Charles L. Bartlett was awarded the 1956 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for his original disclosures that lead to the resignation of Harold E. Talbott as Secretary of the Air Force. He started the Washington D.C. bureau for the liberal-leaning Chattanooga Times.^[1]Bartlett has been credited with arranging the blind date that initiated the courtship of Jacqueline Bouvier to then Massachusetts Representative John F. Kennedy.^[2] A longtime Washington insider, Bartlett was graduated by Yale University with the Class of 1943.

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