ADLER, Renata.

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Typed letter signed, to A. M. "Abe" Rosenthal, praising his publication of The Pentagon Papers. A tribute by the veteran New Yorker columnist to the editorial bravery of Abe Rosenthal and the New York Times. "I just have to tell you how proud I am... just to be an American from the day the first piece came out. Truth, freedom, humanity, a long, long step"."Publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 was a historic achievement for The Times. The papers, a 7,000-page secret government history of the Vietnam War, showed that every administration since World War II had enlarged America's involvement while hiding the true dimensions of the conflict... The Nixon administration tried to suppress publication, and the case led to a landmark Supreme Court decision upholding the primacy of the press over government attempts to impose "prior restraint" on what may be printed" (McFadden).Adler (b. 1938) was the film critic for the New York Times between 1968 and 1969 and attended Rosenthal's wedding to Shirley Lord in 1987. In her letter, she asserts that "I think history has changed" and also extols the efforts of Neil Sheehan, the reporter who acquired the Pentagon Papers, and Daniel Ellsburg, who was charged under the 1917 Espionage Act for leaking them.

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