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This summer I am home, in Washington, working as a journalist. My roommate is another female journalist, who said to me that for those who did not know her personally, one of the best things about Katharine Graham was her willingness to share her journey out of insecurity. In her Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography, such moments were not confessionals. They could have undermined her authority, her stature as a person of power; they did not. Instead she managed to combine power and humanity. She had doubts. She had questions...
...Luvie Pearson to Graham in Personal History...
...autobiography, Personal History, Graham wrote frankly of her insecurity. It was the kind of insecurity bred in women of her time, an insecurity that became a liability when her husband, Phil Graham, committed suicide, leaving the Post adrift—or so Graham initially thought...
...Graham quoted in the Washington Post...
...things are holy to journalists. But truth and the right to publish it are both sacred. With her powerful backing of The Post’s editorial staff in the Watergate and Pentagon Papers episodes, Katharine Graham entered the annals of history forever. Young journalists in Washington learn Watergate by heart. It happened before I was born, but we all knew the story. And the quote? The quote was famous...