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"I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down."
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"I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it."
"I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case."
"No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win."
"The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again."
"I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody."
"CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent."
"It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know."
"CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court."
"I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed."
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