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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.

Ben Bradlee

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
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
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
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
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
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That’s just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.
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Given Motive Newspapers
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 first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
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 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
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
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’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
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food

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