It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
BEN BRADLEEThe 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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The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Our best today; better tomorrow.
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It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.
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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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Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.
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I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
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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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In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, “It’s not a perfect world.”
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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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I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
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You never monkey with the truth.
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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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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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I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I’m not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day.
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Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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