Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Daniel Ellsberg
Born: April 7, 1931
Died: June 16, 2023 (aged 92)
Bio: Daniel Ellsberg was an activist and United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers.
Known for:
- Papers on the war (1972)
- Risk, ambiguity, and decision (1962)
- Doomsday Machine (2017)
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