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Carl Bernstein on His First Job, Newspaper Love, a Great Prank, and Scandals That Are “Worse Than Watergate”

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Covering the Inauguration

Bob Greene was 16 when JFK came to his high school in silver spring, maryland. The state editor of the paper who lived around a corner from him said, why don't you help cover kennedy coming to your high school? And i sad, what sa that you'll never again as long as you live, touch a piece of hot type and said, ok, i got it. He then took out this long roll of copy paper that probably came from one of the teletype machines. On it were all the assignments from the reporters for the inauguration coming up in a few days. When he pointed on the audes, he said, you cover te inauguration? You fourth

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