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BEN BRADLEEThe 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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The first rough draft of history.
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Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, “It’s not a perfect world.”
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It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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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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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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More likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something.
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There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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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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I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
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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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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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It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.
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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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