Remembering Ben Bradlee

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Remembering Ben Bradlee

Washington Post Vice President Benjamin C. Bradlee is shown in his office at The Post in this Sept., 1995 photo. Bradlee, the retired executive editor of The Washington Post and one of the best-known journalists of his times, shares confiding moments in his memoirs, "'A Good Life',"out in 1995. (AP Photo/Washington Post, Bill O'Leary)

ABC News TV anchor Cookie Roberts bends down as a photographer bends down to take a picture of the group (L-R) Bill Ryan, Ben Bradlee, retired Washington Post managing editor, Sam Donaldson, ABC news anchor, Fred Yound, Jan Donaldson and others during a reception at the 12th Annual First Amendment Awards dinner celebrations March 13, 2002 in Washington, DC. Donaldson is this year's recipient of the Leonard Zeidenberg First Amendment Award while Young, senoir vice president of Hearst-Argyle Television is honored with the First Amentment Service Award. (Photo by Manny Ceneta/Getty Images)

(L-R) Carl Bernstein, Ben Bradlee and Bob Woodward attend the screening of "All The President's Men" at the Tribeca Cinemas on July 19, 2005 in New York City. (Photo by Brad Barket/Getty Images)

Journalist Ben Bradlee speaks at the question and answer session of the screening of "All The President's Men" the Tribeca Cinemas on July 19, 2005 in New York City. (Photo by Brad Barket/Getty Images)

(L-R) The Washington Post VP at-large Ben Bradlee, his wife/journalist Sally Quinn, their son/Associate Producer Quinn Bradlee, President of HBO Documentary and Family Programming Sheila Nevins, director and producer Ellen Goosenberg Kent, and VP of HBO Documentary Films Jackie Glover attend the HBO screening of "I Can't Do This But I Can Do That" at HBO Theater on October 18, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for HBO)

U.S. President Barack Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Ben Bradlee, former Executive Editor of the Washington Post, in the East Room at the White House on November 20, 2013 in Washington, DC. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Washington Post Vice President Ben Bradlee, left, touches Katharine Graham's casket as he passes after speaking at funeral service, in Washington, Monday July 23, 2001. Mrs. Graham, who served as chairman of the Washington Post Co. for two decades, died last Tuesday at 84 from injuries in a fall in Sun Valley, Idaho. (AP Photo/Robert Reeder, Pool)

Katharine Graham, then publisher of the Washington Post, and Executive Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee look over reports of the 6 to 3 Supreme Court decision which permitted the paper to publish stories based on the secret Pentagon study of the Vietnam War, in this June 30, 1971 file photo. Graham, who deftly steered The Washington Post through the tumult of the Pentagon papers and Watergate and built it into a leading force in American journalism, died Tuesday, July 17,2001. She was 84. (AP Photo/File)

Jason Robards Jr. is shown in the role of executive editor Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post in the 1975 film 'All the President's Men'. Robards, who won back-to-back Oscars for ``All the President's Men'' and ``Julia,'' died Tuesday, Dec 26, 2000, after battling cancer. He was 78. (AP Photo/Warner Bros., File)

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Washington Post Vice President Benjamin C. Bradlee is shown in his office at The Post in this Sept., 1995 photo. Bradlee, the retired executive editor of The Washington Post and one of the best-known journalists of his times, shares confiding moments in his memoirs, "'A Good Life',"out in 1995. (AP Photo/Washington Post, Bill O'Leary)

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