Ben Bradlee Quotes
If a senator gets drunk at home it's nobody's business. If he is drunk on the floor of the Senate, it's the public's business.
Benjamin C. Bradlee, 1921-2014, Editor, The Washington Post
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The hearings were on indecency in broadcasting.
Most politicians and their families do not consider these as unimportant and many resent the endless intrusion into these aspects of life. Mrs. Roosevelt did so it was no problem for her—she even wrote about them in her daily newspaper column. All her family doings were completely open as were her political and administrative and professional activities. She welcomed press to accompany her anywhere whenever they wanted. Her view of her private domain was her private thoughts. This was a great attitude to have for a politicians, but it is rare.
Dr. Franklin, the oldest delegate, had written his speech but was feeling too weak to present it. The other Pennsylvania delegate, James Wilson, read his speech.
This letter was written very early in his career. Clearly he did not follow through on his statement.
President Kennedy was an inveterate womanizer both before his presidency and during it.
Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee was one of the most prominent journalists of post-World War II United States, serving first as managing editor, then as executive editor at The Washington Post, from 1965 to 1991. He became a public figure when he joined The New York Times in publishing the Pentagon Papers and gave the go-ahead for the paper's extensive coverage of the Watergate scandal. He was also criticized for editorial lapses when the Post had to return a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 after it discovered its award-winning story was false.
