She began by hiring Benjamin Bradlee.

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Mister Bradlee improved the newspaper.

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It wasn't long before Ben Bradlee, the newly appointed executive editor of The Washington Post, came calling.

WSJ: Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81

Remember all those lines from Ben Bradlee, editor of the Post, to cub reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein?

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"He reached out, held out his hand, and I grabbed it, and that was it, " Johnson recalled in Jeff Himmelman's 2012 biography of Bradlee.

WSJ: Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81