With Grahams support, Bradlee was soon firing the lazy and the mediocre, the racist and the dull, and he then set about raiding topflight papers around the country for their best talent. I think he felt he'd done such harm the last time around that he just couldn't deal with it, couldn't fix everything. She had not yet developed the steely mask that would later trouble the sleep of her adjutants. On an early trip, he requested a secretary, and the bureau chief dispatched Robin Webb, a young Australian trying to make it as a journalist. Mrs. Grahamone always referred to her as Mrs. Graham, even in private and at great distancesdid not travel in the style of the British Raj, but she was not arriving on a Eurailpass, either. She was in a good mood. 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. In speeches, Dole had accused her paper of waging an ideological vendetta against the President. The Formative Years. Phil also wanted Frank Stanton, still CBS president, to become COMSAT's president and operating head. Which is precisely the wrong way to conduct business as the publisher of a newspaper. Mrs. Graham blinked and said, I think its time to go.. 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 whole political year of 1960 was very exciting. Circumstances seemed to conspire in challenging Graham. I almost rather died!. CAPTION: A June wedding: Phil and Katharine Graham married in 1940. Gradually, I became the drudge and, whats more, accepted my role as a kind of second-class citizen. . Because of this, he never put a name to Phil's illness. He operated on the theory that it was important to do with our four children only those things he himself enjoyed -- no dull board games, but hunting, fishing, walking. Bradlee now sees himself as the self-appointed leader of. . 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. In those days, of course, the only possible heir would have been a male, and since my brother was in medicine and had shown little or no interest in the business, my father naturally thought of Phil. After lunch, we went upstairs to our bedroom for a nap. Great risk was involved, or so one heard. Post vice president James Truitt arranged with Kennedy to send Air Force 2 to retrieve Graham, who checked in for the first of two brief stays at Chestnut Lodge, then a leading psychiatric hospital in Rockville, Md., that has since burned down. Also, it was part of my bafflement at what I saw as Phil's increasingly strange behavior. He was acutely aware of the dilemma that arose from the fact that, as he put it, "a newspaper must be a successful commercial enterprise in order to survive. Few suggested that Katharine the Great was a first-rate book, or even a solid oneit was flatly written and salted with highly suspect, even paranoid, materialbut one had to wonder if Mr. Jovanovich would have done the same for anyone else. Graham was born to a Lutheran family in Terry, South Dakota. Despite his early apprehensions about my father's wealth, politics, and possible impulse to control, Phil gradually grew very close to him. But that statistic has to be balanced by the conservatism of nearly all publishers. Five months later, Phil Graham, once again in a trough of depression, ended the affair and came home.}. Not only did Phil own the majority of the stock but he also believed that his efforts as publisher entitled him to ownership. He also began making public scenesonce launching into an obscene tirade during a speech, and, on another occasion, punching out a detective at an airport. As I began to lead the way down the steps, a bus-size babushkathe usherfixed me with a hard look and said, Nelzya. Impossible. He is a Jew, a Republican, and rich as hell. Agnes was perennially engaged in writing books-in-progress. Grahamone always referred to her as Mrs. Graham, even in private and at great distancesdid not travel in the style of the British Raj, but she was not arriving on a Eurailpass, either.. He was a manic-depressive. See Photos. In 1966, Truman Capote, her neighbor at the U.N. Plaza, where she kept a New York apartment, threw his famous Black-and-White costume ball for her. But that did not mean she was strong in all things. I rang her up and explained the situation. Please reload the page and try again. . It is hard to remember now just how far in front the Times was after the Second World War. At one point, Mrs. Graham asked for ice cream. Phil also brought into my life more laughter, gaiety, irreverence for rules, and originality. Philip Leslie "Phil" Graham (July 18, 1915 - August 3, 1963) was an American newspaper publisher. In the midst of the crisis, she wrote to Ehrlichman, saying, What appears in the Post is not a reflection of my personal feelings. Only a few minutes later, there was the ear-splitting noise of a gun going off indoors. 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.. Curie. On a second trip in December, Graham described Webb on his official schedule as "Newsweek reporter and temporary personal shopper, tour director, and femme de chambre for our group." She is a Valkyrian type with something elsea mixture of Valkyrie and Juno., Agness ambitions were fuelled by resentment of her station as a wife and mother. With time, Katharine was becoming more and more troubled, less and less secure. . At one point, President Kennedy dispatched a Presidential plane to get him from Phoenix to Washington. The evening was fine and fun. Events: A heads up about City Paper events, from panels to parties. See Photos. At one point, he wanted to fire the highly respected editorial writer Alan Barth, who had dared to defend the right of Earl Browder, the former secretary-general of the Communist Party in America, not to name names before a Senate subcommittee. 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. A heavy drinker who reportedly had manic-depressive tendencies, Graham, in some respects, was his own worst enemy, stridently abusive to his wife, both privately and publicly. Phil remained loyal to Johnson until he lost the bid for the nomination. She attended the Madeira School, in McLean, Virginia, one of the few girls schools intent on training young women for a career. All that has changed now, with the publication of Katharine Grahams own Personal History (Knopf; $30). The most imposing woman in journalism delivers an unexpectedly confessional autobiography. Instead, it appeared on Page B7. He began actively recruiting young people with potential, as well as more established reporters and editors. Whoops! By the way, Senator, I didnt say I hated Nixon, she told Dole. Then I lied. Graham instructed Bradlee to recount what he had seen and heard, and after he had done so the publisher and the three officials worked out a deal: as long as all the city pools were shut down for the time being and would be integrated the following year, the paper would print nothing more of what had happened. {Rauh favored a much broader civil rights bill, but the Senate had watered it down.} When Johnson had announced he was running for President that year, Phil Graham helped write the speech; he even ended up on his hands and knees, crawling around at the last minute to retrieve one of Lyndons contact lenses, which had popped out. This is a posture unbecoming to a publisher of newspapers. In the process of blowing his stack, as only he could do, Ben felt a tap on his shoulder and turned to find Phil, who said, "Okay, buster, come with me," and led the way to his office. Philip Pannell Collapsed at a Statehood Rally. During the 1988 visit to Moscow, I remember, Mrs. Graham said that perhaps she ought to telephone Nancy and tell her about the lengths that the Kremlin was going to in preparing for an imminent summit. Dr. Phil and Wife Robin Live in a Sprawling Mansion! Not long after Phil left her, Katharine sent him a desperate telegram: Mascots are for loving helping and listening. I found him captivating. Eugene served Agnes breakfast in bed every morning; he ate at the bedside table. The book has been republished twice by small presses. I grew up considerably, mostly thanks to him. He wanted Estes Kefauver to head an anticrime commission and told him so, repeatedly, until Kefauver did it. I'm not sure what triggered Phil's relationship with Lyndon Baines Johnson, but it now seems predictable, even foreordained. In fact, Graham played a significant role in convincing JFK to appoint Johnson to the vice presidency instead of Missouri Senator Stuart Symington. I gather Dr. Farber initially tried to read him passages from Martin Buber, and when this failed to work, they forcibly tranquilized him and put him on the plane. . Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. Suddenly, an enormous claw lunged out of the box and toward the innocent calf of the chairman of the Washington Post Company. Jovanovich caved, then pulped. 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. Most of the year following Phil's breakdown was spent in slow, gradual recovery. Into this vacuum, Phil moved swiftly and with great assurance. I panicked. He replied, Oh, yes, very. And, under Bradlees urging, she began spending the money necessary to create, among other things, a first-rate foreign staff. After much talk, consultation, and soul-searching, Phil finally decided to accept. Theater She hardly exists in Woodward and Bernsteins books, and she is portrayed in cardboard terms almost everywhere else. I told her that this woman, this very important woman, was gravely ill and in need of immediate medical attention. Phil then cut a deal. Philip Graham was publisher and later co-owner of The Washington Post. He stepped up his connection to Lyndon Johnson. Truitt, an intimate of the Grahams whomBen Bradlee would later force to resign, committed suicide himself in 1981, still despondent over his treatment at the newspaper after Philips death. Pei was talking, and Katharine said, I didnt know that., Whats surprising about that? Agnes said. Katharine, born in New York in 1917, was baptized when she was ten to satisfy the Lutheran side of the family; to satisfy the demands of class, the Meyers had their own pew at St. Johns Episcopal Church, on Lafayette Squarethe presidents church (Katharine did not seem to realize she was part Jewish until she was at Vassar.) . All the familiar episodes of the Washington, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama. Food News All rights reserved. He even got the patients to take a vote among themselves. 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. Here was someone who combined for me the two parts of my life that I thought were inescapably separate. Finally, Otis and some other men got him to his room. It happens to be a beautiful Destiny and I shall be there while it is beautiful and while it is not. Graham also had a hand in the appointments of no less than three more friends to the Kennedy administration, including then-Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon. Phil was earning $3,600 a year as a law clerk. My father said, "Done." Perhaps if the turmoil had ended there he might have been able to rest and get his strength back. Robin Webb. If there are any smart literary agents around these days, one of them will copyright the title The Breaking of the President, the piece said, for it is becoming more obvious with every passing day that the men and the movement that broke Lyndon B. Johnsons authority in 1968 are out to break Richard M. Nixon in 1969.. 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. 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. As the junior man in the bureau, I was given the task of finding the hairdresser. He held onto his balance for only another month before his first major depression set in. The reporters returned to The Post to write the story, expecting, of course, that it would be on the front page. Having Phil back was a tremendous -- and tremendously complicated -- relief. It proceeds from my belief that the editors and reporters have fulfilled the highest standards of professional duty and responsibility.. It was he who instilled in Phil a distrust, fear, and horror of any drugs, not to mention shock therapy, claiming that these treatments reduced people to something less than human -- something tranquilized and fishlike. My God! she said, covering her pearls with the tips of her fingers. When she travelled to Paris, she quite naturally took up with Brancusi and Rodin and Stein and Satie; she took fencing lessons with Mme. See Photos. I would be lucky to cover high-school softball in Prince William County. My feeling that something fundamental had been destroyed was a result of my total commitment and my belief that these feelings went both ways. . In some ways, this was the bottom moment for me -- very confusing, very difficult, and very painful. He told me that he wanted to preserve our marriage and our family; he said that he loved Robin but would tell her the affair was over, and that he would stay with his family. But those who worked in the Posts newsroom knew one infinitely reassuring fact about Mrs. Graham: that at the most important moments of her professional life she did the right thing. As enormous cages and nets were being assembled in the circus ring, she declared, I think its time to go.. 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. I cant write in the eloquent words he used. See Photos. Facebook. In 1963, he and Webb flew to Arizona; he appeared at a . My father had indeed given Phil the major part of the stock, and Phil had run the company well, but it was the millions invested in the paper by my father that enabled it to survive the years of losses. and he began an affair with a young Newsweek staffer, Robin Webb. When I opened the door to a downstairs bathroom, I found him. Ups and Downs. . 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. There is still a vital distinction. Mann was once asked if Agnes was German. 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. The second week in February, he called me at work late one afternoon suggesting that we have dinner at Harvey's, a famous old seafood restaurant next door to the Mayflower, where we could buy the early edition of The Post. Eugene Meyer was a Jew who might have preferred not to be. He had all the symptoms of severe depression -- overwhelming doubt about himself and his abilities, a desire to seclude himself from the world, indecision even about what pair of shoes to wear, guilt, and occasional talk of suicide. Mrs. Graham looked quite handsome, I thought. I got it for her. Shortly after this, my father seems to have brought up with both of us the possibility of Phil's working at the paper after the war. . Now I can see how extraordinary -- and out of order -- it was for a Supreme Court justice to be stepping over the boundaries to this extent, but I didn't then. This was in 1988, and I had recently been assigned to the Washington Posts bureau in Moscow. One doctor told a friend later, "Phil was determined to get out and really was unbelievably masterful in his ability to manipulate people." Latest news and commentary on Robin Webb including photos, videos, quotations, and a biography. D.C. She rebuffed Norman O. Browns invitation to join the Communist Party. 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. He sparked ideas, praised and persuaded, criticized and cajoled. On Aug. 3, having apparently made noticeable improvements, he convinced doctors to let him take a retreat to the Virginia farmhouse. Name variations: Kay Graham; Mrs. Phil Graham; Katharine Meyer. But there are also relationships that start out that way yet cross over to become real friendships that last forever. Katharine soon learned of their affair, when she picked up the phone and heard Phil and Robin talking to each other in words that made the situation plain.. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. You cant go. At that point, Phil got together with {columnist} Joe Alsop to discuss the merits of Lyndon Johnson as Kennedy's running mate. He does not travel the globe to interview foreign leaders. He loved me, and I loved him. Attention would have to be paid. between the constitutionally protected expression of dissent. This is, for me, the most painful thing to look back on. 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, Va., and committed suicide with a 28-gauge shotgun. . His health, already frail, was affected physically and mentally. Kennedy went back to his headquarters and, according to Arthur Schlesinger in "Robert Kennedy and His Times," told Bobby, "You just won't believe it. 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. After we had lunched as long as we could, someone suggested driving to the country, and we spent the afternoon there. I was expected to perform all the pulling and hauling; Phil gave directions and put the fun in my life and the childrens. It similarly (if with less success) pursued Iran-Contra and Bill Clintons ethical droppings. He acknowledged that he used humor as a weapon with which to keep people at a distance. Katharine's husband Philip battled alcoholism and mental illness throughout the marriage. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. 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. In 1965, Graham helped herself and the paper immeasurably by hiring Ben Bradlee, Newsweeks charismatic bureau chief in Washington and a friend of the Kennedys. He remained seriously depressed but seemed to me to be quite noticeably better, even after only a week or so at Chestnut Lodge. I began keeping a little accounts book, dutifully noting every penny spent, including the cost of gas and oil for the car, stamps, groceries, even our personal allowances, which were $9 each per week. Freelancers Guide Under Philip Graham, the Post had no prayer of even pretending to match the standards of the countrys best paper. For years, Katharine witnessed her husbands violent mood swingshis periods of heavy drinking, his bizarre behavior, his prolonged depressions. journalism. 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. Nixon told his men to treat the Post absolutely coldly and spoon-feed scoops to its local rival, the Star. Then He Tested Positive for COVID. Getting it launched was a full-time job, requiring massive organizational skills, infinite tact and patience, and a huge amount of time and energy. Dr. Phil McGraw has worked extremely hard over the years . Even now I cant sort out my feelings about this; its hard to separate what was a function of Phils terrible affliction, which manifested itself only later, and what was more basic. Bradlee was incensed, and said so in terms both loud and profane. Join Facebook to connect with Robin Webb and others you may know. Sometime after the "brainwashing" party, Johnson urged Phil to be at his side during the final push for passage of the bill. Join Facebook to connect with Robin H Webb and others you may know. During his time in D.C., Graham rubbed shoulders with a group of like-minded politicos known as the Georgetown Set, and came to know both Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. This article is adapted from the forthcoming book "Personal History" by Katharine Graham, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf. The Formative Years. I did not go because I did not want to help you. He was the fun at the dinner table and in our country life. So much of his life flowed from the year as president of the Law Review. This is about enough to mention about the family except possibly to reemphasize that they are lousy rich -- for instance, they live in an absurdly huge vulgar castle here, have another in N.Y., have a ranch in Wyoming, etc. While the Times and the two wire services, A.P. Contact Us . Performance/Dance For example, what I could not have known at the Hermitage is that after the suicide of her husband, on August 3, 1963, and the funeral, Mrs. Graham sent her eldest son, Donald, back to his internship at the Times, sent her two younger sons, Bill and Steve, back to summer camp, and promptly flew off to Europe to meet her eldest childher daughter, Lallyand a group of very O.K. He was intent, however, on making his mark in public life as well as on the stock exchange. The Young Publisher, In many ways, Phil was at his very best as a publisher in these years. . 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