By 1967, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was becoming very pessimistic about the Vietnam War. He no longer believed it could be won at acceptable...

The Pentagon Papers is the popular term for a 7,000-page top-secret United States government report on the history of the internal planning and policy-making process within the government itself concerning the Vietnam War. The documents gained fame when...

* Excerpts from "the first rough draft of history" as reported in The Washington Post on this date in the 20th century. In 1971, Rand Corp. researcher Daniel Ellsberg leaked his copy of the "Pentagon Papers," a 47-volume study of U.S. policy on the...

Inside the Pentagon Papers. John Prados and Margaret Pratt Porter, eds. Lawrence, KN: University of Kansas Press, 2004. 248 pp. $29.95 hbk. Inside the Pentagon Papers is a thin and mostly disappointing presentation of what the editors call "the backstory" of the extraordinary...

A tearful Cindy Sheehan cited her son, killed in Iraq, as her inspiration as she announced her candidacy Thursday for the U.S. House against Rep. Nancy Pelosi.Sheehan last month said she intended to run against Pelosi, the House speaker, if the San Francisco congresswoman didn't...

Victor Rabinowitz, a lawyer who represented leftist causes and clients such as Alger Hiss, the Black Panthers, Fidel Castro and Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin, has died at 96.Rabinowitz died Friday at his Manhattan home, his longtime law partner, Michael Krinsky, said Tuesday.In a 1996...