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The Post is a 2017 film in which a cover-up spanning four U.S. Presidents pushes the country's first female newspaper publisher and her editor to join an unprecedented battle between press and government. more »


Daniel Ellsberg:
But it didn't take him long to figure out, well, for us to figure out if the public ever saw these papers they would turn against the war. Covert ops, guaranteed debt, rigged elections? It's all in there. Ike, Kennedy, Johnson... they violated the Geneva Convention. They lied to Congress and they lied to the public. They knew we couldn't win and still sent boys to die.

Ben Bagdikian:
What about Nixon?

Daniel Ellsberg:
He's just carrying on like all the others, too afraid to be the one who loses the war on his watch.

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