Pentagon Papers to be released Hobby.

AUSTIN, Texas - Precisely 40 years after they began to appear in The New York Times, triggering a constitutional turning-point over audacity of the press, the Pentagon Papers will be released at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum and other sites Monday. Officials with the Lyndon B. Johnson Library on the University of Texas at Austin campus have scheduled a info forum to reveal the once-top secret, 7,000-page Pentagon sanctum of the Vietnam War initial leaked to The New York Times.

Simultaneous releases of the papers also are planned at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston; Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Calif.; and the National Archives at College Park, Md. The Times began publishing the documents 40 years ago until a federal decide halted the publication. A fragmented U.S. Supreme Court struck down the ruling.

In the meantime, The Washington Post published the documents. The manumitting also comes 38 years after President Johnson himself asked Nixon, his presidential successor, to rescue them to the public, the Austin American-Statesman reported Sunday. Johnson died 10 days later of a magnanimity attack.

The LBJ Library has had a absolute set of the arrive documents since 1969. Former Johnson assistant Tom Johnson said the documents leaked to The Times and The Post did not number a measure out about private Johnson charge efforts to accomplish cease-fire with North Vietnam. Former Johnson partner and days LBJ Library head Harry Middleton said Johnson's answer to Monday's publish would have been, "What the abyss took so long?" "He felt, to get the undamaged statement out, that everybody should have access to the papers in the LBJ Library," Middleton told the American-Statesman. Another erstwhile Johnson aide, Tom Johnson, who was not interdependent to his late boss, said, "He felt his decision-making about Vietnam could tolerate brimming scrutiny." Middleton said that Johnson phoned him at the library to squawk when the leaked Pentagon Papers were published in 1971.

"This is only depart of the story. They don't have the unbroken story," Middleton recalled Johnson influential him. Johnson and his aides began erection their victim to endowment to Nixon for hand out of the papers. Middleton said he attended a dinner promoter at the LBJ Ranch on Jan. 13, 1973, where Johnson told him he wanted a face-to-face congress with Nixon to essay declassification of the documents.

"I'm flourishing to do that as soon as President Nixon is inaugurated," Middleton recalled Johnson saying. "I'm affluent to go to Washington and attract it up with him. Nixon was inaugurated a encourage day a week later, but Johnson died two days later without having the meeting.

Johnson aides and associates continued talks with Nixon counterparts in hopes of getting the documents declassified, but nothing happened until the Watergate calumny ended all discussions of the topic.

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