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Murrey Marder, a 1950 Nieman Fellow who funds the project and was the chief diplomatic correspondent for the Washington Post, met Sussman through a mutual friend...
...Sussman, who still lives in the Washington D.C. area, was an editor at the Washington Post from 1965 to 1987, first as the suburban editor, and then the city editor, a post he held during the initial Watergate break...
...Sussman went on to write The Great Coverup: Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate and founded the Washington Post poll and the Washington Post/ABC News poll. He also wrote What Americans Really Think, published in 1988, and Maverick, A Life in Politics, published...
...book, The Powers That Be, David Halberstam ’55 praises Sussman for his editorial skills and journalistic judgement...
...From the start, the Post was unusually lucky. It had the perfect working editor at exactly the right level,” the former Crimson editor writes. “Sussman was not simply encouraging, he brainstormed the story, trying to put the pieces together, fitting them and refitting them until, finally, slowly, there was the beginning of a pattern...