Friday, August 13, 2010

Vietnam and the Willful and Systematic Deception of Public Officials

“You know, they could hang people for what’s in there”

- Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's remark to a friend upon reading the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Quoted in Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall, America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009), 244.

Gee, Bob, who do you suppose they could hang?

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