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The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

Ben Bradlee

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
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
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
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
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
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
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
I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
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Passionate Saws 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
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 will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit
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
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

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