Bradlee Details His ‘Good Life’

Benjamin Bradlee, the former Washington Post executive editor, whose fame as a Kennedy intimate and Georgetown raconteur long ago transcended that of a mere journalist, serves up no startling revelations on such matters as Watergate. But Bradlee does offer a few tantalizing passages, some involving more than a half-dozen of his extramarital flings.

Among other things, Bradlee, 74, says in “A Good Life” that:

He felt “betrayed” by his friend John Kennedy after learning that the late president had had an affair with Mary Pinchot Meyer, then Bradlee’s sister-in-law.

ABC News President Roone Arledge once offered him the job of anchoring a new show called “20/20.”

Ernest K. Lindley, Newsweek’s Washington bureau chief in the late 1950s, regularly received envelopes from the CIA containing items for the magazine’s “Periscope” column. Lindley passed the envelopes on to Newsweek’s New York headquarters.