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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.

Ben Bradlee

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
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
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure 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 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
To hell with news! I’m no longer interested in news. I’m interested in causes. We don’t print the truth. We don’t pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us. It’s up to the public to decide what’s true.
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Causes News People
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
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 first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
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
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey 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
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
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit

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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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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