Five people have been arrested and charged with breaking into
the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the middle
of the night.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
The Democratic National Committee is located in the Watergate office building.
The burglars forced a stairwell door, then taped its latch open.
The door, now part of police evidence, was noticed by
one of the guards employed by the Watergate complex. At first,
the police found nothing. Then they spied five men crouching
behind some desks.
Speaker 6 (39:54):
The five men carried cameras and apparently had planned electronic bugs.
One of them had several crisp New one hundred dollars
bills in his pocket. The Democrat, I'd say, they have
no idea who would want to spy on.
Speaker 27 (40:06):
One of the suspects, James McCord, operates his own security
company in Washington. He was doing work for the Republican
National Committee and the Committee to re elect President Nixon.
Officials of both groups say McCord was fired.
Speaker 28 (40:17):
Today, President's press secretary said, of this incident, I'm not
going to comment from the White House on a third
rate burglary attempt. Obviously, he said, we don't condone that
kind of second rate activity.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
The head of Nixon's re election committee, John Mitchell, talk
to reporters about the break in.
Speaker 7 (40:33):
Neither the President, obviously, or anybody in the White House,
or anybody in authority and any of the committees working
for the reelection of the president, have any responsibility for it,
and therefore there's no reason why it should be a
matter of concern to the American public.
Speaker 27 (40:50):
No one has proved that the Republicans are behind the
break in, but tomorrow the Democrats are expected to file
some sort of legal action against the GOP.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Anyway, Republican Party officials like Bob Dole promised to get
to the bottom of the break in.
Speaker 22 (41:03):
Frankly, I was surprised and dismayed, as I'm certain many
others were when they read the story or heard the
story or watched it on television. Where you are in
favor of wide open investigation the whole thing, Oh yes,
I think until we know the facts, it's the difficult
to respond. Certainly, we deplore it, but the fact remains
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at one of the five was a Republican National Committee employee,
and frankly, I would like the facts laid on the
table and let the chips fall where they may.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
In the run up to election day nineteen seventy two,
Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern attempted to pin the break
in on President Nixon.
Speaker 4 (41:42):
Mister Nixon, did you know about the burglary of our
Democratic National headquarters at the Water Game?
Speaker 1 (41:52):
And just days before the election, Walter Cronkite used the
break in to muddy up President Nixon in front of
a national audience.
Speaker 5 (41:59):
Five men apparently caught in the act of burglarise then
bugging Democratic headquarters in Washington.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
But as the Democrats and media attacked him, President Nixon
was on the verge of another extraordinary moment, the end
of the Vietnam War.
Speaker 4 (42:14):
As you know, we have now made a major breakthrough
toward achieving our goal of peace with honor in Vietnam.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Just five days before election day, the parameters of an
agreement with North Vietnam were set, a return of all
prisoners of war, a cease fire, an agreement that the
South Vietnamese would alone determine their own future. These were
the terms the two sides agreed upon, but as the
settlement with North Vietnam was emminent, Nixon made his case
to the American public that he didn't want to rush
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the agreement before election day.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
We are not going to repeat the mistake of nineteen
sixty eight, when the bombing Haled agreement was rushed into
just before an election without pinning down the details. We
want peace, peace with honor, a peace fair to all,
and a peace that will lie. That is why I
am insisting that the central points be clearly settled, so
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that there will be no misunderstandings which could lead to
a breakdown of the settlement and a resumption of the war.
I am confident that we will soon achieve that goal.
But we are not going to allow an election deadline
or any other kind of deadline to force us into
an agreement which would be only a temporary truce and
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not a lasting peace. Not only in America, but all
around the world. People will be watching the results of
our election. The leaders in Hanoi will be watching. They
will be watching for the answer of the American people.
For your answer to this question, shall we have peace
with honor or peace with surrender? Always in the past
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you have.
Speaker 3 (43:54):
Answered peace with honor.
Speaker 4 (43:56):
By giving that same answer once again on November seventh,
you can help make certain that peace with honor can
now be achieved.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
And on election day, the American people responded.
Speaker 5 (44:07):
It's rare that anyone wins the presidency without carrying Ohio,
and Predident Nixon has not only one Ohio.
Speaker 4 (44:12):
But he has done it in devastating fashion.
Speaker 5 (44:14):
President Nixon wins New York, but there's no question about
the size of the landslide. Senator McGovern has won only
one state from Massachusetts, but since we last reported, he
has added the district of Columbia, which now has three
electoral votes, you know, to his total. The voters have
returned to President Nixon to the White House by a
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landslide over Senator McGovern.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Richard Millhouse. Nixon won forty nine states. It was one
of the biggest landslides in American history. He'd brought law
and order at home and was on the verge of
peace abroad. On the victory stage in nineteen seventy two,
he was thought to be one of the greatest presidents
in modern times.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
I first want to express my deep appreciation to every
one of you, the millions of you who gave me
your support in the election today. I have noted, in
listening to the returns a few minutes ago that several
commentators have reflected on the fact that this may be
one of the great political victories of all time. In
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terms of votes. That may be true, But in terms
of what a victory really is, a huge landslide margin
means nothing at all unless it is a victory for America.
It will be a victory for America only if in
these next four years we all of us can work
together to achieve our common great goals of peace at
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home and peace for all nations in the world, and
for that new progress of prosperity which Ama.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
But what the American public didn't know was that behind
the scenes trouble was brewing. The Democrat Party was looking
to erase Nixon's historic win, and they'd look to get
some help from deep within the government.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
Coming up on red pilled America.
Speaker 28 (46:19):
At the Pentagon Papers trial in California today, it was
revealed that the people who burglarized the Watergate also burglarized
the office of Daniel Ellsberg's.
Speaker 13 (46:28):
Psychiatristlic when are you telling me?
Speaker 7 (46:30):
At The break in the doctor Fielding's office was to
satisfy the President of the United States.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
The President wanted very much to make sure that a
thing like this could not happen again.
Speaker 2 (46:42):
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Previously on Red Pilled America.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
H Richard, Bill House Nixon do solemnly swear.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting
at one another.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
The message won him the White House, but by a
narrow margin.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Next up, for them the moon.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
This has to be the proudest day of our lives.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Kennedy went into court today and pleaded guilted.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
The left needed something to muddy up the man from
the Orblinda.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Portions of a highly classified Pentagon document came the light.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
The Pentagon paper story would become a turning point in
American politics.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Well, it's a re reasonable action on the part of
the backer to put it out.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Why are Hollywood in the media so obsessed with Nixon.
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Welcome to Red Pilled America.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
We're at part five of our series of episodes entitled
The Fighter. You've probably heard part four, but if you haven't,
stopped and go back and listen from the beginning. We're
looking for the answer to the question, why are the
media and Hollywood so obsessed with Richard Nixon by telling
the often ignored story of his life. So to pick
up where we left off, on June thirteenth, nineteen seventy one,
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the New York Times published a bombshell story. The report
cited top secret documents that came to be known as
the Pentagon Papers, and it was a brutal indictment of
both JFK and lbj's Vietnam War actions. The article claimed
that the two Democrat presidents lied about why the United
States was involved in the Vietnam War by publishing the
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classified documents. Nixon's then Attorney General, John Mitchell believed the
Times violated the Espionage Act and that it was the
government's obligation to enforce it. After some hesitance in much debate,
Richard Nixon gave the go ahead for Mitchell to send
a legal notice to The New York Times to demand
they stop further publishing of the documents. The Pentagon Papers
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did not in any way implicate Nixon, but in the
eyes of the Nixon administration, America could not have an
orderly government if such highly classified material could be stolen
then made available to the press. The Nixon team were
on to something. If there were no repercussions for the
publication of the Pentagon Papers, it would create a novel
line of attack on the White House. In essence, it
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would give a new power to unelected officials deep within
the federal government. This is clearly seen in the origin
of the leak's documents. The Pentagon Papers were originally commissioned
in nineteen sixty seven by President Lyndon B. Johnson's Secretary
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of Defense, Robert McNamara. LBJ believed that the Pentagon Papers
were initially created as a weapon to attack his presidency
and in the process helped McNamara's close friend Robert F. Kennedy,
who was preparing to challenge LBJ for the Democrat nomination.
And there's plenty of evidence to support this claim.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
In the early days of Vietnam, Secretary McNamara was one
of the leading proponents of America's involvement in the war.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
We believe this essential to help safeguard the freedom of
South Vietnam and to save the lives of those South Mcnamese. Americans,
Australians and Zealanders, and Koreans were fighting to ensure that freedom.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
The LBJ administration believed that of South Korea fell, the
entire region would fall to communism, to be known as
the domino theory, the belief that if a critical country
fell to tyranny, the surrounding regions would fall as well.
The theory made sense at the time the memory of
World War II was still fresh and Western leaders witnessed
how the Knatzi started a domino effect throughout Europe after
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taking over Berlin. In fact, the State Department in the
early nineteen sixties referred to the Vietnam area as the
Asian Berlin. Macnamara was a subscriber to this belief, but
by the fall of nineteen sixty six, while retaining his
belief in this theory, macnamara began coming to the conclusion
that the Vietnam War was unwinnable and at the same
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time was igniting violence throughout America. Adding to his concerns,
many of the intellectuals and academics that McNamara respected were
also turning on the war, so he tried to convince
LBJ to abandon the goal of victory and instead attempt
to persuade North Vietnam that the two were at a stalemate,
better to call a mutual ceasefire than continue the bloodshed,
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but lb JAY rejected the idea. It wasn't long until
the president's inner circle began to isolate McNamara. As time
went on, he became more and more distraught with lbj's
Vietnam policies. He contemplated resigning, but would eventually opt for
a different route.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
McNamara's closest friend, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, was becoming one
of the war's biggest critics, and in nineteen sixty six,
the two began venting to each other about the conflict.
Kennedy griped about how the country was being torn apart,
and McNamara confided that the war was not going well.
Possibly sensing McNamara's impending resignation, Robert F. Kennedy reportedly asked
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McNamara to leave behind a record of the Johnson administration's
Vietnam decision making process before his departure. In November nineteen
sixty six, McNamara reportedly received the same suggestion by the
faculty at the Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard University.
An idea began to take root. The idea to create
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a study that would trace the history of the United
States involvement in Vietnam, and it was planted by the
anti war set within the establishment. In June nineteen sixty seven,
McNamara decided to commission a report, but notably, he didn't
seek President Johnson's authorization to create the study. In fact,
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he kept it concealed from LBJ. To create the study,
macnamara avoided the team within the Department of Defense that
were responsible for handling historical records. Instead, he put together
a separate team. The consensus on the final Pentagon papers
is that the documents are an indictment against American involvement
in Vietnam. It was a harshly anti war document, but
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at the time there were very few at the Pentagon
or the State Department that were outright against the war,
and they appeared to align with the American people. The
media had a love affair with the anti war radicals
on college campuses, but throughout America there was a silent
majority that wanted to win the Vietnam War.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
Right now, we can't back out because we never lost
the war anything in our lives, Americans.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
If we back out of Vietnam right now, the via
Warren Bangkok, maybe six seven months later.
Speaker 10 (08:15):
And I'm back to president.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
The reason is that I think that they are on
the way to making peace, certainly not the beatnicks around
the streets.
Speaker 11 (08:23):
And he's right when he said US anarchy when they
allow this sort of thing to happen.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
I believe very strong that as long as we are there,
we'll have to fight them win.
Speaker 12 (08:30):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So for the report to have ended up with its
anti war slant, the team had to have been carefully selected,
and it was. McNamara eventually appointed a man named Leslie
Gelb to lead the day to day of the study,
and he directed Gelb to keep it secret. Gelb was
a thirty year old Ivy League grad PhD who had
recently been an assistant professor of government at Wesleyan University.
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He was cut from the same cloth as the intellectuals
that were vehemently opposed to the war at the time.
Gelb was the director of paulice he Planning at the
Pentagon and had become strongly opposed to American involvement in Vietnam.
Speaker 12 (09:08):
I wish I had turned against the war much sooner.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
That's Leslie Gelban a twenty eighteen interview.
Speaker 12 (09:14):
But eventually I did, and then I spent several years
in my life fighting against the Nixon policy and for
the early end of the war.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
As the director of the study, Gelb put together a
small team of analysts and promised them anonymity. The project
was launched when Secretary McNamara gave Gelb a place to start.
Speaker 12 (09:38):
We got a list from McNamara of one hundred questions.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Questions like has bombing been effective? The kind of questions
at Pentagon Press Secretary would field in a briefing. Most
of the topics didn't inspire Gelb, but there was a
small subgroup of questions that caught his eye.
Speaker 12 (09:56):
Eight of the hundred questions were historical, and I was
given six people to work on this these questions, and
we were given two months to get them done. We decided, well,
you know, it might be interesting if we could look
back into the files and maybe give more in depth
answers to the questions we had been answering more or
less from our daily experience, and inevitably you had to
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dip back into the history. We wrote up a list
of about twenty Summard monographs.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Monographs are short essays. Then Gil wrote a memo to McNamara,
presenting the essays as the potential format for the study.
Speaker 12 (10:33):
I sent the memo to McNamara and he wrote on
that memo, Okay, let it be encyclopedic and let the
chips fall where they may. But we were still enjoined
from telling people about it.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
McNamara continued to keep the study secret. He hid it
from lbj's entire inner circle. So the report was destined
to be one cited. It wouldn't include any executive branch
insight or documents because they couldn't ask the White House
for access without tipping them off. With no White House feedback,
the report could not illuminate the why to its decision making. Therefore,
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the Pentagon Papers would not be a definitive history. It
would be a document filtered through the minds of the
unelected anti war leadership conducting the study.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
The project started in June nineteen sixty seven. Two of
the analysts would later confess that they had the impression
that they were writing campaign documents for Robert F. Kennedy's
use in the nineteen sixty eight primary. McNamara would eventually
leave the Department of Defense in February nineteen sixty eight.
A few weeks later, LBJ announced he would not be
seeking a second term. A couple months after that, RFK
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was killed. The document could no longer benefit the presidential
hopeful or hurt lbj's re election prospects, but it could
affect a future administration's Vietnam policies. Work on the study
went on. Clark Clifford would eventually replace Robert McNamara as
Secretary of Defense. The director of the study, Leslie Gelb,
was initially suspicious of Clifford.
Speaker 12 (12:07):
We thought Clifford was sent to the Pentagon by Johnson
to sit on people like us who had begun to
ask questions about the war that the White House didn't like.
Clark Clifford sensed this right away and laughed and said,
you know, realize I've been against this for since nineteen
sixty five, just as.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
The Nixon administration would later claim the entire project was
being led by peace Nicks within the Pentagon.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Sure, it was a whole study that was done for
McNamara and then carried on after McNamara left by Clifford
and the Peacenicks over there.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
When the study was officially completed in early nineteen sixty nine,
it did not follow the type of protocol that signals objectivity.
It wasn't circulated for review by the Pentagon's top officials.
No one from the State Department, the CIA, the National
Security Council, the National Security Agency, or the White House
received a copy for review. The project was simply designated
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as complete by Leslie Gell in early nineteen sixty nine,
just days before Nixon's inauguration. Only a few copies of
the study were distributed, none to President Johnson or his
inner circle. The director of the study, Gelb, and two
other high level leaders, were concerned that the seven thousand
page report would be deep sixth so they kept personal
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copies in the top secret safe in the Washington offices
of the Rand Corporation. The finished document was chalk full
of classified material, so the three agreed that they would
not give access to anyone unless two out of the
three of them agreed. But then on June thirteenth, nineteen
seventy one, it became obvious that someone did in fact
get access to the documents.
Speaker 13 (13:44):
The New York Times began publishing top secret sensitive details
and documents from forty seven volumes that comprised the history
of the US decision making process on Vietnam policy, better
known as the Pentagon Papers.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
By the following evening, Nixon's Attorney General, John Mitchell already
had a potential name for the leaker.
Speaker 14 (14:03):
We've got some information we've developed as to where these
copies are and who they're likely to have leaked them
in A prime suspect. According to your friend Rossdell, you're
quoting as a gentleman by name of Ellsberg, who as
a left winger that's now with the Rand Corporation, who
also have a set of these documents.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Daniel Ellsberg was a former Pentagon analyst whose friend circle
included socialist intellectuals Nom Chomsky and Howard Zen. Initially a
supporter of the war, Elsburg grew sour on the conflict.
He'd eventually be asked to work on the Pentagon Study,
led by Leslie Gelb. Ellsberg distrusted President Nixon. Despite the
fact that Nixon was massively reducing troops and canceling draft
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calls for the end of nineteen sixty nine, Ellsberg believed
Nixon really meant to escalate the war, so in October
nineteen sixty nine, Ellsberg began smuggling the Pentagon Study out
of the safe at the Rand Corporation. He then secretly
made copies of the study to leak to the public.
He first began quietly divulging portions of the Pentagon papers
to the war's biggest critics in Congress. Elsburg took the
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angle that the papers showed both JFK and LBJ lied
to the public about their intentions in Vietnam. He argued
that Nixon was doing the same. The document could be
used to initiate investigations into the president's actions. The director
of the study, Leslie Gelb, later reflected on what Elsburg
was up to.
Speaker 12 (15:31):
Elsberg created the myth that what the papers show was
that it all was a bunch of.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Liwes, and gel would know he was the director of
the study. Gel believed the Pentagon papers showed some lying,
but that was nothing unique. What he believed the documents
really showed was that the JFK and LBJ administrations believed
in the mission of the war but had no idea
how to win. However, Daniel Ellsberg started creating a different narrative,
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and there was a likely reason for his approach. Elsberg
had an anti Nixon objective. He was using the Pentagon
papers as a weapon to raise doubts on President Nixon's intentions.
If Elsberg could sell his narrative, he'd create a new
line of attack against a president. Unelected officials deep within
the infrastructure of the federal government could shift public opinion
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against White House policy. Elsberg provided portions of the Pentagon
Papers to the anti war politicians, hoping they'd make them public,
but they didn't, so in March nineteen seventy one, Elsberg
allegedly leaked the entire top secret document to a New
York Times reporter. This was an unprecedented move. At the time.
Americans frowned on leakers. The public's reference point was Alger
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Hisss's classified Pumpkin Papers. Espionage leakers of top secret documents
were villains. Elsberg was attempting to be the hero, and
the leak broke precedent in another way as well. Publishing
the Pentagon Papers appeared to break a federal statute.
Speaker 15 (16:57):
All I knew was they had a bunch of classified papers.
And the question for me is a lawyer, there is
can you publish classified papers?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
That's James Goodale, New York Times General Counsel at the time,
reflecting on the newspaper's dilemma.
Speaker 15 (17:10):
The law here is a statue called the Espiona jack
and if you read it and stretched it and pushed it,
it was possible to apply it to the publication of
the Pentagon papers.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Several of the editors didn't think The Times should publish
the documents. They thought it hurt national security. The Times
debated the decision for three months, but ultimately they decided
to publish them.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
The unprecedented leak would eventually shock Nixon. In the wake
of the leak, Nixon spoke with his national security advisor
Henry Kissinger, recalling a conversation they'd had a few days earlier.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Boy, you're right about one thing. If anything was needed
to underline what we talked about Friday or Saturday morning,
about really cleaning house when we have the opportunity, By God,
this underlines it.
Speaker 16 (17:58):
Oh yea.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
And people have got to be put to the torch
for this sort of thing. This is terrible.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Nixon's team was beginning to see the implications of the situation.
Government could not function if leaks of top secret documents
were permitted, especially in a lopsided town like Washington, d C.
When Nixon was elected in nineteen sixty eight, Washington, d C.
Voted nearly eighty two percent for his Democrat Establishment opponent,
Herbert Humphrey. The media at the time was largely liberal
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and anti Nixon. If a process were set up were
Democrats within the federal government were allowed to leak classified
materials to a near universally liberal leaning media, a Republican
president would find it nearly impossible to govern. President Nixon
gave his Attorney General John Mitchell the ok to send
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The New York Times a legal notice. In it, Mitchell
demanded that they stop publishing the top secret material and
return all of the documents to the Justice Department. If
the newspaper didn't, the Justice Department would seek an injunction
forcing them to comply. The newspaper quickly responded, stating, quote.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
The Times must respectfully decline the request of the Attorney General,
believing that it is in the interest of the people
of this country to be informed of the material contained
in this series of articles.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
The next day, the Times published part three of the series.
Before the day's end, the court put a halt to
further publications.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
A federal court has ordered the New York Times to
stop publication temporarily.
Speaker 10 (19:27):
The government asked for and got an injunction against the Times.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
The New York Times complied with the injunction, canceling its
report scheduled to publish the next day.
Speaker 13 (19:37):
The Time said what was revealed had to be revealed,
that people have the right to know.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
The newspaper's publisher vowed to fight the injunction.
Speaker 11 (19:45):
Newspapers, I think, as our editorial said this morning, were
really a part of history that should have been made
available considerably longer ago. And I didn't dealer with any
any breach of national security in the sense that we
were giving secrets to the enemy.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
But of course by publishing the one sided Pentagon papers,
the outlet was impacting national security. The New York Times
was signaling to the Viet Cong that American leaders were
losing their resolve. Nix invented to an advisor about the
Times position, that was.
Speaker 17 (20:17):
Really what alcher his did.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You says, right, He put himself on a higher pedestal
and said, well, the Russians are entitled to know this,
and he passed the information, and The New York Times
dessently was among the papers that supported him. And that's
right now.
Speaker 14 (20:29):
The point is that here.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
What The Times has done is placed itself above the law.
Speaker 17 (20:33):
They say the law provides us, but we consider this
an immoral war.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
It's irresponsible to panic. No, God Dammach, you can't have
that thing in a free country.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
As the media frenzy continued, Nixon's Secretary of State William P. Rogers,
publicly addressed the administration's reasoning for seeking the injunction.
Speaker 18 (20:50):
The law clearly provides that secret documents and top secret
documents should not become public until they he classify. Secondly,
from my standpoint, it's going to cause a great deal
of difficulty with foreign government. And if government can't deal
with us in any degree of confidentiality, it's going to
be a very serious matter.
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Speaker 2 (23:11):
Welcome back to red pilled America. The Pentagon Papers led
every nightly news program for two weeks, and just as
the administration feared, the Democrats and the media used it
to attack President Nixon. In their view, if the two
previous administrations lied to get America into a war, what's
to say Nixon wasn't lying about getting America out.
Speaker 16 (23:33):
The existence of these documents and the fact that they
said one thing and the people were led to believe
something else is the reason we have a credibility gap
today and the reason people don't believe their government. This
is the same thing that's been going on over the
last two and a half years of this administration. There's
a difference between what the president says and what the
government actually does.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
They were following Daniel Elsberg's narrative.
Speaker 17 (23:54):
To a t.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Behind the scenes, Ellsberg was covertly fighting against the injunction.
With the New York Times on hold, he decided to
get the documents to the Washington Post. The Post picked
up where the New York Times left off, publishing additional
stories based on the Pentagon papers, but as quickly as
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they started, the Federal Court of Appeals issued an injunction
on the Post as well. Attorney General John Mitchell responded
to the News.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
He subscribed to the Bill of Rights, but they are
not absolute in any circumstance.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
It looked like the newspapers were going to be stopped
in their tracks, but then the Pentagon papers leaker began
to get bolder.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
My name has now come out as the possible source
of the time as Pentagon documents. It is that of
Daniel Ellsberg, forty years old, one time marine, later a
top policy analyst for the Defense and State departments during
the Vietnam build up, and now our researcher at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
At a secret location, Ellsburg was interviewed by Walter Cronkite,
who'd openly began a campaign against the Vietnam War. The
Narrative Machine went to work to humanize the leaker. To
the administration's surprise, the media was giving Elsberg the martyr treatment.
And that's because the media weren't just anti war, they
were anti Nixon. This was a cause that media could
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all get behind. They could come together to defeat the
anti communist from yor Belinda. With both the Times and
the Post on hold, Elsburg decided to flood the zone.
He gave portions of the Pentagon Papers to the Chicago
Sun Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the
Philadelphia Inquirer, the Christian Science Monitor, the Detroit Free Press,
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the Saint Louis Post Dispatch, and others. In total, he
planted the classified documents with reportedly seventeen organizations. The outlets
began running their own articles. The media picked aside and
it was against the man who took down Algerhiss with
the classified documents hid in a pumpkin. In fact, the
Pentagon Papers got their name from the Pumpkin Papers. It
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was kind of a middle finger to Nixon. President Nixon
vehemently believed the leak of the documents jeopardized forever the
orderly function of government, so he began to rally the
troops within the administration to take down the leaker.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
I told Holoman to day, and I also told the cabinet,
and I told Mitchello, We're going to fight all out
in this thing. While with the point is that the
Elsburg case, however it comes out, is going to get
all through this government among the intellectual types and the people.
Speaker 14 (26:34):
That have no loyalties, the idea that they.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Will be the ones that will determine what's good for
this country. That's right, Adlam that they weren't elected and
they're not going to determine it that way.
Speaker 17 (26:44):
I just say that we've got to keep our eye
on the main ball, the main balls, Elsberg. We got
to get this son of a bench. We can't be
in a possession of ever allowing it just because some
guys are going to be a martyr of allowing a
follow to get away with this kind of wholesale devers
or otherwise it's going to happen all over the government.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Nixon even attempted to bring the Liberals into the fold.
He argued to Democrat Congressman Wilbur Mills the importance of
punishing Daniel Ellsberg for the leak.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
This whole business of the way they're handling this, these
secret papers and stories, and the way too that Johnson's
people are rating on him, and it's just unconscionable, you know, I,
you know, I had my differences as a basically with
Johnson on a political basis, but dammit, he's a former
president of the United States. This son of a bitch Ellsberg.
He's a left winger who apparently carried all these papers out.
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He's much further left than mc namara was on the thing.
And then what the papers are printing are his views
about Johnson. Of course, we're getting people saying we're trying
to cover up. Hell, we're not trying to cover up.
We got nothing to cover up. This doesn't involve us,
and involved Johnson and Kennedy of course to do it.
I think, as you realized, we got a protect the
security system.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
As the newspapers flooded their pages with new stories in
the Pentagon papers, Nixon's advisor's fears were coming true. Daniel
Ellsberg was reaching hero status within the media.
Speaker 13 (28:17):
Daniel Ellsberg and MIT senior research associate surrendered to federal
authorities in Boston and admitted giving the papers to the press.
He was indicted by a grand jury in Los Angeles
on charges of having stolen and held secret documents.
Speaker 19 (28:30):
Even if the NBI had wanted to arrest him outside
the courthouse this morning, they probably couldn't have done it.
Ellsburg was walled off by newsman and supporters as he
admitted that he was indeed the man who brought the
Pentagon papers to the press and congressional leader.
Speaker 9 (28:44):
I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen,
I can no longer cooperate in concealing this information from
the American public.
Speaker 16 (28:54):
I did this clearly.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
At my own jopardy, and I am prepared to answer
to all the consequences of these.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
He faced life in prison, but was released on his
own recognissance. As Elsberg was given the martyr treatment, the
New York Times versus the United States oral argument was
being heard by the Supreme Court.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
The case, of course, raises important and difficult problems about
the constitutional right of pre speech and of the free press,
and we've heard much about that from the press in
the last two weeks. But it also raises important questions
of the equally fundamental and important right of the government
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to function. Great emphasis has been put on the First Amendment,
and rightly so. But there is also involved here a
fundamental question of separation of powers in the sense of
the power and authority which the Constitution allocates to the
President as chief executive and as Commander in chief of
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the Army and Navy.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Four days later, on June thirtieth, nineteen seventy one, the
Court reached a verdict.
Speaker 13 (30:09):
The argument moved swiftly to the Supreme Court, which ruled
six to three that the First Amendment guarantee of a
free press outweighed the government's claim to a potential harm
to national security.
Speaker 20 (30:19):
In one of the most important judicial decisions in the
history of the country, the Supreme Court today ruled that
the New York Times and the Washington Post may continue
to publish the secret Pentagon papers.
Speaker 10 (30:30):
The ruling was amazingly simple.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
It was that proving the need for prior censorship is
a heavy burden, and the government didn't meet that burden.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Daniel Ellsberg responded to the verdict.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
The decision was a great one.
Speaker 21 (30:42):
The story today is what the Constitution of this country
means to us. I really have I've never appreciated what
the meaning and importance of separation of powers is so
much as in the last week.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
It was a monumental turn of events. The verdict changed
the relationship between the government and the media. It created
a new weapon for unelected bureaucrats to attack a sitting president,
especially a Republican one. All they had to do was
create a document chalk full of innuendo and seemingly damning information,
give it credibility by branding it top secret, then leaking
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it to a compliant press. It didn't matter if it
was one sided or lacked objectivity. The media would run
with it and use it to cripple the president. And
in a city dominated by the Democrats, it was the
type of weapon that would always have Republicans in the crosshairs.
In essence, the deep state was born.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
While President Nixon was figuring out how to handle future leaks,
Hollywood was busy making Daniel Ellsberg a tinsel Town star.
Speaker 22 (31:40):
Well you welcome, please, the man who uugh made the
whole thing possible, Doctor Daniel Ellsberg.
Speaker 21 (31:48):
I think that the very revelation of the papers strikes
at the system of secrecy, which has in fact been
essential to perpetuate in this particular policy.
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on the Pentagon papers calmed, Nixon navigated an extraordinary streak
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of monumental domestic and foreign policy events.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
We are certifying the twenty sixth Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
He presided over the extension of the right to vote
to the age of eighteen, the same age Americans were
asked to risk their lives in war.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
That amendment, as you know, provides for the right to
vote of all of our young people. Between eighteen and
twenty one, eleven million new voters. As a result of
this amendment that you now will see certified by the
GOSA Administrator.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Weeks later, in the midst of a financial crisis, Nixon
made a decision that many believed preserved American dominance in
the world currency wars. President Nixon officially decoupled the dollar
from gold.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
I have directed the Secretary of the Treasury to take
the action necessary to defend the dollar against the speculators.
I have directed Secretary Connolly to suspend temporarily the convertibility
of the dollar in the gold or other reserve assets,
except in amounts and conditions determined to be in the
interest to monetary stability and in the best interests of
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the United States.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
It was a controversial decision, but with the massively expensive,
unfunded programs of its predecessors, experts believed the dollar was
in effect already decoupled from gold and was now under
attack by foreign nations. If he avoided the move, some
have credibly are argued that there would have been a
complete collapse of the dollar, leading to its end as
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the world's reserve currency. At the time. Nixon's decision was
widely heralded, but its biggest accomplishments were in addressing his
nineteen sixty eight campaign promise to bring normalcy back to America.
By nineteen seventy two, the violent protests orchestrated by Marxist
college radicals and black militants had largely subsided. Gone were
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the constant campus takeovers and violent clashes of the previous decade,
and abroad, Nixon shepherded a long desired de escalation of
the Cold War.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
I might to express my very deep appreciation to all
of you who have come here to send us off
on this historic mission.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
In February nineteen seventy two, President Nixon embarked on a
historic trip to communist China.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
We, of course, are under no illusions that twenty years
of hostility between the People's Republic of China and the
United States of America are going to be swept away
by one week of talks that we will have there.
We must recognize that the government of the People's Republic
of China and the government of the United States have
had great differences. We will have differences in the future.
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But what we must do is to find a way
to see that we can have differences without being enemies
in war.
Speaker 10 (36:24):
The spirit of seventy six taxis to a stop on
the runway of the Peking Airport, and Premier joe In
Lye moves forward to greet the first American president to
set foot on Chinese soil. East meets West as a
handshake bridges sixteen thousand miles and twenty two years of hostility.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Nixon met with Chinese communist leaders Malse Tongue and Premier
Joe and Lai. For a week, he and his wife
pat toured the country, including the Great Wall of China.
Speaker 23 (36:55):
He sees all expectations and one stands there, sees the
wall going with the hoop of this mountain and realizes
that it runs for.
Speaker 24 (37:08):
Hundreds of miles, as a matter of fact, thousands of
miles over the mountains and through the valleys.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Of this country.
Speaker 24 (37:13):
That it was built over two thousand years ago. I
think that you would have to conclude that this is
a great wall, that it had to be built by
a great people.
Speaker 7 (37:24):
This magnificent banquet marks the end of ours day and
the People's Republic of China.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
We have been here a week.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
This was the week that changed the world.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
If we can find the common ground on which we
can both.
Speaker 25 (37:39):
Stand, where we can build the bridge between us and
build a new world, generations in the years ahead look
bad and thank us for this meeting that we.
Speaker 7 (37:52):
Have held in this past week.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Nixon's visit to China was met with near universal praise.
American leaders would later batch the balance of power with
the communist country, but President Nixon's historic visit was the
first step in cooling off Cold War tensions. He compounded
his China success a few months later with another historic
foreign visit.
Speaker 26 (38:12):
President Nixon and Soviet Communist Party leader Brezhnev conferred today,
twenty four hours in advance of the scheduled formal talks.
Mister Nixon's arrival at the airport outside Moscow was described
as cool but correct. About one hundred thousand persons lined
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the streets to welcome the President, the first United States
head of state ever to visit the Soviet capital. Later
in the day, a banquet was held at the Kremlin,
and mister Nixon criticized veiled criticism the Soviet Union as
a military supplier to Vietnam. Asident Nikolay Pudgourney responded by
saying that Moscow and Washington must work together to establish
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better and friendly relations.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
It was a truly remarkable first half of nineteen seventy two.
Richard Milhouse Nixon used his entire life experience as an
anti communist crusader to finally ease tensions that had been
rising since the end of World War II. The American
people had a leader for the ages, and it appeared
that he'd easily cruised to a re election, but on
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his return from Moscow, a bizarre news report hit the airwaves.
Speaker 6 (39:21):
The Democratic National Committee is trying to solve as fy mystery.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
It began before.
Speaker 6 (39:25):
Dawn Saturday, when five incruiders were captured by police inside
the offices of the Committee in Washington.
Speaker 8 (39:31):
Five people have been arrested and charged with breaking into
the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the middle
of the night.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
The Democratic National Committee is located in the Watergate office building.
The burglars forced a stairwell door, then taped its latch open.
The door, now part of police evidence, was noticed by
one of the guards employed by the Watergate complex. At first,
the police found nothing. Then they spied five men crouching
behind some desks.
Speaker 6 (39:54):
The five men carried cameras and apparently had planned electronic bugs.
One of them had several crisp New one hundred dollars
bills in his pocket. The Democrat, I'd say, they have
no idea who would want to spy on.
Speaker 27 (40:06):
One of the suspects, James McCord, operates his own security
company in Washington. He was doing work for the Republican
National Committee and the Committee to re elect President Nixon.
Officials of both groups say McCord was fired.
Speaker 28 (40:17):
Today, President's press secretary said, of this incident, I'm not
going to comment from the White House on a third
rate burglary attempt. Obviously, he said, we don't condone that
kind of second rate activity.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
The head of Nixon's re election committee, John Mitchell, talk
to reporters about the break in.
Speaker 7 (40:33):
Neither the President, obviously, or anybody in the White House,
or anybody in authority and any of the committees working
for the reelection of the president, have any responsibility for it,
and therefore there's no reason why it should be a
matter of concern to the American public.
Speaker 27 (40:50):
No one has proved that the Republicans are behind the
break in, but tomorrow the Democrats are expected to file
some sort of legal action against the GOP.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Anyway, Republican Party officials like Bob Dole promised to get
to the bottom of the break in.
Speaker 22 (41:03):
Frankly, I was surprised and dismayed, as I'm certain many
others were when they read the story or heard the
story or watched it on television. Where you are in
favor of wide open investigation the whole thing, Oh yes,
I think until we know the facts, it's the difficult
to respond. Certainly, we deplore it, but the fact remains
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at one of the five was a Republican National Committee employee,
and frankly, I would like the facts laid on the
table and let the chips fall where they may.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
In the run up to election day nineteen seventy two,
Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern attempted to pin the break
in on President Nixon.
Speaker 4 (41:42):
Mister Nixon, did you know about the burglary of our
Democratic National headquarters at the Water Game?
Speaker 1 (41:52):
And just days before the election, Walter Cronkite used the
break in to muddy up President Nixon in front of
a national audience.
Speaker 5 (41:59):
Five men apparently caught in the act of burglarise then
bugging Democratic headquarters in Washington.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
But as the Democrats and media attacked him, President Nixon
was on the verge of another extraordinary moment, the end
of the Vietnam War.
Speaker 4 (42:14):
As you know, we have now made a major breakthrough
toward achieving our goal of peace with honor in Vietnam.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Just five days before election day, the parameters of an
agreement with North Vietnam were set, a return of all
prisoners of war, a cease fire, an agreement that the
South Vietnamese would alone determine their own future. These were
the terms the two sides agreed upon, but as the
settlement with North Vietnam was emminent, Nixon made his case
to the American public that he didn't want to rush
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the agreement before election day.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
We are not going to repeat the mistake of nineteen
sixty eight, when the bombing Haled agreement was rushed into
just before an election without pinning down the details. We
want peace, peace with honor, a peace fair to all,
and a peace that will lie. That is why I
am insisting that the central points be clearly settled, so
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that there will be no misunderstandings which could lead to
a breakdown of the settlement and a resumption of the war.
I am confident that we will soon achieve that goal.
But we are not going to allow an election deadline
or any other kind of deadline to force us into
an agreement which would be only a temporary truce and
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not a lasting peace. Not only in America, but all
around the world. People will be watching the results of
our election. The leaders in Hanoi will be watching. They
will be watching for the answer of the American people.
For your answer to this question, shall we have peace
with honor or peace with surrender? Always in the past
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you have.
Speaker 3 (43:54):
Answered peace with honor.
Speaker 4 (43:56):
By giving that same answer once again on November seventh,
you can help make certain that peace with honor can
now be achieved.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
And on election day, the American people responded.
Speaker 5 (44:07):
It's rare that anyone wins the presidency without carrying Ohio,
and Predident Nixon has not only one Ohio.
Speaker 4 (44:12):
But he has done it in devastating fashion.
Speaker 5 (44:14):
President Nixon wins New York, but there's no question about
the size of the landslide. Senator McGovern has won only
one state from Massachusetts, but since we last reported, he
has added the district of Columbia, which now has three
electoral votes, you know, to his total. The voters have
returned to President Nixon to the White House by a
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landslide over Senator McGovern.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Richard Millhouse. Nixon won forty nine states. It was one
of the biggest landslides in American history. He'd brought law
and order at home and was on the verge of
peace abroad. On the victory stage in nineteen seventy two,
he was thought to be one of the greatest presidents
in modern times.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
I first want to express my deep appreciation to every
one of you, the millions of you who gave me
your support in the election today. I have noted, in
listening to the returns a few minutes ago that several
commentators have reflected on the fact that this may be
one of the great political victories of all time. In
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terms of votes. That may be true, But in terms
of what a victory really is, a huge landslide margin
means nothing at all unless it is a victory for America.
It will be a victory for America only if in
these next four years we all of us can work
together to achieve our common great goals of peace at
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home and peace for all nations in the world, and
for that new progress of prosperity which Ama.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
But what the American public didn't know was that behind
the scenes trouble was brewing. The Democrat Party was looking
to erase Nixon's historic win, and they'd look to get
some help from deep within the government.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
Coming up on red pilled America.
Speaker 28 (46:19):
At the Pentagon Papers trial in California today, it was
revealed that the people who burglarized the Watergate also burglarized
the office of Daniel Ellsberg's.
Speaker 13 (46:28):
Psychiatristlic when are you telling me?
Speaker 7 (46:30):
At The break in the doctor Fielding's office was to
satisfy the President of the United States.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
The President wanted very much to make sure that a
thing like this could not happen again.
Speaker 2 (46:42):
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