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How ‘The Post’ stood up to the power of the presidency

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In the film "The Post," an editor and a publisher must obtain the Pentagon Papers

In the film "The Post," editor Ben Bradlee and publisher Katharine Graham must obtain the Pentagon Papers and then decide whether to defy a court order by publishing the classified history of the Vietnam War. A story about a consequential moment in American history, press freedom and national security, it's also about Graham finding her way in a male-dominated world. Jeffrey Brown reports.

01/23/2018

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