Conversations with Kennedy Quotes

“Journalism is just the first rough draft of history,”
― Benjamin C. Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy

“What makes journalism so fascinating,” President Kennedy once said to me, “and biography so interesting [is] the struggle to answer that single question: ‘What’s he like?”
― Benjamin C. Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy

“Journalism is just the first rough draft of history, the late Philip Graham once said to emphasize the reality that journalists never could know the whole truth right away.”
― Benjamin C. Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy

“apparently still”
― Benjamin C. Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy