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Ben Bradlee
American
Editor
About the author
We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.
Ben Bradlee,
American
Editor
#Right
#Jury
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
Ben Bradlee,
American
Editor
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
Ben Bradlee,
American
Editor
#Pressure
#Nixon
The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.
Ben Bradlee,
American
Editor
#Right
There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate.
Ben Bradlee,
American
Editor
#Problems
They certainly did. They tried to make her look like a "nut case" and they succeeded to some extent.
Ben Bradlee,
American
Editor
We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.
Ben Bradlee,
American
Editor
#Right
#Mistake
If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be "gotcha" journalism, but it's also good journalism.
Ben Bradlee,
American
Editor
#May
#Journalism
They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum.
Ben Bradlee,
American
Editor
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.
Ben Bradlee,
American
Editor
#People
#Difference
#Press
#Nixon
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.
Ben Bradlee,
American
Editor
#Editors
It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong.
Ben Bradlee,
American
Editor
#Day
#Wrong
You never monkey with the truth.
Ben Bradlee,
American
Editor
#Truth
I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
Ben Bradlee,
American
Editor
#Truth
#Horror
#Devotion
I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
Ben Bradlee,
American
Editor
#Proof
#Nixon
I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.
Ben Bradlee,
American
Editor
#Problems
I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.
Ben Bradlee,
American
Editor
#Credit
Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.
Ben Bradlee,
American
Editor
#Today
#News