'twould be interesting to read his recollections. Henry Fonda and John Wayne weren't really there.
Ahhhh...another example of the ego of Old Media. They continue with the delusion that "journalists" are the story.
Ben Bradlee talks with his mouth full, and stirs his iced tea with his knife. My best friend saw this first-hand. She said his horrible table manners were AMAZING.
Artifact? Nah. Artifice, maybe. Relic, to be sure. But artifacts are of interest to somebody. Ben Bradlee isn't even interesting to Mrs. Bradlee.
The accounts of who was present for the search seem to disagree, but the results of the search are little disputed. Later that afternoon, Tony Bradlee found the diary in Mary's studio. Upon reading through it, they found a short section that discussed an affair between Mary and an unnamed person. Despite the anonymity, it was obviously the President of the United States. Those who knew of the diary felt it was a private, family document, so they gave it to Jim Angleton to destroy "in whatever facilities the Central Intelligence Agency had for the destruction of documents" (Bradlee, "A Good Life" 270). The Bradlee's later found out that Angleton had not destroyed the diary. When they discovered this, Ben Bradlee claims that Tony got it back from Jim and destroyed it herself ("A Good Life" 271).
It will be a good day when Bradlee and that schmuck Don Hewitt no longer darken the media in this country.
At the risk of being hypercritical, if ol' Ben ought to remember ships traveled down the slot fm New Guinea.
"To hell with the news. I'm no longer interested in news. I'm interested in causes. We don't print the truth. We don't pretend to print the truth..." Ben Bradlee --former Washington Post executive editor
"Truth and news are not the same thing." Katharine Graham, owner of The Washington Post
“I 'gotta date with a tar-pit!”