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Ben Bradlee

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.
BEN BRADLEE

Gone Past Real
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
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
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
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
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
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
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
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
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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Editors Government National People Security
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
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
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

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