On this day in 1971 The New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, which were parts of a leaked government report about decades of U.S. involvement in Indochina. No fewer than four presidential administrations—those of Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson—were implicated in misleading the American public. The papers added to the growing opposition to the Vietnam War. [Read today’s edition of Today in History > >]