Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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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I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
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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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Our best today; better tomorrow.
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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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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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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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In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, “It’s not a perfect world.”
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There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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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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I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
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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 changes your life, the pursuit of 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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You never monkey with the truth.
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The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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