Ben Bradlee
Editor
1921-08-26 – 2014-10-21
Ben Bradlee was an American newspaper editor best known for leading The Washington Post during publication of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate reporting. His newsroom leadership helped define modern investigative journalism in the United States.
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Quotes by Ben Bradlee
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The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.
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We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.
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There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate.
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