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Ben Bradlee

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 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
The first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
Nothing’s riding on this, except the First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country. Not that any of that matters, but if you guys f-k up again, I’m gonna get mad.
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Country Guy Mad
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit
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
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
Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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Encourage People Smarter
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
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
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running
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
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
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
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow

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