Posted on 06/04/2022 8:30:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Barry Sussman, a key editor who helped oversee the reporting of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as they covered the Watergate break-in, has died. He was 87.
Though not as well known as the more flamboyant Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee, Sussman played an indispensable role in the paper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the scandal that resulted in President Richard M. Nixon’s 1974 resignation.
As the District of Columbia editor, Sussman was part of the story from the very beginning, when the paper learned of a break-in of the Democratic National headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17, 1972. The burglary was a local news story, so Sussman assigned Woodward to it. Bernstein later joined in.
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I feel just as much sorrow at Sussman’s passing as I did when Cronkite died.
Someone in the FBI is yelling into a phone, “Dammit, that was the wrong Sussman!”
Hillary’s fault. “Suicide hotline? I’d like to make a reservation for Sussman, please.” Could happen to anybody.
I never mourn the death of communists. They are self-serving scum.
The irony here….?
The good die young.
Any relation to the FBI patsy at Perkins Coie who gave the FBI cheap cover to start spying on Trump?
They’re both Washington DC insider Democrat hacks doing the dirty work of the FBI - there must be a genetic link.
Yeah, I know Nixon was a crook and a scoundrel just as I know JFK was a cheating serial horned toad. But both were basically men who loved their country more than they did the deep state and that is why they were destroyed, not because of the aforementioned faults.
Compared to today’s politicians Nixon was a boy scout.
Oh h3ll yes! There is noting he did during Watergate that even compared to what has gone on since ObaMao’s minions were in office. We’re talking petty shoplifting versus highly organized crime.
Didn’t care yesterday
Don’t care today
Won’t give a f&$k tomorrow
Yep. And Hillary Clinton was an attorney on one of the committees investigating Watergate and she wanted to deny Nixon legal council, or something along those lines. Clinton got fired for unethical behavior.
LBJ was really a crooked, filthy bastard. The list is endless.
I know you can’t tell by my post how much sorrow I felt when Cronkite went!
I feel the same way.
Wasn’t there a lawyer joke years ago “What do you call a dead lawyer? A good start.”
That’s how I feel about the treacherous media now.
I’m gonna need a case of beer and a map to the cemetery.
CC
Jack Warden and Martin Balsam played WaPo editors, but neither of them played Sussman.
Jason Robards played Executive Editor Ben Bradlee. Robards won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1976 for that role.
The recently exonerated Sussmann spells it with two N’s and pronounces it like Mahn, not like Man.
I hope it hurt.
Watergate. The biggest nothingburger political scandal of the 20th century.
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