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Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.

Ben Bradlee

Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow
Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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Encourage People Smarter
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
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
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
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
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
The first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
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 Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running
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
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
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
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
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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Adult Children Effectiveness

Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.

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