Mark Moyar

And so it is very harmful for the American cause.

And then you have the Pentagon Papers where Daniel Ellsberg releases this study that had been put together actually under the Johnson administration.

Now, it doesn't come out till Nixon's president.

But it does reveal some of the deceit and mistakes that were committed by people like McNamara and Johnson and all the disastrous errors that came from that.

So that will certainly provoke a lot of controversy.

Now, Nixon himself is not covered in the Pentagon Papers.

And at first he's kind of thinks, I'll just let this go.

But then.

Henry Kissinger, who is his national security advisor, tells him that we have to figure out who did this and punish them ruthlessly, and that there's actually probably a conspiracy involved.

Yeah.

So the Pentagon Papers expose the American role in the coup of 1963.

And at the time, up until this time, it wasn't clear what role the Americans had actually played.

But now these make clear that, in fact, the U.S.

embassy is supporting this coup.

The CIA is involved.

And so that that was quite disconcerting for a lot of people on both the right and the left who were wondering,

Why are we actually overthrowing this allied government of ours?

You have information about the Tonkin Gulf suggesting that maybe it was not quite what we were told, that in fact there was some provocation involved.

You have documents indicating that they're actually planning to go to war when Lyndon Johnson's saying that he's the peace candidate.

And you have talk of...