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Ben Bradlee

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.
BEN BRADLEE

Country Guy Mad
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
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
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
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit
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
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
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
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
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be ‘gotcha’ journalism, but it’s also good journalism.
BEN BRADLEE

Journalism May Robbing
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
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 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
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
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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