In 1971, the New York Times Published the Pentagon Papers

question 33

Multiple Choice

In 1971, The New York Times published the Pentagon Papers, a classified Department of Defense study that confirmed that .

• A) U.S. involvement in Vietnam was illegal, because Congress never declared war
• B) the Pentagon believed the Vietnam War was unwinnable
• C) President Nixon was secretly collaborating with the Vietcong
• D) Presidents Kennedy and Johnson had lied to the public about the U.S. role in Vietnam

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