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  Character Above All: BEN BRADLEE
Benjamin C. Bradlee participated in the PBS television adaptation of Character Above All.
Bradlee retired as executive editor of The Washington Post in September 1991 after 23 years in that position.
Bradlee received a B.A. degree from Harvard University.
www.pbs.org /newshour/character/bios/bradlee.html   (120 words)

  
 Ben Bradlee - MSN Encarta
Ben Bradlee, born in 1921, vice president and executive editor of the Washington Post when that newspaper published the Pulitzer Prize-winning articles that initially exposed the Watergate scandal.
Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1942.
Bradlee retired as executive editor of the Post in 1991, but continued as a vice president at-large.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761581459/Bradlee_Ben.html   (411 words)

  
 CJR - Books - A Good Life, by Ben Bradlee
Bradlee's comment is worthy of that profane word-scrambler Joseph Pulitzer himself: "Unfucking-believable!" Bradlee and fellow reporter Jack London did "a rain dance" in the city room.
Bradlee also made no mention of Kennedy's womanizing, claiming that he knew nothing about it then (despite the fact that one of the women in question was his own sister-in-law) and is "appalled" by it now.
Bradlee even criticized Kennedy's attempts to control the press, for which he was briefly banished from the White House.
archives.cjr.org /year/95/6/books-bradlee.asp   (1257 words)

  
 WashingtonPost.com: Interview with Special Guest Ben Bradlee
Ben Bradlee: In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world." The history of the Nixon administration is filled with acts of revenge and discipline against people who talked.
Bradlee, I was a college student and involved in the anti-war movement in 1972.
Bradlee, during various interviews I have seen, where you have been asked about your knowledge of President Kennedy's extra-marital activities, you have always claimed that this was a subject that gentlemen simply didn't discuss.
discuss.washingtonpost.com /zforum/97/bradlee.htm   (2241 words)

  
 Books In Review: Ben Bradlee's Version
Bradlee himself frequently expresses uneasiness about this, and about the "celebrification" of journalists, but doesn't seem to understand what it means or what could be done about it.
Bradlee was disappointed that Newsweek wasn't making more of its opportunities for making an "impact." His first major move was to get Phil Graham, owner of the Washington Post, to buy the magazine, and his next move was to jump to the Post after Graham's suicide.
Bradlee cannot have thought that the story told in the Pentagon Papers would not come out within a matter of weeks, but he could not stand to think that the Times would be talked about while the Post stood by and read about it.
www.leaderu.com /ftissues/ft9604/reviews/sommerville.html   (1692 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
Ben Bradlee: I think Jeffords left to show his displeasure at being taken for granted by the Republicans, and to protest what he considers to be an unrealistically conservative agenda.
Ben Bradlee: You don't need all that much money to run as a senator from Vermont, but I suspect there will be some money available for the Republican who tries to knock him off in the primary.
Ben Bradlee: But the change of one vote is significant only when it changes the party in control, and then it's extremely significant.
discuss.washingtonpost.com /zforum/01/politics_bradlee052301.htm   (2893 words)

  
 The Online NewsHour: FREE SPEECH | Jim Lehrer with Ben Bradlee | PBS
The reporting team of Bob Woodward (far left) and Carl Bernstein (center) worked for Ben Bradlee to connect what supporters of President Nixon called a "third-rate burglary" at the Democratic headquarters at the Watergate office complex in 1972 to a web of political dirty tricks and cover-ups that, in the end, forced Mr.
According to Bradlee, the newspaper did not have a typeset large enough for the headline and had to take a photograph of the headline and then enlarge it to run across the full paper.
Ben Bradlee left the paper in 1991, transitioning to a new role at The Washington Post.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bradlee   (182 words)

  
 CNN.com - 'The Last Editor': Ben Bradlee and 'The Ear' - April 17, 2002
Ben Bradlee, the legendary editor of the Washington Post, became a frequent topic of the Washington Star's "Ear" gossip column.
Ben Bradlee, the charismatic editor of the Washington Post, was a combination of all that is admirable in journalism and pop culture.
Ben Bradlee could be forgiven for being a little puffed up by the attention.
archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/books/04/17/excerpt.bellows.3   (1128 words)

  
 E-net! Elon's news and information site
Bradlee said he never knew the identity of the famous “Deep Throat”; source used by Woodward and Bernstein until Watergate was over, and admits he took a gamble by not knowing more about him.
Bradlee was a close friend of John F. Kennedy after they became neighbors in the Georgetown section of Washington in 1958 and wrote two books on Kennedy after his assassination in 1963.
Bradlee remembered Lyndon Johnson as someone who “didn’t trust the press worth a damn, and he didn’t like people who went to Harvard or Yale,” drawing laughter from the audience since Bradlee is a 1942 Harvard graduate.
www.elon.edu /e-net/Note.aspx?id=28818   (666 words)

  
 Ben Bradlee: Dispatched by the CIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Benjamin Bradlee called and informed me that he was Press Attache with the American embassy in Paris, that he had left Paris last night and arrived here this morning.
Bradlee that before we could allow him to examine the file in the Rosenberg case, we would have to get clearance from the Department of Justice in Washington.
Bradlee displayed his credentials and desired to look thru the official public record of the trial.
www.namebase.org /foia/bradlee.html   (310 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - A Good Life by Ben Bradlee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee is without question one of the great American newspapermen of the century; the word Watergate alone would serve to place him in that not always admirable pantheon.
...Bradlee was, in other words, anxious to be regarded as a patriot when it mattered-or perhaps when he had something useful to barter with the powerful agencies he more often baited...
...Bradlee himself paid a price for the practice of relying on anonymous sources when, in 1981, the Post had to return a Pulitzer Prize won by one of its young fl reporters after it was revealed that her story about an eight-year-old heroin addict in a Washington slum was a complete fabrication...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V101I1P68-1.htm   (1531 words)

  
 Hollywood Babble On: Jim Lehrer, Ben Bradlee and the elephant in the room
On "Free Speech: Jim Lehrer and Ben Bradlee," which airs on KCET, Channel 28, Monday June 19 at 10 p.m.
BRADLEE: Well, you, if it's important enough, you would assign a special story to it and say, when the President said A, he flew in the face of--there are lots of little euphemisms you can use--of much of opinion, which says the opposite.
BRADLEE: --but society doesn't seem to be as outraged by it as, as they should.
www.insidesocal.com /babbleon/archives/2006/06/jim_lehrer_ben.html   (664 words)

  
 It wasn't just Watergate -- A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures by Ben Bradlee Columbia Journalism Review - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Toward the end Bradlee recalls the presence in his story conference room of a large color photograph of a smiling President Gerald Ford captioned, "To Ben Bradlee and all my friends at The Washington Post...Jerry Ford." Watergate, in short, made Bradlee the greatest editor of his day.
Bradlee's comment is worthy of that profane wordscrambler Joseph Pulitzer himself: "Unfucking-believable !" Bradlee and fellow reporter Jack London did "a rain dance" in the city room.
Bradlee was certainly fortunate to acquire John F. Kennedy as a Georgetown neighbor in the late 1950s.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3613/is_199511/ai_n8715003   (887 words)

  
 blogJosh: Ben Bradlee: It Doesn't Matter Who a Journalist Is
Ben Bradlee: It Doesn't Matter Who a Journalist Is Washington Post Vice President At-Large Ben Bradlee spoke to the National Press Club this week.
The conversation was actually about polio -- which Bradlee contracted as a teenager in the 1930s -- and included other panelists, but the last ten minutes or so were filled with questions about the state of American journalism.
Someone asked Bradlee, "who is a journalist?" -- a debate that's been raging over the last year or so as bloggers become more important to politics and the news, journalists are paid to support government initiatives, and people like "Jeff Gannon" are given White House press credentials.
joshshear.com /blogjosh/archives/2005/04/ben_bradlee_it.html   (696 words)

  
 Ben Bradlee - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Ben Bradlee - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Bradlee, Ben, born in 1921, vice president and executive editor of the Washington Post when that newspaper published the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Hogan, Ben (1912-1997), American professional golfer, who won more than 60 tournaments and is considered one of the greatest golfers of all time....
encarta.msn.com /Ben_Bradlee.html   (77 words)

  
 Ben Bradlee
According to a Justice Department memo from a assistant U.S. attorney in the Rosenberg Trial Bradlee was helping the CIA to manage European propaganda regarding the spying conviction and the execution of Ethel Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg on on 19th June, 1953.
Both Bradlee and Ober were members of the class of '44 but finished early to serve in the war; both received degrees with the class of '43.
But Bradlee doesn't want to be defined that way because, I don't know, somehow he thinks it's just too revealing of him, of who he is. He doesn't want to admit a true fact about his past because somehow he doesn't want it known that this is where he came from.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKbradleeB.htm   (5899 words)

  
 Speakers Platform Speakers Bureau: Ben Bradlee, Speaker On: Journalism, Politics, Leadership
Ben Bradlee may be the most influential newspaper editor of our time.
Under his leadership, the paper won 18 Pulitzer Prizes and by the time of his retirement in 1991, he had transformed The Post into one of the most influential and respected news publications in the world, reinventing modern investigative journalism and redefining the way news is reported, published and read.
Bradlee first made history when he challenged the federal government over the right to publish the Pentagon Papers--and won.
www.speaking.com /speakers/benbradlee.html   (262 words)

  
 FIVE QUESTIONS FOR . . . / Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn / Journalism heroes turn focus to aging   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Newspaper legends Ben Bradlee, who edited the Washington Post during the halcyon Watergate era, and his wife, Sally Quinn, the author and former star reporter for the Post's Style section, are coming to the Bay Area this week for a seminar on "Insuring a Good Life as You Age.''
Ben Bradlee: I'm 83, and will be 84 in August, and in pretty goddamn good health.
Chronicle: Ben, you once said that you were as proud of the development of the Washington Post's Style section as you were of Watergate.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/15/LVGQOCMLJS1.DTL   (1024 words)

  
 NPR : National Press Club: Ben Bradlee, Anne Eleanor Roosevelt
NPR.org, April 10, 2005 · Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of The Washington Post speaks to the National Press Club about his battle with polio.
Bradlee was struck with the crippling disease 12 years before Dr. Jonas Salk began the development of his life-saving vaccine.
Bradlee is joined by Anne Eleanor Roosevelt, national chair of the Salk vaccine 50th anniversary, and secretary of the March of Dimes board of trustees.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4585142   (159 words)

  
 Ben Bradlee of Watergate Fame to Speak March 5 -- University News -- Drew University
Ben Bradlee of Watergate Fame to Speak March 5 -- University News -- Drew University
Madison – Ben Bradlee, who steered the Washington Post through the turbulent Watergate investigation, will speak at Drew University on March 5, beginning at 8 p.m.
Bradlee, now vice president-at large of the Post, served as managing editor and then executive editor of the paper for 25 years.
www.depts.drew.edu /media/news/2002/20020227_bradlee   (196 words)

  
 David Rowan: Interview: Ben Bradlee, Washington Post (Evening Standard)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
IF Ben Bradlee has learned one thing in his distinguished journalistic career, it is that governments invariably lie - and journalists who quote them uncritically perpetuate their lies.
He may have retired 12 years ago, to become the newspaper's globetrotting "vice-president-at-large", but with a reputation as one of the past century's most influential newspapermen, his retirement is anything but quiet.
One of Bradlee's great lessons is that a determined journalist asking the right question might just hit the jackpot.
www.davidrowan.com /2003/02/interview-ben-bradlee-washington-post.html   (1104 words)

  
 IMG Speakers Bureau - Ben Bradlee
With over 50 years of writing and editing for the nation's best newspapers and magazines, Ben Bradlee is one of the giants of American journalism.
He has had a front row seat to some of the biggest news events of our time and was afforded a rare glimpse into the lives and times of the world's greatest leaders.
Bradlee returned to Washington in 1957 where he became Newsweek's bureau chief.
www.imgspeakers.com /speakers/ben_bradlee.aspx   (259 words)

  
 Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn,Washington D.C. Power Couple- scheduled to appear at Distinguished Speaker Series on ...
Ben Bradlee's journalistic career spans the most important events of the late 20th Century: from World War II to Vietnam, from the domestic revolutions of the '60s to the international revolutions of the '90s.
The Washington Post became a world-renowned and respected model of fearless and innovative journalism with Ben Bradlee as executive editor from 1968-1999.
She has now earned the title of one of Washington's top hostesses for the parties the Bradlee's throw for the rich and powerful.
www.speakersla.com /quinn/quinn.htm   (196 words)

  
 Amazon.com: A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures: Books: Ben Bradlee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Ben Bradlee's book, "A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures", is a warm, candid and entertaining look back over a remarkable career and personal life.
Bradlee was at the center of all this, directing his reporters, dictating policy and discharging journalistic shells whose recoils are still felt even today.
Bradlee, running a major newspaper in a city with a 70 percent fl population, had never known a fl person, save a Haitian Frenchman in Paris.
www.amazon.com /Good-Life-Newspapering-Other-Adventures/dp/0684825236   (2235 words)

  
 Journalist Ben Bradlee To Speak At SLU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Bradlee's talk will be on Friday, September 24, at 7:30 p.m.
The Washington Post's long-time (1968-1991) executive editor and current editor-at-large, Bradlee is a graduate of Harvard University and a veteran of the United States Navy, serving in World War II in the Pacific Theater.
Bradlee is the author of his memoir A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures.
www.stlawu.edu /news/bradlee.html   (165 words)

  
 Memorable Quotes from All the President's Men (1976)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Ben Bradlee: A wife and a family and a dog and a cat.
Ben Bradlee: I just want to know what you said, in Sally's apartment.
Ben Bradlee: Look, McGovern's dropped to nothing, Nixon's guaranteed the renomination, the Post is stuck with a story no one else wants, it'll sink the goddamn paper.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0074119/quotes   (1631 words)

  
 The Connection.org : Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee
Only Woodward, Bernstein and their editor, Ben Bradlee, know who he is. Their refusal to expose him even after thirty years shows the lengths to which reporters will go, to protect their sources.
Today, reporters are facing jail for refusing to reveal sources as part of a government's investigation into the identity of a CIA operative, and the lessons of Watergate seem strangely relevant.
Ben Bradlee, Vice President at-Large of the Washington Post and author of numerous books including his memoir, "A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures"
www.theconnection.org /shows/2004/10/20041020_b_main.asp   (243 words)

  
 Ben Bradlee, index.php - Wonkette   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Ben Bradlee is visiting the South Pacific for The New Yorker… PETA wants Antonin Scalia to stop killing fish.
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www.wonkette.com /politics/ben-bradlee/index.php   (615 words)

  
 Good Life by Ben Bradlee at Smarter.com
Famed "Washington Post" editor Ben Bradlee tells the story of his life in this book.
"Though Mr.
Bradlee spends a third of the book strolling up to the power plate, the reader then sees the highlights...through the authentic eyes of the memoirist.
The deliberately slangy, profane prose cries out that he wrote it all himself...The most joyous part of the book--to him and no doubt to many readers...--is Watergate.
www.smarter.com /good_life---pd--ch-1--pi-703851.html   (290 words)

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