I Would Say That The Pentagon Papers Case Of 1971 - In Which The Government Tried To Block The The New York Times And The Washington Post That They Obtained From A Secret Study Of How We Got Involved In The War In Vietnam - That Is Probably The Most Important Case. - SearchQuotes

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I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.

Floyd Abrams

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