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.

There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!

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.

The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

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.

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.