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It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.

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
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.
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Faces Graves Tape
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
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running
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
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit
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
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
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
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow
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
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
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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It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.
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