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Ben Bradlee

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be ‘gotcha’ journalism, but it’s also good journalism.
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Journalism May Robbing
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
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
The first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
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
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
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
To hell with news! I’m no longer interested in news. I’m interested in causes. We don’t print the truth. We don’t pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us. It’s up to the public to decide what’s true.
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Causes News People
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
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
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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Fall Trying Worry
More likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something.
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Guy Personal Something Telling
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
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
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

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