Legendary Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee in Hospice Care, Says Wife

Ben Bradlee, the Washington Post executive editor responsible for overseeing the paper’s Watergate coverage, has been placed in hospice care due to his declining health, his wife told C-SPAN in an interview yesterday.

Sally Quinn, his spouse of 36 years, told the network that the 93-year-old Bradlee had been battling Alzheimer’s disease for many years, and that it had progressed to the point where he could no longer continue his normal life. “In the last six weeks, he’s just had such a decline that he can’t participate at all anymore,” Quinn told Brian Lamb, adding that he could no longer attend his weekly luncheon at the Post, where he remained the paper’s vice-president at large after he retired as executive editor in 1991.

Bradlee will receive hospice care in his Washington, D.C. residence.

Watch the interview below via C-SPAN:

[The Washington Post]
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