An Evening with Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg says he was sitting in a New York coffee shop on 52nd street in December 1969 when the Pentagon papers began to take on a new meaning for him. He dwelled on a line from Auden: “The clever hopes of a low dishonest decade.”

Ellsberg drew a chic audience in New York the other night, where his lecture tour took him: Before the lights came down at the YMCA-HA theater on 92nd Street, you could hardly see a flower kid. There were ladies in the latest fashions though; some carried the New Yorker. They would listen and applaud. “A lovely lovely human being,” one summarized.

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Daniel Ellsberg says he was sitting in a New York coffee shop on 52nd street in December 1969 when the Pentagon papers began to take on a new meaning for him. He dwelled on a line from Auden: “The clever hopes of a low dishonest decade.”

Ellsberg drew a chic audience in New York the other night, where his lecture tour took him: Before the lights came down at the YMCA-HA theater on 92nd Street, you could hardly see a flower kid. There were ladies in the latest fashions though; some carried the New Yorker. They would listen and applaud. “A lovely lovely human being,” one summarized.