Goodale Tells CJR Obama Maybe Be Worse Than Nixon

Former New York Times chief counsel James Goodale, the lawyer who engineered the landmark Pentagon Papers case through the Supreme Court, suggests in a Columbia Journalism Review Q&A with freelance writer Susan Armitage that President Obama may be worse for press freedom than President Nixon. Read more about Goodale’s Pentagon Papers memoir, and his analysis of current press freedom dangers, in his new book Fighting for the Press.