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Ben Bradlee

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
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
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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Given Motive Newspapers
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running
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
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
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
I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
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Orbit Proof Resurrect Resurrection
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
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
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
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
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow
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

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