To: bear11
33 posted on
10/14/2004 7:09:36 PM PDT by
DaveTesla
(You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
To: bear11
Lookie here....
During President Lyndon Johnsons administration Halperin had been in charge of compiling a classified history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. As David Horowitz and Richard Poe reported: This secret history later emerged [in June 1971] into
public view as the so-called Pentagon Papers. Halperin
and his deputy Leslie Gelb assigned much of the writing to
leftwing opponents of the war, such as Daniel Ellsberg
who, despite his background as a former Marine and a
military analyst for the Rand Corporation, was already
evolving into a New Left radical
With Halperins tacit
encouragement and perhaps active collusion Ellsberg
stole the secret history and released it to The New York
Times
Not surprisingly, The Pentagon Papers echoed
Halperins long-standing position that the Vietnam War was
unwinnable, and ridiculed Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
for stubbornly refusing to heed those of their advisors
who shared this opinion.
34 posted on
10/14/2004 7:18:31 PM PDT by
DaveTesla
(You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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