Ben Bradlee the Crusading Editor of “Washington Post” who Directed Coverage of Watergate Scandal...
By MARILYN BERGEROCT & Ashley Southall Ben Bradlee, who presided over The Washington Post’s exposure of the Watergate scandal that led to the fall of President Richard M. Nixon and that stamped him in American culture as the quintessential newspaper editor of his era — gruff, charming and tenacious — died on Tuesday. He was ...