In 1971, a top secret study of the U.S. government’s decision-making during the Vietnam War was leaked. Those papers became known to the public as the Pentagon Paper. The man behind the act was Daniel Ellsberg, political activist and author. This event stirred up a motion of historic events that ended the Nixon presidency and the Vietnam War. Larry Jacobs, the University of Minnesota’s Mondale Chair for Political Studies and Director of the Center of the Study of Politics and Governance at the Humphrey Institute, joins Daniel Ellsberg in a discussion of this striking event, the aftermath and the notion of American Democracy. From the Series:Great Conversations