This page is about the Washington Post editor. See Howard L. Simons for the economist.

Howard Simons (3 June 1929 - 13 June 1989) was the managing editor of the Washington Post at the time of the Watergate scandal, and later curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... ... The Watergate Complex as depicted in Government Exhibit 1. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ...

According to his Washington Post obituary, Simons was a native of Albany, New York, and received a BA from Union College in Schenectady in 1951 and a master's degree a year later from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. After service in the Korean War, he became a science reporter in Washington for several news organizations, and joined The Post as a science writer in 1961. He became assistant managing editor in 1966 and managing editor in 1971. Albany is the capital of the state of New York in the United States of America. ... BA or Ba may stand for: ba an archaic two-letter English word meaning to kiss. in Egyptian mythology: One part of the Egyptian soul (which was imagined as a bird body with a human head). ... This article is about the college in New York; there are also Union Colleges in Barbourville, Kentucky and Lincoln, Nebraska and a Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. ... Schenectady is a city located in Schenectady County, New York, of which it is the county seat. ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is one of the most prestigious schools of journalism in the United States. ...

According to a site on the Howard Simons Fellowship, "Simons received the first phone call in The Post newsroom with word of the Watergate break-in and pressed relentlessly on the paper's coverage of the story. He started at The Post as a science reporter but soon became an editor, nurturing talented young reporters such as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein." Simons is credited with dubbing their well-placed source "Deep Throat," in reference to the film of the same name. Robert Upshur Bob Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is one of the best-known journalists in the United States, thanks largely to his work in helping uncover the Watergate scandal of President Richard Nixon while working as a reporter for The Washington Post. ... Carl Bernstein (born February 14, 1944) is an American journalist who, as a Washington Post investigative reporter along with Bob Woodward, broke the story of the Watergate break-in and consequently helped bring about the resignation of US president Richard Nixon. ... Deep Throat was the name given to Bob Woodwards secret informant who leaked information about United States President Richard Nixons involvement in Watergate. ... Deep Throat   poster Deep Throat is a US pornographic movie released in January 1972, written and directed by Gerard Damiano and starring the erotic actress Linda Lovelace. ...

When the time came, it was managing editor Howard Simons--not Ben Bradlee or other ranking editors--who made the crucial early decisions that led to the Washington Post's extraordinary coverage of the Watergate scandal, especially the decision to allow the metropolitan staff, which did not normally report on national politics, to pursue the story.

The Great Cover-Up by Barry Sussman, page 66.

After The Washington Post

Simons left The Post for a position as Curator at The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard university in 1984. Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Simons authored Jewish Times: Voices of the American Jewish Experience, (Houghton-Mifflin, 1988), and Simons' List Book (1977). He edited two books with Joseph A. Califano Jr., The Media and the Law and The Media and Business, and in 1986 wrote a spy novel with Haynes Johnson called The Landing.

A well-known quotation attributed to Simons:

"People who are funny and smart and return phone calls get much better press than people who are just funny and smart."

He stepped down from the Nieman position on 25 May 1989 on medical leave, and succumbed to pancreatic cancer three weeks later. A scholarship named after him assists minority students aspiring in journalism [1] (http://www.journalism.umd.edu/financial/simons.html) May 25 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (146th in leap years). ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

References

• Epstein, Noel. Howard Simons, Ex-Managing Editor of Post and Nieman Curator, Dies. Washington Post (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?r101:1:./temp/~r101QIPG7x:e15468:), June 14, 1989.

• Jones, Alex S. Howard Simons Dies at Age 60, an Ex-Editor at Washington Post. New York Times, June 14, 1989.