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Ben Bradlee

There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
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
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
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
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
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
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
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
Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.
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Editors Lazy Thinking
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
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
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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