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Forum, while an ensemble piece, also has an indisputable leading player, Pseudolus, who has been enthusiastically tackled on Broadway by comic greats ranging from Zero Mostel to Phil Silvers to Nathan Lane...
...Greenspan has heard this too many times before, and he gave Sarbanes little in the way of remorse. But it was deposed committee head Phil Gramm, going next as the top Republican, who voiced the defense Greenspan must have in his head when lawmakers start carping. Gramm got a vigorous nod from Greenspan - and a big laugh from the room - when the tax-cutting Texan delivered the pungent-analysis quote...
...brainy graduate of the University of Chicago with common sense who hired good people and learned to fire those who weren't. She bet the farm on editor Ben Bradlee, who had Phil's manic brilliance without the depression. The Post went from a decent, dull paper to a crackling, moneymaking one. She was not a natural skeptic but a natural, 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...
...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...
...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...