Ed Helms
speaker
9,380 appearances
79 recordings
18 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2d ago
Ed Helms’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Betty knew that writing this story could make her an enemy of the FBI.
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Something nobody wanted, as it could have very real consequences.
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And so, despite knowing that it could create powerful enemies for this heretofore under-the-radar smirsch reporter, Betty sat down to write her story.
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But this wasn't like any other story.
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Betty finished the piece and turned it in at six PM.
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If Betty's story never saw the light of day, then the public might never know that the FBI was watching them.
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Catherine Graham was the publisher of The Washington Post.
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Graham is a journalism legend who received the loftiest honor you can imagine.
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Meryl Streep played her in a movie.
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Yeah.
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The movie The Post is all about Catherine Graham and her executive editor Ben Bradley and their decision to publish a batch of leaked federal documents known as the Pentagon Papers.
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But that was all yet to come.
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On this day, march twenty third, nineteen seventy one, no American newspaper had ever published government documents stolen by sources from outside the government.
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Graham and the Post leadership were in completely uncharted territory.
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Betty would later learn that earlier that day the Attorney General of the United States, John Mitchell, had repeatedly phoned the Post, demanding that they not publish her story.
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The Attorney General claimed that the documents could damage national security.
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That sounded plausible.
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Except Betty and her editors, unlike the Attorney General, had actually read the documents.
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Did they threaten to embarrass the government?
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Absolutely.
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