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Ben Bradlee

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
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running
Nothing’s riding on this, except the First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country. Not that any of that matters, but if you guys f-k up again, I’m gonna get mad.
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Country Guy Mad
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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Adult Children Effectiveness
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
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
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
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
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
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
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
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
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.
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Journalist National Problem Security Tremble
The first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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