So, on June 18, 1946, The Post announced that my father was withdrawing from active direction of the paper. . Here was someone who combined for me the two parts of my life that I thought were inescapably separate. Phil Graham maintained Meyer's intimacy with power. In 1962, he began an affair with Australian journalist Robin Webb, for whom he would later threaten to divorce his wife Katharine Meyer Graham. Instead, just a month later, Arkansas Gov. The Formative Years. Mixing Politics. 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.. 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. Under Philip Graham, the Post had no prayer of even pretending to match the standards of the countrys best paper. The Post publisher took a mistress, Robin Webb, whom he set up in a large house in Washington and a farm outside of the city. She was a woman of inchoate ambitionan ambition that took the shape mainly of ambitious friendships and painfully comic intellectual pretensions. In the midst of the crisis, she wrote to Ehrlichman, saying, What appears in the Post is not a reflection of my personal feelings. 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. Katharine's husband Philip battled alcoholism and mental illness throughout the marriage. Curiously I was in complete accord with this idea. Advertisement. Moreover, Graham was acutely sensitive about the image of the Post as a liberal newspaper and, as a result, had chosen a law firm with close connections to the Republican Party; not surprisingly, Grahams lawyers urged her to delay publishing or not to publish at all. The deal took only about three weeks from beginning to end, during which time he slept very little and rode a high crest, working feverishly to get it done. Phil was born in 1915 in . Following the lead of my successful colleague the Latin-American correspondent, I tried to schedule every minute of the two days allotted me. Weymouth's brother, Stephen Graham,. Mumble Sauce, About Us Graham eventually met Australian journalist Robin Webb, and in 1962 they began an affair. Money, my fathers being Jewish, and sex were taboo subjects at home. After the war, Phil Graham was even more national security conscious than before. 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. Phil and I flew to California five days before the Democratic Convention was to open. I simply didnt connect my lack of self-confidence with his behavior to me., The end of this increasingly painful marriage was prolonged and extremely public. In a group we remained largely silent, unable to participate in conversations and discussions. 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. According to Otis, who told me all of this only much later, Phil was disheveled and spinning out ideas, some of which were unintelligible. Five months later, Phil Graham, once again in a trough of depression, ended the affair and came home.}. Needless to say, for years I regaled all who would listen with my Katharine Graham story. Phil Graham was forty-eight when he died. It was featured, with a photograph, in the next days edition of Pravda. Katharine Grahams establishment position on the war did not go unnoticed. This was a typical example of the way Phil used power to accomplish something good. To read Personal History is to understand how ridiculous is the right-wing image of Graham as the matriarch of the liberal-media conspiracy. In the early days of Watergate, she tried, in rather submissive terms, to build a personal bridge to the one man who exceeded even Nixon in his public hatred of the PostSpiro Agnew. He was the fun at the dinner table and in our country life. During the McCarthy era, the Post acquitted itself well, especially in the reports of Murrey Marder, but when everyone from the Chicago Tribune to a two-bit conservative publication entitled Plain Talk attacked the Post as Washingtons Pravda, Graham showed dangerous signs of capitulation. Almost pathetically, he asked not to go back to Chestnut Lodge. Ben, with another reporter, was on the site for 36 straight hours. Her gesture in retrospect seems to me undignified, considering the awful slamming we were taking from him, she writes. . After Robert Opel dashed naked across the stage in 1974, he ran for President and settled into the gay leather scene, in the orbit of Robert Mapplethorpe and Harvey Milk. 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. Ad Choices. At some point, however, not quite three weeks after Christmas Eve, the phones started to work again between Phil and Robin. Join Facebook to connect with Robin Webb and others you may know. View the profiles of people named Robin H Webb. On Feb. 1, Phil came home briefly. 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. As far as I know, Katharine Graham had not written much since her early days on the Post, when she wrote a magazine column and was the anonymous author of such editorials as On Being a Horse, Mixed Drinks, and Spotted Fever. And yet I dont know of a more complex autobiography by an American business figure, certainly not one that allows itself such moments of weakness, embarrassment, and pain. Toward the end of her life, I was a success in her eyes, and perhaps that is what she loved. That. Local Activists Work With Falls Church City Council To Reinvest In Eden Center. But I want you to know I am among the many people in this country who believe in you and are behind you with trust and devotion.. With time, Katharine was becoming more and more troubled, less and less secure. 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. Then I lied. His anxiety as a son-in-law was in place before the wedding vows. Phil remained loyal to Johnson until he lost the bid for the nomination. He stormed the podium and berated Simple Pleasures. At Harvard, Phil made the Law Review and, at the end of his second year, became its president. and he began an affair with a young Newsweek staffer, Robin Webb. Renewed Activity. Everything rotated around him, and I willingly participated in keeping him at the center of things. Phil wrote him on March 17, 1940, in his nervousness misspelling my name: "I am going to get married. For nearly a year, Phil went to the office hardly at all. Even before Adolph Ochs bought the paper, in 1896, the Times had earned its record for rigor when it went after Boss Tweed. City Desk Joe persuaded Phil to accompany him to urge Kennedy to offer the vice-presidency to Johnson. Robin Webb. Under Ochs, the Times institutionalized the notion of nonpartisan, objective reporting. There is no doubt that the vast majority of reporters at papers like the Post are themselves more liberal than the general population: a recent poll showed that eighty-nine per cent of Washington-based correspondents voted for Clinton in 1992. 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. Up to that time I had been a fairly present mother, attending school functions, driving teams to sports events, trying to be back in the afternoons when the kids got back from school. Naturally, they voted that he be allowed to go. Facebook. 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.. Despite his early apprehensions about my father's wealth, politics, and possible impulse to control, Phil gradually grew very close to him. See Photos. Insofar as she was capable of love, I think she loved my father and us, but she was highly complex, and at times deeply unhappy. In her own memoir, Agnes wrote of rebelling against the responsibilities of marriage; she behaved, she said, as if the whole world were in a conspiracy to flatten out my personality and cast me into a universal mold called woman.. Phil felt such urgency about co-opting Stanton that he decided to send a personal messenger to ensure that the letters reached Frank in New York. He was quite a success. Eugene Meyer had bought the Washington Post at auction for eight hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in 1933, and in 1946 he made Phil its publisher. @robin.webb.100. Eugene served Agnes breakfast in bed every morning; he ate at the bedside table. 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. Her name is Katherine Meyer and I've not a doubt in the world that you'll love her. 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. Agnes was perennially engaged in writing books-in-progress. His most passionate political interests are local. Pei was talking, and Katharine said, I didnt know that., Whats surprising about that? Agnes said. The editors around her grumbled almost inaudibly, but just enough, it seemed to me, to nudge her out of such a call. Suddenly, an enormous claw lunged out of the box and toward the innocent calf of the chairman of the Washington Post Company. You cant go. I felt he finally had doctors who were treating a real and known illness. To win the paper, Phil employed the most feared lawyer in Washington, Edward Bennett Williams. Seelye. But what of it? At the end of the day, everyone except Phil Graham and me had engagements, so he asked if I wanted to have dinner. Phil Grahams world had been the world of the powerful, and his widow did not want to offend its leading members. Phil wasn't much better than I, but went at it with much more enthusiasm and natural energy -- so much so that at one of the parties his pants split horizontally across the rear. His mother, the former Florence Morris, had been a schoolteacher in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Robin was sent away with too little care or attention. In the beginning, even Richard Nixon got the same treatment. To a reporter, and especially a reporter in 1996, there doesnt seem to be a need to make any decision at all. Phil suffered from numerous illnesses, increasingly so as the years went by. 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. CAPTION: A June wedding: Phil and Katharine Graham married in 1940. We don't have one. From the earliest days of our relationship, for instance, I thought that we had friends because of him and were invited because of him. Under Philip Graham's management, the newspaper, thanks to its collaboration with the CIA, experienced an upswing and its empire expanded, including the purchase of the then-moribund Newsweek magazine [1] and other media properties. For example, what I could not have known at the Hermitage is that after the suicide of her husband, on August 3, 1963, and the funeral, Mrs. Graham sent her eldest son, Donald, back to his internship at the Times, sent her two younger sons, Bill and Steve, back to summer camp, and promptly flew off to Europe to meet her eldest childher daughter, Lallyand a group of very O.K. Robin Webb (Robin Elaine Riddle) See Photos. Facebook gives people the power to. . The Life and Death of a Ukrainian Photographer. Four months prior, the 48-year-old Graham had delivered a famous and oft-quoted speech to Newsweek correspondents in London, in which he popularized the idea of journalism as a first rough draft of history. (Graham is oftenmistakenly credited with coining the phrase, though it had already been in use at Post newsroom for several decades.). But that is the way Phil Graham wanted it. I was not about to give up the paper without a fight. 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. 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. Philip Graham was publisher and later co-owner of The Washington Post. Her story was not easy to figure out. in 1964, in his bedroom, she sat in an armchair while the President lay down on the bed. At one point, Mrs. Graham asked for ice cream. Profile. The whole idea of buying Newsweek and adding yet another huge responsibility to his already too-full plate made me nervous. I felt close to history. Yet, the publisher must realize that he has obligations which transcend any commercial interest.". The end result of all this was that many of us, by middle age, arrived at the state we were trying most to avoid: we bored our husbands, who had done their fair share in helping reduce us to this condition, and they wandered off to younger, greener pastures. When I opened the door to a downstairs bathroom, I found him. Phils greatest successes were in business: buying and absorbing the Times-Herald in 1954, purchasing Newsweek (for a song) in 1961, and making inroads against the dominant paper in town, the Evening Star (which folded in 1981). We grew less able to keep up with what was happening in the world. A heavy drinker who reportedly had manic-depressive tendencies, Graham, in some respects, was his own worst enemy, stridently abusive to his wife, both privately and publicly. I insisted. 12 Phil Graham pictures. When she travelled to Paris, she quite naturally took up with Brancusi and Rodin and Stein and Satie; she took fencing lessons with Mme. Charles Colson, for one, tried to dismiss the conspiracy as fictiona charge that, if true, would probably have ruined the paper forever. I began keeping a little accounts book, dutifully noting every penny spent, including the cost of gas and oil for the car, stamps, groceries, even our personal allowances, which were $9 each per week. It introduced him to Felix Frankfurter. We now had the morning field in Washington to ourselves. 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. In later years, he wanted to mold the career of his friend Senator Lyndon Johnson. In England, she lunched with Harold Laski, but then went off to Salzburg to meet her mother, who treated us to the Hotel Bristol and tickets to the music festival there. While a friend went on to visit the socialist experiment in Moscow, Katharine, on the stern advice of her father, did not. Email or phone: Password: . It wasnt 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. Telling his father about the marriage proved difficult. Johnson worked actively to cultivate the press, and Phil was always drawn to politics. 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 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. She was in a good mood. 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. Orval Faubus ordered the National Guard to bar nine Negro students from the previously all-white Central High School in Little Rock. 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. . If one compares the approach of the liberal media (the Post, the Times, etc.) And, under Bradlees urging, she began spending the money necessary to create, among other things, a first-rate foreign staff. Sometimes you dont really decide, you just move forward, and that is what I didmoved forward blindly and mindlessly into a new and unknown life. Also, it was part of my bafflement at what I saw as Phil's increasingly strange behavior. With Grahams support, Bradlee was soon firing the lazy and the mediocre, the racist and the dull, and he then set about raiding topflight papers around the country for their best talent. 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. 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. 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. Meyer began his financial career by investing six hundred dollars his father had given him for not smoking until he was twenty-one. with that of the increasingly powerful conservative media (the Journal editorial page, the Weekly Standard, The American Spectator, etc. At one of the embassies, I found a young woman who was said to own a blow-dryer and a brush. She did not have to. Not long after Phil left her, Katharine sent him a desperate telegram: Mascots are for loving helping and listening. In effect [Bill and Steve] lost both parents at once. 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. 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. 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. . One doctor told a friend later, "Phil was determined to get out and really was unbelievably masterful in his ability to manipulate people." I would be recalled to the home office. As she grew older and more self-confident, she could be imperious, even frightening to her editors and executives, but her desire to please, or at least to get along with, those in power, never entirely faded. The whole strategy for going for voting rights was inspired -- the idea for which Phil was the architect. Phil often involved The Post in righting wrongs, as he saw them. He felt he owned it because he had worked for 17 years to make it a success, so from his point of view the paper was his. But he always insisted that we lead our own lives. It never crossed my mind that he might have viewed me as someone to take on an important job at the paper. Nor did Phil Graham always have the mettle to stand by his best people. He said he felt trapped, no longer able to go on; that everything was black. The two most powerful presences in her lifeher mother and her husbandwere both clearly suffering from psychological problems, yet Katharine still felt inferior to them. 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. In my boyhood as a reporter, I nearly killed the matriarch of the liberal-media conspiracy. For years, Katharine witnessed her husbands violent mood swingshis periods of heavy drinking, his bizarre behavior, his prolonged depressions. friends for the Aegean cruise. 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. But even this was hard to understand. CAPTION: The Grahams with their children at Glen Welby in 1956; Lally, left, Katherine, Phil (holding Steve), Bill and Don. This was in 1988, and I had recently been assigned to the Washington Posts bureau in Moscow. Phil began to look for a chairman for COMSAT and turned to our friend Gen. Lauris Norstad, who was soon to retire as supreme allied commander in Europe. The phone rang and I picked it up, not realizing that Phil, too, had picked it up, in his dressing room, with the door shut. 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. Phil Graham's descent into the abyss of manic depression accelerated, and on 24 December 1962 she discovered that he was embroiled in an affair with a Newsweek stringer, Robin Webb. The reporters and editors might have got a nervous thrill from the Administrations hysteria, but Mrs. Graham did not. Phil called and told her to come back to America as soon as she could. The truth is that I adored him and saw only the positive side of what he was doing for me. . In middle age and in a state of grief, she suddenly found herself in charge of a newspaper that had yet to show any signs of greatness, and of a group of men who regarded her with, at best, considerable suspicion. The only other inhabitants were Seminole Indians. His remarks quickly degenerated, turning into nonsense interspersed with ugly language. 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