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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

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
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
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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Jobs Lying Running
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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Adult Children Effectiveness
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running
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
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
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
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
The first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
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
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
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
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
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

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