Ben Bradlee, Washington Post Editor During Watergate, Dies at 93

Benjamin C. Bradlee, the editor who transformed the Washington Post into a leading U.S. newspaper with the pursuit of the Watergate break-in story, which culminated in the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974, has died. He was 93.

He died yesterday at his home in Washington, the Post reported. He was receiving hospice care at home and had Alzheimer’s disease, his wife, longtime Washington Post writer and contributor Sally Quinn, said last month in a C-Span interview.