S3 Ep 1 - October Surprise

LBJ's War by PRX

Jun 14, 202139:37Society & Culture

Get in and get those files. Blow the safe and get it. -President Nixon to aide H.R. Haldeman For President Richard Nixon, the publication of the Pentagon Papers, in June 1971, ought not to have mattered. The malfeasance...

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