John Bunyan Quotes
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John Bunyan, 1628-1688, British Author, The Pilgrim's Progress
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Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell had written exposes of business misconduct and lax government enforcement of laws. Politicians and business leaders were outraged and wanted something done to prevent this embarrassment and the riling up of the voting public. The President, a reformer himself, and a personal friend of Lincoln Steffens, took what seemed like a middle ground, where the government would not interfere with the 1st Amendment rights of the Journalists provided they did not go too far. But of course everyone had a different idea of “when to stop” so there never was a practical limit.
During his 1976 presidential campaign, Carter told reporters that they had treated him very well so far. "Compared to what?" asked one reporter. Carter shot back:
He was responding to criticism that the media was bashing the President.
Stone avoided all socialization with officials and politicians and unlike most journalists in Washington DC did not attend the many parties that are so common in the nation’s capital.
The Russian leadership thought little of it and assumed that it had no consequences. An American Communist official in the Kremlin, Morris Childs, told them that Nixon might actually lose his job over Watergate. Childs was actually an FBI spy. See his quote.
John Bunyan was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress. In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons.
