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The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

Ben Bradlee

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
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
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
The first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
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
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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Adult Children Effectiveness
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
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
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
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
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
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
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
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
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

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