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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee dies at 93

Former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee speaks at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California By Bill Trott WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ben Bradlee, the hard-driving editor who reigned over the Washington Post with the style of a well-dressed swashbuckler and the profane vocabulary of a dockworker as the newspaper helped topple President Richard Nixon, died on Tuesday aged 93. Bradlee's death at his Washington home of natural causes was announced by the Post, which reported late last month that he had begun hospice care after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for several years. ...




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