Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
BEN BRADLEEBen Bradlee Quotes
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Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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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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Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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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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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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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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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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