Ben Bradlee on administration
Ben Bradlee31 quotes“The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.”
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More likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something.
Ben BradleeBen Bradlee National security is a really big problem for journalists, because no journalist worth his salt wants to endanger the national security, but the law talks about anyone who endangers the security of the United States is going to go to jail.
Ben BradleeBen Bradlee 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.
Ben BradleeBen Bradlee I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
Ben BradleeBen Bradlee Our best today; better tomorrow.
Ben BradleeBen Bradlee There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
Ben BradleeBen Bradlee The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
Ben BradleeBen Bradlee 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.
Ben BradleeBen Bradlee There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
Ben BradleeBen Bradlee Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
Ben BradleeBen Bradlee 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 BradleeBen 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.
Ben BradleeBen Bradlee It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
Ben BradleeBen Bradlee Generals who can write always make me nervous.
Ben BradleeBen Bradlee Maybe some of today’s papers have too many ‘feel-good’ features, but there is a lot of good news out there.
Ben BradleeBen Bradlee I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
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The law change during the Bush administration gave the Department of Health and Human Services a central role in relocating Central American minors in the United States.
Alan BersinAlan Bersin Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
Al SharptonAl Sharpton During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
Al FrankenAl Franken There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
Al FrankenAl Franken I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
Al FrankenAl Franken I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
Al FrankenAl Franken I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
Al FrankenAl Franken The Bush administration thought that once there is a democracy, everything else will fall into place. If today you speak to the architects of the 2001 Afghanistan Conference in Bonn, they will tell you that instead of being fixated on elections.
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