so, the bottom line is you decided to go to the newspapers. yes. i believe it s true to say that you and your 13 year old son at the time photocopied endless documents so that you could then send them to the new york times, to neil sheehan. and then, of course, the government tried to close you down. there was a court case which the government, the administration of nixon failed to win, which meant that other newspapers, the washington post and a bunch of other newspapers could publish. yes. now, as a result, henry kissinger described you as the most dangerous man in america. how did you feel about that at the time? well, i heard about it later, of course, that he had said that. i didn t know it at the time. very few people have ever asked me, why did he regard you as dangerous? after all, these documents ended before he got into office or nixon? they didn t incriminate him or nixon. why was that dangerous? and the answer was, i really was dangerous to the policy
he lied to congress. he got support for that war. it was thoroughly unconstitutional. i was violating my oath, as he was. you having failed to get senators to engage with these secret documents? they wanted to do it, but they shied off for fear. so, the bottom line is you decided to go to the newspapers. yes. i believe it s true to say that you and your 13 year old son at the time photocopied endless documents so that you could then send them to the new york times, to neil sheehan. and then, of course, the government tried to close you down. there was a court case which the government, the administration of nixon failed to win, which meant that other newspapers, the washington post and a bunch of other newspapers could publish. yes. now, as a result, henry kissinger described you as the most dangerous man in america. how did you feel about that at the time? well, i heard about it later, of course, that he had said that i didn t know it at the time. very few people have ever asked me. w
yes. i believe it s true to say that you and your 13 year old son at the time photocopied endless documents so that you could then send them to the new york times, to neil sheehan. and then, of course, the government tried to close you down. there was a court case which the government, the administration of nixon failed to win, which meant that other newspapers, the washington post and a bunch of other newspapers could publish. yes. now, as a result, henry kissinger described you as the most dangerous man in america. how did you feel about that at the time? well, i heard about it later, of course, that he had said that. i didn t know it at the time. very few people have ever asked me. why did he regard you as dangerous? after all, these documents ended before he got into office or nixon? they didn t incriminate him or nixon. why was that dangerous? and the answer was, i really was dangerous to the policy he and nixon were carrying
the country into a war. it was the tonkin gulf incident. he lied to congress. he got support for that war. it was thoroughly unconstitutional. i was violating my oath, as he was. you having failed to get senators to engage with these secret documents? they wanted to do it, but they shied off for fear. so, the bottom line is you decided to go to the newspapers. yes. i believe it s true to say that you and your 13 year old son at the time photocopied endless documents so that you could then send them to the new york times, to neil sheehan. and then, of course, the government tried to close you down. there was a court case which the government, the administration of nixon failed to win, which meant that other newspapers, the washington post and a bunch of other newspapers could publish. yes. now, as a result, henry kissinger described you as the most dangerous man in america. how did you feel about that at the time? well, i heard about it later, of course, that he had said that i didn t k
to the newspapers. yes. i believe it s true to say that you and your 13 year old son at the time photocopied endless documents so that you could then send them to the new york times, to neil sheehan. and then, of course, the government tried to close you down. there was a court case which the government, the administration of nixon failed to win, which meant that other newspapers, the washington post and a bunch of other newspapers could publish. yes. now, as a result, henry kissinger described you as the most dangerous man in america. how did you feel about that at the time? well, i heard about it later, of course, that he had said that i didn t know it at the time. very few people have ever asked me. why did he regard you as dangerous? after all, these documents ended before he got into office or nixon? they didn t incriminate him or nixon. why was that dangerous? and the answer was, i really was dangerous to the policy he and nixon were carrying out in secret. they were secretly thr