Welcome to the

The Mathle Better Show, I'm your host Paul Bulblitzang.

After watching the new movie The Post from 20th Century Fox starring Merrill Street and Tom Hanks,

I had a chance to interview mystery, which we'll get to in just a few minutes.

First though, I want to share my review of the film, which up front I'll tell you I thought it was excellent

for members of the not old better audience we will remember the subject of the Pentagon Papers

the top secret Department of Defense study on the U.S.'s involvement with Vietnam.

And of course, central to the film and the publication of the papers in the Washington Post

is Catherine Graham, publisher, played by Merrill Street.

In the film, Catherine Graham, played by Merrill Street, is about to take her company public

when the New York Times begins publishing excerpts from the Pentagon

papers, which reveal and divulge, among other things, that the government knew for years that

the Vietnam War was unwinnable, but kept sending troops overseas anyway.

President Nixon, whose actual voice we hear in recorded phone conversations, obtains a federal court injunction ordering the times to cease

publication of the damning documents. But when Daniel Ellsberg leaks a study to dogged post-re reporter named Ben Baddikian,

wonderfully played by Bob Ovenkirk.

The newspaper has a major publish or parish dilemma on its hands.

Like Stephen Spielberg's earlier historical dramas, Lincoln and Bridge of Spies,

The Post, turns the art of negotiation into gripping cinema.

It's about the tactical risks and

compromises by which our republic survives. Historians may well take the

post to task for not including more perspective from the times

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