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THE 1970S 1969 1979

FOREIGN POLICIES OF PRESIDENT NIXON

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The secret documents detailing the history of American involvement in Vietnam, which were obtained by Daniel Ellsberg and later printed by the new York Times, were known as the
A
Watergate tapes
B
Nixon memoranda
C
Pentagon Papers
D
Warren Report
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1971, Ellsberg gave the New York Times copies of a secret government report on American involvement in the Vietnam War. After the newspaper began publishing the so-called “Pentagon Papers, ” the Nixon administration obtained a restraining order to stop them.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pentagon Papers, papers that contain a history of the U.S. role in Indochina from World War II until May 1968 and that were commissioned in 1967 by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara.

Detailed explanation-3: -In late 1969, with the assistance of his former RAND Corporation colleague Anthony Russo, Ellsberg secretly made several sets of photocopies of the classified documents to which he had access; these later became known as the Pentagon Papers.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Times published the first installment of the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret history of the Vietnam War, on June 13, 1971. Credit: The New York Times Corporate Archive.

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