And while the leaking and publication of the Pentagon Papers was viewed as a sensational event, the material itself was generally quite dry. OFFICIAL PHOEBE BUFFAY OH MY EYES POSTER. Much of the material consisted of strategy memos circulated among government officials in the early years of American involvement in Southeast Asia. The publisher of the New York Times, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, later quipped, “Until I read the Pentagon Papers I did not know that it was possible to read and sleep at the same time.
