Generals who can write always make me nervous.
BEN BRADLEEThere will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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It’s very hard to stand up to the government which is saying that publication will threaten national security. People don’t seem to realize that reporters and editors know something about national security and care deeply about it.
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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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As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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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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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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I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
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I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
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More likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something.
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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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Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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The first rough draft of history.
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It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.
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