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...Do parties today still carry the kind of social weight they did back then, or even at the tail-end of the 1990s when another author, Sally Quinn, who was married to the then Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee...
...A decade before Watergate taught us to add “gate” to every scandal under the sun, President John Kennedy and his brother Robert, who served as US attorney-general, were up to some dubious antics of their...
...It is part of the story’s drama that Graham, to uphold and defend the Post’s freedom, had to quarrel with friends such as defence secretary Robert McNamara....
...Reviewing it for Life magazine, Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post wrote: “Jean Stein is a brilliant, nonobtrusive interviewer.”...
...Bradlee had in effect put the Post on the map....
...JFK never really faced his generals down but was grateful that Robert McNamara, his secretary of defence, kept them in check....
...Admittedly, with age came the unveiling of Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward and Ben Bradlee in their human, fallible and – Bradlee aside – slightly frumpy reality, but it didn’t matter....
...Bradlee, a close friend of the anglophile Stern, elected to create a fellowship in his name....
...Ben Bradlee, editor of the Post in the early 1970s when Woodward and Carl Bernstein dramatically exposed Richard Nixon’s involvement in, and subsequent cover-up of, a burglary of the opposition Democratic...
...He and Ben Bradlee convinced me I shouldn’t do it until Felt was deceased.”...
...The Post’s executive editor at the time, Ben Bradlee, refused and the paper declined to cover the event....
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