"Governments are the only vessels that leak from the top"
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Phrase in the article “Big 4’s Press System Seen As Approved by Reporters” in The New York Times (9 November 1946)
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James Reston
James Barrett Reston (November 3, 1909 – December 6, 1995), nicknamed "Scotty", was a prominent American journalist whose career spanned the mid 1930s to the early 1990s. Associated for many years with The New York Times, he became perhaps the most powerful, influential, and widely-read journalist of his era.
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