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Ben Bradlee

As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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Adult Children Effectiveness
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
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
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
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure 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
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
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
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, 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
The first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
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
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
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow

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