Benjamin C. Bradlee

Highest Rated: 23% Born Yesterday (1993)

Lowest Rated: 23% Born Yesterday (1993)

Birthday: Aug 26, 1921

Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee was a key figure in the historic unmaking of Richard M. Nixon's presidency by publishing a series of investigations by reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward that linked a break-in at the Democratic Party campaign headquarters to members of Nixon's cabinet and eventually to the Commander-in-Chief himself. But that was merely the highest-profile period of one of America's most impressive journalistic careers, ranging from international reports from the field at the height of the Cold War to detailing the inner workings of Washington D.C. during one of the country's most politically tumultuous eras before retiring at the dawn of the 1990s.