Barry Sussman, the editor closest to The Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as they covered the Watergate break-in and pursued the subsequent scandal that led to President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation, died on Wednesday at his home in Rockville, Md. He was 87. …
He became the in-house pollster at The Post in 1974, and in 1981 he was a founder of The Washington Post-ABC News Poll. …
In 1988, his second book, “What Americans Really Think and Why Our Politicians Pay No Attention,” examined the role of public opinion polls in the American political process. CONTINUED
Richard Sandomir, New York Times
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