She'll surprise you.". In 1960, he helped persuade John F. Kennedy, another close friend, to take Johnson on his ticket as the vice presidential candidate. In December, after the pressmen overwhelmingly rejected a final contract offer, The Post began hiring and training replacement workers, a fatal blow to the union. Refine Your Search Results Sort by RelevanceSort by Age (Ascending)Sort by Age (Descending) All Filters 2 Steven Raymond Meyer, 63 Resides in Graham, WA Lived InSeattle WA, Carnation WA On Sept. 20, 1963, after a month's cruise in the Aegean with her mother and daughter and some friends, she assumed the presidency of the company. [41], In 1988, Graham was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[42]. Meyer's summary of this opening talk can easily be misunderstood. She once complained to Bradlee that "clothes, fashion, interiors and the frothy side are all taking a hosing and I am quite fed up with the really heedless eggheadedness of Style. She held the title of president and was de facto publisher of the paper from September 1963. Nora Ephron of the New York Times, who was at one point married to Carl Bernstein, raved about Graham's autobiography. By that time, Philip Graham had started to work at The Post. In the ensuing days, the scene outside The Post sometimes resembled a war zone. And I accepted it. Although she eventually lost her early diffidence, it was widely remarked that she projected an aura of vulnerability long after she had become a respected figure on the world stage. Thus began what Mrs. Graham termed her "business-side Watergate," a 139-day strike that climaxed a series of Post labor conflicts, ironic battles for a woman with a history of pro-labor leanings as a university student and young journalist. Philip Graham se convirti en editor del Post en 1946, cuando Eugene Meyer entreg el peridico a su yerno. William Welsh Graham (1948-2017) and Stephen Meyer Graham (born 1952). 4.31 avg rating 1,516 ratings published 2009 26 editions. William Welsh Graham arrived in 1948 and Stephen Meyer Graham in 1952. Her grandfather was Marc Eugene Meyer, and her great-grandfather was rabbi Joseph Newmark. She was the first 20th century female publisher of a major American newspaper and the first woman elected to the board of the Associated Press. . In her library, a tense Mrs. Graham listened on the phone as Beebe, a trusted adviser, explained the dispute. Graham credited others for a good deal of the company's business success, particularly Buffett and Richard D. Simmons, former president of Dun & Bradstreet, whom she named Post Co. president in 1981. [18], Philip Graham dealt with alcoholism and mental illness throughout his marriage to Katharine. Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. 103 Following. Graham and editor Bradlee first experienced challenges when they published the content of the Pentagon Papers. Dr. Stephen C. Meyer received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in the philosophy of science. Graham had strong links to the Rockefeller family, serving both as a member of the Rockefeller University council and as a close friend of the Museum of Modern Art, where she was honored as a recipient of the David Rockefeller Award for enlightened generosity and advocacy of cultural and civic endeavors. The family enterprise, then relatively small, included the newspaper, which her father had purchased at a bankruptcy sale in 1933; Newsweek magazine, which her husband had bought in 1961; and two television stations. Her candid account of her journey from shy homemaker to a pioneering female leader in male-dominated journalism and business resonated with countless women among her book's hundreds of thousands of readers. "[30] The Post published the quote, although Bradlee cut the words her tit. and they're going to have to get it renewed." The reason for giving Katharine only a minority interest in the voting stock, Meyer said, was that "you never want a man working for his wife." The pressmen maintained a picket line for many more weeks, but the strike was over, as was their union's existence at The Post. Stephen Hills, who is the president of the Post Media Group and Katharine's deputy, suggested that . The decision would have to be Mrs. Graham's. With the new crews running the presses, the mailers' union voted in mid-February to accept a new contract, and other unions soon followed. They were married on June 5, 1940, settling down in a two-story row house on 37th Street NW that was just wide enough for a door and one window. I mean it's so crazy it's hard to answer," she said. In 1979, Deborah Davis published a book titled Katharine the Great about Graham. He had mood swings and often belittled her. Lang and directed by Peter Sellars. Mrs. Graham also insisted that she never be surprised by what she read in the paper, although she believed in leaving most journalistic decisions to her editors. September 28, 2021 555 15 10734 I have struggled with writing a review of Stephen Meyer's book, Return of the God Hypothesis, since I finished it a few weeks ago. Former secretary of state George P. Shultz, a particularly close friend, said in an interview that "her friendship was not something that passed with the changing of one's Washington role." She and Benjamin C. Bradlee, the editor she chose to run The Post's newsroom during her years at the helm, transformed The Post and its reputation. She wrote on a wide range of subjects in The Post and other journals and published three books. Inside The Post, Mrs. Graham worked cheerfully beside the others, taking classified ads, bundling papers in the mailroom, fielding subscriber complaints and cleaning up trash in the pressroom, where newly trained employees had begun to run the presses as they were repaired. Don't miss. By the early 1970s, the unions for both the printers, who set stories in type, and the pressmen, who ran the presses that printed the paper, were using slowdowns as bargaining tactics in contract negotiations in which the company sought work rule changes. Mrs. Graham loved being involved with the news, calling or dropping by the offices of her editors for updates on what the newspaper was covering. Shy and vulnerable, she was terrified of asking dumb questions and making mistakes as she entered the mostly male world of publishing, she said later. The two dated, but broke off the relationship due to conflicting interests. He persuaded Philip Graham to buy Newsweek after the death of Vincent Astor, its previous owner. Following up on Richard Dawkins's attempted takedown of Stephen Meyer's bike-lock analogy ("It's irrelevantbecause natural selection is a NONRANDOM process"), our Biologic Institute colleague Douglas Axe joined the conversation over at Why Evolution Is True. Suggest an alternative Share your comments about this record A striking figure who stood 5 feet 9 inches tall, she was serious, attentive, well-mannered and generally soft-spoken. In Washington, Philip Graham served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed in 1939 and for Justice Felix Frankfurter, who had been one of his professors at Harvard, in 1940. [citation needed], In her 1997 autobiography, Graham comments several times about how close her husband was to politicians of his day (he was instrumental, for example, in getting Johnson to be the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1960), and how such personal closeness with politicians later became unacceptable in journalism. In 1991, when Mrs. Graham stepped down as chief executive, revenue was $1.4 billion. She was well aware, as she said, that male corporate heads "fired executive after executive, but no one attributed their actions to their gender. Peter Bradshaw. The cream-colored mansion sits on more than an acre and has the feel of a country estate. [16][17], Graham was also known for a long-time friendship with Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway owned a substantial stake in the Post. Mrs. Graham trusted his insights in foreign affairs. 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Katharine Graham was born on June 16, 1917. It pitted the First Amendment of the Constitution and its guarantee of the right to publish against the government's right to protect secrets. In 1974, Graham became the first woman elected to the board of directors at the Associated Press. Originally, she supported the U.S. effort, but this gave way to doubt as success seemed further and further away and the protest movement gathered force at home. Mrs. Graham grew up as Katharine Meyer in New York and Washington, where the family had a mansion on Crescent Place just off 16th Street NW. Purposefully, she made friends on both sides of Washington's political divide. "The nation's capital and our entire nation today mourn the loss of the beloved first lady of Washington and American journalism, Katharine Graham," President Bush said in a statement yesterday. Ma did hold up almost impossible standards, and I thought everyone was living up to them. Revenue grew nearly twentyfold, the company acquired numerous new businesses, and it became a public corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange. . The moment he walked into the Graham home for the first time back in 2001, he was sold. Tweets & replies. In an early example in 1968, a book on national security by Robert S. McNamara, a close friend of Mrs. Graham's and former secretary of defense who served on the board of directors of The Post Co., received a scathing and dismissive review in The Post by Ward Just because it scarcely mentioned the conflict in Vietnam. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.". Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. and she tried to do all she could to bring about healing among the races.". In the spring of 1939, at her father's behest, she returned to Washington to edit the letters to the editor at The Post. For several years, she could not find the management team she wanted, and as executives came and went, critics described her as erratic and arbitrary. It ended with replacement workers being hired. (His half brother, Bob Graham, became governor of Florida and a senator). Some of her pleasures were modest. His work tears down many purported barriers between science, philosophy, and religion. Mrs. Graham made frequent public speeches, particularly on news media issues on which she was widely recognized as an authority, ranging from the roles of investigative reporting and foreign correspondence to the impact of the Internet on the news. The Post played an integral role in unveiling the Watergate conspiracy which ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Every time I pick it up to. When her husband went to the Pacific as an intelligence officer, she returned to her work at The Post. Showing 30 distinct works. Mrs. Graham also accepted and capitalized on her growing global stature. But Post Co. Chairman Fritz Beebe, who joined the debate at Bradlee's home, found the editor and his staff determined to print their own Pentagon Papers stories in the next day's Post. Vindicated by events, she gained a reputation for courage and devotion to principle that carried around the world. Former first lady Nancy Reagan said in a statement that "Washington, D.C., will not be the same without her. The medications that are now used successfully to treat the illness were not then available. The printers got the point: In September 1974, in return for cash buyouts and guaranteed lifetime jobs, they agreed to accept the new technology. ", She was no longer the person who, in the 1960s, had "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.". Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American publisher and the second female publisher of a major American newspaper, following Eliza Jane Nicholson's ownership of the New Orleans Daily Picayune (1876-1896). "By the time the story had grown to the point where the size of it dawned on us," she said, "we had already waded deeply into the stream. Philip Graham planned to follow in his father's footsteps in the Florida legislature and perhaps one day run for the U.S. Senate. Elizabeth Morris Lally Graham 1943 Married in 1964 toYann Ralph Weymouth , " ", , . Some investments were still unsuccessful. Meyer sold 3,500 of the 5,000 Class A shares of voting stock to his son-in-law and 1,500 shares to his daughter. [13] Katharine recounts in her autobiography, Personal History, how she did not feel slighted by the fact her father gave the Post to Philip rather than her: "Far from troubling me that my father thought of my husband and not me, it pleased me. In social and political Washington, Mr. Graham was widely known as a man of influence. ", Bradlee remained determined to pursue his vision for Style and answered another of her suggestions for it by saying, "I can't edit this section unless you get your finger out of my eye.". Six months later, when Meyer joined the World Bank, he became publisher. In 1981, after years of decline, the Washington Star went out of business, and for a brief time, The Post was the only newspaper of general circulation published in Washington. Stephen Joseph Graham OBE (born 3 August 1973) is a British actor. Post lawyers urged Bradlee to wait until the courts decided the New York Times case. Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. It was harder for Mrs. Graham to make her mark as a businesswoman than as a news executive. Gartner's New Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 Awards By Stephen Meyer Sep 6, 2017. Media. William Graham, a lawyer, philanthropist, investor and son of a former Washington Post publisher, committed suicide last Wednesday, according to his brother - reminiscent of the suicide of his. Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 July 17, 2001) was an American newspaper publisher. The book, written in longhand on legal pads, fully reveals a life marked by personal struggle and tragedy as well as public triumph. Our thanks to friends and neighbors, Helen Graham Cancer Center, Bayada Home Care and Bayada Hospice for all of their wonderful help throughout Steve's illness. by. I could sell it. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. ", Mrs. Graham was often described as the most powerful woman in the world, a notion she dismissed out of hand. He is known for his roles in the films Snatch, Public Enemies, This Is England, The Irishman, and Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and the series Boardwalk Empire, among many other works. Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) . 8,671 Followers. Former president Jimmy Carter emphasized yesterday that "she was dedicated to the principles of fairness and accuracy." You know, good old Mom, plodding along. A Merrill Lynch analyst termed Simmons's tenure "one of the best 10 years that anybody has seen in any company and in any stock.". He and many other members of the family were at the hospital in Boise when she died. She denounced various stories as "bitchy," "tasteless," "snide" or "grisly." She remained active in the company and the community after her retirement, hosting newly elected Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. 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