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How Dan Ellsberg changed my life

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Jeff Stein
Jun 17, 2023
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IT WAS ONE OF THOSE LIFE-CHANGING MOMENTS that you never forget. In June 1971, I was working as a daytime bartender at the Ritz Hotel off Boston Common, having a cup of coffee before the start of my shift. I unfolded the Boston Globe. And there in big black letters screamed a story about a massive leak at the Pentagon that had exposed decades worth of l…

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