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David Blum, editor of Kindle Singles at Amazon, adjunct professor at Columbia School of Journalism, and author of TICK...TICK...TICK...The Long Life and Turbulent Times of 60 Minutes, talks about the Westmoreland v. CBS case, its affect on Mike Wallace, and history's verdict on the accusations.

The National Archives and Records Administration releases the Pentagon Papers in full for the first time today. When the papers were leaked by Daniel Ellsberg in 1971, Americans learned the truth behind the U.S.’s involvement in Vietnam for the first time. Exactly 40 years ago, on June 13, 1971, The New York Times published the first in a series of articles based on the Pentagon Papers. The Times' decision to publish the classified documents led to a series of legal battles with the Nixon Administration. The Supreme Court finally decided the case, ruling that under the First Amendment, the Times could freely publish the Pentagon Papers.

China has existed as an independent state for close to 4,000 years. After a decline in the 20th Century, the large nation has risen to the ranks of a global superpower in recent decades, replacing the USSR as U.S. rival; but it has also been a partner. Many would argue that Dr. Henry Kissinger is the man to thank for China's current relationship with the West, and particularly the U.S. He joins us for more on that subject and his new book "On China," and also admits to mistakes in strategy by the Nixon Administration on the war in Vietnam.

President Obama will award the Medal of Honor today to the parents of Staff Sergeant Robbie Miller, who was killed in Afghanistan. This will be only the third time the Medal of Honor has been awarded, in what has become the U.S.'s longest war. Yesterday we talked about why so few Medals of Honor have been awarded during recent wars. Takeaway listener and Vietnam War veteran George J. Robinson explains why he believes many more servicemembers deserve this recognition.

In his remarks to the nation this week, President Barack Obama announced that the last of American combat troops in Iraq are on their way home. He also promised more money would be allocated to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for medication and psychotherapy to treat the country's 400,000 vets with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. But the VA is also increasingly prescribing another kind of treatment for vets coming home: music therapy. It has doubled the number of music therapists on staff compared to five years ago, meaning twice as many vets are eligible for the treatment.

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, 64, told audiences about coming back from Southeast Asia, where he reportedly never served, and being poorly received by many Americans, according to the New York Times.