Charles Leffingwell Bartlett (August 14, 1921 – February 17, 2017) was an American journalist who won the 1956 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting "for his original disclosures that led to the resignation of Harold E. Talbott as Secretary of the Air Force.
Bartlett had a 65-year career in journalism and was a confidant to presidents John F. Kennedy and George Herbert Walker Bush.
[5] Later he was a syndicated columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, and publisher of a political newsletter for private clients.
[3] Bartlett has been credited with arranging the blind date that initiated the courtship of Jacqueline Bouvier and future President John F. Kennedy.
The Bartlett and Kennedy families, both Catholic and immensely prosperous, had been social acquaintances over many years.