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The Pentagon Papers were important because they showed citizens what the government was really doing for the involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War. They confirmed people's suspicions about the active role the U.S. government had during the war.

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This represents the secrets that were being kept from the public, and how they were let loose. Since this occasion was so important, it was put on the cover of TIME Magazine. Most Americans understood the significance of the Pentagon Papers when they saw how hard Nixon's administration fought to keep it hidden.

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https://www.biography.com/people/daniel-ellsberg-17176398
This military strategist, Daniel Ellsberg, helped strengthen public resistance towards the Vietnam War by leaking secret documents known as the pentagon papers.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8573899/The-impact-of-The-Pentagon-Papers-40-years-on.html
The Pentagon Papers' leak in 1971 had a phenomenal impact on the government's relationship with its citizens. The papers leaked a lot of information about United States leaders' that they were shocked to discover. After The Pentagon Papers were leaked, the citizens could not trust or rely on the government or its judgement. The U.S. Government and the media had a very dramatic conflict because of the leak of The Pentagon Papers.

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The papers revealed that the Harry S. Truman administration gave military aid to France in the war against Viet Minh..

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Definition: the name given to the secret Department of Defense classified study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.

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How Where the Pentagon Papers Successful?

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How Where the Pentagon Papers Successful?

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-The study showed that American leaders involved in the United States in Vietnam without fully informing the American people and occasionally lied to Congress.
-The result was that more Americans turned against the war.
-Americans were very frustrated and disappointed that the U.S. government had been lying to them and keeping secrets from them.
-The Pentagon Papers were eventually declassified and published into a book on June 13, 2011.

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-The papers were officially titled "Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force".
-The study was made of 47 volumes, consisting of about 3,000 pages of narrative and 4,000 pages of appended documents. The study took 18 months to complete.
-At first, Daniel Ellsberg was an early supporter of U.S. involvement in Indochina, but he eventually believed that the Vietnam War was unwinnable.
-Soon later, Daniel Ellsberg thought that what was in the papers should be available to American public, so he secretly photocopied the information and gave it to New York Times.
-On June 13, 1971 there were a series of articles based on the study that were published by the New York Times.
-The U.S. ultimately tried to stop the publication of these articles, but failed because the U.S. Supreme Court said that the articles failed to prove harm to U.S. national security. They also said that the publication of these papers was justified under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (Freedom of the Press).