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Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee dies at 93
His health had been declining for years and his wife, last month, revealed that her husband had been suffering from dementia and was in hospice care.
Ben Bradlee, the legendary executive editor of the Washington Post during the Watergate era, has died. He was 93 and died of natural causes in his Washingon home.
His health had been declining for years and his wife, last month, revealed that her husband had been suffering from dementia and was in hospice care.
During his tenure with the Washington Post - which began in 1965 as managing editor and then as executive editor in 1968 - Bradlee steered the newspaper to national prominence, first by publishing Daniel Ellsberg's Pentagon Papers and then exposing the Watergate scandal.
The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Watergate scandal, which forced Nixon to quit under threat of impeachment in August 1974, as well as 16 other Pulitzers under his tenure.
The Washington Post credits Bradlee with helping to expand its coverage by opening bureaus around the world, leading to it becoming one of the preeminent newspapers in the United States.
Bradlee leaves to mourn him his wife, Sally Quinn, and three children.
