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The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

Ben Bradlee

There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
BEN BRADLEE

Always Country Everywhere Leaks
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
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
BEN BRADLEE

Always General Nervous Writing
You never monkey with the truth.
BEN BRADLEE

Animal Monkey Truth
I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
BEN BRADLEE

Passionate Saws Thinking
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
BEN BRADLEE

Jobs Journalism World
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
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.
BEN BRADLEE

Editors Lazy Thinking
Maybe some of today’s papers have too many ‘feel-good’ features, but there is a lot of good news out there.
BEN BRADLEE

Feel Good News Paper
Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.
BEN BRADLEE

Faces Graves Tape
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
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
The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.
BEN BRADLEE

Body People Politics
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.
BEN BRADLEE

Journalist National Problem Security Tremble
Our best today; better tomorrow.
BEN BRADLEE

Better Today Tomorrow

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