Ben Bradlee with Carl Bernstein (left) and Bob Woodward, the reporters who exposed the Watergate Scandal, in 2005. (Getty)
Twitter exploded Tuesday evening with tributes to Ben Bradlee, the legendary Washington Post editor who died Tuesday at the age of 93.
Bradlee, who oversaw Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s reporting on the Watergate Scandal that toppled President Richard Nixon, was remembered as a visionary who transformed the Post from a small local paper to a national journalistic powerhouse that won a whopping 17 Pulitzer Prizes during Bradlee’s tenure.
Here’s a sampling of the reaction:
awesome picture of Ben Bradlee, the day he retired from @washingtonpost in 1991. http://t.co/btjGE2r07R
Hero to all editors. “@politico: “No one compares. He was the editor of the 20th century,” Woodward on Ben Bradlee. http://t.co/EKleozqJVq”
“The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run” (Ben Bradlee) http://t.co/pmbghlHVwq
in memoir, Bradlee said only time he yelled “Stop the Presses!” was 3 am as my Dad called from Ambassador Hotel after seeing RFK get shot.
@JohnJHarwood 25 or so yrs ago Ben Bradlee walks past on Wash DC street..1 of us says “That’s Ben Bradlee”..Bradlee says “That’s right kid!”
Ben Bradlee will live forever, immortalized for the courage he showed at one of America’s darkest hours. RIP.
Saw All The Presidents Men as a boy, and strengthened my desire to be a newspaperman. RIP Ben Bradlee
The list of greatest journalists ever has to include Ben Bradlee. Maybe it starts with him. RIP. http://t.co/gu5gZPyNCQ
How many outside of journalism know the names of major American newspaper editors anymore? Every American knew Ben Bradlee ran the Post.
#BenBradlee‘s carefree, Mayflower dude shtick hid a serious devotion to country and press and their interdependence. Not a snob or hater.
It’ll be said often but Ben Bradlee enabled reporters to take down a sitting POTUS, not many editors wld have had fortitude 2 c that through
