“That was a documentary!”

—  Daniel Ellsberg

An exclamation Ellsberg made to a fellow government official, after they both watched the film Dr. Strangelove.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/movies/10kapl.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0

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