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Benjamin C. Bradlee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (born August 26, 1921) is the vice president of the Washington Post. Bradlee served as a reporter in various assignments at the Post until 1961, when he became a senior editor. 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 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on 19 June 1953. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benjamin_C._Bradlee   (778 words)

Commentary Magazine - A Good Life by Ben Bradlee 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. ...BENJAMIN CROWNINSHIELD BRADLEE is without question one of the great American newspapermen of the century... ...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 black 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)

MSN Encarta - Search View - Ben Bradlee Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1942. Bradlee, Ben, 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. Bradlee retired as executive editor of the Post in 1991, but continued as a vice president at-large. encarta.msn.com /text_761581459__1/Ben_Bradlee.html   (461 words)

SIGHTINGS 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. Benjamin Bradlee went on to become the head of the Washington Post. 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. www.rense.com /products/mole.htm   (440 words)

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)

Organization of News Ombudsmen Bradlee said he thinks editors fear an ombudsman "because they're scared of being publicly criticized." But he said they shouldn't be "if you are secure in your sense that you are backed by your employers and that you will really work hard. Bradlee said that at the time The Post was considering establishing the position, what he and Foisie didn't want was a kind of reader representative who "handled complaints about reader service, like the paper was in the azalea bushes every morning...and that kind of thing." Bradlee was asked if he felt any of The Post's ombudsmen had critized his paper unfairly. www.newsombudsmen.org /bradlee.html   (694 words)

Conversations with Kennedy (Main Page) At the time his conversations with Kennedy took place, Benjamin Bradlee was the Washington bureau chief for Newsweek magazine. Bradlee and his wife Tony participated in the parties at the White House and in more private moments when the president and Jacqueline were relaxing with friends. Ben Bradlee first came to know John Kennedy well when they were Washington neighbors in 1958. www.wwnorton.com /catalog/backlist/030189.htm   (190 words)

Washington Post Old-Timer Bradlee Speaks at Killian Hall Benjamin C. Bradlee, former executive editor of The Washington Post, signs copies of his book after his talk in Killian Hall on Monday. Bradlee "has been an eyewitness to most of the seminal events of the second half of the twentieth century, from Guadalcanal to Japan during World War II, all the way through the end of the Cold War and the political revolution of the 1990s," according to the book jacket. Bradlee did not disclose the information himself, but as the news got out, people asked why he did not come forward with the information right away. www-tech.mit.edu /V115/N47/post.47n.html   (518 words)

Fiddling Around - How the media (reluctantly) came to report on Clinton's sexual behavior. By Emily Yoffe Former Washington Post executive editor and JFK pal Benjamin Bradlee posits that if Kennedy were president today and this story came out, "no matter how the public learned it," Kennedy would be impeached. But it wasn't until 12 years after Kennedy's death that her activities became public as the result of a leak from a staffer on the Senate committee that was looking into intelligence wrongdoing. He says that no one was more surprised than himself to discover, upon reading the diary of his sister-in-law, Mary Meyer, who was murdered in 1964, that she had been Kennedy's lover. www.slate.com /id/2491/sidebar/51038   (194 words)

KeepMedia Newsweek: Careers: Why Is He Still Smiling? You might think that the home of Benjamin Bradlee, former editor of The Washington Post, and his wife, Sally Quinn, was the last place Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wanted to be last Thursday night. Bradlee's house is a kind of headquarters of the Washington permanent-media establishment. The reputations of once powerful government servants are buried there, between the dessert course and the toasts. keepmedia.com /pubs/Newsweek/2004/12/27/691942?extID=10037&oliID=229   (227 words)

Amazon.com: A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures: Books: Ben Bradlee Bradlee was at the center of all this, directing his reporters, dictating policy and discharging journalistic shells whose recoils are still felt even today. The Bradlees and the Kennedys became Washington neighbors while Kennedy was a senator, Bradlee was beginning to break "out of the herd" at Newsweek magazine and Jackie and Tony Bradlee were pregnant. Bradlee, running a major newspaper in a city with a 70 percent black population, had never known a black person, save a Haitian Frenchman in Paris. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684825236?v=glance   (2226 words)

Johns Hopkins Gazette: October 16, 1995 Among those scheduled to speak are President Clinton's senior adviser and former communications director, George Stephanopolous; President Kennedy's press secretary, Pierre Salinger; the New York Times Washington bureau chief, R.W. Apple; and the former executive editor of The Washington Post, Benjamin Bradlee. Bradlee, whose book, A Good Life, was recently published by Simon and Schuster, also will be the speaker for this year's Kent Lecture, which is free and open to the public on Oct. 25. Because Ben Bradlee's appearance as the Kent lecturer is open to the public, those enrolled in the course will be invited to a students-only reception with him following his talk. www.jhu.edu /~gazette/octdec95/oct1695/16steph.html   (694 words)

Accuracy In Media - AIM Report The executive editor of The Washington Post, Benjamin C. Bradlee, rejected an ad that Accuracy in Media sought to place in The Washington Post for publication on May 8 because it began with a statement. Ben Bradlee, executive editor of The Post, recently said on WRC radio: "There is no system that I know of that can be developed that is going to protect you from somebody who is IpMn8 to he a pathological liar." We beg to differ, Ben. Virginia Rogriguez told the UPI that there is "a direct separation like church and state between the news and advertising departments at The Post." What this means is that there is one standard for Ben Bradlee and his staff and a much stricter standard for those who have to buy their way into the paper. www.aim.org /publications/aim_report/1981/05b.html   (4439 words)

Benjamimn C. Bradlee - Leading Authorities Speakers Bureau Benjamin Bradlee's career with The Washington Post has spanned five decades. Between 1953 and 1965, Bradlee worked for Newsweek magazine, as a European correspondent with the Paris bureau, and as a political correspondent and bureau chief in Washington, DC. In 1965, Bradlee rejoined The Washington Post as managing editor and became executive editor in 1968. www.leadingauthorities.com /3051/Benjamimn_Bradlee.htm   (175 words)

St. Mary's College of Maryland News & Events The Bradlee Lecture Series was created to honor the journalistic legacy of Benjamin C. Bradlee, former executive editor, and currently vice president at large of The Washington Post. Bradlee, a trustee of SMCM and chair emeritus of the Historic St. Mary’s City Commission, has dedicated his life to a free and open society as is well documented in his decisions while at the Post and through his civic involvements. Annual Bradlee Lecture to focus on the Challenges Faced by the United States in the Islamic World www.smcm.edu /Newsevents/release.cfm?id=247   (790 words)

Journalist Ben Bradlee To Speak At SLU 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. Bradlee's talk will be on Friday, September 24, at 7:30 p.m. web.stlawu.edu /news/bradlee.html   (165 words)

Programming Tutorials - Books : Conversations With Kennedy Bradlee reveals a very human JFK in some of his more private moments, and helps us to better grasp what is, admittedly, beyond our grasp: the magic of the man. Bradlee kept extensive notes of their conversations, with President Kennedy's permission. Perhaps only Ben Bradlee could provide so riveting a portrait of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the president and the man. www.programmertutorials.com /ItemId/0393301893   (507 words)

Bond, Edward, to Cosby, Bill. Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations. 1988 Bradlee, Benjamin C, Bradley, Gen Omar N, Bradley, Tom, 4887 www.bartleby.com /63/2.html   (647 words)

Books & Papers Written By or About Bradlees Marcia Bradlee the ex-wife of Berry Bradlee of Decalb IL is the Librarian at the Lorado Taft Campus Library and can be contacted through the Lorado Taft Library Office: Lorado Taft Campus, Oregon, IL Telephone: 753-0205 ext. CS/71/B802/1986 BRADLEE Doggett, Samuel B. History of the Bradlee Family, with Particular Reference to the Descendants of Nathan Bradley of Dorchester, Massachusetts. David G. Bradlee while at the computing and communications department, university of Washington wrote several papers on advanced computing. www.bradlee.cave.net /books.htm   (1917 words)

The Connection.org : Benjamin Bradlee Benjamin Bradlee, Vice President at Large of The Washington Post. Bradlee discusses whether or not politicians lying is a new phenomenon. From Johnson's Vietnam, through Reagan, Bush and the Iran-Contra scandal, and on to Clinton and Monica, Bradlee says that lying has become a part of the leadership landscape, and it is democracy that has suffered. www.theconnection.org /shows/2004/03/20040324_b_main.asp   (247 words)

Booman Tribune ~ Boo! Why, one must now wonder, is Benjamin Bradlee rushing forward, before the ink is dry on Bob Woodward's confession, to defend the highly dubious and unethical behavior of Mr. Bradlee also ignores the fact that Woodward was told about "Joe Wilson's wife" while researching "Plan of Attack," a sycophantic book published in 2004 documenting the lead-up to the Iraq war as seen through the eyes of the Bush administration. Bradlee's effusive defense nothwithstanding, this is an unforgiveable breach of journalistic ethics. www2.boomantribune.com /story/2005/11/16/164227/72   (2659 words)

Amazon.co.uk: A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures: Books The glamorous, celebrity-filled memoirs of newspaperman Ben Bradlee, whose role in the Watergate scandal was immortalized in "All the President's Men" by Jason Robards. I first heard the name Ben Bradlee while watching "All the President's Men" in 11th grade history class. Bradlee shares with us his life in full...his ups and downs...loves and lost loves. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0684808943   (342 words)

Benjamin C. Bradlee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (born August 26, 1921) is the vice president of the Washington Post. Bradlee served as a reporter in various assignments at the Post until 1961, when he became a senior editor. According to a Justice Department memo from an 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 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on 19 June 1953. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ben_Bradlee   (798 words)

Benjamin C. Lincoln Papers Subject Index (Lincoln, Benjamin C) Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1863 September 5. (Lincoln, Benjamin C) Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910 1864 December 16. (Lincoln, Benjamin C) Copperhead (Nickname)--Massachusetts 1863 September 16. www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/Schoff/L/Index_L/Lincoln.ndx   (1229 words)

'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for June 3 - Hardball with Chris Matthews - MSNBC.com BRADLEE:  Well, I mean, I don‘t think many newspapers were covering—the AP wasn‘t covering it after the first week or two.  And I think that people who, out in the West, never saw about it.  I guess these stories were on “The Washington Post”-“L.A. Times” news service.  But it was a police story to them. BRADLEE:  Not until really, until—well, we got a first smell of it when Barker asked at the—I guess it was at the arraignment, said he was working for the CIA. BRADLEE:  Well, it was our story.  And—and you know out-of-town correspondents.  They can‘t find a police station in Washington.  And it was a police story for a while.  And then, of course, it got out of being a police story.  And... www.msnbc.msn.com /id/8118930   (7134 words)

Bob Woodward Profile -- Academy of Achievement As Vice President and Executive Editor of The Washington Post, Benjamin Bradlee guided the leading newspaper of the nation's capital for nearly 20 years, through some of the most dramatic episodes in the history of American journalism. With the full support of their editor, Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward and his Post colleague Carl Bernstein continued to pursue the Watergate story, after other news outlets had dropped the story. At Bradlee's insistence, the Post risked criminal prosecution by publishing the controversial Pentagon Papers, a devastating exposé of government deception in the Vietnam War. www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/woo1pro-1   (471 words)

Thomas Patterson To Join KSG Patterson will be the first person to hold the new Bradlee chair, established by distinguished Washington Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee to support teaching and research concerning "the role of the free press in a democracy." Thomas E. Patterson, a leading political scientist specializing in American politics and political communication, has been appointed to the Bradlee Professorship of Government and the Press at the Kennedy School of Government, Dean Joseph Nye announced this week. "Ben Bradlee has long understood the need for serious, dispassionate scholarship on the intersection of media and politics," he said. www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1996/05.16/ThomasPatterson.html   (444 words)

Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 97701401 I was not yet 21...The education of Benjamin C. Bradlee was finally under way. Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Bradlee, Benjamin C, Journalists United States Biography Taking the helm of The Washington Post in 1965, Bradlee and his reporters redefined the way the news is reported, published, and read; his leadership and investigative drive following the break-in at the Democratic National Committee led to the downfall of a president, and kept every president afterwards on his toes. www.loc.gov /catdir/description/simon051/97701401.html   (323 words)

'Power and the Presidency' - Poetry Connection For example, former Washington Post editor Benjamin Bradlee, who covered Nixon's unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 1960 and oversaw his paper's Watergate coverage as editor a decade later, uses many first-person experiences and conversations to bring Richard Nixon to life. Goodwin's essay doesn't add much, and the editors get docked a star by choosing Benjamin Bradlee - of all people - to review Richard Nixon. * Ben Bradlee - Author of That Special Grace, a tribute to John F. Kennedy, Bradlee is a vice president at the Washington Post. www.poetryconnection.net /ItemId/1891620436   (725 words)

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