0h, absolutely. remember that i tried to put them out to the senate in the fall of 69, and it was promised by senator fulbright, chairman of the foreign relations committee, that he would hold hearings. but he didn t. he didn t do it. in the end he didn t want to know. he backed off. senator mathias backed off. representative mccloskey in the house said he would do it, but he hadn t yet done it. so i was trying to get them out from about the time i read all of them. was it anger that drove you? when you read the pentagon papers, did you feel a real sense of anger that successive administrations hadn t really told the truth, hadn t fronted up about what was happening in vietnam? no. i d been in the pentagon from 6a, 65, when the escalation was being secretly planned. in fact, i was in the state department on an inter agency study on election day in november of 1964. ..when the president was being
on the war. 0h, absolutely. remember that i tried to put them out to the senate in the fall of 69, and it was promised by senator fulbright, chairman of the foreign relations committee, that he would hold hearings. but he didn t. he didn t do it. in the end he didn t want to know. he backed off. senator mathias backed off. representative mccloskey in the house said he would do it, but he hadn t yet done it. so i was trying to get them out from about the time i read all of them. was it anger that drove you? when you read the pentagon papers, did you feel a real sense of anger that successive administrations hadn t really told the truth, hadn t fronted up about what was happening in vietnam? no. i d been in the pentagon from 6a, 65, when the escalation was being secretly planned. in fact, i was in the state department on an inter agency study on election day in november of 1964.
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