how was initially envisioned as a book to be written with bradlee and became a book by jeff about bradlee. he notes that early on he began to sense the trickiest of writing as he puts it about your mentor's mentor. there's quite a bit of jeff himself in this book which is aptly subtitled "yours in truth: a personal portrait of ben bradlee". the book becomes as much about jeff's own journey of discovery and encounters with woodward as it is an account of bradlee's life. jeff plans to speak for 20 minutes or so and take questions. if you would like to ask a question please step up to the microphone in the center of the room and afterwards jeff will remain to sign copies of his book. if you haven't already, silence your cellphone and join me in welcoming jeff himmelman. [applause] >> thank you for coming. it is a real honor to be here. i loved the introduction. i had a couple disclaimers but i just had a conversation with the folks at c-span. i was forbidden from using blue white wood. it is very difficult to read from my book or talk about ben bradlee without using curse words. i hope to gi

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

you can't hold me accountable for it. >> there's this back and forth where bradlee had concerns aboutght. >> and then you fast forward and then bradlee says later that he believes 100% everything about the hollywood version of this story, and then after that, he recants again when he's talking to you. >> recently, there's -- >> it's a bit of a back and forth. >> there are two things that happened. ben is a loyal person and ben is very, very supportive of the reporters. i talk about this throughout the book and talk about how some ways i experienced it when he told me to follow my nose. >> he told you not to protect him. >> not to protect him directly on numerous occasions. but he really backed his reporters but he also was never going to choke off skepticism. he backed bob woodward but was never going to tell me not to dig. those are true of him at the same time and that's what you're seeing more than anything. >> what was his biggest regret, not biggest regret as editor of the newspaper? >> so watergate is the great moment in ben's career, the janet cook scandal was the moment. and s

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

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