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Ben Bradlee

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.
BEN BRADLEE

Country Guy Mad
So, here you are, especially in the Pentagon. Some guy tells you something. He says that’s a national security matter. Well, you’re supposed to tremble and get scared and it never, almost never means the security of the national government.
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Journalist National Problem Security Tremble
The first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
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
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
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
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
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
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
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
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
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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Adult Children Effectiveness
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
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

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