Phil knew he controlled The Post because my father had given him the majority of A shares. . 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. There are plenty of lousy biographies in this world, and they languish on musty shelves, ignoredbut whole. Museums/Galleries On Feb. 1, Phil came home briefly. 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. He stepped up his connection to Lyndon Johnson. But hurry, she said. Phil remained loyal to Johnson until he lost the bid for the nomination. He had come into a job for which he was ill-prepared. He does not live in Georgetown. She had not yet developed the steely mask that would later trouble the sleep of her adjutants. {But a fight was unnecessary. He also began making public scenesonce launching into an obscene tirade during a speech, and, on another occasion, punching out a detective at an airport. In speeches, Dole had accused her paper of waging an ideological vendetta against the President. Yet, the publisher must realize that he has obligations which transcend any commercial interest.". Facebook. 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. Lets go, lets publish. And by doing that she opened the way to Watergate and to the Posts position as a rival of the Times. Weymouth's brother, Stephen Graham,. CAPTION: The Grahams with their children at Glen Welby in 1956; Lally, left, Katherine, Phil (holding Steve), Bill and Don. I told her that this woman, this very important woman, was gravely ill and in need of immediate medical attention. Phil suffered from numerous illnesses, increasingly so as the years went by. As he was being taken out of George Washington, he loudly proclaimed who he was and that he was a prisoner. For the second, I went with the upbeat, down-market option: the circus. Readers like you keep our work free for everyone to read. 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 . Not only did Phil own the majority of the stock but he also believed that his efforts as publisher entitled him to ownership. 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. Phil asked Joe to bring Felix Frankfurter along. The Times was immediately in trouble with the White House and the courts. It is hard to remember now just how far in front the Times was after the Second World War. Check out the latest pictures, photos and images of Phil Graham. with that of the increasingly powerful conservative media (the Journal editorial page, the Weekly Standard, The American Spectator, etc. 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 is preposterous to say that the rules of the game are the same. While the Times and the two wire services, A.P. 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. Curiously, I not only concurred but was in complete accord with this idea.. The whole strategy for going for voting rights was inspired -- the idea for which Phil was the architect. Phil wrote him on March 17, 1940, in his nervousness misspelling my name: "I am going to get married. On a second trip in December, Graham described Webb on his official schedule as "Newsweek reporter and temporary personal shopper, tour director, and femme de chambre for our group." . . 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. It was a fleeting, mystifying moment, but a very real one. Terms & Conditions Soon Phil began telling his friends that he was going to divorce his wife and marry Robin Webb. According to Otis, who told me all of this only much later, Phil was disheveled and spinning out ideas, some of which were unintelligible. 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. Joe persuaded Phil to accompany him to urge Kennedy to offer the vice-presidency to Johnson. 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. His remarks quickly degenerated, turning into nonsense interspersed with ugly language. 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. It all seems so odd in retrospect. . In addition, Farber believed that labeling something, giving a name to a disorder, changed how the patient viewed himself and was viewed by those around him. The Formative Years. 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. 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? Here was someone who combined for me the two parts of my life that I thought were inescapably separate. Her gesture in retrospect seems to me undignified, considering the awful slamming we were taking from him, she writes. "Very complicated business, a newspaper," Phil noted in a letter to my father late in 1947. By June 17th, thanks to his national editor, Ben Bagdikian, he had his own set of papers. Nor did Phil Graham always have the mettle to stand by his best people. But, if he does, the decisions should not be as hard for him as they were for Katharine Graham. The first nights entertainment was an easy choice: the Kirov Ballet. 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.. At last, we could begin to believe that The Post was here to stay. Im here If you need me and I love you. 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. To read Personal History is to understand how ridiculous is the right-wing image of Graham as the matriarch of the liberal-media conspiracy. journalism. 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. Advertisement. At that meeting he offered him the vice-presidency -- both because he thought he had to and because he thought that Johnson would not accept. . Eugene Meyer was a Jew who might have preferred not to be. Im not sure she was ever really able to. It was featured, with a photograph, in the next days edition of Pravda. 1952) Mistress: Robin Webb (Newsweek journalist, 1962) High School: Miami High School, Miami, FL Katharine Graham, the general secretary of the Washington Post Company, and a planeload of senior editors would soon arrive in town to conduct it. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. I heard Phil and Robin talking to each other in words that made the situation plain. Perhaps if the turmoil had ended there he might have been able to rest and get his strength back. Updated: August 28, 2015 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. All around was the loud mewing of big cats and small children. Apparently, the interview went well. Suddenly, an enormous claw lunged out of the box and toward the innocent calf of the chairman of the Washington Post Company. The whole idea of buying Newsweek and adding yet another huge responsibility to his already too-full plate made me nervous. From the earliest days of our relationship, for instance, I thought that we had friends because of him and were invited because of him. Phil, Kennedy said, when you get elected dogcatcher I will listen to you on politics. But in fact Kennedy had listened to him. 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. In effect [Bill and Steve] lost both parents at once. 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. Robin Webb (Robin Elaine Riddle) See Photos. 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. He and his girlfriend flew to Phoenix to attend a meeting of The Associated Press. He was one month shy of his 31st birthday, the youngest publisher of a major newspaper in America. . She, too, saw it, felt its heat, and began running for the exit. This is, for me, the most painful thing to look back on. I did not go to help you. Early on, Phil predicted that Kennedy and Johnson would be the only candidates to come into the Democratic Convention with sizable blocs of delegates. 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. (According to some accounts, Philip also threatened to divorce Katharine and marry Robin Webb, a Newsweek stringer with whom he'd been having an affair.) . Circumstances seemed to conspire in challenging Graham. Robin Webb (Songbird) See Photos. Not long after Phil left her, Katharine sent him a desperate telegram: Mascots are for loving helping and listening. Phil would be publisher in title and in fact. He stormed the podium and berated He was really a. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. 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. D.C. This arrangement was never an issue. I almost rather died!. But although I was thoroughly fascinated and charmed by Phil, I was also slightly resentful, when I thought about it, at feeling such complete dependence on another person. . She rebuffed Norman O. Browns invitation to join the Communist Party. 2023 Cond Nast. Before making speeches, she shook with terror; in the face of unsettling news, she had the unfortunate habit of breaking down in tears. 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. Its hard to remake decisions and even harder to rethink nondecisions. CAPTION: Katharine and Phil Graham in 1962, left, after The Post purchased Artnews; above, from left, Phil's half brother Bob Graham -- now a U.S. senator from Florida -- Felix Frankfurter, Ernest Graham and Phil Graham in 1955; right, Phil Graham with John Kennedy on Cape Cod in 1961. . 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. In my boyhood as a reporter, I nearly killed the matriarch of the liberal-media conspiracy. . 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. "So I restated the matter urging him not to count on Johnson's turning it down . As the administration got rolling, Phil and I went to the first of several dinner dances at the Kennedy White House. Contact Us That Christmas Eve afternoon, the world I had known and loved ended for me. 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. He ended up on his hands and knees, crawling around at the last minute to retrieve one of Lyndon's contact lenses. On Jan. 1, 1946, he started his postwar work at the age of 30 as associate publisher of The Post. 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. community.". 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. He was a manic-depressive. Having Phil back was a tremendous -- and tremendously complicated -- relief. At Harvard, Phil made the Law Review and, at the end of his second year, became its president. The only other inhabitants were Seminole Indians. Nonetheless, Phil was the fizz in our lives. 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. It is not usually advisable, or possible, to argue with a Soviet bus, but my priorities were clear. My father said, "Done." At one point, President Kennedy dispatched a Presidential plane to get him from Phoenix to Washington. See Photos. 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. 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.. Phil viewed this whole sequence of events, with some reason, as a violation of his rights and civil liberties. Sure, we can go, I ventured, but the second act has some really great animals. I began to describe Misha the Bear, who wore skates on his hind paws and played ice hockey. There he was diagnosed with manic depression, a condition today known as bipolar disorder. Although at the time I didnt realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that might displease those around me. 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. Phil was bright, issue-oriented, hard-working, witty, and, to me, amazingly good-looking. After the honeymoon, we settled into our little house, which we rented for $80 a month in a pleasant neighborhood called Burleith. That. Since Eisenhower was not very interested, except in theory, and was concentrating on his vacation golf games, there was a vacuum within the administration. But there are also relationships that start out that way yet cross over to become real friendships that last forever. And he wanted many things. See Photos. I was charmed and dazzled. 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. Katharine Grahams establishment position on the war did not go unnoticed. 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. His anxiety as a son-in-law was in place before the wedding vows. Graham was from a Florida family whose financial prospects, while far from dire, were a matter of occasional drama. 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. 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. 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. He welcomed her with a carload of flowers, and together they flew to Sioux Falls, S.D., where he was to talk to the publisher of the local paper about buying it. Mumble Sauce, About Us 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. His temperament, his interests, and his style are quite different from his mothers. If there was one journalist she admired more than any other, it was her friend James Reston, and it was Reston who, despite his many virtues, had famously said, I will not have the New York Times muckraking the President of the United States. But in the end she made her decision. 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. I passed the box without incident. Robin Harrison Webb. 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. The story would run on the front page of The Post unless the people with the power to do something about it integrated the pools. . It was he who instilled in Phil a distrust, fear, and horror of any drugs, not to mention shock therapy, claiming that these treatments reduced people to something less than human -- something tranquilized and fishlike. He would help me proofread. Dr. Phil and Wife Robin Live in a Sprawling Mansion! Believing that he knew enough of the key players that he could solve the problem with behind-the-scenes maneuvering, he kept several phones going day and night. We now had the morning field in Washington to ourselves. Phil went to school in Miami. But then Mrs. Graham was laughing. Why are Vladimir Putins opponents dying? 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. So, although he remained fairly liberal on domestic issues, he was not so on foreign policy. He has an example to follow. . I hadnt realized that the Post wasnt perfectly okay.). 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. When the plane landed in Washington, he was taken first to George Washington University Hospital and later to Chestnut Lodge, a private mental hospital in a suburb of Washington. Except for the $500 present, I never used a cent of my own until two years later, when Phil went into the Army. This was a typical example of the way Phil used power to accomplish something good. Great risk was involved, or so one heard. Born Katharine Meyer on June 16, 1917, in New York City; died on July 17, 2001, in Idaho; daughter of Eugene Meyer (owner of . After lunch, we went upstairs to our bedroom for a nap. They were both from the South. As a result, I had no one on whom to lean for advice. 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. Everything except Phil's personal expenses was carried by me from the modest trust started for each of the Meyer children by my father. Work Here 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. 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. In fact, Graham played a significant role in convincing JFK to appoint Johnson to the vice presidency instead of Missouri Senator Stuart Symington. To a reporter, and especially a reporter in 1996, there doesnt seem to be a need to make any decision at all. Liz at Large I was expected to perform all the pulling and hauling; Phil gave directions and put the fun in my life and the childrens. Katharine, born in New York in 1917, was baptized when she was ten to satisfy the Lutheran side of the family; to satisfy the demands of class, the Meyers had their own pew at St. Johns Episcopal Church, on Lafayette Squarethe presidents church (Katharine did not seem to realize she was part Jewish until she was at Vassar.) Courtesy photo Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in the summer 2019 edition of. . He loved me, and I loved him. Health problems and death The cost of failure was incalculable. Her story was not easy to figure out. Please reload the page and try again. . This article is adapted from the forthcoming book "Personal History" by Katharine Graham, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf. There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. 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. He loved me, and I loved him. Some of my deepest friendships began with an administration person whom I got to know because of my association with the paper.. On Aug. 3, having apparently made noticeable improvements, he convinced doctors to let him take a retreat to the Virginia farmhouse. I bolted out of the room and ran around in a frenzy looking for him. Phil's invitations often came in the form of commands, and this was one. Philip Graham was publisher and later co-owner of The Washington Post. He also vowed to do a number on the Post, and to go after the Graham familys broadcasting licenses. My feeling that something fundamental had been destroyed was a result of my total commitment and my belief that these feelings went both ways. Philip Leslie "Phil" Graham (July 18, 1915 - August 3, 1963) was an American newspaper publisher. Privacy Policy 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. Unlike Phil, I find it hard to express emotion. Both were full of humor -- with an edge. So does her imperious carriage. 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. Her obeisance was institutional and political, not merely personal. 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. 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. 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. 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. Mr. CAPTION: Phil Graham, as publisher of The Washington Post, often involved the paper in righting wrongs, as he saw them. All right, she told Bradlee on the telephone, in the midst of a reception at her house, with the Posts lawyer counselling caution in her free ear. Once married, we were confined to running houses, providing a smooth atmosphere, dealing with children, supporting our husbands. She was flushed, delighted. Join Facebook to connect with Robin H Webb and others you may know. Her beginnings were at once privileged and starved. I had to face facts -- Phil was really gone. 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. Page Three And I was incredulous -- this brilliant, charismatic, fascinating man loved me! 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. The evening was fine and fun. Only a few minutes later, there was the ear-splitting noise of a gun going off indoors. ", Early Thursday morning, Kennedy called Johnson, waking him up and making an appointment to see him a little later. Tomorrow: Watergate. It was incredibly exciting. . Bradlee now sees himself as the self-appointed leader of. 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. The mask was made to match, also at Bergdorfs, by Halston, who was then still making hats.) Graham considered the ball a kind of coming out for a middle-aged debutante. But in Pete Hamills column in the New York Post she was suddenly Marie Antoinette. Hamill interspersed a faux-sprightly account of the party (And Truman was just marvelous!) with The helicopter landed in a scrubby open field six miles north of Bong Son. It wasnt subtle, but it hit home. Around this time, my father decided to pass the paper on to Phil and me. Still, I believed that with enough rest he'd recover and we'd go on. In those days, of course, the only possible heir would have been a male, and since my brother was in medicine and had shown little or no interest in the business, my father naturally thought of Phil. In college at the University of Florida, Phil enjoyed fraternity life, and girls, and he drank a good deal of bathtub gin. Simple Pleasures. He was the publisher (from 1946 until his death) and co-owner (from 1948) of The Washington Post. Join Facebook to connect with Robin Webb and others you may know. 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. Gear Prudence 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.. City Lights: Your weekly guide to artsy goings-on, hitting your inbox Thursdays and Sundays. friends for the Aegean cruise. Gradually, I ceased talking much at all when we were out together. She felt like Trilby to his Svengali; she felt as if he had created her, that she was totally dependent. Facebook gives people the power to share. Naturally, they voted that he be allowed to go. 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