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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.

Ben Bradlee

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.
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Changing Life Pursuit
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
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
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow
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 Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running
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
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 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
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
The first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
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
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
Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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Encourage People Smarter
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food

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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