Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the help of his longtime friend, Washington Lawyer Ed Wheeler, Graham hit on the virtually unknown junior Senator from Tennessee. But Estes Kefauver was reluctant. Graham gave him a long pep talk, finally exploded: "Damn it, Estes, don't you want to be Vice President?" That was the speech that launched Kefauver into his celebrated investigation and the deeper waters of U.S. politics. Since then, Graham, who shudders at the thought of Kefauver for President, has begun feeling like Frankenstein...
...Graham was the first newsman to wrest assurance from Adlai Stevenson that he would accept the Democratic nomination in 1952. Through Reporter Folliard at the convention, the publisher sent Delegate Stevenson a note asking him to telephone. On the phone he got Stevenson to agree that it would be "an act of arrogance" to turn the nomination down. The result: Folliard scored a beat in the Post with a story that Stevenson would accept...
Dream Man. The pattern of Phil Graham's life is the envy of many a politician and looks, indeed, like a quick montage of the American dream. Graham was born in South Dakota in the Black Hills mining town of Terry, near the site where Calamity Jane died. When Phil was six, his father Ernest, an engineer who had tried mining and farming in South Dakota and Michigan with no luck, took the family to the Florida Everglades to launch an ambitious agricultural experiment for a sugar company. After a dozen years of floods, muck fires, hurricanes, frost...
...Harvard Law School he won the prized presidency of the Law Review, graduated tenth in a class of 400 and caught the eye of New Deal Talent Scout Professor Felix Frankfurter. That landed him a job as Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed's law clerk. The next year Graham clerked for Frankfurter himself...
When he went to Washington in 1939, Graham joined a group of eligible bachelors in a pillared Arlington mansion called Hockley Hall. Slim, attractive Kay Meyer, then 22, who attended Hockley Hall parties, invited all the residents to a coming-out party for her sister Ruth at the Eugene Meyer mansion on Washington's Crescent Place. There Graham met Kay, a $25-a-week editorial assistant on her father's paper. A University of Chicago graduate (and ex-student of Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas), she was as keen a New Deal supporter as Graham himself. After...