1st sentence of Crises of the Republic by Hannah Arendt

'The Pentagon Papers - as the forty-seven-volume "History of US Decision-Making Process on Vietnam Policy" (commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in June 1967 and completed a year and a half later) has become known ever since the New York Times published, in June 1971, this top-secret, richly documented record of the American role in Indochina from World War II to May 1968 - tell different stories, teach different lessons to different readers.