To get a sense of how momentous were Katharine Grahams two decisions in the nineteen-seventieson the Pentagon Papers and Watergateit is crucial to understand just how poorly she had been prepared for such decisions by her family, her legendary husband, and the atmosphere in which she had always lived. He was raised in Miami where his father, Ernest R. ("Cap") Graham, made a career in farming and real estate, and was elected to the State Senate. It was not long before he began looking around town to buy a newspaper. Instead, it appeared on Page B7. It is hard to remember now just how far in front the Times was after the Second World War. . Someone -- I've never been sure who -- reached President Kennedy, who agreed to the use of a government plane to transport the doctors to get Phil. He replied, Oh, yes, very. It was plain white crpe with slate-colored beads around the neck and the sleeves. Katharine Graham, the general secretary of the Washington Post Company, and a planeload of senior editors would soon arrive in town to conduct it. His remarks quickly degenerated, turning into nonsense interspersed with ugly language. In 1949, riots were taking place, as members of the Progressive Party led black children to swim in Washington's previously all-white public swimming pools. "Very complicated business, a newspaper," Phil noted in a letter to my father late in 1947. I would be recalled to the home office. Then Mrs. Graham started past it. On Feb. 1, Phil came home briefly. I did not go to help you. However, on Feb. 4, he traveled to New York and went straight to Idlewild, where he met Robin once more. We in Moscow had neither the time nor the luxury that would allow us to confirm these legends. I passed the box without incident. 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. Grahams father had had trouble coming up with the funds to send him to Harvard Law, but managed to do so. She hardly exists in Woodward and Bernsteins books, and she is portrayed in cardboard terms almost everywhere else. Though Phil knew nothing about the newspaper business -- or any business, for that matter -- his brains and abilities served him well. . The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. It similarly (if with less success) pursued Iran-Contra and Bill Clintons ethical droppings. His friends are, for the most part, not especially famous. Another habit of his that emerged during those years was that, when we were with friends and I was talking, he would look at me in such a way that I felt I was going on too long and boring people. This is, for me, the most painful thing to look back on. 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. Updated: August 28, 2015 He does not live in Georgetown. Museums/Galleries As the junior man in the bureau, I was given the task of finding the hairdresser. For her part, Katharine would go on to helm the Post, becoming its de facto publisher during the famed Watergate era and, in 1979, becoming the first woman to hold the title officially. Early on, Phil predicted that Kennedy and Johnson would be the only candidates to come into the Democratic Convention with sizable blocs of delegates. 318 Robin Webb Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images CREATIVE Collections Project #ShowUs Creative Insights EDITORIAL VIDEO BBC Motion Gallery NBC News Archives MUSIC BLOG BROWSE PRICING ENTERPRISE VisualGPS INSIGHTS BOARDS CART SIGN IN Images Images Creative Editorial Video Creative Editorial FILTERS CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO Graham supported Eisenhower in 1952 and, in the service of that support, censored the work of his greatest star, the cartoonist Herblock, in the last two weeks of the campaign. They were both from the South. See Photos. ), Graham had undeniably, historically, made the right decision, and in the years to come she supported the investigative efforts of the Post; but the signs of her ambivalence about her social and political role never ceased. Courtesy photo Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in the summer 2019 edition of. You cant go. At one point, President Kennedy dispatched a Presidential plane to get him from Phoenix to Washington. Work Here Phil was bright, issue-oriented, hard-working, witty, and, to me, amazingly good-looking. Ben, with another reporter, was on the site for 36 straight hours. He began actively recruiting young people with potential, as well as more established reporters and editors. A nice full head of hair, and well combed. I went because it was my Destiny. We went to a restaurant, had a long dinner, talked and laughed a lot, and drank until quite late. Then I lied. At about the same time, she was on a cross-country flight and ran into Senator Bob Dole, who was then working as chairman and chief hatchet man for the Republican National Committee. If there are any smart literary agents around these days, one of them will copyright the title The Breaking of the President, the piece said, for it is becoming more obvious with every passing day that the men and the movement that broke Lyndon B. Johnsons authority in 1968 are out to break Richard M. Nixon in 1969.. 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. During that Leningrad trip, the only moment that hinted at something mysterious and human came when we were in a map room at the Hermitage Museum. She once took the time to introduce her friend the architect I. M. Pei to Agnes. After the war, Phil Graham was even more national security conscious than before. All the familiar episodes of the Washington, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama. Why are Vladimir Putins opponents dying? He had all the symptoms of severe depression -- overwhelming doubt about himself and his abilities, a desire to seclude himself from the world, indecision even about what pair of shoes to wear, guilt, and occasional talk of suicide. Thats enough, Buster, he said, and he dragged Bradlee into a meeting with two officials from the Department of the Interior and with Clark Clifford, from the Truman White House. Seelye. 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. In the end he went sadly but willingly, late in the day on June 20. I grew up considerably, mostly thanks to him. 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. . . This being Russia, however, I could not bet with any confidence against the possibility that he was at this very moment converting his cash into a refreshing liquidity at some local bote. Unlike Phil, I find it hard to express emotion. Robin Webb. Great risk was involved, or so one heard. 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. What made the situation even more complicated was the status of the Post. 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.. The charge of subverting a whole political process, that is a fantasy, a work of fiction rivalling only Gone with the Wind in circulation and Portnoys Complaint for indecency, Colson said. In 1963, he and Webb flew to Arizona; he appeared at a . There was, of course, no way to press the point. I have now gone. 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. Phil's mother had discussed her desire that he go to law school. In effect [Bill and Steve] lost both parents at once. Early in 1940, I was invited by a friend to Sunday lunch with a group at the Ritz Carlton. Phil received the larger share of the stock because, as Dad explained to me, no man should be in the position of working for his wife. Housing Complex 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. She attended the Madeira School, in McLean, Virginia, one of the few girls schools intent on training young women for a career. . Events, Football Inside the TV Star's Beverly Hills Home. She really does seem to believe that Watergate was an aberration. Katharines mother, Agnes Meyer, was descended from Lutheran ministers. Everything except Phil's personal expenses was carried by me from the modest trust started for each of the Meyer children by my father. Facebook gives people the power to share. Her obeisance was institutional and political, not merely personal. The legends of correspondents and their varying abilities to cope with a royal visit were countless. Robin Lee Graham is seen on his boat "Dove" during his solo trip around the world in the late 1960s. See Photos . Phil suffered from numerous illnesses, increasingly so as the years went by. Nor did Phil Graham always have the mettle to stand by his best people. As I began to lead the way down the steps, a bus-size babushkathe usherfixed me with a hard look and said, Nelzya. Impossible. 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. I also think that he realized the illness would recur. The first nights entertainment was an easy choice: the Kirov Ballet. See Photos. He and his girlfriend flew to Phoenix to attend a meeting of The Associated Press. We now had the morning field in Washington to ourselves. There was the Latin-American correspondent for the Post, who wandered the continent for weeks in advance, arranging hotel suites, hairdressers, and interviews with heads of state from Caracas to Tierra del Fuego. In the summer of 1949, there were race riots in Washington over the integration of a city swimming pool. He remained seriously depressed but seemed to me to be quite noticeably better, even after only a week or so at Chestnut Lodge. I did not go because I did not want to help you. The Post was his instrument, his means of being listened to. At one point, he wanted to fire the highly respected editorial writer Alan Barth, who had dared to defend the right of Earl Browder, the former secretary-general of the Communist Party in America, not to name names before a Senate subcommittee. In October 1962, Phil accepted an invitation from President Kennedy to serve as an incorporator of the Communications Satellite Corp., known as COMSAT, with the understanding that he would be elected to head it. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Mumble Sauce, About Us Robin Webb Retweeted Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham 4 Dec 2017 TOMORROW morning Jack Phillips' case will be coming before the Supreme Court. The Formative Years. 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. Gravely, as if we were negotiating the Treaty of Ghent, I gave her an annotated copy of Vogue, a mug shot of Mrs. Graham, and a hundred dollars. There is still a vital distinction. Phil often involved The Post in righting wrongs, as he saw them. As a result, I had no one on whom to lean for advice. Philip Graham was publisher and later co-owner of The Washington Post. Some of my deepest friendships began with an administration person whom I got to know because of my association with the paper.. To read Personal History is to understand how ridiculous is the right-wing image of Graham as the matriarch of the liberal-media conspiracy. Katharine Grahams establishment position on the war did not go unnoticed. As he emerged more on the journalistic and political scenes, I increasingly saw my role as the tail to his kiteand the more I felt overshadowed, the more it became a reality. Phil Graham began referring to his wife, who by 1952 had given birth to four children, as Porky; to heighten the joke, he gave her as a present a French butcher-shop head of a pig. Mixing Politics. Katharine Graham revealed in her 1997 autobiography Personal History (which her biographer Deborah Davis reviewed for Washington City Paper) that she felt her husband received inadequate treatment at Chestnut Lodge, going so far as to say that his condition required electroshock therapy. But by the summer of 1958, he was starting to do a little more. So much of his life flowed from the year as president of the Law Review. Name variations: Kay Graham; Mrs. Phil Graham; Katharine Meyer. In 1966, Truman Capote, her neighbor at the U.N. Plaza, where she kept a New York apartment, threw his famous Black-and-White costume ball for her. 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. All that was mostly over now, though I tried to be with them as much as possible. This is not the sort of moment one could hope to find in the self-examination of Andrew Carnegie or Colonel McCormick, much less of Bill Gates or Rupert Murdoch. He said he felt trapped, no longer able to go on; that everything was black. Advertise with Us, Sponsored Posts from our Partners In 1962, he began an affair with Australian journalist Robin Webb, for whom he would later threaten to divorce his wife Katharine Meyer Graham. Robin Webb was raised in England, UK. On Christmas Eve in 1962, she discovered he was having an affair with Newsweek freelance journalist Robin Webb. Katharine saw her parents only sparingly. I was earning about $1,500 a year. 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. Phil also brought into my life more laughter, gaiety, irreverence for rules, and originality. 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. Page Three . 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. Philip Pannell Collapsed at a Statehood Rally. Later, she developed an infatuation with the work of Thomas Mann and seems to have made endless demands on the authors time and patience. Even now I cant sort out my feelings about this; its hard to separate what was a function of Phils terrible affliction, which manifested itself only later, and what was more basic. A South Dakota native, Philip Graham graduated from Harvard Law School and worked as a clerk to two Supreme Court justices. He acknowledged that he used humor as a weapon with which to keep people at a distance. She rebuffed Norman O. Browns invitation to join the Communist Party. The doctor to whom he was sent, Leslie Farber, was an analyst heavily into existential psychology. By early March 1961, Phil was involved in his old in-depth way with many activities -- political and Post Co.-related -- and he seemed to me to be enjoying himself. Jovanovich caved, then pulped. I said that, much as I admired and loved President Kennedy, Phil personally had got along with him much better than I had. and he began an affair with a young Newsweek staffer, Robin Webb. At Harvard, Phil made the Law Review and, at the end of his second year, became its president. James Reston, who was then a friend of the Grahams and was the most eminent figure at the Times, repeatedly declined offers to go to the Post. . Renewed Activity. But in the spring of 1971 the Supreme Court had not yet declared its strong support of press freedoms to the degree that it would in the Pentagon Papers case; moreover, the Post itself did not yet have the financial standing or the self-identity to go forward simply and with confidence. Phil wrote him on March 17, 1940, in his nervousness misspelling my name: "I am going to get married. You are stuck with me as a mascot repeat mascot. The pressures were enormous and her preparations for them slight. Whoops! He ended up on his hands and knees, crawling around at the last minute to retrieve one of Lyndon's contact lenses. For the second, I went with the upbeat, down-market option: the circus. I then talked in terms I had inherited from Phil and in a way I would never have done laterand that embarrasses me now, she writes. To help Phil pay back the debt he incurred in borrowing to buy the stock, I volunteered to pay for all our living expenses -- houses, cars, schools, entertainment -- and did so. This is about enough to mention about the family except possibly to reemphasize that they are lousy rich -- for instance, they live in an absurdly huge vulgar castle here, have another in N.Y., have a ranch in Wyoming, etc. The paper sent out a young reporter named Ben Bradlee to cover what was happening, but Bradlee could barely find his story in the paper: it was buried deep inside, and nearly all mention of race and violence had been excised. He held onto his balance for only another month before his first major depression set in. Phil called and told her to come back to America as soon as she could. Perhaps if the turmoil had ended there he might have been able to rest and get his strength back. 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. So, on June 18, 1946, The Post announced that my father was withdrawing from active direction of the paper. Those first few years of marriage, Phil and I had a very happy time. The evening was fine and fun. 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. Until now, Katharine Graham, considering her influence, has been almost invisible. The Life and Death of a Ukrainian Photographer. At the beginning of 1954, an event occurred that led up to what I still think of as the defining moment for the company: the unexpected acquisition of the Times-Herald {the other morning paper in Washington}. It was incredibly exciting. Circumstances seemed to conspire in challenging Graham. Phil Graham, he said, was too hot for me, too involved in politics, felt too deeply about people, even his own people on the paper.. Otis Chandler and his wife, Missy, met Phil and Robin at the airport. From Sioux Falls, Phil and Robin flew to Phoenix, where many of the nation's most prominent publishers were gathered for a meeting of the Associated Press. He had left me for good, and it was almost more than I could bear. The message was that Col. Robert McCormick {the newspaper baron who had purchased the Times-Herald five years before} wanted $8.5 million for the paper. Curiously, I not only concurred but was in complete accord with this idea.. The reporters and editors might have got a nervous thrill from the Administrations hysteria, but Mrs. Graham did not. The area was still a wilderness. Despite his early apprehensions about my father's wealth, politics, and possible impulse to control, Phil gradually grew very close to him. He was simply not interested in the Times ideal so much as he was in making the Post a player in Washington and, perhaps more, in being a player himself. Beer Facebook. City Lights: Your weekly guide to artsy goings-on, hitting your inbox Thursdays and Sundays. That. I think this definition of roles deepened as time went on and I became increasingly unsure of myself. Katharine's husband Philip battled alcoholism and mental illness throughout the marriage. On Oct. 28, in the middle of the night, he broke. On the other hand, some of our long talks over the past few years had made it apparent to me that Phil was worried about being a "son-in-law," about having been "given" the paper and the company by my father. See Photos. 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? You've probably heard of her father, Eugene Meyer, who is now publisher of the Washington Post, and has been in the past such things as head of the Federal Reserve. Profile. Robin Webb. The reporters returned to The Post to write the story, expecting, of course, that it would be on the front page. The moment of happiness you gave me is more help than most people are given in a lifetime, Thank you for it. Phil wrote a letter in return that Katharine rightly describes as pretty strange: One morning when you were despairing I tried to help you by words. Yet, the publisher must realize that he has obligations which transcend any commercial interest.". I also said that I admired the legislation he himself had got passed and was for him and wanted to make sure he knew it.. He knew everyone in the building, always taking on the problems of people who worked for him -- worrying over someone's sick child, unmet mortgage payment, health crisis. The talent level in the newsroom began to shift, and so did the culture of the place. I hadnt realized that the Post wasnt perfectly okay.). 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. Phil received the larger share of the stock because, as Dad explained to me, no man should be in the position of working for his wife. Freelancers Guide As is true of any royal visit, there were many logistical problems to be worked out. Graham was from a Florida family whose financial prospects, while far from dire, were a matter of occasional drama. (One area that, surprisingly, started to shift under my feet was the Posts editorial quality. Under Ochs, the Times institutionalized the notion of nonpartisan, objective reporting. At last, we could begin to believe that The Post was here to stay. Phil was born in 1915 in Terry, S.D., and moved as a boy to the Everglades, where his father, Ernest Graham, was manager of a sugar cane plantation. Graham also had a hand in the appointments of no less than three more friends to the Kennedy administration, including then-Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon. See Photos. . When Eisenhower finally sent in federal troops, Phil saw it as a defeat not only for the South but for himself. 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