Discussion on, a the history and the impact of the pentagon papers. From washington journal, this is an hour. Continues. Joining us from new york city is David Rudenstine, a professor of law at the core does a school of law core does that or does out cordozo school of law. He is also the author of the day the presses stopped a history of the pentagon papers case. Thank you for joining us today. Thank you. I am delighted to be here. Phyllis coming up that focuses on the Washington Post coverage of the pentagon papers. Remind us of what the pentagon papers work. Papersthe pentagon totaled 2. 5 million words, 7000 pages, and it weighed 60 pounds. It was a history of how the United States got involved in totnam from roughly 1945 1968. The Washington Post covering the made it to the Supreme Court. Explain what happened. Guest that is a complicated question. Given to there New York Times in 1971. , 1971, the new york seriespushing a 10part publishing the papers. The papers were classified to
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I have to tell you, people always ask me how i write my books, and my newest book, the book on luther is coming out in just a couple of weeks, but for the last year ive been talking about america. And at the very heart of it is this concept of the Golden Triangle of freedom. Ut but what i find funny is that id never heard of it, no ones ever heard of it. Dear friend of mine Alec Guinness wrote a book calleda free peoples philistine. Every one of them understood this concept and i thought i have got to do more to get this out because one book comes out. I didnt know i would write a book about it, it ended up being a book, the Golden Triangle of freedom, can i explain briefly . All the founders understood this. Freedom requires virtue. We mean selfgovernment requires virtue, virtue requires faith and faith requires freedom. To explain it the founders said they wrote this over and over. You cant have selfgovernment, you cant have actual freedom unless people govern themselves which is to
Announcer this week on q a, former counterterrorism and Intelligence Officer malcolm nance talks about his career and his most recent book the plot to hack america how Putin Cyberspies and wikileaks tried to steal the 2016 election. And hacking isis how to destroy the cyber jihad. Brian former senior chief petty officer malcolm nance, what is the story of the nance family in the military . Malcolm i love being called senior chief. Long while very since i served in the navy. I come from a very old u. S. Military family. For African Americans, it is sort of an achievement. My family started it. My first person to serve was my greatgreatgrandfather. His brother also joined the 111 u. S. Color troops. They guarded the Tennessee Valley during the offensive and he got bored with it, so he joined the u. S. Navy. He transitioned from the u. S. Army to the u. S. Navy and became a landsman aboard a rivering warfare craft on the tennessee river. Predominantly navy, but we accept the army a little
Announcer this week on q a, former counterterrorism and Intelligence Officer malcolm nance talks about his career and his most recent book the plot to hack america how Putin Cyberspies and wikileaks tried to steal the 2016 election. And hacking isis how to destroy the cyber jihad. Brian former senior chief petty officer malcolm nance, what is the story of the nance family in the military . Malcolm i love being called senior chief. Long while very since i served in the navy. I come from a very old u. S. Military family. For African Americans, it is sort of an achievement. My family started it. My first person to serve was my greatgreatgrandfather. His brother also joined the 111 u. S. Color troops. They guarded the Tennessee Valley during the offensive and he got bored with it, so he joined the u. S. Navy. He transitioned from the u. S. Army to the u. S. Navy and became a landsman aboard a rivering warfare craft on the tennessee river. Predominantly navy, but we accept the army a little