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I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

Ben Bradlee

The first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
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
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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Adult Children Effectiveness
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
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 Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running
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
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
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
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
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
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

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