Many in Washington lie. They have no reverence for the truth.
Reporters and editors should tell the truth, not giving people free shelter.
A good reporter must be interested in the truth. </ P>
The press in general, and The Washington Post in particular -
While the threat of justice comes closer to the president -
- the role of the press in Watergate Almost as much as Nixon's fate.
A story about The Post has to start with Benjamin Croninshield Bradlee:
Its fast-paced and editor-in-chief.
Neither Mr Nixon nor Mr. Mitchell have the right to decide what you are reading.
The editor, Ben Bradlee does not support President Nixon.
- Bradlee is a tough and mean cynic. - He's a bad devil.
Han is a tough and mean cynic.
Something bad could happen for the press to investigate Watergate -
- is already a fact. The press will
What can the press do about it? - Huka.
Huka and do what we are, not to be loved-
- without chasing the truth.
I want it to be as follows:
It should not be timid, it should be worthwhile
I've always seen memoirs like for presidents, prime ministers -
- Adventure Trips and Generals.
It seemed a bit cheeky to a newspaper, especially one from Boston -
But I had a very nice gift.
A gift that made me attend some of the most important moments of the century.
It was a mild autumn day, on October 2, 1940.
On the door stood: "The Grant Adult Study development. "
The study was funded by the warehouse magnate WT Grant -
- and would find the factors that led to an intelligent provider.
Chief of Harvard Health Care, <br
- wanted to study how to create super people.
The 268 trial cannons were taken from first year classes at Harvard
I was one of them - a second year selector who just lost the virgin.
They were just interested of bodybuilding and IQ.
You did not have physical or mental illnesses.
The Grant study's doctor wrote that the guinea pig was 181.5 cm long -
- and weighed 77.8 kg, had hot hands, cold feet -
- missing glasses, freckles and acne. And he had three tattoos.
They asked the men what they thought about Freud's thoughts of sexuality -
- masturbation and extraterrestrial relationships -
- which they all thought was terrible. </
The idea was that the study would last for twenty years.
"The boy gives a pretty good impression", wrote the psychologist. / p>
"His problem is the conflict between his conservative Boston upbringing" -
- "and his ideas and ideals becoming
The Bradlee family had been around for almost 300 years.
Fine enough to be nice in Boston, but not very rich or smart.
Nice house in Boston, but not on Beacon Hill, or even on the right side town
1936, 14 years old in ninth grade at the boarding school, I received polio.
"The quite normal boy had become accustomed to bruising and crutches "-
"Although he could not move his legs for a couple of months" -
- "and although one of his friends died in the same epidemic "-
-" He never thought that he would be paralyzed. "
That he got out of that period was a better relationship with the father.
His dad brought him to the bathroom and lifted him out of bed.
He took a hand
They worked together in the woods to cleanse slime and cut trees.
He worked really hard.
He was alone in one year when he exercised the strength of his upper body.
He told him that an inner strength was to be anxious.
The psychologists of the study were impressed by "My ability to adapt."
But they were not impressed by much else.
On August 8, 1942, I graduated with an emergency and nap, at. 10:00.
terminal. At 12.00, I married with Jean Saltonstall -
- the only girl I had done with.
Kl . At 4 pm I was enrolled as a fighter in the fleet reserve -
- and was heading to a place called the South Pacific.
Eight months later, I became the officer in charge.
The responsibility was more educational than Harvard. </ in>
21 years old, you're almost as afraid to give orders as to a bullet.
I liked making decisions and choosing the right men for the task -
- even if a dumbbuster sometimes opposed me.
The flea taught him early that he had leadership skills.
He learned about fear, and he realized he missed it.
When I started working on < in> The Post and was interviewed by Ben -
- he did not ask for journalism or previous jobs but about the fleet.
The fleet was -
- The beginning of his life as an activist. </ P>
I flottan lär man sig att ifrågasätta auktoriteter.
The joy of surviving the war should have lasted longer.
But I was just restless.
I could not find a job that saved me.
New York newspaper editors were uninterested by lieutenants.
In August 1948, Jean born a boy. Benjamin C. Bradlee, Jr.
My first memory of him is when I was thrown into a swimming pool.
He threw me and I had to manage myself.
He let me go around, and then he jumped in
I called it loving but tough treatment.
At the end of 1948, when Jean and the child lived with her dad -
- I emptied almost the entire savings account, bought a train ticket to Washington -
- and soon I had a job. / p>
I earned $ 80 a week and started Christmas Eve.
On The Post got work at the district court -
- Washington's lowest standing came when they got issues with justice.
Victims and perpetrators in the time of violence.
i>
The best thing about the district court was that I had to write 3-4 articles each day.
I learned that write concise, and hopefully flattering.
But in 1951, I approached 30 and felt impatient.
Europe's recovery, communism and excesses of anti-communism- <
- went beyond my field of view.
The emotional reaction of the boy, caught the psychiatrist's attention. >
"He often cries openly during movies" -
- "and engages in the actors situation. He likes
This is Johnny Jones in Amsterdam
- where I've just seen Minister Van Meer killed.
"He also says that he has strong feelings" -
- "For the movie & apos; Foreign Correspondent & Apos;."
"He has watched the film four times and believes that foreign correspondents" -
- "are the most romantic and glamorous people
"He is looking forward to working with that."
Newsweek European correspondent got my life to stop in 1953 -
- when asked one day if I'd succeed him in Paris.
I did not hesitate to answer. I would kill for it.
My area ranged from <
- and from the Azores to Turkey.
The joy of being foreign < br /> correspondent is difficult to explain -
- and even harder to exaggerate.
Even when it's dangerous, like in war or revolution - <
- Adrenaline is huge and long lasting.
No mission is better for a young journalist than Paris after the war.
It was exciting journalistic and amazing on a private level.
He was in Paris. What could be wrong? </ P>
I really loved Paris and France.
I could not let the women go the cafes and streets -
- who looked at a confident and interested.
Jean and I went skiing in the Alps.
We met a Dutch couple and fell in love with Em.
We ended up in bed one afternoon when they others went skiing.
It was a new negligence for me, and a new thoughtlessness.
I wondered why I did not feel bigger feelings of guilt.
He has probably never felt guilty.
He was in his correct element in France.
It attracted sexuality that had not been attracted to Boston.
In my Boston the nice girls did not cuddle -
and nice boys learned self-control.
The burgeoning puritanic thoughts about sex and pleasure left my shoulders -
- and changed my view of the world.
Ben was really a man.
He had a dark voice, he was stately and had some kind of charm.
No one got girls like him.
He loved going to parties.
It was the perfect place for him, and he knew.
Bradlee knew he was the happiest man in the world.
The weekend that changed my life came in August 1954 -
- Close to our friends, The sisters Pinchot, came to town:
Mary Pinchot Meyer < br /> and Antoinette Pinchot Pitman.
They would leave their spouses and go to Europe to have fun.
Mary and an Italian painter had fallen in love with Positano.
Tony and I fell in love with Boissy-Saint-Léget .
We ended up at a night-open cafe in the nest where we talked -
- first modestly late
In the fall of 1954 I was hopelessly in love with Tony.
i> We had only been seen for a few days but I had never known it before.
13 years of marriage was put on the shelf. </
Can a person's happiness be worth creating such misery?
The Grant study psychologists called it my "ability to adapt me
Now I wondered if I adjusted or ignored reality.
People became suffering in his privacy, And he knew it.
But it was -
- difficult.
He wanted to live the exciting life. That was what he was looking for.
He wanted to gather experiences, meet interesting people -
- and have a glamorous lifestyle.
We got married in July 1956.
Tony hade fyra barn som inte kunde vara ifrån sin pappa i mer än ett år.
So I had to return to Newsweek in Washington.
And then Kennedy came.
I began to think that the strange experience -
- of having a friend as president would become reality.
Our first contact as a couple with Jack and Jackie Kennedy -
- Come on Sunday afternoon when we went through Georgetown with prams.
We should on the same dinner that night with the former Paris Ambassador.
I sat next to Jackie and Jack sat next to Tony. </ p >
We went home together and when we said good night we were friends.
Jag förstår att presidenten trivdes med Ben. De hade samma gener.
They had similar experiences of wives and the same scary humor.
They shared style and ethical view, and were both vivors.
Ben felt that if he had a policy, he would have been Kennedy.
Some of him probably looked at JFK thinking, "It might have been me."
p>
When I became acquainted with Kennedy, he became a part of what I deserved.
When it worked well for him
Having a friend becoming presidential candidate is unexpected -
Are you a friend or reporter?
You need to redefine "friend" and redefine "reporter" - </
- before feeling comfortable, and it takes time to get it.
Kennedy defeated Kennedy Hubert Humphrey. </ P>
Ben, Tony, Jack and Jackie drank champagne at Kennedy's pair
- and then Tony and Ben followed to West Virginia-
- to join the hay coat.
He was a journalist, and it was the first time he crossed the border.
You can not be the president's friend and be a reporter.
Ben and Tony were with in the most sacred rooms.
They went on fine boat trips at Narragansett Bay in Newport.
There was one carefree life.
Ben and Tony participated in everything.
I felt confident that Kennedy understood the limits of our friendship. / p>
Jackie seemed like our company, and liked when Jack was relaxed.
Once she asked Tony about we four could be best friends.
Our friendship jumped from conversations to drinks for dinner in the White House.
Jack was attracted to Tony, who was very beautiful.
She was a little shy and quiet, like Jackie.
Tony told us about an opportunity when they ate dinner in the White House.
Jackie said to Tony and Jack: "Stop throwing look at each other."
Within journalism, one has to be more innocent than the pope.
You build your authority -
- on the assertion that you are completely independent. It was threatened here. </ P>
That's what Ben was, but it was unfit for his job. </ P>
He drove Newsweek and made the rivals of Times crazy -
- when he stepped off with the president.
On a dance In February 1962 the president came to me and said -
- that he had a happy story to me.
Francis Gary Powers, the pilot shot down by the Russians -
- had been replaced by Rudolph Abel, the highest ranked The president said the story would be announced within a few hours -
- and asked About Newsweek could change the homepage.
It was too late, but not for us sister publication Washington Post.
Imagine a reporter dictating an exclusive story, a main story -
- to the tunes by Lester Lanin's dance band.
No one came as close to a president as Ben did.
Ingen kom så nära en president som Ben gjorde.
He knew he came too close but how could he be?
How do you say no when the president invites you to dinner in the White House?
>
It was a cool autumn day, but hot enough to drink drinks outside.
Caroline's Pony Macaroni walked around and mumsade grass.
We spent the afternoon reading newspapers and going to the fields.
At dinner, we went on his trip to Texas the following week.
We went at noon the next day after a relaxed morning -
>
Jackie's secretary called and asked us to go to Bethesda Hospital -
- Your president's body was taken from Dallas. </ / i>
I've never seen something so unforgettable:
Her pink suit, stained by her
She fell silently in our arms -
- and asked if we wanted to hear <
But the question had barely left her lips when she had to remind me.
- This was not something for next week's Newsweek.
The assassination gave Ben great opportunities.
In a way, a family member had died -
- but in another way it was a disaster for Ben.
It affected him without a doubt. </ P>
Ben told me that the great tragedy in his life was when Kennedy was assassinated. </ P>
I asked, "How did you handle it?"
He said, "I needed someone who said that life would continue."
Despite more than 40 months in war, several years as
- and even more years as a war reporter in the Middle East -
with Kennedy as violence became part of my life.
But violence came closer a few months later -
- with the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer, Tony's sister -
- in the middle of the day a bright autumn afternoon in October.
A phone call from abroad gave Mary's death new dimensions.
It was from Ann Truitt, an artist < who had been Mary's closest friend.
She told me Mary had asked her to take care of a diary -
- "If Something Should Happen."
Some of the pages, maybe ten, described a love affair.
It was clear that the lover had been the US president.
Mary was beautiful, a free soul and incredibly charming .
Many years later, Ben could only explain the relationship -
- that the president loved taking risks.
He said: "How could he otherwise fuck Mary" -
- "and at the same time invite us for dinner in the White House?" </ P>
Never considered ever to rewrite -
- that the murdered president had a mistress.
We did not write about that .
Not only did JFK, but many other politicians protect themselves -
- in the male establishment in Washington's press union at the time.
Ben said he did not know what the president did with other women.
But so often he could not escape it.
Most of the conversations we had were when Tony and Jackie joined -
- so all-around was one of the few topics that was never touched.
They were four people. Ben said: "If Jack had not liked Tony" -
- "We had four not been friends. He wanted to see us as a couple." </ P>
But Tony told me that Jack did approach her several times.
When Jack filled 46 they went on the Potomac River.
That was a rainy night, everyone drank a lot of alcohol -
- sang, rumbled and screamed.
At one time Tony had to go to the ladies .
Then she realized that Jack was following so she started running.
They ran and laughed, and outside the ladies he came to her.
She said, "He did a rather aggressive assault on me."
p> Tony waited long before she told Ben.
It's not easy to find out things about so many friends.
When Mary died Jackie had disappeared from our lv.
But the memories of our time together were unruly
We are considering how everything changed our opinion about Kennedy and Mary Meyer.
The answer for me were: "Not very much."
It's still so i see them.
There was so much news in Washington that we barely met.
Presidential Goldwater wanted to bomb Nordvietnam -
- and crowds and upset grew.
How are the demonstrations affected by the Civil Rights Act, Dr. King?
There will be demonstrations, regardless of whether the law is assumed or not.
<p 1968 led the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King to riot.
Three months later came more violence. </
Later that year, Richard Milhous Nixon was elected president.
In recent years, I had talked about running a magazine.
Kay Graham, who had become publisher on Washington Post after the husband's death -
- invited me to lunch at the F Street Club.
She wondered what I wanted to do when I got big.
My mom said she often thought to The Post must be better.
She knew that she was looking for a new editor.
When speaking, Ben said: "I would sacrifice a bullet for it."
Washington Post was a mediocre newspaper before Bradlee got there.
It was a mediocre country newspaper.
Ben was good from the very first day he got there.
He wanted to know which city's best reporters were, and hire everyone.
Han employed 50-60 reporters and editors in his first year.
His task was to create a good national and international newspaper.
He took great risks, and many of them were rewarding.
I think I was the only who did not have college education.
One of the reasons why I wanted to work at The Post where Ben did.
He shattered the place.
Ben was looking for "devils" - the story . People would sit at breakfast -
- Open the newspaper and say "Devils!" when they read the first page.
Ben understood the readers. He wanted to make The Post so people should read it. </ P>
Ben started Style.
The revolutionized
He wanted to blend high and low.
He would combine society, politics and literature in one.
Many in Washington were more save for the Style section than the first page.
I was so excited that they watched my social life more intensively -
<p
I appealed to Ben but failed flagrantly.
In the spring of 1971 we had heard rumors about a New York Times hit success.
An exclusive story that would break us in total.
So the rumors give an uncomfortable feeling in the stomach of an editor.
Ben was very competitive. He was encouraged to compete.
Who would you like to beat? The New York Times .
June 13, 1971 revealed half first page of New York Times - </
- What their hit success was about.
Six full-page news pages -
based on a 47-volumed study on Vietnam policy.
- by Daniel Ellsberg on the Pentagon, who was commissioned by the Defense Minister -
- to investigate how the United States entered the Vietnam War.
i> Pentagon Papers shows how involved The United States was already under Eisenhower.
I called my sub-director and said: "This is unacceptable."
"How many documents do you think they have?" he said. "Ten," I said. </ P>
Then he said, "What do you say about 10000?" </ P>
The Justice Department today announced a ban on The Times-
- Publishing the Upcoming Parts.
Ellsberg called an editor as he knew The Post. </ p >
He wanted to see the rest of the story printed.
- where editors and reporters started reading and commenting on 4000 pages.
In the living room, lawyers set and argued against publishing. <
It was a critical moment.
Katharine Graham would just list the Washington Post -
so everyone was terrified that Nixon would sabba it.
The The Post businessmen agreed
that we
Do not make unpublished notice The Post forever -
- as a tool for the establishment, no matter who had the power.
The Bradlee era should end before it had started.
Kay soon realized that she was who must make the decision. </
She was a deeply uncertain woman.
One of Ben's gifts was his ability to read other people.
He read from Katharine from the beginning.
He was charming and a bit seductive.
She let Ben run her magazine, and he gave her self-esteem.
This morning, Washington Post published other parts of Pentagon Papers.
Editor, Ben Bradlee said The Justice Department had asked them -
- not to publish more from the study, but Bradlee said that The Post declined.
- att inte publicera mer ur studien, men Bradlee sa att The Post avböjde.
Ben felt used.
It was not about the security of the nation without national embarrassment.
The Department of Justice arranged a charge against The Post.
What was the country that made it possible to stop publishing?
We had no answer except that The Nixon Administration played hard.
It's hypocrisy of Washington Post to take classified documents -
- and publish them. It's the kind of shabby journalist ethics -
- which is partly behind the reduced respect for the media. </ P>
Ben was convinced they could publish everything they got.
To make a point of it was undetectable to me.
Wednesday, June 30, 1971 -
- 15 days after The Times story and 12 days after The Posts -
- Judged the Supreme Court for the benefit of the newspapers.
The decision gives us green light To print the rest of the documents.
Why did you print them from the beginning?
To show people what was going on during an important part of the 20th century
- So there are more articles? - We are writing on six at the moment -
- and it will probably be more.
i> We had won in a way.
For the first time in US history -
A shame in the history of democracy.
What I miss not only in this administration, but across the country -
The first addition was Ben's religion.
He was concerned about journalism, and across the country.
Ben felt that if they did not rise then -
- their freedoms would begin to be eroded.
Neither Mr Nixon nor Mr. Mitchell have the right to decide what you are reading.
It's simple. Wait a little...
The episode created a reflex within the institution to do the right. </ P>
Det var första gången den reflexen hade använts.
We dare to oppose the government saying, "Nonsense."
Ben loved it.
Katharine Graham received a letter from a reader
- which encouraged her to kick "Ben Bradlee, the farmer".
"Dear Mr. Dodderidge. Your letter reminded me of the story of WC Fields" -
- "When he put a glass in his hand in his garden."
"His secretary told that a stranger wanted to meet him"
- "But refused to say what it was about."
Finally, Fields Secretary asked to give him a questionable answer: "
"Ask him to go to hell." Greetings, Ben Bradlee. "
Ben was almost Russian when it came to swearing.
It was the contrast in him.
He could swear like a sailor, but at the same time had good tableware.
Ben received a famous letter -
- who said The Mail had undermined the nation's security -
- and accused Ben of that he had never served
"Dear skit boot. I did more for my country in the war than you."
"I spent four years on chasing in the Pacific
"My medal has ten battle stars. Benjamin C Bradlee."
They became good friends.
They wrote letters back and forth and began to like each other.
Bradlee was the only editor who could call one in the office -
- let's understand that you have committed a terrible crime against journalism -
- and when you went away you said to yourself, "What a guy!"
p>
He did not tolerate people who took themselves too seriously, were divine.
He just wanted to get the truth.
Sometimes it was not comfortable, and sometimes it was dangerous.
But he never hesitated.
Good evening. This evening, we have a mysterious story from Washington. </ P>
Five people have been arrested for burglary on the Democratic National Committee. </ P>
Democratic National Committee
The break seems to have been planned far ahead of time.
- "and no president cares."
Five guys in costumes, just spoke Spanish, in dark glasses -
<
- Immediately after midnight at the Democratic National Committees headquarters.
/ i>
You must be Richard Nixon himself to deny that it was a story.
Washington Post got one The Posts Editor That Morning called Bob Woodward, a Cuban -
- and said the burglars should be brought to justice.
They came in with the burglars. I was on the first line.
The judge asked James McCord where he worked.
McCord said... Then the judge said: "Talk higher."
Then McCord whispered : "CIA." </ P>
Bingo! No three letters in the English language, in that order -
- Under such circumstances may end a reporter's ring muscle -
- Faster than "C", "I" and "A".
This was the beginning of Ben's investigation of what the CIA was doing with.
We investigated the evidence they had taken from the burglars.
Then we found the note in the address books.
It stood " Howard Hunt, W-House ". </ P>
" W-House "could only stand for " Hor House "or" White House. "</ P>
Bingo! </ / i>
I called Howard Hunt: "Why is your name in the address books" -
- "Found on two of them arrested at Democratic Headquarters?" </
It was quiet for a long time, and then he said: "Good God."
He threw on the handset and left the town.
>
Bingo!
In less than 48 hours, we had linked the burglary to the White House -
<p - and to the heart of the battle to get Richard Nixon recycled.
But for six weeks after the break we struggled.
20 JUNE, 1972 THREE DAYS AFTER THE INJURY
No one is concerned about The Post at this time.
They are not even close to understanding what's going on. </ P>
We knew the story was there, but we did not know what it was.
We found pieces of puzzle, but could not understand where to sit.
Reporting of the story gradually increased.
We did not know how different stories hung together. </ P>
Maybe it could lead somewhere. </ P>
Then we were told about the secret fund. </ P>
We wondered who controlled the fund and who lay behind it.
One of them was former Justice Minister John Mitchell.
I called Mitchell and told about the article in tomorrow's magazine.
I started reading and came to: "John N. Mitchell manages the secret fund."
>
Then he said, "Herreguuuud." Just like that. </ P>
Mitchell exploded. "All the crap you write in the newspaper have been denied."
"Katy Graham sticks with the thigh in a big shortcoming if it is pressed."
I called Bradlee, who said: "Did he really say that?" "Yes," I said. </ P>
"Do you have good notes?", he asked. "Absolutely," I said. </ P>
"Okay, write it in the magazine, but remove the pointer. Print it all." </ P>
- controlled a secret fund dedicated to political spying.
Mitchell denied the charges vigorously today.
We became obsessed of the Watergate story.
- Has he read it? - Yes, he has.
The scandal knew no limits. Buggy, Shadow, False Leaks -
- Set campaign meetings, spies, stolen documents and provocators.
When Carl and Bob realized how extensive the intrigues and the darkening were -
- then Bens appetite grew. </ P>
Every new disclosure made him want the next. </
Once asked, "If the story is so good, where is the rest of the press?"
In addition to Washington Post there was no one else who wrote about the story.
The New York Times wrote about it but ended shortly.
< They did not anticipate what was going on. It was just The Post that followed it. </ P>
It all made nervous. </ P>
When writing about something big, <br /
It was Washington Post against Richard Nixon.
When almost all votes have been counted < It looks as follows:
President Nixon has become the reel with the largest majority ever.
A historic victory, and first on the agenda during the second term -
- hosted the The Post.
>
Behind the scenes, Nixon planned his revenge against the newspaper.
I want to be clear that from now on
- No reporters from Washington Post are allowed in the White House. Did you understand? </ P>
It's my order, and if it's required I'll give you a kick. Ehrlichman called me to his office and gave me hundreds of names. </ P>
"You're well-known Johnny Walters?" He was the head of the tax authority.
"I want you to give this to John" -
- "and ask him to review these people."
My big fear was that Watergate would run out of the sand.
To Washington Post said it was A horrible conspiracy -
- and the White House said that it was just pressure and politics.
Buggy and spying are harmful, just like bad acts.
Ron Ziegler, White House Press Officer - </ p >
- was often on the evening news and denied everything -
- and expressed its horror < The Post.
The editor of Washington Post is Ben Bradlee.
He does not support president Nixon. </ P>
The White House got Watergate to deal with the press's behavior -
- rather than the behavior of the president.
I've never heard or seen such outrageous and bad reports -
- in my 27 years in public.
>
We became very frustrated by it, because it worked.
When people are hammered last night -
- of such ugly and hysterical Reporting, they lose confidence.
Chuck Colson, Nixon's Hejduk -
- held a number for New England Newspaper Editors :
"If Bradlee ever leaves the cocktail parties in Georgetown" -
- "Maybe he'll discover America's reality" -
I believe in Nixon. He will prove innocent.
He acts in the best interests of the presidency.
It's a pity we lose Good men because of this.
People heard say: "Leave the president in peace. It's enough."
Have you heard? It's so hot outside -
- and he can not stop whining about Watergate. </ P>
That's how it was. We showed up a family that lived in that time. </ P>
- I believe in Nixon. - Which? </ P>
- What "Which"? </ P>
People often do not want to hear the truth. </ P>
They do not want to know. </ P>
In recent months, people have in the Committee for the President's Re-election -
- Prosecuted for involvement in the so-called Watergate scandal.
The air was thick of lies, and the president lied the most.
- I read about the break in the magazine. - Liet.
- I immediately started an investigation. - Yet another lie.
He led himself the dirt of Watergate.
The worst Ben knew where
That's why he disliked Nixon.
He understood that Nixon was a great liar.
It made him crazy, and he would reveal it.
Good evening. The complicated and worrying story -
- about political spying and buggy called Watergate -
- was reviewed today by a committee of the US Senate.
The purpose was to clarify the biggest political scandal of history.
i> I did not know how it would end but it would not be a draw.
Then we talked about the press's reporting around Watergate.
The President asked me to write up the journalists who gave us problems -
- because we would make life difficult for them after the election.
The Senate committee came to The Post said it was important.
Ben gave them full support, and they did.
For the first time, I felt that we should win.
It's true that you've been employed by White House, Mr. Butterfield
The watergate pond would soon burst.
Do you know any interception equipment in the Ovala Room?
- Yes, I knew that. - Nixon bugged himself.
So, all the President's talks from 1970 have been recorded? </ P> >
This marked beginning to end for Richard Nixon.
The Democrats in the Committee require the President to give them the recordings.
From that moment on, the president could not hide anymore.
While the threat of justice comes closer to the President -
- The role of the press in Watergate is almost as much discussed as the fate of Nixon.
"It's the press at its best." Others say the press is rolling.
/ p>
David Broder, one of the country's most respected commentators, writes:
"Even though Mr Nixon's case is being ratified , the press gets its opportunity."
- What did he mean? - He meant enough to...
Many hold the press responsible and are annoyed by the press.
Why? Do you know that? - Yes. </ P>
Something bad could happen for the press to investigate Watergate -
- is already a fact. <Br / </ P>
Does the press get the debt if he is allowed to resign? - Yes. </ P>
Good evening. This is the 37th time I speak to you from here. </ P>
Ben Bradlee's best moment where Nixon left. </ P>
He went through the editor < br /> and said, "Do not be hurt."
I resign my presidency at. </ P>
It was the biggest political event in the country's history. </ P>
And it might never have happened about The Post
i> had not been stubborn.
They knocked us on Watergate. I do not deny that. </ P>
- Do you know why? - Yes, we were disturbed. </ P>
I think Ben is better at chopping quickly than having control.
We think more of the control than they do.
p> It's ironic that a man who disapproved and did not understand the press -
- did much to strengthen <br / The reputation of the press, especially The Posts .
In his darkest time he gave the press his brightest moment.
Last night at Kennedy Center.
The movie is about the breakthrough on Watergate four years ago.
Many reporters wanted to see
But few reporters stand out in the crowd.
- when the stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman arrived.
This was about journalism, not about the US president.
Ben was paranoid in the case of Hollywood.
So I spent a lot of time on The Post to convince him -
- that we should tell a true story and tell the truth.
Background! Tagging! </ P>
He confirmed. I said, "If you do not put it on, that's right." </ P>
We must tell Bradlee. </ P>
Bradlee was very stubborn and expressive. </ P> / p>
Bernstein has yet another source. He confirmed.
- Om ni tvivlar tar vi det i morgon. - Det behövs inte. Vi är säkra.
I wanted to win his trust to tell the story.
Okay, then we'll drive it.
That's why Bradlee became an important character.
Would not you roll Ben Bradlee into your movie? </ P>
We accuse Haldeman, the country's second largest person for conspiracy -
- so it would be good if we were right. </ P>
When Robards got the script he said: "I can not play Bradlee."
"He does nothing."
"He just goes around saying Where is the damn story? "
What do we have more than the money? Where is the damn story? Bradlee had 50 different ways to say "where is the damn story?".
Bradlee hade 50 olika sätt att säga "var är den jävla storyn?".
It feels thin. Get some better information.
What's this for crazy damn story?
The film made all heroes.
The American People's view of journalism was high.
Nothing was equal to that movie.
They lived on another planet, < br /> because they were famous now.
Ben loved it. He loved the glory. </ P>
He realized that all the celebrities saw him as one of them. </ P>
He was the first celebrity editor, without a doubt. </ / p>
He said it worried him but not overly much...
After the movie was released you saw Ben Bradlee on the editorial board -
- Walk around and swing your arm.
I was blinded by Ben. He was a divine creature. </ P>
I started writing small admiration patches for him. </ P>
I thought he would know who had written them. / p>
A journalist on The Post should not be comfortable with anonymous pieces.
I went through a staff list to find possible senders.
At Q, I stopped at the beautiful and talented Sally Quinn
- the new star on the Style - section, but only in a few seconds.
She was too young, and the rumor said she would become a news anchor at CBS.
I asked Ben if he wanted to invite me one last lunch.
He said yes, so we went to the Madison Hotel.
There I said, "I have to tell why I'm taking this job. "
" I'm in love with you. I have to get away from you. "
" It's too painful to be close to you. "
Then he said," This is incredible. I'm in love with you too. "
I had yet another reason:
Either I could stay with Tony whom I once loved, the mother of the children.
Or, I could accept that I fell in love with Sally.
I was 52 years old and my grandfather. </
Sally was twenty years younger and unmarried.
Explaining the situation of the children was indescribably painful. </ p
Watergate was overlooked, Nixon was gone -
- and some of me looked at the future with some anxiety.
So, afterwards, Watergate has become unpopular
The film had incredible impact. Young people study it.
It made people interested in an exciting journalist life.
When I graduated from college 1981 -
- Washington Post was sent to the editorial staff who wanted an awesome job.
> The Hottest Journal of the World.
It was like playing a game for a mythical baseball team -
- If you had grown up with the team. </ / p>
I was assigned to rewrite Daniel Patrick Moynihan for Style .
I was called into Bradlee's office, as I just looking through the glass.
When I entered, he said: "What's up with Moynihan?"
I was just 26 years old...
"Why do you ask about his drinking?" "It's relevant," I said.
Then I said, "Do not worry, Ben." And then I saw behind his shoes -
- his head stacked up, and he looked at me with contempt and said:
"Worry me? Remnick, I do not worry about a fan." </
The Post had the world's best reporters.
It scared me a lot. I almost broke the press.
That would be so.
They said she was tough
And so it was Ben, with its steel balls.
Woodward and Bernstein - balls of steel.
But basically, it was a white magazine with a white crowd. </ P>
Ben understood the top layer of the punch, but he wanted to use the bottom as well. </ P>
Han ville ta sig dit, och det gjorde han med Janet Cooke.
Janet Cooke had written to me that she was ready to come up -
- after more than two years on Toledo Blade .
She had nice college ladies, and she was black.
We had had difficulty recruiting minorities and women -
- so Janet Cooke was a safe card.
Cooke got a brilliant start with 52 bylines for the first 8 months.
She told a friend that she wanted to win the Pulitzer Prize within three years. </ i
Soon she lost herself in an assignment to investigate a new kind of heroin.
I had worked on a story about the heroin problem in the area.
When I interviewed, someone said that the problem has become so big -
- even children are addicted. "I saw an 8-year-old this evening."
My editor said, "Look up the kid. It's first page fabric."
The article was called "Jimmy's World", and the started as follows:
"Jimmy is eight years old, and a third generation heroin addict."
"A hurry little boy, with red-brown hair, brown eyes "-
-" and sting marks on the thin skin on his narrow brown arms. "
" The face is almost chubby when he Talk about life, clothes, money "-
-" Baltimore Orioles and heroin. He has abused since he was five. "
The article ended on the first page.
Almost 900,000 Unsubscribe of The Post left the presses September 28, 1980.
LA Times and Washington Posts News Service -
- took "Jimmy's World "to more than 300+ newspapers in the United States and the world.
Jimmy became an instant sensation as a magic wand for several weeks.
Dr Alyce Gullattee, who runs a drug information program for the city -
- generally knows where the person lives.
Marion Barry held a press conference < and said, "We know who Jimmy is."
"We take care of him and his family."
After The Posts this article this morning called the mother Dr Gullattee -
- and said she had left the home and hid.
But I began to hear from the editor that the story may not be true.
People were skeptical, but The Post , as newspapers often make public -
- stood behind their reporter. </ P>
Editor Bob Woodward, whose articles dropped a president -
- stood behind the reporter who refuses to provide his sources.
We promised anonymity -
- and in this case there was a threat to the reporter.
If something were revealed her life could be at risk.
They did not want to force Janet to give up his sources -
- so they sent Janet and me to look up Jimmy.
Vi körde runt en stund.
Eventually, I realized that Janet did not know where she was.
We were in the area where Jimmy would live, but she had no idea.
The day when Cooke won the Pulitzer Prize the story and my world collapsed.
Toledo Blade where Cooke had worked, and Associated Press -
- started preparing biographies over Cooke.
According to a story she had graduated with Vassar's second highest grade.
The Vassar Rector rang: "We read that our student won the Pulitzer Prize" -
- "But when we watched the archives, we saw that she did not graduate here."
Woodward, me and some others went through her notebooks.
We soon realized that it was a bluff -
- but now we must make her acknowledge.
"JIMMY'S WORLD" WAS A FACTORY Janet Cooke
Washington Post announced today that they made a big mistake. </ P>
The article that gave the reporter Pulitzer Prize was a lie .
There was no Jimmy. He and the article were a fabrication -
- featured by a 26-year-old reporter named Janet Cooke...
It was the greatest of sins.
There is no major sin in the journalism.
A sophisticated story, completely grabbed out of the air.
How did it work through the editorial editor on a major newspaper in the United States -
- who had recently succeeded was amazing.
Ben Bradlee informed Pulitzer Foundation this morning -
- We can not accept the price. He apologized personally.
It was huge embarrassing.
You can not always make the right decision, but this was a disaster.
It's like this keeps you awake at night.
When you brought your story to your bosses, Miss Cooke...
Did you not have any pressure on to reveal the sources for the managers?
No, you have a tendency to press first and worry later.
We had done away with us. I had done away with me. </
After Watergate, we felt that we could take care of everything.
This was a story about an 8-year-old heroin -
- which you basically killed.
But we thought of journalism, not the boy.
It was not just a failure journalistic but also moral.
The magazine's editorial conference held the month after.
The existing program was scrapped, and now everything was about Janet Cooke.
You had to change rooms because everyone obviously showed up
- to see Ben Offras.
One editor after the other got up and flattered Ben.
We journalists Once we've identified the bluff , we set up a single goal:
No one will know more about the Cooke case than The Post reveals.
He turned to Bill Greene, our ombudsman, saying:
"Tell exactly what happened. You get as much space as you like."
>
"Jimmy's World" had humiliated Washington Post , wrote Greene -
- because the editors abandoned his professional skepticism.
It was probably the longest article printed The Post .
< i> 18000 words spread across the front page and four full pages inside.
It was a shameless statement about what went wrong.
It became the template for how to make once lost.
I think it helped us.
It was not hard to make mistakes we did with "Jimmy's World" -
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Watch out for stories you'd like to be true to <
Do not be discouraged by br /> the hard to reveal the truth.
Do something else if you do not manage it.
Ben
He was terrified to become dad again as a 61 year old.
But Quinn was born, and Ben loved it.
Men Quinn föddes, och Ben älskade det.
When Quinn was three months old, he must do a cardiac surgery.
Despite the surgery, it was clear that there would be a problem.
But Ben refused to believe that Quinn would not be good.
I was born with velocardiofacial syndrome.
Because of my syndrome I have dyslexia and ADHD.
He always said that how difficult life is, then you have to fight.
"Nose downward, arsel upward - forward."
p> Quinn did not have so many friends -
- so they go a lot, especially in the woods.
Dad and I have it in common:
Our dads helped us heal by getting out in the woods.
In spite of incomprehensible trials, attacks and learning difficulties -
- Have a brave young man grow up smart, calm, athletic and wise.
Quinn changed him a lot.
It was painful sometimes finding ways -
- to do this nice boy as happy as they wanted.
It gave him a reason to turn in and reflect.
Shortly after Quinns birth, and especially after the cardiac surgery -
- I began to understand that I already had my best story -
- and no future story could be better than Watergate.
So on July 31, 1991 It was time to take good care
- After almost 29 years < The Washington Post editorial board.
I want to tell a Bradlee story that even Bradlee has not heard.
It was Bradlee in a nutshell: scandalous, the competition -
- and so foolishly set to to do the right. </ P>
It's Bradlee's magazine, <
And I hope, Benji, that they say so long.
If I Owned Washington Post I would never say -
- that someone else's magazine was but i loved it.
I remember looking over the editorial board and all the people there.
When Ben went out and finally left the magazine -
- so everyone stood up and applauded him.
It was not often Ben saw looking down and holding back the tears.
They loved him. </
Sally and I bought real estate. Pleasant first, late exaggerated.
I liked Long Island and often played tennis with the Paris gang -
- and went with old and new New York friends -
- which was mostly refreshing uninterested by Washington.
Ben was closer to 90 and had a shirt that blew up in the wind -
- and he was ridiculously sunburnt with backward-looking hair.
Then I realized that a breeze from Ben Bradlee -
- could very possibly mean that my wife would leave me.
Welcome. Tonight, we speak with one of today's major editors:
Ben Bradlee from Washington Post.
In his autobiography "A good life " He tells of his life -
- and the country's biggest moment in the last half of the 20th century.
You've been lucky you've been to
You've had a happy life. Is there anything you regret?
If I've hurt -
- Tony Bradlee, I regret it. The same is true of Jean Bradlee.
- Your former wives. - Yes, and if I... </ p
In the Washington cathedral today it felt like a state funeral.
It was a memorabilia for a newspaper man -
-
Among the mourners were the deputy president, senators and judge.
but Ben Bradlee was of course more than that.
In a way, Bens death means the end of the 20th century.
There were so many in Washington that never went on.
The homework of Ben to Carl and me were:
The nose downward, hurled upwards - always on my way forward. "
I miss him.
I hear one voice that says: "You're crazy, Bernstein."
But also: "You know what does. Do what you know you should do."
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It's Bradlee's voice, and it's always there.
I've been thinking about the importance of the trip in my life - </
- When people do not talk about anything else.
Not many of us had the ride to get the inspiring chance -
- over and over again.
Ben Bradlee wrote this letter to an editor on a school newspaper -
"Dear Shannon Fagan. I've always had a hard time explaining who I am."
p> - "I believe in hard work." - "I believe in fighting overwhelm."
- "I believe in avoiding heights." - "I think in complete honesty. "
" I believe in compassion. "
Now I start crying.
Text: Michael Bach www.sdimedia.com