June 18, 1971. The Washington Post runs its first front-page stories on the secret Pentagon study: one from the study during the Eisenhower era in 1954 when the U.S. figured into a delay in South Vietnamese elections; another on how members of Congress were then mostly supporting the earlier New York Times' publication of the secret study; a third on the Times' actions regarding the government's legal requests for documents; and a fourth, in the lower right hand corner, about the government's pursuit of then suspected leaker, Daniel Ellsberg.
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