Before going to the press, Daniel Ellsberg spent a year and a half quietly leaking the Pentagon Papers to leading antiwar lawmakers. They all declined to speak out.
to the New York Times, The Washington Post and other newspapers in 1971, a radical maneuver that changed Americans’ understanding of the Vietnam War. But, before going to the press, the maverick defense analyst had spent a year and a half quietly leaking the papers to leading antiwar senators and representatives — in hopes they would publicize them, hold hearings and insert them into the Congressional Record.
Ellsberg started with Fulbright, an early supporter of the war who had turned critical of it by 1966, grilling aides to President Johnson about the war in nationally televised hearings. Ellsberg asked Fulbright whether he wanted to see the study’s volume on the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident that had led Congress to authorize the war’s escalation.“He had a smile on his face as broad as his southern drawl,” Ellsberg wrote.
So Ellsberg approached other antiwar lawmakers. He leaked parts of the Pentagon Papers to Sens. Gaylord Nelson and Charles Mathias and to Rep. Pete McCloskey. He had the highest hopes for, the impassioned antiwar senator who was already planning to challenge Nixon for the presidency in 1972. But the two men’s accounts of their meeting differ.
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