Woodward and Bernstein Remember Legendary WaPo Editor Ben Bradlee

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the reporting duo who helped bring down the Nixon administration with their articles on Watergate, remembered editor the late Ben Bradlee, who went to bat for the pair against the White House. Bradlee passed away last night at 93.

“The wonderful command, the use of language, the way he carried himself, his love for the profession, his understanding that it’s all about the story,” Bernstein recalled. “He wanted to take this institution he took over, which was kind of moribund, and he turned it into a great, great institution.”

“There were numerous times when we’d give him a story,” Bernstein said, “and it’d be a hell of story, we’d think, and he would say, ‘Uh-uh, boys, you ain’t it got yet, go out and get another source.”

“He had this glass office so you could see what was going on and who was in there,” Woodward remembered, “and then he would get out and there would be 100 pair of eyes in the newsroom following him around. ‘Where’s he going, what’s the action?’ And if two people were sitting around or talking or something, he’d come up and say ‘What’s happening?’ There was that sense we’re not digging deep enough, that there’s a mystery out there, go get it.”

Watch the clip below, via CBS News:

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