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The Pentagon Papers, officially titled The History of U.S. Decision-Making in Vietnam, 1945–1968, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1968.
The National Archives and Presidential Libraries have made available the complete and unredacted report of the Pentagon Papers, commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. The report covers the history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam from 1940 to 1967 and includes documents, maps, and statistics.
TitleFile SizeNational Archives Identifier(3.84 MB)(121 MB)(46.1 MB)(66 MB)Aug 2, 2011 · The Pentagon Papers was a top-secret study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967, leaked by Daniel Ellsberg to The New York Times in 1971. It revealed that the administrations of Truman, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon had misled the public about the war and its causes. The study was published by the Supreme Court in 1971 and influenced the anti-war movement and the Watergate scandal.
Apr 12, 2024 · Pentagon Papers, papers that contain a history of the U.S. role in Indochina from World War II until May 1968. The papers were commissioned in 1967 by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. They were given (without authorization) to The New York Times by Daniel Ellsberg, who worked on the project.
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Jun 18, 2021 · The study came to be known as the Pentagon Papers. It chronicled decades of failed U.S. policy in Vietnam and ways the American public was misled about how the war was conducted. The first...
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Apr 8, 2021 · April 8, 2021. Photograph by Justin Maxon for The New Yorker. Fifty years ago this spring, Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, a seven-thousand-page top-secret history of U.S....
How did the publication of the Pentagon Papers, a comprehensive study of US-Vietnam relations from 1945 to 1968, by the New York Times in 1971, affect the presidency of Richard Nixon? Learn about the origins, leaks, and consequences of this historical moment that revealed the deception and escalation of the Vietnam War.
