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David Halberstam, The Powers That Be Quotes: 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.
         

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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