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The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

Ben Bradlee

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.
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Differences Newspapers People President Press
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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Adult Children Effectiveness
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
Nothing’s riding on this, except the First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country. Not that any of that matters, but if you guys f-k up again, I’m gonna get mad.
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Country Guy Mad
Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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Encourage People Smarter
Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.
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Editors Lazy Thinking
If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be ‘gotcha’ journalism, but it’s also good journalism.
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Journalism May Robbing
The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.
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Body People Politics
So, here you are, especially in the Pentagon. Some guy tells you something. He says that’s a national security matter. Well, you’re supposed to tremble and get scared and it never, almost never means the security of the national government.
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Journalist National Problem Security Tremble
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit
More likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something.
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Guy Personal Something Telling
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It’s very, it’s very exciting.
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Gone Past Real
It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.
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Campaign Claims Telling Truth

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