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Generals who can write always make me nervous.

Ben Bradlee

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
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
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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Adult Children Effectiveness
I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
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Orbit Proof Resurrect Resurrection
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
The first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
I don’t want to disappoint too many people, but the number of interesting political, historical conversations we had, you could stick in your ear, it wasn’t that many. We talked about friends, family and of course girls.
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Girl Numbers People
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 Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running
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
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
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.
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Given Motive Newspapers
Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.
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Faces Graves Tape
In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, “It’s not a perfect world.”
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Men Perfect World
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit

Generals who can write always make me nervous.

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