Ben Bradlee... the iconic Washington Post editor who supervised the paper′s famous coverage of the Watergate scandal... has died at the age of 93.
Together with reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein... Bradlee had raised the bar for American investigative journalism... that ultimately led to the country′s only presidential resignation... by President Richard Nixon.
Woodward and Bernstein remembered him as a "genius leader" who transformed the business... with "one unbending principle [that] was the quest for the truth."
The Post said the newsman... who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom last year... passed away Tuesday night of natural causes... at his home in Washington.

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