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(Continued from Page 1) i ginning to reveal previous govern- said.
the documents, were charged with ment efforts aimed at suppressing Twenty years ago, Ellsberg vol-
conspiracy, theft, and violations of "lies, crimes, and mistakes" com- unteered for the Marine Corps and
the federal Espionage Act. mitted by its officials. served for two years before be-
The accusations were subsequent- "The risks of secrecy and the coming involved in government.
ly dropped when the court learned public's blind obedience to our financed research on Vietnam.
that White House "plumbers" had leaders has resulted in Watergates He maintained a very hawkish
broken into the office of Ellsberg's and My Lai's," he said, "but now posture until 1965 when he traveled
psychiatrist to obtain information the people are less willing ro ac- with a number of frontline troops
potenitally damaging to the de- cept that position." in Vietnam - an experience Ells-
fendants. AT A BRIEF press conference berg yesterday termed "a painful
SUFFERING FROM the flu, Ells- earlier yesterday, Ellsberg, attired education about what the govern-
berg addressed yesterday's crowd in a conservative blue sports ment was perpetrated on the Viet-
in a horse, raspy voice but urgent- jacket and grey slacks, pointed to namese people."
ly called for the impeachment of a correlation between U.S. mili- Four years later Ellsberg re-
the President because Nixon "has tary policy in Indochina which he leased the controversial history of
put himself above the law by helped formulate - and Watergate the United States involvement in
claiming he controls the evidence crimes. Vietnam - perhaps best charac-
necessary to make himself account- "We fought a colonial war in terized as a catalogue of blunders
able in criminal prosecution." ways not constrained by laws and - hoping "the truth would end
He added, however, that Nixon sooner or later that corruption had the war."
should not resign since that would to be brought home and turned ALTHOUGH his dark hair is
halt a process which is just be- loose on American citizens," he thinning and flecked with gray,
the man looks about the same as
when he earnestly worked for the
O n TBS a n *"Pentagon. But philosophically he
has done an about-face.
Ellsberg fervently supports the
need for public access to govern-
Sixon.-re usament documents as the only ve-
nNnf 'hicle for perserving the Consti-
tutional concept of checks and bal-
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ski, the special Watergate prose- 1972. The scales have been tipped by
cutor, had been allowed to go MEANWHILE, there were these an executive branch steeped in
through and examine a specific other Watergate developments: "cold war thinking" and a top
file, the plumbers file." Doar was! A study done for the Senate secret stamp which denies citizens
referring to a file of the so-called Watergate committee recommend- legitimate information, thereby re-
White House plumbers unit. ed that Congress bar the attorney ducing government to an "elected
JAVITS, A LIBERAL New York general from advising the Presi- monarchy," Ellsberg said.
Republican told a news confer- dent on the President's legal prob- "I have learned to respect the
ence. "The President's duty is lems. The report was by the Na- Constitution over the past several
to turn over everything he has. I tional Academy of Public Admin- years. I used to work for the ex-
do not believe that in an impeach- istration. ecutive branch and figured it did
ment proceeding, the President has 0At Gen. William Saxbe said not apply to me," he said serious-
the right to withhold anything." ly - although the crowd tittered.
Lawyers for H. R. Haldeman, at a news conference he has no ob- T H R O U G H O U T t h e
the President's former Chief of jection to Justice Department law- speech, Ellsberg emphasized his
Staff, today filed an appeal against yers volunteering for President conviction that once the blanket
U. S. District Judge John Sirica's Nixon's Watergate defense team of secrecy covering the adminis-
decision Monday to give the House and then returning later to the de- tration's operations falls - prob-
Judiciary Committee a report and partment. ably taking the president with it
material gathered by the special' House Judiciary Committee -the American people will pre-
Watergate Grand Jury. lawyers, defending their attempts vent another Vietnam or Water-
The material reportedly bears to get White House documents, gate.
on whether Nixon had a role in the said their requests are specific, Ellsberg walked from the po-
cover-up of the break-in at the related to Watergate and fully un- dium yesterday to a standing ova-
Democratic National Committee derstood by Nixon's attorneys. tion.
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