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More likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something.

Ben Bradlee

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
Maybe some of today’s papers have too many ‘feel-good’ features, but there is a lot of good news out there.
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Feel Good News Paper
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
The first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
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
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
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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Adult Children Effectiveness
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow
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
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
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running
Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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Encourage People Smarter
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
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

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