Ben Bradlee

This principle applies to both heroes, such as Benjamin C. Bradlee, and villains, such as Richard Nixon. By wisely dying in 1994 at the age of 81 instead of the late 1970s or early 1980s, Nixon reaped better death notices than  Ben Bradlee, the former executive editor of the Washington Post who died on Tuesday … Read more

IN A very different age and time, back in 1973, Ben Bradlee—the Washington Post editor whose newspaper uncovered the Watergate scandal, toppled President Richard Nixon and went to the Supreme Court to defend its right to publish a secret Pentagon  Civilians, people who don't think the toppling of a sitting American president with newspaper articles … Read more