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- [Host] They told The
Times it was unpatriotic.

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They told The Times,
the publisher Sulzberger

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could go to jail.

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They told Mr. Sulzberger
that his father

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wouldn't have run it.

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- [Reporter] This could
backfire on The Times.

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The main thing is to cast

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in terms of doing something
disloyal to the country,

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that's right.

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This risks our men.

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- [Interviewer] Do you
feel, Mr. Sulzberger,

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that the national security

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is endangered as charged
by the administration?

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- I certainly do not.

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This was not a breach of
the national security.

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We gave away no
national secrets.

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We didn't jeopardize
any American soldiers

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or Marines overseas.

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- When I interviewed
Mr. Sulzberger, he
held out his hands

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and said "I'm ready
to go if I have to."

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- The lawyers had urged
them not to publish.

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The Times went
ahead and published.

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The Times called its lawyers.

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Their lawyers came over and
said, "We won't represent you."

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And so The Times found
themselves without a lawyer.

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One in the morning my phone rang

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and it was the General Counsel
of the Times, James Goodell

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who had already
called a professor

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of mine from Yale Law
School, Professor Bickell,

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to ask him to lead a team
in representing The Times.

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And I was stunned.

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Stunned to get the call.

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- I was a young reporter working

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for the late great National
Observer and they sent me

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to New York to cover the
temporary restraining order.

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I remembered being
scared, really scared.

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If the government could
stop the New York Times,

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the Gray Lady, the most
important newspaper

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in the United States

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at a time when newspapers
were still king,

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that meant they
could stop anybody

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from publishing for whatever
they called national security.

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