About Ben Bradlee:
Benjamin Crowninshield was executive editor of The Washington Post from 1968 to 1991. He became a national figure during the presidency of Richard Nixon, when he challenged the federal government over the right to publish the Pentagon Papers and oversaw the publication of Bob Woodward's and Carl Bernstein's stories documenting the Watergate scandal. At his death he held the title of vice president at-large of the Post.
I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.
Ben BradleeI think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
Ben BradleeI never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
Ben BradleeThe Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
Ben BradleeThey cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum.
Ben Bradlee