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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

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
National security is a really big problem for journalists, because no journalist worth his salt wants to endanger the national security, but the law talks about anyone who endangers the security of the United States is going to go to jail.
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Government Jail Mean
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
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 Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit
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.
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Always General Nervous Writing
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow

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