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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
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
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
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 is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running
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
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
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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Better Today Tomorrow
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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Adult Children Effectiveness
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 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 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
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit
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

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