The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
BEN BRADLEEI 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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The first rough draft of history.
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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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There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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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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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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In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, “It’s not a perfect world.”
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The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.
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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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Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.
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I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
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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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Our best today; better tomorrow.
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