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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.

Ben Bradlee

There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running
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
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
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
Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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Encourage People Smarter
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
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 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.
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Changing Life Pursuit
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
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
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
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 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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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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