of individual rights. chief justice warren burger who had been from minnesota, and served in the court of appeals in the district columbia was interested in the orderly processing of judicial decisions, the structure of the court, how decisions are made and how state courts work. he was more businesslike than his predecessor. susan: would not be a case without daniel ellsberg, who is he? floyd: daniel ellsberg had been a marine during the war in vietnam, he was an intellectual, and he had favored the war in its early days, and had come to believe that it was a war crime. he had come to believe we are -- we were doing things in vietnam which violated international law and principles of morality and the like. he was one of the authors of the pentagon papers. he was a scholar, as well as everything else i've said and he , was one of the authors commissioned to write chapters of the pentagon papers. he came to the view that if only the public could see the degree to which it had been lied to through the years, which perpetuated the american presence in vietnam, that they would demand the war end. he felt, notwithsta