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Ben Bradlee

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
Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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Encourage People Smarter
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.
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Differences Newspapers People President Press
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
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
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Guy Personal Something Telling
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
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow
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
The first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
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
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
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

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