we helped him get the bombing started and carried it on. i d been part of that. i look back on that with amazement, almost. then i was in vietnam, but then i read the pentagon papers. i knew coming back from vietnam, as everyone knew coming back who d been involved in combat extent because we were not going to win. we were not going to get these guys to quit. they were not going to quit. some of your critics, i m going to quote one of them. he s an academic called gabriel schoenfeld. he has written about your decision. and he said, there is a fundamental arrogance about what daniel ellsberg did because, he said, and i m going to quote him, he said, you know, we have a system for controlling critical national security secrets. very, very well controlled. yes. and he said, you know, this is established by the congress, by the executive branch, both of which are elected by the people. congress had nothing
win the war. we re going to kill a lot of people. but we did ourjob for mcnamara. we helped him get the bombing started and carried it on. i d been part of that. i look back on that with amazement, almost. then i was in vietnam, but then i read the pentagon papers. i knew coming back from vietnam, as everyone knew coming back who d been involved in combat extent because we were not going to win. we were not going to get these guys to quit. they were not going to quit. some of your critics, i m going to quote one of them. he s an academic called gabriel schoenfeld. he has written about your decision. and he said, there is a fundamental arrogance about what daniel ellsberg did because, he said, and i m going to quote him, he said, you know, we have a system for controlling critical national security secrets. very, very well controlled. and he said, you know, this is established by the congress, by the executive branch, both of which are elected by the people.
coming back who d been involved in combat extent because we were not going to win. we were not going to get these guys to quit. they were not going to quit. some of your critics, i m going to quote one of them. he s an academic called gabriel schoenfeld. he has written about your decision. and he said, there is a fundamental arrogance about what daniel ellsberg did because, he said, and i m going to quote him, he said, you know, we have a system for controlling critical national security secrets. very, very well controlled. yes. and he said, you know, this is established by the congress, by the executive branch, both of which are elected by the people. congress had nothing to do with it. congress has nothing to do with the classification system. it is an executive system ruled by regulations from the defense department. ultimately, the president. ultimately the president