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Lee Chemel's avatar

This is the best account of the history of the Ellsberg revelation I have ever read. And I am 80 years old and have read a lot. So thank you.

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Betsy Smith's avatar

I sat glued to the TV during the Senate hearings. It was a time when enough Republicans were shocked enough by the crimes committed against the American people to put country above party and to urge Nixon to resign. We all owe Daniel Ellsberg, and all of the whistleblowers who have followed, an enormous debt of gratitude. As one of our major newspapers reminds us, democracy does indeed die in darkness,. Our democracy has the greatest chances of survival when the fourth estate does its job. (And the loss of local newspapers is a topic for another day.)

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