he had his faults and if my mother katharine graham were still here, believe me she could go on a very about how great ben bradlee was and it was a very long book. at the same time, what a lucky guy ben was himself. his marriage to sally filled up the gossip columns of the rival papers but several decades later we can say saluki where the wife of his dreams. all you had to do to make ben smile was to mention your name always. he died surrounded by children he loved and loved him. ben junior whom he admired so much as editor and author, marina whom i have known since she was a teenager at whom every visit to ben made him so happy and every visit and afterwards. and whose daily companionship lift up his last 33 years. in the kay graham bradlee correspondence in which frankly i am an expert my mother occasionally perhaps teasingly uses the phrase male chauvinist pig to describe her fellow correspondent. surprise. in one crucial respect he wasn't. take my word for it, in 1963 when kay graham became publisher of the post-and ben was the borough chief in two years later the editor of the pos

he had his faults, and if my mother katharine graham were still here, believe me, she could go on a veryut those. [laughter] but she literally wrote the book about how great ben bradlee was. and it was a very long book. time, what a lucky guy ben was himself. his marriage to sally field up the gossip columns of the rival papers, but -- filled up the gossip columns of the rival papers, but several decades later, we can say, sal, you were the wife of his dreams. all you had to do to make him smile was mention your name, always. he died surrounded by children he loved, and who loved him. then junior, who he loved so editor and author. marino, who i've known since she was a teenager and whose every visit to ben made him so happy then and afterwards, and dino who is stuck in another country, who i admire so much, and quine, whose daily companion ship lit up his last 33 years. my mother occasionally, perhaps teasingly uses the phrase "male ig" to describe her fellow correspondent. surprise, in one crucial respect he wasn't. take my word for it. in 1963 when kay graham became publisher of the p

[laughter] let me tell the story, ben has mentioned katharine graham. during that. -- duringelection that period after the election, our sources dried up. at that moment, then can verify this.-ben can verify most people -- >> there was a group that didn't. >> particularly on the national stage. the a-team. you strive to get on the national staff. we later learned that one of wassecret nixon strategies to challenge the fcc tv licenses .hat the post company owned our journalistic reputation was on the rim of the toilet. [laughter] >> katharine graham asked me for lunch. 1973.s january our member going up to lunch to howard -- with howard simons. sat down and she started asking me questions about watergate. it blew my mind how much she knew about the details. well,ew henry kissinger at one point she even said, i read something about watergate in the chicago tribune. i member thinking, what is she reading the chicago tribune for? no one in chicago does. [laughter] >> is even more the case now -- it is even more the case now. she was scooping up all the info

he came to the world's attention in 1971, when he and publisher katharine graham published a classified study of the vietnam war known as the pentagon papers. he spoke to me about that time and his rivalry with "the new york times." >> "the new york times" had gotten it, it was their story, and they had published it for three days. we were just sucking air. we did not have it. we had to do that most iritating of all newspaper acts, you have to quote the other paper. blah blah blah blah blah, "the new york times" said today. >> later, he backed the reporters that broke the story that led to president nixon's resignation. >> that accentuated what the pentagon papers had done for you. you were a force to be reckoned with and you would beat everybody. >> it put us on the map. nixon did. and then it put us on the stage, where journalists are not supposed to be and they are not very comfortable and particularly good at. rattled us all for a while. >> i talked to bob woodward and carl bernstein and they reflected on their time working with them. >> he had this glass office and you could see wh

another rare connection with katharine graham launched his career at the post. herpoke with me about decision to hire him. >> i had an accidental lunch with ben because he had turned wo jobs in new york. i took him to lunch, and can you believe it, i took them to a club. he was the first man that i had said, do you want to have lunch with me? i was so self-conscious about paying the bill. it was so ridiculous. anyway, he was then head of the "newsweek" bureau. he looked at me and he said, now that you asked me, i would give my left one to be the manager of the washington -- "the washington post." i said, maybe someday. >> bradley retired in 1991. donald graham said that thank god the person making the decisions in the last 26 years showed us how to do it with a verb and with got and with just with gutsereve and and with zest,. . >> i want to know the stuff that is not in the paper. what they struggled over and why they left about. -- it out. because i love those stories. >> why is this in the paper and why is is not in the paper? >> i love when there are people

he caught the world's attention in 1971 when he and katharine graham published a study of the vietnamwar known as the pentagon papers. he spoke to me about that time and his rival with the "new york times." >> the "new york times" had gotten it, it was their story and they published it for three days and we were just sucking air. we didn't have it and we had to do the most denigrating of all newspaper acts, you had to quote the other paper. blacks blah, blah-- blah, blah,w york times" -- terrible! >> charlie: a year later, ben bradley and two young reporters broke the story that led to richard nixon's resignation. watergate, it accentuated what the pentagon papers had done with. with you were a force to be reckoned with and you beat everybody, every television program and paper in america. >> yeah, it put us on the map, nixon did, and then it put us on the stage where we were -- where journalists are not supposed to be and they're not comfortable and they're not particularly good at it and that rattled us for a while. >> charlie: i spoke with bob woodward and carl bernstein earlier th

i wouldn't have been without katharine graham, that's for sure. but with kennedy, i don't know. that gave me a profile, it sure did, but there was a little rub to it. there were people saying that i went bail for kennedy and i didn't tell the truth -- all i knew about kennedy, which is not true, but that was the minor, minor, minor downside of the relationship. c-span: would you advise a young reporter today to be as close to a... >> guest: well... c-span: ... source as you were? >> guest: ... i don't know. you can't assign a guy to cover a politician and sort of understood that that person will get close. you've got to get close to know you've got to get close to the politician and to the people around him or else you won't know him. you won't be able to report accurately. i don't see how you can say a "get close but don't get too close." as soon as he really gives you something good, bail out. there's a great deal of self-regulatory mechanisms in that relationship. if you think for a minute that my colleagues weren't reading every word in newsweek about kennedy and if they had

i think that's one of the things with publisher katharine graham. they were very good friends. always had his back. there's a story peter osnos tells about how kissinger was unhappy with some of his reporting. calls katharine graham and passes this note to ben bradlee and ben bradlee says put this in your baby book because this is like a badge of honor here. and stood by him. you hopior journalistic, your institution and newsrooms will support you against these huge titans. >> a lot of people argue that's not the case a lot of places anymore. we're all kind of in bed together. some will even accuse -- because you want access all the time but that's old school stuff, man. and -- wow. change the game. a lot of people can't say they absolutely changed the game. so we'll have more an that on abc throughout the day. >>> we need to turn to the man, speaking of the white house. the man accused of just bursting into the front door, jumped the fence? he's been declared unfit to stand trial. at least for now. initials sayment of omar gonzalez came after a one-our screening. a judge order

in that formed a confidence ourselves, i think, and especially in katharine graham who was the owner of the post. was actually the owner, but he was a manic state wherend in a he was not often around. is how we got it. thoughn, you know, even we were second on the story, we did very well. we started breaking stories. >> and the significance was that you were publishing with the government saying do not dare publish in actually going to the supreme court and saying, we, the government, have a claim to should not be public -- >> top-secret, blah, blah, blah. national security is involved. as if some of us did not know a little about national security, having spent four years in the war. i had a lot of top-secret clearances at the time. >> and the supreme court ruled in favor of the press. what they did is said in stone, final ruling, that there is no prepublication censorship, no ability the government has -- they do not have the power to come in and stop -- >> they cannot tell you to not write something before you do it. they can put you in the slammer afterwards. [laughter] bob, i wo

just as katharine graham was interested in expanding the post and spending some money on the news product, the conversation about the post -- it now sounds like the post was a nothing, no good, rotten little paper when i went there, which is not true. >> it wasn't the best paper in town. >> but it was a good paper. it had a wonderful editorial page. ♪ >> dharamsala -- marine sally -- barham salih is here. prime appointed deputy minister of the interim iraqi government. he served as deputy to nouri al-maliki's cabinet after the 2005 elections. in 2007, he founded the american university of iraq. his mission is to offer iraqi citizens american-style education. i am pleased to have him here at this table for the first time. welcome. i appreciate you coming here. you have been recommended by my friends as someone who has a real understanding of where we are with respect to isis and what is happening within iraq and its implications beyond iraq , syria and throughout the middle east. -- help usn with understand how isis became what it is. >> it is really difficult to answer that question. seel

editor p wink providing over6, the newsroom at the "washington post," and along with publisher katharine grahame post a journalistic force to be reckoned with. >> and bradley passed away yesterday. why was he so special? fearless, the pentagon papers, watergate of course, and he weathered ups and downs when it came to journalistic issues the as accuracy with organic cook's study that -- cook story that turned out to be fake at whack and he had to give the pulitzer prize back -- >> exactly. i read that he would have had 19. >> unbelievable. you are an editor now. what kind of inspiration do you draw from the ben bradlee story? >> fearlessness. to publish when we have people coming down on us saying don't publish and people pushing back our resourcesow to beat you and correct, we go with a, we don't stop. >> thank you, pui-wing. remember, you can get the latest headlines on your phone, tablet, bloomberg.com, and bloomberg radio. we will see you tomorrow. ♪ >> from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i am mark crumpton. the is "bottom line," intersection of business and economics with the ma

he said what made him successful as an editor was having a great owner, publisher, and those katharine grahamand then don graham, who did. ben and left him in every way. in every way.im such magnetism you could not help but feel inspired by it. he really loved the people who worked for him. his gravelly voice really had a huge affection for all of the people that worked for him. became a manager at 20. he went out on the pacific in the middle of world war ii, having just graduated early from college. he was a junior lieutenant, deck officer, on a destroyer in the pacific for three years. he had this very easy management style. he gave people a lot of freedom. he got the big things done. he was that way throughout his career at "the post." what made it hard to be a lawyer for him, he did not believe in public relations people. he never had one. he did not truly believe in marketing people, either. if a story would break, ben would immediately answer calls from the press. in one case, one president complained, former president, before i could even get downstairs to talk to ben, he said to an ap

just as katharine graham was interested in expanding the post and spending some money on the news product and the conversation about the posting about such a, i mean the post was a nothing, no good, rotten little paper when i came there which is not true. >> rose: it wasn't the best paper in town though? >> okay, but it was a good paper, and some of it was, it had a wonderful editorial page and a wonderful editor. >> rose: we continue this evening with barham salih, a prominent kurdish leader in iraq and we take a look at the situation on the ground in the conflict with isis. >> kobane has formed an attitude in the following sense. there was a period of time when we all thought that kobane is on its own. left to die. the message was that kobane is of no strategic value, is going to be taken over sooner or later by isis. these brave men and women in kobane took on isis, defended their territory, and really changed an attitude. >> rose: we continue this evening with martin amis, a british novelist. his new book is called the zone of interest. >> you don't normally see more than about five p

>> reporter: the late publisher katharine graham didn't flinch.espite white house threats to ruin her and the paper. she also backed bradlee in publishing the pentagon papers. a secret history of the vietnam war. a landmark case they won against the nixon white house in the supreme court. bradlee, a world war ii veteran and his wife sally quinn, "the washington post" reporter, defined the washington power couple for decades. just last year, president obama awarded bradley the medal of freedom. >> he was on balance the great newspaper editor of the postwar period. he had daring. he was willing to be dangerous. >> president obama issued a statement that for benjamin bradlee, journalism was more than a profession. it was a public good vital to our democracy. statement continues by saying he transformed "the washington post" and told stories that needed to be told. stories that helped us understand our world and one another a little bit better. i lost my sight in afghanistan, but it doesn't hold me back. i go through periods where it's hard to sleep a

just three years later, executive editor, in what became a famous collaboration with publisher katharine grahamgether, they defied president richard nixon, and joined "the new york times" in publishing the pentagon papers in 1971. >> you couldn't get much more hostile than the nixon administration was. there haven't been administrations that liked reporters since kennedy. >> woodruff: the trove of classified documents exposed the tortured history of america's involvement in vietnam at a time when public opposition to the war was rising. then, in july 1972, the post began its pursuit of the burglary of democratic party headquarters at the watergate complex in washington. bradlee assigned two young reporters, bob woodward and carl bernstein, to the story, and, almost alone at first, they followed a money trail that led first to the president's re- election committee, and ultimately, to the white house. woodward reflected on that time recently, at his home in washington, and recalled bradlee's firm guidance. >> he was good not just because of what he published and allowed to go in the paper, but w

today, 104 years later we misspelled katharine graham's name, first name. times in one career is enough. we will let you finish a. >> after he stepped down as editor, he was there almost as long as he had been executive editor over 20 years. it was his magnetism in his ability to go right to the harder things that kept people wanting to keep in touch with him and learn from him. we really loved the guy. >> we loved the guy and i will leave you with one of his classic state and city at clock says zero and occasionally when we would be dealing with the press, he had a wonderful phrase. the wisdom of the ages cries out for silence. we are now silent. thank you all. [applause] >> tv back both very much. >> how's everybody doing this morning? all dressed up? let's see who we have to appear. >> i am up next. in this country large population of people living with serious mental health issues do not receive proper treatment. debbie stabenow, democrat from michigan take six short very seriously. her goal is to see mental health evidence much attention and resources

a fourth member of the team was katharine graham, owner and publisher of "the washington post."stood fast beside ben, her friend and editor, when nixon's allies were threatening to take down the newspaper. >> hold it. we're about to accuse holderman who only happens to be the second most important man of this country, of conducting an criminal conspiracy from inside the white house. it would be nice if we were write. >> bradlee and his third wife, shorthand for power couple. known for his charm, his star power and his profanity. >> jess swhaushus, what kind a [ bleep ] story is this? >> the epitome of newsman charisma. even when he walked across the newsroom, he had this effect that just made you want to do better. >> bradlee stumbled after watergate, publishing a prize-winning series on an 8-year-old heroin addict. but it was a hoax. he recovered and remained a man with pedigree and that salty vocabulary. a dashing journalist right off the front page. >> it's my kind of hard, i like that. if you're right, it isn't hard. >> fearless and yet sentimental. >> wow, and joining us no