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Pic of the Day: “Once when I was reporting, Lyndon Johnson’s top guy gave me the word they were looking for a successor to J. Edgar Hoover. I wrote it and the day it appeared Johnson called a press conference and appointed Hoover head of the FBI for life. And when he was done, he turned to his top guy and the President said, ‘Call Ben Bradlee and tell him ‘fuck you.” I took a lot of static for that. Everyone said, ‘You did it, Bradlee, you screwed up, you stuck us with Hoover forever.’ I screwed up but I wasn’t wrong.”

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