studs terkel: Your name is known to quite a few Americans these days. You let the country and the world know about a series of documents called the Pentagon Papers.

daniel ellsberg: I have a feeling that a lot of my former colleagues at RAND see me with a kind of horror — not just anger, but with an awe of the sort that you’d have for an astronaut who stepped out of that capsule and cut his umbilical cord and just floated off into space and became weightless, drifting in a black…