Wednesday, March 9, 2011

David S. Broder dies at 81; Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist

David S. Broder, one of the nation's leading political reporters and a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1973 for distinguished commentary about the Watergate scandal, has died. He was 81.

Broder, a longtime columnist at the Washington Post, died Wednesday at Capital Hospice in Arlington, Va., from complications of diabetes.

In a statement, President Obama described Broder as "the most respected and incisive political commentator of his generation."

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