you brought up daniel ellsberg and mike wallace. are they heroes do you? are they effective people in their field? >> some of the things they have done or heroic. mike wallace was an unbelievable questioner. he made people feel comfortable in his interviews and i respect that. not just a protected class for priesthood, people want journalism to be an identity like a cartel. i admire virtues from each of these different people. it might lead her audience -- why is o'keefe appreciating? because there are virtues in all of these people. one almost went to jail and they went to the supreme court the washington post and new york times litigated to the supreme court. whistleblowing can be heroic. it can also be illegal. ed snowden can be breaking the law but there is a place in the world for people like that. without people like that, investigative journalists can't do their jobs. it's the bread and butter of what it means to be an american. that right to report what someone tells you is being fundamentally it's in jeopardy right now. in our case with the fbi. t

had any say in the decision this year that the single person has done most nuclear abolition is daniel ellsberg, the man who has devoted his life. and he's now is a referendum to say, i want my country to have nuclear weapons because the nuclear country leaders death to have shot you want, including russia, including china, including friends, including the us. none of them would dare to ask the people whether they want the nuclear, a waters i'm afraid, does all, we have time for dots, yoga. we can get something discussed in this for hours to come. i'm sure. the thank you very much for your time today. that was dr. john ober direct said the chance national foundation for peace suture. he said, thank you. thank you. ah, royal back stabbers. that's what to so my us lawmakers are now calling saudi arabia over rewards moved to reduce oil outputs fall in the opec plus decision, or the u. s. officials are even calling for the president to cut the cuts off. weapons applies to the gulf kingdom. the saudis need us more for weapons than we need them. prison violence should make it clear that we will cut o

that was the break-in into the beverly hills offices of daniel ellsberg shrink. looking to see what his plans might be for further leaks like the pentagon papers. it's not really connected to watergate, but the break-in was planned and executed by gordon letty and howard hunt who were connected. so it planted the seeds that blossomed into the watergate. right about this time right about thanksgiving 50 years ago. john dean was recruiting gordon, liddy. to design a campaign intelligence plan. it's unfortunate that he picked gordon. it's unfortunate that gordon got a little carried away. with his plan it involved proposals for mugging bugging kidnapping and prostitution. so one of the fair things to say is that some of nixon's people? were hardly blameless in all this the question was how high up the rot went and that's where all the arguments exist even to today. as watergate unfolded a heavily partisan media. helped to assure that the victors we're lyonized. that the vanquished were villainized. and afterwards they told us the system had worked and that justice h

dubois, horace bond and daniel ellsberg. we thank the oates family for their trust and partnership. and once again, thank you, everyone, for joining us. as we celebrate the distinguished life and legacy of stephen. thank you. great. thank you. chancellor swami, for those gracious remarks. i'd now like to invite a greg oates and aaron rubinstein to just say a few remarks about professor oates. his papers. well, to follow is difficult as it is. chancellor swami is really exciting announcement about placement of stephen oates papers with the special collections at umass at the umass amherst libraries. i and i know i am representing the entire in saying that this is incredible opportunity for us as you'll see over the course of the day, professor oates had a profound impact on. so many historians and so many lovers history and so many who have been affected by learning the history of the events of the many areas that that professor oates covered. but i think what's particular vital and important is be able to preserve that for a new generation of students and scholars and for to underst