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Ben Bradlee

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
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
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
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
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
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
Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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Encourage People Smarter
I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I’m not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day.
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Fall Trying Worry
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow
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
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
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
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
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit

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