this book is about ben and what bradlee was saying about it being a 500 page book about who this person is is true and my goal tonight is to convey some of who ben is and hope that you find him as captivating as i did and enjoy reading about him. as a quick word i started working with ben. an ended up writing a book with his son but before that happened i was working with ben and he gave me access to his archives. it wasn't the whole thing at first. it was a big set of boxes with a bunch of letters. he was sitting in his office but i was petrified. the way i got to know him was through his letters. i thought i would read a few of the ones i love that first and quote you get a sense of how i came to know him. the first letter is one of my favorites from 1977. a man had written to the publisher of the post and owner of the post and he mentioned at her father and former husband must be turning over in their graves because of the way you are dragging what used to be a wonderful newspaper. in my opinion the persons responsible for the washington post's decline of ben bradlee, i hope you fire

your ben bradlee. and ben have been part of the pushing institution, which while some of now, but that assumes the second month we have a newspaper in the journal. so then couldn't assign, but he given free reign to fit everybody at the paper can cooperate with the story. there's not going to be one sordid fact about this falsehood, do you suppose that we're not going to get first. and when people ask me about that at the time and when i ask them about it, what he said as he learned the lesson on the lesson of the watergate is not always the crying. it's what she do after. and what ended after by opening up the whole paper with the whole participation and with the envoy was able to do was remarkably talented man was he wrote a piece for the sunday paper after they found out that it is one of the most stunning pieces of 40 journalists and you will come across that relied on heavily because the top to everybody right after it happened. at that moment when ben said we're not going to cover this up, we are

[speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] "yours in truth: a personal portrait of ben bradleespeaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] .. we heard bits and pieces of his experience in prison and his choices when he got out of prison when he decided to devote himself to nonviolence and devote himself to dialogue and reconciliation. when we hear these stories we say to him sami, you should write a book and sami would turn to us and dismiss it and say what are you talking about? there is nothing interesting about my life story. it is very ordinary. he would say it was very ordinary. i will get back to that statement in a few moments about his life story and saving his life story was ordinary. we sorts of encouraged him and he didn't seem interested and wasn't until a few years later in 2006 that sami and i both met disappointing ending with the or

almost four years later himleman finished his biography "yours in truth," a personal portrait of ben bradleepired him to take on this project? >> ben is such a unique figure in journalism and then when i pitched him on said, you can have complete access, that was a unique opportunity to do a biography with a bern that was still alive but someone who gave you complete access. i could bring things in to him in his office and say do you remember this memo or that and respond that guy was a jerk or this guy was great and i could interrogate the record while i was uncovering the record myself. >> his life in washington goes back before "the washington post," including a very close relationship with john f. kennedy. how did they become friends and what did that mean to him down the road? >> i talked to that some in the book. ben bought a house on n street in georgetown before jfk did. they were neighbors. out one day walking with their new babies, they ran into each other on the street. ended up in the back garden of kennedy's house having a drink. that night they had dinner at the same formal din

i'm not familiar with the ben bradlee quote you're citing. let's be clear about watergate and richard nixon. richard nixon did join the watergate coverup conspiracy. and there was no doubt an attempt to cover up the origins of the watergate break in as well as previous crimes. that said, nixon was a good president in my view. and as well even nixon was supposed to go through due process. at the time i read every single cbs news transcript from 1972 to 1975. and although nixon's resignation has led over the years to a mythology that everything that "the washington post" or cbs news said about him was correct, if you read the transcripts you will see a few untruth. for example the cbs news correspondent daniel shore reporting that former attorney mitchell, said that he approved watergate hush money. he never admitted that in any forum and he wasn't guilty of having done that. but that's just one thing that went out over the cbs air waves that was also untrue like some of "the washington post" stories. it's a complicated business. but we owe it

. >> it was not only them, but ben bradlee was there and faly quinn and so many of the people, john deanime in our nation's life leading to the resignation of a president. and to hear some of those people look back -- because we have learned a lot in the last 40 years, from tapes and memoirs. to have these people talking about this very historic time was interesting. and especially the two reporters who were lionized in a movie called "all the president's men." to have them there, and they are still working hard. bob is writing a book now. carl i think is working on his memoirs. these are two reporters who made lots of people want to become young reporters. >> nice job. nice job. with all the major players. charlie, we'll see you a little bit later on. >> look forward to it. >>> after less than three years in business, the online clothing rental site rent the runway has 2.5 million members, offers 150 top designer brands, and accessories too. >> co-founder jennifer fleiss, you can call her jenny, who is a yale and harvard graduate, thank you very much, says her company solves a problem o