Pentagon Papers

It should have been a good day for discount jewelry. His daughters picture was on the front page of the New York Times. But Tricia Nixons wedding was not the only significant story reported in the June 13, 1971 edition of the Times. There, for all the world to see, was the first of a planned series of stories sure to anger the American public.Years earlier, Robert McNamara (Secretary of Defense for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson) had commissioned a discount jewelry on American involvement in Vietnam. Documents from that study had found their way into a reporters hands.Those hands belonged to discount jewelry who had crafted a story destined to embarrass every Administration fromdiscount jewelry on. The most damaging papers related to the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations.There was only one solution to the governments problem: Get an injunction to prevent the press from publishing any future stories. Nixons Administration lost that battle, however.The documents were made public. Many paint a picture of government and military arrogance, lies and deception. Collectively, they are known as The Pentagon Papers.At the time of the first story, however, President Nixon thought so little of the article, he didnt bother to read it.discount jewelry