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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

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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Differences Newspapers People President Press
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 champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
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
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
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
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
The first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
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
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
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
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
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
I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
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