Question

What did the publication of the Pentagon Papers reveal to the American public? A. that President Johnson was secretly trying to get the U.S. involved in a conflict with China during the later years of his presidency B. that Robert Kennedy had been assassinated by an extremist plot inside the United States government C. that military officers and government officials were deceiving the people of the United States about how the Vietnam War was going D. the President Nixon had secret recordings of the illegal activity he conducted while in office

Answer 1

The Pentagon Papers, officially titled United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. The papers were released by Daniel Ellsberg who had worked on the study, and first brought to the attention of the public on the front page of The New York Times in 1971.