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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.
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Gone Past Real
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
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
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
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
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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Encourage People Smarter
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
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow
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
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running
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
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
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World

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