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Katharine Graham told the story of her life so well and with such raw candor in her 1997 autobiography, the Pulitzer-prizewinning Personal History, that retelling it here seems redundant. It was the tale of a fretful rich girl who married the dazzlingly brilliant Philip Graham. It was her father who owned the Washington Post, but her husband was given majority control of the paper on the theory that no man should ever work for his wife. When she found the manic-depressive Graham dead of a gunshot wound in the bathroom of their country house in 1963, this "doormat...
...principled truth teller, shaking the Establishment of which she was a pillar. Against the wishes of financial advisers worried about the Post's imminent IPO, she published the Pentagon papers. Alone among publishers, she followed the facts in Watergate. With the creation of the paper's irreverent Style section, Graham had to face at night the very powers that Sally Quinn was skewering by day. Graham never killed a story, although she occasionally rolled her eyes in sympathy with a deflated pol. At the paper she was a regular presence in the newsroom, even taking classified ads during the violent...
...Graham said he was relieved to finally be confirmed. “I knew it could take a while, but I was expecting closer to Memorial Day,” he said...
...according to Claybrook, Public Citizen’s scrutiny of Graham will continue...
...Graham was the epitome of science for sale,” Claybrook said. “Now we’re forming a group to watch what regulation Graham is nixing early on, and what type of influence he is exerting behind the scenes,” she said...