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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.

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
The first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
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
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’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
Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That’s just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.
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Given Motive Newspapers
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
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
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
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
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
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
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing

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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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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