MOSCOW, October 22 (RIA Novosti) - Ben Bradlee, the former editor of the Washington Post newspaper, famous for his coverage of the Watergate scandal, died at the age of 93, Washington Post reported.
"Benjamin C. Bradlee, who presided over The Washington Post newsroom for 26 years and guided The Post’s transformation into one of the world’s leading newspapers, died October 21 at his home in Washington of natural causes. He was 93," the newspaper said Tuesday.
Bradlee was famous for his coverage of the Watergate political scandal, sparked by a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington during the 1972 presidential campaign. It prompted Nixon to resign two years later. He was the only US president to resign.
Besides, his publication of the Pentagon Papers, a secret study of the Vietnam War, became well known in the United States. The Pentagon Papers, officially titled "United States - Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense", was a secret US Department of Defense (DoD) report on US political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. The Washington Post began publishing its own series of articles, based upon the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
