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RESTRICTED -- Behind the Race to Publish the Top-Secret Pentagon Papers

In an undated handout image, a June 14, 1971 telegram sent by John N. Mitchell, the attorney general of the United States, ordering The New York Times to stop publishing stories about the Pentagon Papers. The leaked, top-secret history of the decision-making behind the Vietnam conflict had dramatic consequences for press freedom and the presidency. (The New York Times Corporate Archive via The New York Times) -- NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH STORY SLUGGED PENTAGON-PAPERS BY CHOKSHI FOR DEC. 21, 2017. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. --.