"I've always been with the one who rebels against false values. My heroes now are Ralph Nader and Daniel Ellsberg."
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1971 interview included in Conversations with Anaïs Nin Edited by Wendy DuBow (2011)
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Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023) was a United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, released in 1971 the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of US government decision-making about the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers.
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