A Newsman's Life: Pentagon Papers To Watergate

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ben Bradlee, the former Washington Post editor who died Tuesday at age 93, took a sleepy hometown newspaper and transformed it into a great one. Bradlee had been headed for a job interview in Baltimore in 1948 when a heavy rain prompted him to skip that appointment and stay on the train to job search in Washington. For six weeks after the break-in, we were flailing, searching everywhere for any information that might shed any light, unaware that we were up against a massive cover-up being orchestrated by the White House. Bradlee was one of the few people who knew the identity of the Watergate source known as Deep Throat early on.

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