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Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge.
— David Halberstam
There was, I found, always more to learn.
— David Halberstam
She had no fear of the spotlight, only of the places it did not reach.
— David Halberstam
Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.
— David Halberstam
Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing
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Mohr was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in person - the two are often different.
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Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.
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As he found beauty in the hamburger, he thought hot dogs unattractive - both aesthetically and commercially.
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He saw the pleasure you took from your job every day of his life, and THAT was what he wanted.
— David Halberstam
One successful writer said he would never be a millionaire because he liked living like one too much.
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Elliston thought consistency less important than vitality and intelligence and passion.
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The men were always wary of an officer who took form more seriously than function.
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When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.
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He was the rarest of things, a Republican with sex appeal.
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He was not what gentlemen usually thought a gentleman was.
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It was the responsibility of a senior fireman to teach as well as to do.
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The ability to get on the air, which was crucial to any reporter's career, grew precisely as the ability to analyze diminished.
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True wisdom ... is the product of hard-won, often bitter experience.
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He sensed that his own reticence would make it easier to restrain others.
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Education was central to reporting.
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Always stay in with the outs.
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He was more passionate than most intelligent men, and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men.
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He wanted to be respectable rather than powerful; he did not want the controversy that went with power.
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A staff can be no better than the man it serves.
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Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was - by Time corporate standards - just a little lazy.
— David Halberstam
The author writes that the central conflict within journalist and seller of the American way Henry Luce was between his curiosity and his certitude.
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The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt.
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David Halberstam quoted Lyndon Johnson saying of a staffer: I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses.
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In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity.
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His was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not,
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He was very good, it turned out, at outlining the flaws in the government as long as someone else was in charge of the government.
— David Halberstam
The networks at their worst (were) at once greedy and timid.
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Newspapers might have as much to do in shaping the course of public events as politicians,
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She was young and scared, and hadn't realized there was time to spare.
— David Halberstam
If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.
— David Halberstam
She was more sure of her politics than she was of herself.
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(I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story),
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What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.
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One percent of the population ruled - and they were all grafters - while the other ninety-nine percent live under the worst kind of feudalism.
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These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.
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He knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves.
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The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.
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Officers came and went and were never a part of daily life.
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All professions have some element of theater to them.
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The little things were not little things, because it was the accumulation of little things that made big things happen.
— David Halberstam
If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.
— David Halberstam
Research is an organized method of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.
— David Halberstam
QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?
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Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
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Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple.
— David Halberstam
The telephone was a sign of being rushed.
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Williams had a very shrewd sense of how much heat the organism could take at any given time;
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If he (George Keenan)felt on occasion more than a little uncomfortable when being listened to, then he was truly unhappy when not being listened to.
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He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups.
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Young man, Mr. Aubrey has made us so rich that we can now afford to worry about our image.
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It was a wonderful combination for a reporter, the exterior so comforting, the interior so driven.
— David Halberstam
If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.
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His body language was that of someone frozen and not yet thawed out.
— David Halberstam
He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.
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Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.
— David Halberstam
If he had gone to the old school, he was by no means old-school.
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Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.
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You could never prove innocence, not in the match with the man who only had to imply guilt.
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ingenue whose career was winding down
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He never, even in the most casual conversation with friends, spoke a sentence which did not sound as if it was ready for the air.
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If she was making the right and courageous decisions, he thought, she was nonetheless unhappy and somewhat resentful about doing it
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He was so obsessed by the action in front of him that he had no awareness of the growing reaction to his performance.
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Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.
— David Halberstam
This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.
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It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself.
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If you have to write it down, you don't know it well enough,
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