All that has changed now, with the publication of Katharine Grahams own Personal History (Knopf; $30). He contracted polio at less than one year of age and, due to the lack of metal immediately after the second world war, was placed by doctors in a plaster of Paris cast for two and a half years. I would be lucky to cover high-school softball in Prince William County. But that statistic has to be balanced by the conservatism of nearly all publishers. Phil called me once or twice, and carried on in his usual irreverent, breezy way. At that point, Phil got together with {columnist} Joe Alsop to discuss the merits of Lyndon Johnson as Kennedy's running mate. On Nov. 2, I flew up to Idlewild Airport with Phil to see him off to Europe, where he was going to talk to Larry Norstad. Ad Choices. I had no understanding of the terrible depression he had gone through or the polar-opposite mood that was dominating him at the time. I went because it was my Destiny. Inside the TV Star's Beverly Hills Home. After a hurricane struck in 1926, the sugar company gave up and his father developed a dairy business on some of the land. See Photos. Why are Vladimir Putins opponents dying? Olympic Sports, Savage Love Mrs. Graham, for her part, wrote back to him, I was full of admiration anyway for what you did and the way you did it. In the end, Davis sued her publisher for libel and breach of contract in 1982 and received a hundred-thousand-dollar settlement. I never should have gone, she said. So, although he remained fairly liberal on domestic issues, he was not so on foreign policy. His mother, the former Florence Morris, had been a schoolteacher in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It was all kept very private; our one idea was to conceal what had happened not only from the world but from our friends, my family, and even our children. I panicked. In 1940, he married Katharine, daughter of millionaire Post owner Eugene Meyer, who made Graham publisher in 1946. In 1967, Katharine wrote a letter to Johnson (not quoted in the book) expressing enormous empathy: These times are so difficult that my heart bleeds for you. Perhaps if the turmoil had ended there he might have been able to rest and get his strength back. with that of the increasingly powerful conservative media (the Journal editorial page, the Weekly Standard, The American Spectator, etc. He said he felt trapped, no longer able to go on; that everything was black. In his first, brief tenure at The Post, Ben Bradlee was deeply distressed by the side of Phil that used the paper to achieve his political purposes, however worthy. "Very complicated business, a newspaper," Phil noted in a letter to my father late in 1947. It's hard to describe my devastation after my discovery of the affair. To keep a story out of the paper to achieve a purpose, even a fine one, is neither appropriate nor in the spirit of my father's definition of the duty of a newspaper: "To try to tell the truth. CAPTION: A June wedding: Phil and Katharine Graham married in 1940. Otis Chandler and his wife, Missy, met Phil and Robin at the airport. Without Graham working as a go-between at the 1960 Democratic Convention, Kennedy might never have picked Johnson as his running mate. Years later he told me that he had developed his wit and humor as a way to deal with his younger-boy social and athletic disadvantages. Not only had I lost my husband but I was about to lose The Post. I think he felt he'd done such harm the last time around that he just couldn't deal with it, couldn't fix everything. In my boyhood as a reporter, I nearly killed the matriarch of the liberal-media conspiracy. There is plenty of material in Personal History to satisfy the most obvious expectationsall the familiar episodes of the Posts history are replayed, and famous faces bob into sight as if in a capital version of Grand Hotelbut more interesting is the degree to which this memoir is a description of the muggy intimacy of the world of Washington and the way one powerful woman learned to live her life there. We don't have one. Then Mrs. Graham started past it. To the surprise of some, she easily warded off the blandishments of Samuel I. Newhouse (once with a somewhat duplicitous Theodore Sorensen as her agent) and the Times-Mirror Company. Graham found herself agreeing: Saarinen would not get an offer. He ended up on his hands and knees, crawling around at the last minute to retrieve one of Lyndon's contact lenses. Mrs. Graham spotted a map of the Aegean and Black Seas and began to talk about a cruise she had taken in the summer of 1963, not long after her husband died. Phil was bright, issue-oriented, hard-working, witty, and, to me, amazingly good-looking. . It wasn't until years later that I looked at the downside of all this and realized that, perversely, I had seemed to enjoy the role of doormat wife. I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children. Instead, it appeared on Page B7. He would help me proofread. . Attention would have to be paid. By mid-1948, The Post was still a rocky, if lively, paper. Theater Although at the time I didnt realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that might displease those around me. But that is the way Phil Graham wanted it. Im not sure she was ever really able to. Then I lied. He wept and wept and couldn't stop. She is a Valkyrian type with something elsea mixture of Valkyrie and Juno., Agness ambitions were fuelled by resentment of her station as a wife and mother. Contact Us My father had indeed given Phil the major part of the stock, and Phil had run the company well, but it was the millions invested in the paper by my father that enabled it to survive the years of losses. Soccer Even considering the style of rich American families in the early part of the century, her parents, Eugene and Agnes Meyer, seem to have exceeded the norm for emotional reticence. He kept questioning whether this was the reason for his success and his prominence. Katharine soon learned of their affair, when she picked up the phone and heard Phil and Robin talking to each other in words that made the situation plain.. Privacy Policy At one point, President Kennedy dispatched a Presidential plane to get him from Phoenix to Washington. At the end of the day, everyone except Phil Graham and me had engagements, so he asked if I wanted to have dinner. For years, whatever directive I may have issued ended with the phrase if its all right with you. If I thought Id done anything to make someone unhappy, Id agonize. I hadnt realized that the Post wasnt perfectly okay.). This is a surprising piece of work on every level. Some companies thought the Post such a potentially profitable property, and Graham such an unlikely figure to run it, that they came to her with offers to buy it. Mrs. Grahamone always referred to her as Mrs. Graham, even in private and at great distancesdid not travel in the style of the British Raj, but she was not arriving on a Eurailpass, either. Phil was clearly upset, too. Her allegiance to democratic capitalism is no less firm than that of William F. Buckley, Jr., and her inherent faith that the establishment lites will do the right thing is nearly absolute. This is, for me, the most painful thing to look back on. I cannot tell you how pained I am by the circumstances which have caused you, quite unnecessarily, distress and concern, Jovanovich wrote in a cowering letter to Mrs. Graham. When Johnson had announced he was running for President that year, Phil Graham helped write the speech; he even ended up on his hands and knees, crawling around at the last minute to retrieve one of Lyndons contact lenses, which had popped out. This is a posture unbecoming to a publisher of newspapers. In meeting after meeting, in Washington and New York, she was the only woman in the room, and not a self-confident one at that. That. In the late nineteen-fifties, Phil Grahams health and behavior also presented increasingly difficult problemsproblems that might have been solved with medication, if he had not refused it. . The only other inhabitants were Seminole Indians. Everything rotated around him, and I willingly participated in keeping him at the center of things. I found him captivating. So, on June 18, 1946, The Post announced that my father was withdrawing from active direction of the paper. If one compares the approach of the liberal media (the Post, the Times, etc.) She hardly exists in Woodward and Bernsteins books, and she is portrayed in cardboard terms almost everywhere else. I believe that Phil came to the sad conclusion that he would never again lead a normal life. By 1906, Meyer had made several million dollars by investing in securities; by 1915, he was worth between forty and sixty million. See Photos. Philip Leslie "Phil" Graham (July 18, 1915 - August 3, 1963) was an American newspaper publisher. From the start, Katharine was dazzled by her husbands intelligence and wit, his ability to light up a room: He began to liberate me from my family and from the myths they had propagated. But she was resentful as well. The reporters returned to The Post to write the story, expecting, of course, that it would be on the front page. Phil also brought into my life more laughter, gaiety, irreverence for rules, and originality. My father received a confidential letter from his friend Kent Cooper, former general manager of the Associated Press, who was living in retirement in Palm Beach. In 1934, when Phil was 19, his mother died of cancer -- he later confessed that he had cried himself to sleep night after night in college. The only thanks you ever seem to receive is a deafening chorus of carping criticism. In effect [Bill and Steve] lost both parents at once. He came to Washington in 1917 as a dollar-a-year man for the Wilson Administration; and, while he was holding a variety of positions on the War Industries Board, the Farm Loan Board, and the Federal Reserve Board, the Meyers became friendly with Bernard Baruch, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Evans Hughes. Mr. So did Meg Greenfield. To a reporter, and especially a reporter in 1996, there doesnt seem to be a need to make any decision at all. If she has been cool to any Presidents since Watergate, they have been the two Democrats, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, not least because they came to town with the greatest suspicion of old-line WashingtonKatharine Grahams Washington. But then Mrs. Graham was laughing. Probably the greatest debate the paper must face, both in the newsroom and as a story, is the divide between black and white. We had one small cushion, a $500 wedding present from an aunt, which I thought I would use for extras like theater and travel tickets. But that did not mean she was strong in all things. the tiny fringe of arrogant litists who infect the healthy mainstream of American journalism with their own peculiar view of the world. The fact is, though, that two days after making that statement Colson talked to Howard Hunt about the need to supply more financial help to the defendants in the Watergate trial. She did not have to. Im here If you need me and I love you. He does not live in Georgetown. Coronavirus, Carry-out Critic While publisher of the Post, he grew so close to L.B.J. At one meeting with L.B.J. An exception is David Halberstams 1979 book, The Powers That Be, which provides a vivid group portrait of the men and women behind the Post, CBS, Time, and the Los Angeles Times. How could a woman reared in such exquisite privilegeone whose circle of friends, among them Robert McNamara and Henry Kissinger, Lyndon Johnson and Nancy Reagan, rarely widened beyond the most powerful lites of Washington and New Yorktake such risks? Bradlee was incensed, and said so in terms both loud and profane. To win the paper, Phil employed the most feared lawyer in Washington, Edward Bennett Williams. Graham was gambling every sort of inheritance that was important to her: the paper, her fortune, and, perhaps most important, the judgment of the ghosts who crowded around her. Phil asked Joe to bring Felix Frankfurter along. I remember his commenting on how well Phil wrote and how much he'd like to have him work for The Washington Post. Phil called and told her to come back to America as soon as she could. Phil very much wanted to go to Glen Welby for a break from the hospital, and had started to work on the doctors to obtain their permission. When she suggested to the Newsweek editors that it might be a good idea to hire Aline Saarinen, of the Times, to edit the back of the book, they brushed the suggestion off, saying that the closings were too late, that the physical demands of the job would be too much. Phil knew he controlled The Post because my father had given him the majority of A shares. Name variations: Kay Graham; Mrs. Phil Graham; Katharine Meyer. Even before Adolph Ochs bought the paper, in 1896, the Times had earned its record for rigor when it went after Boss Tweed. Women traditionally also have sufferedand many still dofrom an exaggerated desire to please, a syndrome so instilled in women of my generation that it inhibited my behavior for many years, and in ways still does. Oh, you know, he said, during a campaign they put these things in your hands and you just read them. (Dole admitted the same to a Times reporter after the 1996 campaign. Katharine Graham, the general secretary of the Washington Post Company, and a planeload of senior editors would soon arrive in town to conduct it. (One area that, surprisingly, started to shift under my feet was the Posts editorial quality. The babushka melted. Suddenly, an enormous claw lunged out of the box and toward the innocent calf of the chairman of the Washington Post Company. He committed suicide that day. Under Ochs, the Times institutionalized the notion of nonpartisan, objective reporting. . He told me that he wanted to preserve our marriage and our family; he said that he loved Robin but would tell her the affair was over, and that he would stay with his family. Robert McNamara, Henry Kissinger, Lawrence Eagleburger, George Shultz, Paul Nitze, Douglas Dillon, McGeorge Bundy, Jack Valenti, Joe Califano: her list of establishment friends is long and decidedly nonpartisan. {But a fight was unnecessary. Pei was talking, and Katharine said, I didnt know that., Whats surprising about that? Agnes said. In fact, Graham played a significant role in convincing JFK to appoint Johnson to the vice presidency instead of Missouri Senator Stuart Symington. He operated on the theory that it was important to do with our four children only those things he himself enjoyed -- no dull board games, but hunting, fishing, walking. My father had said that he himself was too old to let Phil work his way up. The truth is that I adored him and saw only the positive side of what he was doing for me. Hockey When they were taken to see JFK, Phil spoke -- "shrewdly and eloquently," according to Joe -- pointing out all the obvious things that Johnson could add to the ticket and noting that not having Johnson on the ticket would certainly be trouble. In the process of blowing his stack, as only he could do, Ben felt a tap on his shoulder and turned to find Phil, who said, "Okay, buster, come with me," and led the way to his office. Freelancers Guide In the fall of 1942, Dad and I were on a train coming back from New York, and naturally we were talking about Phil. By the way, Senator, I didnt say I hated Nixon, she told Dole. I bolted out of the room and ran around in a frenzy looking for him. Here was someone who combined for me the two parts of my life that I thought were inescapably separate. By this time, Robin had returned to Paris. In the summer of 1949, there were race riots in Washington over the integration of a city swimming pool. Phil drove me home, and we talked for a long time. So does her imperious carriage. For nearly all Post reporters and editors, even those few who ventured to call her Kay, she was the woman who signed our checks, the Queen Mother, a cartoon figure with a lockjaw voice that sounded, to us, like money. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. But by the summer of 1958, he was starting to do a little more. But hurry, she said. He and his girlfriend flew to Phoenix to attend a meeting of The Associated Press. Around the table in Phil's office sat Secretary of the Interior Julius "Cap" Krug, Undersecretary Oscar Chapman, President Truman's special adviser Clark Clifford, and two or three others. By 1968, reporting and editorials on Vietnam by Ward Just and a few others helped change the atmosphere of reverence on the pages of the Post, and that change had its effect on the thinking of the publisherso strong an effect that when the Times, thanks to Neil Sheehan and his source, Daniel Ellsberg, began printing the Pentagon Papers, on June 13, 1971, Bradlee felt wounded, and, with Grahams encouragement, pushed his staff to find its own copy of the documents. Mixing Politics. John Ehrlichman, Ronald Ziegler, H. R. Haldeman, and Nixon himself all charged the Post with disloyalty. Jovanovich caved, then pulped. Grahams father had had trouble coming up with the funds to send him to Harvard Law, but managed to do so. He needed Joe's help because Joe had a solid relationship with the black leadership in the country, especially Roy Wilkins, then executive secretary of the NAACP. and he began an affair with a young Newsweek staffer, Robin Webb. The Times was immediately in trouble with the White House and the courts. and mass movements aimed at breaking the President. Eventually, the debate over the war led to a shift in the editorial pagethe conservative Russell Wiggins was replaced by the more liberal Philip Geyelinbut the Post never completely distinguished itself on Vietnam. Born: 18-Jul-1915 Birthplace: Terry, SD Died: 3-Aug-1963 Location of death: Marshall, VA Cause of death: Suicide . Almost pathetically, he asked not to go back to Chestnut Lodge. She, too, saw it, felt its heat, and began running for the exit. I told you how lonely it had been when I had visited my Far Country and how I could not get near enough to help you in your Far Country. He told me that he loved me and said we would be married and go to Florida, if I could live with only two dresses, because I had to understand that he would never take anything from my father and we would live on what he made. After much talk, consultation, and soul-searching, Phil finally decided to accept. On an early trip, he requested a secretary, and the bureau chief dispatched Robin Webb, a young Australian trying to make it as a journalist. Toward the end of her life, I was a success in her eyes, and perhaps that is what she loved. He was intent, however, on making his mark in public life as well as on the stock exchange. The Post Company had gone public just two days before getting the papers, and publication could easily have affected its stock prices for the worse. It was a fleeting, mystifying moment, but a very real one. Naturally, they voted that he be allowed to go. Openings He was one month shy of his 31st birthday, the youngest publisher of a major newspaper in America. I had visions of that fellow in the balloon, high above the plain, floating into journalistic obscurity, so I did what one cannot ordinarily do with a babushka. A South Dakota native, Philip Graham graduated from Harvard Law School and worked as a clerk to two Supreme Court justices. There are plenty of lousy biographies in this world, and they languish on musty shelves, ignoredbut whole. The Young Publisher, In many ways, Phil was at his very best as a publisher in these years. Books The talent level in the newsroom began to shift, and so did the culture of the place. Graham was born to a Lutheran family in Terry, South Dakota. I have now gone. My father said, "Done." Gear Prudence Join Facebook to connect with Robin H Webb and others you may know. With me in the lead, the three of us walked down a ramp and past what appeared to be a coffin-size box with open slats. To this day, I cannot say what the beast wasa leopard, a cougar, a jaguarbut I can still see its talons not an inch from the hose and flesh of my proprietor. Phil's invitations often came in the form of commands, and this was one. Grahams insecurity as a woman, as a publisher, and as a parent has clear and painful origins. . Both Phil and Felix worked on Joe throughout our dinner, suggesting that the most important first step for the 1950s was the right to vote. This is a very significant case and has huge repercussions for freedom of expression & religious liberty in our country. On Jan. 1, 1946, he started his postwar work at the age of 30 as associate publisher of The Post. On the eve of the first Moratorium against the war, the Post published a nasty editorial (also not quoted in Personal History) that tried to set the paper apart from the antiwar movement. As a way to solidify this code, Ochs developed the idea of a paper of record.. A few days later, I was assigned to show her and her close friend Meg Greenfield, the Posts editorial-page editor, around the city that was then known as Leningrad. Under Phil Graham, the Post had a well-respected editorial page and mediocrity nearly everywhere else; it was not even the best paper in the city. My mother seemed to undermine so much of what I did, subtly belittling my choices and my activities in light of her greater, more important ones, she writes. At some point, however, not quite three weeks after Christmas Eve, the phones started to work again between Phil and Robin. Apparently, the interview went well. I had begun writing so-called light editorials and laying out parts of the editorial page. This was my most important contribution to the interview with the General Secretary of the Communist Party. Robin Lee Graham is seen on his boat "Dove" during his solo trip around the world in the late 1960s. 2023 Cond Nast. CAPTION: Phil Graham, as publisher of The Washington Post, often involved the paper in righting wrongs, as he saw them. There is still a vital distinction. 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