Sussman is ded, but not that Sussman. But maybe he is by now, you never really know…
Barry Sussman, a key editor who helped oversee the reporting of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as they covered the Watergate break-in, has died. He was 87.
“Sussman had the ability to see facts and lock them in his memory where they remained poised for instant recall,” Woodward and Bernstein wrote as co-authors of “All the President’s Men” (1974), their account of the Watergate episode. “More than any other editor at The Post, or Bernstein and Woodward, Sussman became a walking compendium of Watergate knowledge, a reference source to be summoned when even the library failed.”
https://nypost.com/2022/06/04/barry-sussman-washington-post-watergate-editor-dead-at-87/