He wrote back, saying I wasn’t such a bad guy after all, and we started a great correspondence. We had taken his division to Bougainville and then to Saipan. This is what I did during the war, so don’t give me any shit.” It turned out that he had been in the Marine Corps during the war. A guy once wrote a letter to me that started off, “Dear Communist.” He impugned my patriotism and certainly impugned my war. Naval History: When I told some people what I was doing, they wondered why in the world I was interviewing Ben Bradlee for Naval History. Schultz about his experiences in destroyers during World War II and the quality of military journalism. The following is an interview Bradlee conducted with Naval History magazine in the December 1995 issue originally titled, “That’s What Editors Do.”īetween television and radio appearances touting his best-selling book, A Good Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), the retired Executive Editor and Vice President at Large of The Washington Post talked recently to Naval History Editor Fred L. Bradlee also served as a naval officer in the Pacific during World War II and detailed his experience in his 1995 memoir, A Good Life. Bradley was best known for leading the Post during the paper’s investigation into the break in at the Watergate Hotel by members of the Nixon administration and the subsequent political fallout. Ben Bradlee, the former executive editor of The Washington Post, died on Tuesday.
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