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3/ In fact my father already told this story in his 2002 memoir SECRETS. There he relates the reason why he initially told Sheehan he could review the papers but not have or make a copy without some assurance that the Times was interested in pursuing the story. While Sheehan
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4/ expressed his own deep interest, he never, up to the day they were published, let on that the Times was also interested. My father’s concern was not his “fear of jail.” He didn't want copies lying around the Times if they weren't interested, thus increasing danger that the FBI
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5/ would find out, seize the papers, and put him in jail without the papers getting out. He would have given the papers to Sheehan on day 1 if he had told the truth about the Times' serious interest. Instead, Sheehan said the opposite.
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6/ Not only did Sheehan--for mysterious reasons--not give this assurance, but he deliberately (per his account) strung his source along, pretending that he was still trying to interest his editors, while secretly making his own copy, and then preparing them for publication.
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7/ In April, at Sheehan's renewed request, my father finally took the risk of giving him a copy without conditions. Sheehan did not tell him he had been working on them with a team for many weeks. His interview provides no clear reasons for this ploy. He says his deception
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8/ was necessary and implies the papers would not have been published otherwise, but that hardly makes. If he was afraid my father would otherwise leak the story, his deception made that more rather than less likely.
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“Now It Can Be Told” runs the headline on a breathless @nytimes story of how Neal Sheehan got the Pentagon Papers from my father @DanielEllsberg. Sheehan wanted to counter the usual (accurate) narrative that my father gave the papers to the Times. . . nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/pe…
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The genie gave the master a courtesy 10-day warning that the terms of his wish were about to expire. “But this is not fair,” the master said. “I demand a do-over of my wish!” The genie merely said “Tick-tock” and disappeared in a flash. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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@tedcruz and other @GOP hate “divisive” analogies to Nazis but here is Austrian-born @Schwarzenegger comparing the Kristallnacht pogrom to the day of broken glass at the Capitol, and remembering the broken old men of his youth who had to live with the shame of what they had done.
My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week's attack on the Capitol.
Message regarding the attack on our Capitol
Like St Francis, the master often preached to the birds, or squirrels, or whoever was at hand. “I won—by a LOT,” he might say. “I know it, and you probably know it better than anyone.” Many bad and frankly sick people were trying to silence him. “You get it.”#TolstoysTalesofTrump
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John the Baptist: “He must increase, while I must decrease.” A man whose concern is not with himself but with a mission that is larger. Are we capable of similar detachment when a cause we have worked for is taken up by others—perhaps a new generation? Is our joy complete?
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My father never regretted the deception Neil Sheehan described in this posthumously published account of the Pentagon Papers. It all turned out for the best. nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/pe…
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The master paced the empty hallways in a frantic state, literally choking on words like Fraud! and Treachery! Where was his manservant? With the postman refusing to pick up his dispatches, he resorted to shouting out the window to anyone who would listen. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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