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

Ben Bradlee

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
BEN BRADLEE

Cooking Culinary Food
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
BEN BRADLEE

Always Country Everywhere Leaks
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
If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be ‘gotcha’ journalism, but it’s also good journalism.
BEN BRADLEE

Journalism May Robbing
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
BEN BRADLEE

Administration Pressure Running
Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.
BEN BRADLEE

Faces Graves Tape
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit
It’s very hard to stand up to the government which is saying that publication will threaten national security. People don’t seem to realize that reporters and editors know something about national security and care deeply about it.
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Editors Government National People Security
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I’m not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day.
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Fall Trying Worry
As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run. I truly believe the truth sets men free.
BEN BRADLEE

Jobs Lying Running
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
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
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
Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That’s just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.
BEN BRADLEE

Given Motive Newspapers
Our best today; better tomorrow.
BEN BRADLEE

Better Today Tomorrow

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