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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.

Ben Bradlee

The first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
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
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow
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
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
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
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
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
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
Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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Encourage People Smarter
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
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
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
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
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
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing

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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