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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
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
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
To hell with news! I’m no longer interested in news. I’m interested in causes. We don’t print the truth. We don’t pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us. It’s up to the public to decide what’s true.
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Causes News People
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
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
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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Adult Children Effectiveness
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.
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Jobs Lying Running
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
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.
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Government Jail Mean
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.
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Journalism May Robbing
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
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running

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