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As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.

Ben Bradlee

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
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
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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Adult Children Effectiveness
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow
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
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
To hell with news! I’m no longer interested in news. I’m interested in causes. We don’t print the truth. We don’t pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us. It’s up to the public to decide what’s true.
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Causes News People
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, 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
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 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
Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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Encourage People Smarter
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
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

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