Question

which best describes why the government tried to prevent the new york times from publishing articles on the vietnam war ?

Answer 1

The articles threatened national security interests. The Pentagon Papers, as they have come to be known, were a series of documents from 1971 that were given to the Times by a general who was in opposition of the US's presence in Vietnam. The US tried to block their further release on security grounds, but were not successful.

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