The Post was his instrument, his means of being listened to. On Christmas Eve in 1962, she discovered he was having an affair with Newsweek freelance journalist Robin Webb. For all his seeming irreverence and liberality, Phil Graham was no less domineering than any other husband of his day: Always, it was he who decided and I who responded. This article is adapted from the forthcoming book "Personal History" by Katharine Graham, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf. She was flushed, delighted. . Phil and I flew to California five days before the Democratic Convention was to open. See Photos. See Photos Inside His Beverly Hills Home. D.C. She had not yet developed the steely mask that would later trouble the sleep of her adjutants. To this day, I cannot say what the beast wasa leopard, a cougar, a jaguarbut I can still see its talons not an inch from the hose and flesh of my proprietor. The Young Publisher, In many ways, Phil was at his very best as a publisher in these years. When Eisenhower finally sent in federal troops, Phil saw it as a defeat not only for the South but for himself. This is a very significant case and has huge repercussions for freedom of expression & religious liberty in our country. The babushka melted. I think this definition of roles deepened as time went on and I became increasingly unsure of myself. His remarks quickly degenerated, turning into nonsense interspersed with ugly language. . In the fall of 1942, Dad and I were on a train coming back from New York, and naturally we were talking about Phil. Please reload the page and try again. Mrs. Graham, for her part, wrote back to him, I was full of admiration anyway for what you did and the way you did it. In the end, Davis sued her publisher for libel and breach of contract in 1982 and received a hundred-thousand-dollar settlement. Health problems and death Grahams insecurity as a woman, as a publisher, and as a parent has clear and painful origins. So much of his life flowed from the year as president of the Law Review. Sometimes you dont really decide, you just move forward, and that is what I didmoved forward blindly and mindlessly into a new and unknown life. Email or phone: Password: . In the end he went sadly but willingly, late in the day on June 20. Gone not to my Far Country but to my Destiny. Bradlee was incensed, and said so in terms both loud and profane. After a short while, Phil got up, saying he wanted to lie down in a separate bedroom he sometimes used. Katharine's husband Philip battled alcoholism and mental illness throughout the marriage. Up to that time I had been a fairly present mother, attending school functions, driving teams to sports events, trying to be back in the afternoons when the kids got back from school. He knew everyone in the building, always taking on the problems of people who worked for him -- worrying over someone's sick child, unmet mortgage payment, health crisis. All rights reserved. Yet, the publisher must realize that he has obligations which transcend any commercial interest.". The End. Phil was earning $3,600 a year as a law clerk. Also, it was part of my bafflement at what I saw as Phil's increasingly strange behavior. To read Personal History is to understand how ridiculous is the right-wing image of Graham as the matriarch of the liberal-media conspiracy. It introduced him to Felix Frankfurter. He was married to Katharine Graham, the daughter of Eugene Meyer, the previous owner of The Washington Post. The cost of failure was incalculable. Phil's involvement in the whole matter -- besides pushing Lyndon on its importance from the beginning of their relationship -- began in earnest in July, when he invited {civil rights lawyer} Joe Rauh to our farm in Virginia, Glen Welby. As a result, I had no one on whom to lean for advice. There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Basketball From Sioux Falls, Phil and Robin flew to Phoenix, where many of the nation's most prominent publishers were gathered for a meeting of the Associated Press. Pretty soon this kind of thinkingindeed, this kind of lifetook its toll: most of us became somehow inferior. Robin Webb Retweeted Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham 4 Dec 2017 TOMORROW morning Jack Phillips' case will be coming before the Supreme Court. If we should ever meet again, I would like to tell you some of my thoughts on what I have come to recognize as a kind of editorial blackmail, in which persons say that if you reject a work. The area was still a wilderness. and he began an affair with a young Newsweek staffer, Robin Webb. I got it for her. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Gradually, I ceased talking much at all when we were out together. She felt like Trilby to his Svengali; she felt as if he had created her, that she was totally dependent. It was very much in Felix's nature, and he was dealing with two men -- Phil and Joe -- to whom he was as close as though they were his sons. Even before Adolph Ochs bought the paper, in 1896, the Times had earned its record for rigor when it went after Boss Tweed. I cannot tell you how pained I am by the circumstances which have caused you, quite unnecessarily, distress and concern, Jovanovich wrote in a cowering letter to Mrs. Graham. In 1949, riots were taking place, as members of the Progressive Party led black children to swim in Washington's previously all-white public swimming pools. By 1968, reporting and editorials on Vietnam by Ward Just and a few others helped change the atmosphere of reverence on the pages of the Post, and that change had its effect on the thinking of the publisherso strong an effect that when the Times, thanks to Neil Sheehan and his source, Daniel Ellsberg, began printing the Pentagon Papers, on June 13, 1971, Bradlee felt wounded, and, with Grahams encouragement, pushed his staff to find its own copy of the documents. There he was diagnosed with manic depression, a condition today known as bipolar disorder. Curiously I was in complete accord with this idea. Robin, who is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and best-selling author, opened up about their marriage on her husband's podcast, "Phil in the Blanks." "We don't have the perfect marriage," she admitted. . My father had said that he himself was too old to let Phil work his way up. We don't have one. That Christmas Eve afternoon, the world I had known and loved ended for me. He even got the patients to take a vote among themselves. At that meeting he offered him the vice-presidency -- both because he thought he had to and because he thought that Johnson would not accept. You are stuck with me as a mascot repeat mascot. Most of the year following Phil's breakdown was spent in slow, gradual recovery. I was expected to perform all the pulling and hauling; Phil gave directions and put the fun in my life and the childrens. In the early days of Watergate, she tried, in rather submissive terms, to build a personal bridge to the one man who exceeded even Nixon in his public hatred of the PostSpiro Agnew. In an otherwise blissful spring of journalistic overload, a time when the merest cough in the Kremlin merited front-page attention, it came about that the Post and its sister publication, Newsweek, were being awarded a plum: an interview with the General Secretary of the Communist Party. Olympic Sports, Savage Love As a publisher, Don Graham may never face a pair of crises as critical as the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. In 1962, Phil Graham met Robin Webb, a young Australian woman who had been working in Newsweeks Paris bureau, and he began appearing with her at Newsweek bureaus all over the world. They met earlier that year. In England, she lunched with Harold Laski, but then went off to Salzburg to meet her mother, who treated us to the Hotel Bristol and tickets to the music festival there. While a friend went on to visit the socialist experiment in Moscow, Katharine, on the stern advice of her father, did not. Only a few minutes later, there was the ear-splitting noise of a gun going off indoors. . . The most imposing woman in journalism delivers an unexpectedly confessional autobiography. As a way to solidify this code, Ochs developed the idea of a paper of record.. I didn't hear the term "manic-depression" until some years later. . Born: 18-Jul-1915 Birthplace: Terry, SD Died: 3-Aug-1963 Location of death: Marshall, VA Cause of death: Suicide . In 1963, he and Webb flew to Arizona; he appeared at a . He felt he owned it because he had worked for 17 years to make it a success, so from his point of view the paper was his. Phil also brought into my life more laughter, gaiety, irreverence for rules, and originality. He stormed the podium and berated Graham, Katharine (1917-2001) American newspaper publisher who guided the Washington Post through its most turbulent period when it published the "Pentagon Papers" and investigated the Watergate affair. "Y'all are doingreallocal D.C. And then nothing more. Robin Webb. Eugene Meyer was a Jew who might have preferred not to be. in 1964, in his bedroom, she sat in an armchair while the President lay down on the bed. I bolted out of the room and ran around in a frenzy looking for him. I had no understanding of the terrible depression he had gone through or the polar-opposite mood that was dominating him at the time. . For nearly a year, Phil went to the office hardly at all. As for Phil, at the same time that he was building me up, he was tearing me down. He does not have to invent himself, nor does he have to invent a set of principles. Mixing Politics. He was quite a success. Not only did Phil own the majority of the stock but he also believed that his efforts as publisher entitled him to ownership. 2023 Cond Nast. Robin Webb (Robin Elaine Riddle) See Photos. . When she travelled to Paris, she quite naturally took up with Brancusi and Rodin and Stein and Satie; she took fencing lessons with Mme. "Very complicated business, a newspaper," Phil noted in a letter to my father late in 1947. After we had lunched as long as we could, someone suggested driving to the country, and we spent the afternoon there. There was the Latin-American correspondent for the Post, who wandered the continent for weeks in advance, arranging hotel suites, hairdressers, and interviews with heads of state from Caracas to Tierra del Fuego. My father received a confidential letter from his friend Kent Cooper, former general manager of the Associated Press, who was living in retirement in Palm Beach. She was a woman of inchoate ambitionan ambition that took the shape mainly of ambitious friendships and painfully comic intellectual pretensions. Unlike Phil, I find it hard to express emotion. But hurry, she said. Around this time, my father decided to pass the paper on to Phil and me. . Museums/Galleries She pursued hard the company of the well known. @robin.webb.100. Phil wrote him on March 17, 1940, in his nervousness misspelling my name: "I am going to get married. Robin Webb. It worked, but at the same time it hurt the paper. Phil was clearly upset, too. At once he became my father's close collaborator. When she spoke to her daughter, it was often in the barbed rhythm of insult. In later years, he wanted to mold the career of his friend Senator Lyndon Johnson. At a meeting of the Religious Roundtable, Howard Phillips, the head of the Conservative Caucus, warned darkly, You cannot always have Kay Graham going to your cocktail parties and smiling at you. He came to Washington in 1917 as a dollar-a-year man for the Wilson Administration; and, while he was holding a variety of positions on the War Industries Board, the Farm Loan Board, and the Federal Reserve Board, the Meyers became friendly with Bernard Baruch, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Evans Hughes. We had lunch on two trays on the back porch at Glen Welby, chatting and listening to some classical records. From the start, Katharine was dazzled by her husbands intelligence and wit, his ability to light up a room: He began to liberate me from my family and from the myths they had propagated. But she was resentful as well. To the surprise of some, she easily warded off the blandishments of Samuel I. Newhouse (once with a somewhat duplicitous Theodore Sorensen as her agent) and the Times-Mirror Company. As enormous cages and nets were being assembled in the circus ring, she declared, I think its time to go.. Agnes was perennially engaged in writing books-in-progress. Except for the $500 present, I never used a cent of my own until two years later, when Phil went into the Army. Insofar as she was capable of love, I think she loved my father and us, but she was highly complex, and at times deeply unhappy. In her own memoir, Agnes wrote of rebelling against the responsibilities of marriage; she behaved, she said, as if the whole world were in a conspiracy to flatten out my personality and cast me into a universal mold called woman.. The deal took only about three weeks from beginning to end, during which time he slept very little and rode a high crest, working feverishly to get it done. I also think that he realized the illness would recur. See Photos. Felix adopted Phil as one of his "boys" before he was appointed by President Roosevelt to the Supreme Court. There is still a vital distinction. He had left me for good, and it was almost more than I could bear. Phil began to look for a chairman for COMSAT and turned to our friend Gen. Lauris Norstad, who was soon to retire as supreme allied commander in Europe. He was intent, however, on making his mark in public life as well as on the stock exchange. . He loved me, and I loved him. There are plenty of lousy biographies in this world, and they languish on musty shelves, ignoredbut whole. . Phil's activities in regard to Little Rock were the first sign for me that something was wrong with him, that his powerful talents could be used in such an idealistic but confusing and irrational way. Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. On Aug. 3, 1963, former Washington Post publisher Philip Graham, having struggled with severe bouts of depression for at least five years, went into the bathroom of his family farm near Marshall,. Sometimes Katharine glimpsed her parents as they were dressing to go out, or as Agnes was being massaged and manicured in preparation for the evenings entertainment. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. During that Leningrad trip, the only moment that hinted at something mysterious and human came when we were in a map room at the Hermitage Museum. Dr. Phil McGraw and his wife Robin McGraw attend the ceremony honoring Dr. Phil McGraw with a star on The Hollywood Walk Of Fame on February 21, 2020. The year leading up to Grahams death was a turbulent one for him and his family. Phil and my mother also got along well. In middle age and in a state of grief, she suddenly found herself in charge of a newspaper that had yet to show any signs of greatness, and of a group of men who regarded her with, at best, considerable suspicion. To keep a story out of the paper to achieve a purpose, even a fine one, is neither appropriate nor in the spirit of my father's definition of the duty of a newspaper: "To try to tell the truth. Dr. Phil and Wife Robin Live in a Sprawling Mansion! And by the words you came near enough for help and I touched you and we went for a walk and were again in life. I had visions of that fellow in the balloon, high above the plain, floating into journalistic obscurity, so I did what one cannot ordinarily do with a babushka. But then Mrs. Graham was laughing. He welcomed her with a carload of flowers, and together they flew to Sioux Falls, S.D., where he was to talk to the publisher of the local paper about buying it. Until now, Katharine Graham, considering her influence, has been almost invisible. Despite his early apprehensions about my father's wealth, politics, and possible impulse to control, Phil gradually grew very close to him. Philip Pannell Collapsed at a Statehood Rally. This time, he saw his departure as final. If you have the goods, you say, Screw it, and publish. And yet his periods of lucidity and humor, of lively intelligence, were frequent enough to confuse her and delay any sense of reckoning. In 1967, Katharine wrote a letter to Johnson (not quoted in the book) expressing enormous empathy: These times are so difficult that my heart bleeds for you. . Although at the time I didnt realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that might displease those around me. But although I was thoroughly fascinated and charmed by Phil, I was also slightly resentful, when I thought about it, at feeling such complete dependence on another person. Graham was born to a Lutheran family in Terry, South Dakota. ~ Gambling. In doing so, she and her editor, Ben Bradlee, dragged the Post out of the sea of the ordinary and made it great, made it a rival of the New York Times. He remained seriously depressed but seemed to me to be quite noticeably better, even after only a week or so at Chestnut Lodge. . Into this vacuum, Phil moved swiftly and with great assurance. She really does seem to believe that Watergate was an aberration. But even this was hard to understand. It was my paying all our living expenses that had allowed Phil to purchase his stock with his income from The Post. Soccer Those first few years of marriage, Phil and I had a very happy time. As he emerged more on the journalistic and political scenes, I increasingly saw my role as the tail to his kiteand the more I felt overshadowed, the more it became a reality. Phil Graham began referring to his wife, who by 1952 had given birth to four children, as Porky; to heighten the joke, he gave her as a present a French butcher-shop head of a pig. Naturally, they voted that he be allowed to go. Charles Colson, for one, tried to dismiss the conspiracy as fictiona charge that, if true, would probably have ruined the paper forever. with that of the increasingly powerful conservative media (the Journal editorial page, the Weekly Standard, The American Spectator, etc. His friends are, for the most part, not especially famous. The founder, Lucy Madeira Wing, believed that God was a woman and tried to mold the girls into Shavian Fabians, an army wielding its noblesse oblige. Both were full of humor -- with an edge. See Photos. All that has changed now, with the publication of Katharine Grahams own Personal History (Knopf; $30). They both loved power and its use for what they thought of as desirable purposes. AKA Philip Leslie Graham. He needed Joe's help because Joe had a solid relationship with the black leadership in the country, especially Roy Wilkins, then executive secretary of the NAACP. We grew less able to keep up with what was happening in the world. See Photos. She was in a good mood. For nearly all Post reporters and editors, even those few who ventured to call her Kay, she was the woman who signed our checks, the Queen Mother, a cartoon figure with a lockjaw voice that sounded, to us, like money. the tiny fringe of arrogant litists who infect the healthy mainstream of American journalism with their own peculiar view of the world. The fact is, though, that two days after making that statement Colson talked to Howard Hunt about the need to supply more financial help to the defendants in the Watergate trial. My mother seemed to undermine so much of what I did, subtly belittling my choices and my activities in light of her greater, more important ones, she writes. Suddenly, an enormous claw lunged out of the box and toward the innocent calf of the chairman of the Washington Post Company. Attention would have to be paid. At that point, Phil got together with {columnist} Joe Alsop to discuss the merits of Lyndon Johnson as Kennedy's running mate. So does her imperious carriage. In one case, there were 200 whites arrayed against an equal number of blacks -- with Park Police on horses in the middle. Hamill interspersed a faux-sprightly account of the party (And Truman was just marvelous!) with The helicopter landed in a scrubby open field six miles north of Bong Son. It wasnt subtle, but it hit home. The end result of all this was that many of us, by middle age, arrived at the state we were trying most to avoid: we bored our husbands, who had done their fair share in helping reduce us to this condition, and they wandered off to younger, greener pastures. The pressures were enormous and her preparations for them slight. Since Eisenhower was not very interested, except in theory, and was concentrating on his vacation golf games, there was a vacuum within the administration. Local Dining Guide, City Lights This was in 1988, and I had recently been assigned to the Washington Posts bureau in Moscow. The message was that Col. Robert McCormick {the newspaper baron who had purchased the Times-Herald five years before} wanted $8.5 million for the paper. On Jan. 1, 1946, he started his postwar work at the age of 30 as associate publisher of The Post. By contrast, the Wall Street Journals editorial page ignored Watergate and Iran-Contra as ideologically inconvenient and has pursued Whitewater with the foam visible on its lips. I felt close to history. If she has been cool to any Presidents since Watergate, they have been the two Democrats, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, not least because they came to town with the greatest suspicion of old-line WashingtonKatharine Grahams Washington. All that was mostly over now, though I tried to be with them as much as possible. This is not the sort of moment one could hope to find in the self-examination of Andrew Carnegie or Colonel McCormick, much less of Bill Gates or Rupert Murdoch. I was earning about $1,500 a year. After a short while, Phil got up, saying he wanted to lie down in a separate bedroom he sometimes used. Facebook gives people the power to share. Theater But that statistic has to be balanced by the conservatism of nearly all publishers. As far as I know, Katharine Graham had not written much since her early days on the Post, when she wrote a magazine column and was the anonymous author of such editorials as On Being a Horse, Mixed Drinks, and Spotted Fever. And yet I dont know of a more complex autobiography by an American business figure, certainly not one that allows itself such moments of weakness, embarrassment, and pain. He replied, Oh, yes, very. I remember his commenting on how well Phil wrote and how much he'd like to have him work for The Washington Post. Phil called and told her to come back to America as soon as she could. Phil Graham was forty-eight when he died. I also said that I admired the legislation he himself had got passed and was for him and wanted to make sure he knew it.. But there are also relationships that start out that way yet cross over to become real friendships that last forever. Phil, Kennedy said, when you get elected dogcatcher I will listen to you on politics. But in fact Kennedy had listened to him. . CAPTION: Phil Graham, as publisher of The Washington Post, often involved the paper in righting wrongs, as he saw them. He also vowed to do a number on the Post, and to go after the Graham familys broadcasting licenses. Joe persuaded Phil to accompany him to urge Kennedy to offer the vice-presidency to Johnson. Katharines mother, Agnes Meyer, was descended from Lutheran ministers. But what of it? Sometime after the "brainwashing" party, Johnson urged Phil to be at his side during the final push for passage of the bill. I hadnt realized that the Post wasnt perfectly okay.). He was in charge of a losing newspaper in what was rapidly becoming the capital of the world. I passed the box without incident. Phil viewed this whole sequence of events, with some reason, as a violation of his rights and civil liberties. CAPTION: The Grahams with their children at Glen Welby in 1956; Lally, left, Katherine, Phil (holding Steve), Bill and Don. The charge of subverting a whole political process, that is a fantasy, a work of fiction rivalling only Gone with the Wind in circulation and Portnoys Complaint for indecency, Colson said. Nixon told his men to treat the Post absolutely coldly and spoon-feed scoops to its local rival, the Star. ", "Washington City Paper has made me feel like I am part of the D.C. The story, of course, revealed nothing of Mrs. Graham. 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