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Daniel Ellsberg, Glenda Jackson, Melanie Phillips, Sir Ben Helfgott

Last Word

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Daniel Ellsberg took a PhD in economics at Harvard. He then served in the US Marines, before joining the think tank, the Rand Corporation. They seconded him to the Pentagon to work on the Vietnam War. His son says his father had begun with skepticism about the war. But he thought that it was his responsibility as a government official to implement the policies of the president and make the best of it.

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