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The New York Times and the Washington Post illegally acquired 7,000 pages of a classified study prepared by the Defense Dept on the evolution of US-Vietnam policy. The study was known as the Pentagon Papers. On Sunday, June 13, 1971, the Times published the first of what would be several installments of a condensed version of the classified study. The Post began publishing their version of the series on June 18,1971.
On June 15, 1971, the Nixon administration went into US District Court in New York, and later the District of Columbia, seeking a judicial order blocking further publication of the planned series by the two newspapers that the Executive Branch insists should not, in the national interest, be published.
On June 25, 1971, the Supreme Court granted expedited review, with oral arguments scheduled the next day, June 26. The Court rendered its decision four days later on June 30.
The Justices agreed that the Government had not met the burden of proof that the disclosure of any of the publication series would result in direct, immediate, and irreparable damage to our Nation or its people. Therefore upholding the First Amendment’s freedom of press and deciding on behalf of the New York Times Co.
It was in Mr. Justice Stewart along with Mr. Justice White’s concurring opinion, I believe clearly explained and proved the point of the overall decision in that, “it is elementary that the successful conduct of international diplomacy and the maintenance of an effective national defense require both confidentiality and secrecy. Other nations can hardly deal with this Nation in an atmosphere of mutual trust unless they can be assured that their confidences will be kept. And within our own executive departments, the development of considered and intelligent international policies would be impossible if those charged with their formulation could not communicate with each other freely, frankly,...
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