Katharine Graham
Katharine Graham
Katharine Meyer Grahamwas an American publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Her memoir, Personal History, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth16 June 1917
CountryUnited States of America
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Although at the time I didn't realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that might displease those around me. For years, whatever directive I may have issued ended with the phrase, 'If it's all right with you.' If I thought I'd done anything to make someone unhappy, I'd agonize.
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These cool or antagonistic relationships are part of life in Washington and are accepted as such, but I often think how self-defeating they are and how much better polite professional relationships would serve political figures and journalists in situations like this. I agreed with a charming message I got from George McGovern after he had been defeated for the presidency. He recalled making some bitter remarks about a couple of our columnists at a dinner party; but wrote me, 'I have regretted that outburst and I have also established that the maximum time I can carry a grudge is about three months. This note is simply to say that I have now forgotten all campaign grudges. It is just too difficult trying to remember which people I'm supposed to shun.'
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Personal History ... I loved the first few chapters where she describes America's wealthy politicians and their inner circles. And the tracing of American politics...
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A mistake is simply another way of doing things
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News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.
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The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.
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Truth and news are not the same thing.
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The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.
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Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.
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In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can't be easily separated. This is the city where the personal and the political are most closely linked.
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The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade...
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If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.
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With rare exceptions, I feel strongly that McGovern's rule is an appropriate one for us all. The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is most debilitating to the person who bears it.
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I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.