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.
BEN BRADLEEThe 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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The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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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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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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You never monkey with the truth.
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I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
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More likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something.
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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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There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, “It’s not a perfect world.”
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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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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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Our best today; better tomorrow.
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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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The first rough draft of history.
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