A science writer at Ben Bradlee's side

Ben Bradlee receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama. Image via Shutterstock

Amid the remembrances of legendary editor Ben Bradlee, Carol Felsenthal writes about Howard Simons, who was the Washington Post's second-in-command during the Watergate era: "If Bradlee was the great man of Watergate, Simons, who died in 1989 at age 60, was the forgotten man, without whom Bradlee might never have been seen as so great," Felsenthal writes. "He had started at the Post in 1961 as a science writer, one of the subjects that particularly bored Bradlee."