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School of Public Health (SPH) Professor for Policy and Decision Sciences John D. Graham will serve as the administrator for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), part of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget...
...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...
...then, Katharine Graham was the most powerful woman in America, no longer shy and awkward but regal and utterly imposing. With an ever more influential newspaper, with Newsweek - which Phil had acquired in 1961 - and with an ever more influential salon at her house on a hill in Georgetown, she was Walter Lippmann and Perle Mesta rolled into one. Much has been made of her salon - the network stars, the Vice Presidents, the gray eminences. But her reach was deeper. She was the connective tissue for the permanent substratum of the capital - the one layered with beat reporters, academics...
...best friend Meg Greenfield, op-ed editor of the Post, through almost every chemotherapy treatment in a losing battle with cancer. She talked with her old friend Nancy Reagan almost every week after the former President fell ill. No one quite took care of friends the way Kay Graham did. One night she shared Chinese food with me and my daughter as Courtney and I argued over the propriety of a strapless wedding gown. "Now, Courtney," Kay said, "this is your wedding. You're the one wearing the dress. You should get exactly what your mother tells...
...When it came time to pass the baton to her son Donald Graham in 1991, she did it seamlessly and gracefully, which is not always the case with dynastic successions. She still asked the first question at editorial lunches. But she kept out of her son's hair by spending six solid years writing her book. If there was any interference, it took place during their weekly Sunday walks around Dumbarton Oaks. By then, an artificial hip was slowing her. She never complained about getting old. At parties she would plant herself on a chair and let the room come...