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"'What's going on down in Washington
trivializes the matter of Presidential lying. and I'm as deeply concerned
about Presidential lying as anybody because that's what the Pentagon Papers
episode was all about'" (Daniel Ellsberg, The New York Times, December
15, 1998).
"'If I thought that the current
scandal was going to end up raising the bar of acceptance on Presidential
lying, I'd be all for the Congressional involvement. But unfortunately the
entire focus is on something that's relatively not very serious: a President's
private life, which is something most people view as private. This isn't
the Pentagon Papers. This isn't about what a President does about a war
or how he deploys his missiles and the like ...'" (Daniel Ellsberg,
The New York Times, December 15, 1998).
"'Presidents lie all the time.
They tell the truth only when it serves their purpose. But this Congress
is not concerned about across-the-board lying by Presidents. They put up
with lying all the time, including their own lying. And now here they come
all of a sudden, crying, Ah hah. We've caught one! How can you take
them seriously?'" (Daniel Ellsberg, The New York Times, December
15, 1998).
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