Facebook gives people the power to. See Photos . But there was also a certain Africa-based correspondent who carved his own career coffin by arranging for a balloon safari over the Masai Mara at dawn; just as the sun was glinting off the savanna and the balloon was rising above a herd of grazing giraffes, Mrs. Graham is said to have turned to the correspondent and announced, with a profane burr, You know, I didnt travel all the way here to be a fucking tourist. It is said that the correspondent ended up as a recipe checker in the food section. We in Moscow had neither the time nor the luxury that would allow us to confirm these legends. But what of it? Phil knew he controlled The Post because my father had given him the majority of A shares. The appearance of this messenger, a Newsweek stringer whose name was Robin Webb, was the beginning of the tragic end. After a hurricane struck in 1926, the sugar company gave up and his father developed a dairy business on some of the land. The Post was his instrument, his means of being listened to. This time, he saw his departure as final. Young & Hungry She had to learn to be a publisher and, what was more, to be a far better publisher than her husband had been. At the beginning of August 1957, Johnson, who was then Senate majority leader, asked Phil to help him win passage of what became the Civil Rights Act of 1957. 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. Coronavirus, Carry-out Critic I did not go because I did not want to help you. Phil often involved The Post in righting wrongs, as he saw them. and U.P.I., were infuriating the White House with reporting that showed the contrast between the official statements of the generals and the dire situation in the field, the Post could not keep pace. I think this definition of roles deepened as time went on and I became increasingly unsure of myself. 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 was charmed and dazzled. As for Phil, at the same time that he was building me up, he was tearing me down. She was in a good mood. The area was still a wilderness. 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. He refused to be used, particularly by my mother, or to be dominated by her. With Webb, he traveled to a publishing convention in Phoenix and caused a stir when, taking the microphone in a manic state, he started talking about the alleged affairs of John F. Kennedy, with whom he had been closely associated for some time. But that did not mean she was strong in all things. Phil viewed this whole sequence of events, with some reason, as a violation of his rights and civil liberties. I didn't hear the term "manic-depression" until some years later. Katharine knew that her husband and her old way of life were lost to her, but, fearful though she was of confrontation and of Williams, she was determined to fight for the paper. Facebook gives people the power to share. In college at the University of Florida, Phil enjoyed fraternity life, and girls, and he drank a good deal of bathtub gin. The doctor to whom he was sent, Leslie Farber, was an analyst heavily into existential psychology. In the fall of 1942, Dad and I were on a train coming back from New York, and naturally we were talking about Phil. On the first great story of her era as publisherthe war in Vietnamthe Posts performance was nearly an embarrassment. 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. In 1963, he and Webb flew to Arizona; he appeared at a . But then Mrs. Graham was laughing. Whoops! "So I restated the matter urging him not to count on Johnson's turning it down . . Pretty soon this kind of thinkingindeed, this kind of lifetook its toll: most of us became somehow inferior. Surrounded by her male editors and executives, Graham could recognize in herself the same reflexes of deference she had learned as a daughter and as a wife. Then I lied. 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. Phil also brought into my life more laughter, gaiety, irreverence for rules, and originality. In an otherwise blissful spring of journalistic overload, a time when the merest cough in the Kremlin merited front-page attention, it came about that the Post and its sister publication, Newsweek, were being awarded a plum: an interview with the General Secretary of the Communist Party. These days, the Post is usually thought of as the second-best paper in the country, after the Timesor, if not the second-best, then at least tied for that honor with the Wall Street Journal and, stretching some, the Los Angeles Times. Phil was earning $3,600 a year as a law clerk. Katharine Graham, the general secretary of the Washington Post Company, and a planeload of senior editors would soon arrive in town to conduct it. Felix adopted Phil as one of his "boys" before he was appointed by President Roosevelt to the Supreme Court. Graham heard him. Meyer began his financial career by investing six hundred dollars his father had given him for not smoking until he was twenty-one. In the midst of the crisis, she wrote to Ehrlichman, saying, What appears in the Post is not a reflection of my personal feelings. You cant go. Sometimes you become friends with people with whom you work because of some common interest or just because you have to work together. "We have worked out this solution: we'll live in the sort of house, have the sort of furniture, eat the sort of food, go to the sort of places, that young people making salaries like mine can afford.". Although at the time I didnt realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that might displease those around me. 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.. This was my most important contribution to the interview with the General Secretary of the Communist Party. All that has changed now, with the publication of Katharine Grahams own Personal History (Knopf; $30). Graham instructed Bradlee to recount what he had seen and heard, and after he had done so the publisher and the three officials worked out a deal: as long as all the city pools were shut down for the time being and would be integrated the following year, the paper would print nothing more of what had happened. Phil suffered from numerous illnesses, increasingly so as the years went by. Early the next day, Phil and Larry in Paris both wrote letters to Stanton. At dinner at Joseph Alsops one night early in 1961, Graham continually offered political advice to the new President, John Kennedy. Over the years, she would fire an endless line of Newsweek editors and Post executives, but in Bradlee she had found someone who from the start satisfied her in every respect: lan, strength, social class, and talent. Phil went to school in Miami. After the honeymoon, we settled into our little house, which we rented for $80 a month in a pleasant neighborhood called Burleith. 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. . 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. 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.. Truitt, an intimate of the Grahams whomBen Bradlee would later force to resign, committed suicide himself in 1981, still despondent over his treatment at the newspaper after Philips death. 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. Tomorrow: Watergate. 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. Needless to say, for years I regaled all who would listen with my Katharine Graham story. 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. 1952) Mistress: Robin Webb (Newsweek journalist, 1962) High School: Miami High School, Miami, FL This was not entirely to the good. Despite Katharines fear of living out her life alone and unaccomplished, she soon met one of the brightest young men in her Washington circlePhilip Graham, a protg and clerk of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. 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. Robin Webb (Songbird) See Photos. Even when Katharine was the publisher of the Post, David Halberstam writes in The Powers That Be, she felt as if she were in her mothers shadow. There were moments of strain between us, mostly when he drank too much, after which -- almost inevitably -- a rather violent quarrel would ensue, followed by abject apologies and diminished drinking, or even a temporary period of no drinking at all. I went because it was my Destiny. By 1906, Meyer had made several million dollars by investing in securities; by 1915, he was worth between forty and sixty million. The reporters returned to The Post to write the story, expecting, of course, that it would be on the front page. And he wanted many things. . I was already committed to Kennedy. Graham was born to a Lutheran family in Terry, South Dakota. He was married to Katharine Graham, the daughter of Eugene Meyer, the previous owner of The Washington Post. Courtesy photo Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in the summer 2019 edition of. Otis Chandler and his wife, Missy, met Phil and Robin at the airport. It introduced him to Felix Frankfurter. . 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. The evening was fine and fun. Graham, Katharine (1917-2001) American newspaper publisher who guided the Washington Post through its most turbulent period when it published the "Pentagon Papers" and investigated the Watergate affair. So much of his life flowed from the year as president of the Law Review. See Photos Inside His Beverly Hills Home. Even before Adolph Ochs bought the paper, in 1896, the Times had earned its record for rigor when it went after Boss Tweed. Phil Graham was forty-eight when he died. To read Personal History is to understand how ridiculous is the right-wing image of Graham as the matriarch of the liberal-media conspiracy. He loved me, and I loved him. CAPTION: Phil Graham, as publisher of The Washington Post, often involved the paper in righting wrongs, as he saw them. 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. Robin Webb. For nearly a year, Phil went to the office hardly at all. Phil Grahams world had been the world of the powerful, and his widow did not want to offend its leading members. I did not go to help you. 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 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. Loose Lips Phil and I flew to California five days before the Democratic Convention was to open. ", Early Thursday morning, Kennedy called Johnson, waking him up and making an appointment to see him a little later. Soon Phil began telling his friends that he was going to divorce his wife and marry Robin Webb. Phil stunned Katharine by proposing marriage to her almost instantly, and he followed up the proposal with an insistence that they set out for Florida and a life without family money. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. And by the words you came near enough for help and I touched you and we went for a walk and were again in life. Mrs. Grahams personal relations with the powerful and the once powerful became, if anything, even more visible after Watergate. I can see today that his activities had become increasingly frenetic, though still fairly constructively so, the most obvious example of which was his purchase of Newsweek, then a weak, marginally profitable newsmagazine for businessmen, far behind its rival, Time. Without Graham working as a go-between at the 1960 Democratic Convention, Kennedy might never have picked Johnson as his running mate. 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