Seelye. At one point, Mrs. Graham asked for ice cream. All around was the loud mewing of big cats and small children. Johnson worked actively to cultivate the press, and Phil was always drawn to politics. 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.) 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. Phil wrote a letter in return that Katharine rightly describes as pretty strange: One morning when you were despairing I tried to help you by words. In later years, he wanted to mold the career of his friend Senator Lyndon Johnson. I got it for her. Phil also wanted Frank Stanton, still CBS president, to become COMSAT's president and operating head. There was, of course, no way to press the point. His most passionate political interests are local. . To help Phil pay back the debt he incurred in borrowing to buy the stock, I volunteered to pay for all our living expenses -- houses, cars, schools, entertainment -- and did so. He was raised in Miami where his father, Ernest R. ("Cap") Graham, made a career in farming and real estate, and was elected to the State Senate. Graham had every reason to refuse or defer publication of the Pentagon Papers. in 1964, in his bedroom, she sat in an armchair while the President lay down on the bed. See Photos. Join Facebook to connect with Robin H Webb and others you may know. 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. A nice full head of hair, and well combed. Philip Leslie "Phil" Graham (July 18, 1915 - August 3, 1963) was an American newspaper publisher. Attention would have to be paid. After Robert Opel dashed naked across the stage in 1974, he ran for President and settled into the gay leather scene, in the orbit of Robert Mapplethorpe and Harvey Milk. Simple Pleasures. You've probably heard of her father, Eugene Meyer, who is now publisher of the Washington Post, and has been in the past such things as head of the Federal Reserve. . Without Graham working as a go-between at the 1960 Democratic Convention, Kennedy might never have picked Johnson as his running mate. Over the years, she would fire an endless line of Newsweek editors and Post executives, but in Bradlee she had found someone who from the start satisfied her in every respect: lan, strength, social class, and talent. Dr. Phil McGraw has worked extremely hard over the years . . We went to a restaurant, had a long dinner, talked and laughed a lot, and drank until quite late. The story, of course, revealed nothing of Mrs. Graham. Here was someone who combined for me the two parts of my life that I thought were inescapably separate. By June 17th, thanks to his national editor, Ben Bagdikian, he had his own set of papers. His widow was left to confront all the myths and all the insulations that her marriage, her class, and her sex had imposed on her. . As he was being taken out of George Washington, he loudly proclaimed who he was and that he was a prisoner. He was intent, however, on making his mark in public life as well as on the stock exchange. Phil's mother had discussed her desire that he go to law school. Finally, Otis and some other men got him to his room. Performance/Dance 318 Robin Webb Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images CREATIVE Collections Project #ShowUs Creative Insights EDITORIAL VIDEO BBC Motion Gallery NBC News Archives MUSIC BLOG BROWSE PRICING ENTERPRISE VisualGPS INSIGHTS BOARDS CART SIGN IN Images Images Creative Editorial Video Creative Editorial FILTERS CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO 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. Not only had I lost my husband but I was about to lose The Post. Events: A heads up about City Paper events, from panels to parties. Terms & Conditions I bolted out of the room and ran around in a frenzy looking for him. Phil received the larger share of the stock because, as Dad explained to me, no man should be in the position of working for his wife. Freelancers Guide Renewed Activity. The year leading up to Grahams death was a turbulent one for him and his family. I never should have gone, she said. . On Nov. 2, I flew up to Idlewild Airport with Phil to see him off to Europe, where he was going to talk to Larry Norstad. Updated: August 28, 2015 He also vowed to do a number on the Post, and to go after the Graham familys broadcasting licenses. Although at the time I didnt realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that might displease those around me. Katharine knew that her husband and her old way of life were lost to her, but, fearful though she was of confrontation and of Williams, she was determined to fight for the paper. The Life and Death of a Ukrainian Photographer. To a reporter, and especially a reporter in 1996, there doesnt seem to be a need to make any decision at all. The reporters returned to The Post to write the story, expecting, of course, that it would be on the front page. . The whole idea of buying Newsweek and adding yet another huge responsibility to his already too-full plate made me nervous. Facebook gives people the power to. Gone not to my Far Country but to my Destiny. Almost pathetically, he asked not to go back to Chestnut Lodge. Unfortunately, this incapacity often produced in womenas it did in mea diffuse way of talking, an inability to be concise, a tendency to ramble, to start at the end and work backwards, to overexplain, to go on for too long, to apologize. 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 were both up all night, with me trying desperately but to no avail to be of some reassuring help. Mrs. Grahams personal relations with the powerful and the once powerful became, if anything, even more visible after Watergate. I felt close to history. I told you how lonely it had been when I had visited my Far Country and how I could not get near enough to help you in your Far Country. Phil was born in 1915 in Terry, S.D., and moved as a boy to the Everglades, where his father, Ernest Graham, was manager of a sugar cane plantation. At last, we could begin to believe that The Post was here to stay. Her allegiance to democratic capitalism is no less firm than that of William F. Buckley, Jr., and her inherent faith that the establishment lites will do the right thing is nearly absolute. She, too, saw it, felt its heat, and began running for the exit. Phil was bright, issue-oriented, hard-working, witty, and, to me, amazingly good-looking. Advertisement. Following the lead of my successful colleague the Latin-American correspondent, I tried to schedule every minute of the two days allotted me. The Grahams ran their rather expensive household out of Katharines trust fund; meanwhile, Meyer gave Phil nearly three times as many shares of Post stock as he gave his daughter. And yet his periods of lucidity and humor, of lively intelligence, were frequent enough to confuse her and delay any sense of reckoning. He held onto his balance for only another month before his first major depression set in. Son: Stephen Meyer Graham (b. Museums/Galleries The whole political year of 1960 was very exciting. Loose Lips Telling his father about the marriage proved difficult. There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. For the second, I went with the upbeat, down-market option: the circus. Five months later, Phil Graham, once again in a trough of depression, ended the affair and came home.}. Someone -- I've never been sure who -- reached President Kennedy, who agreed to the use of a government plane to transport the doctors to get Phil. 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. It was featured, with a photograph, in the next days edition of Pravda. In some ways, this was the bottom moment for me -- very confusing, very difficult, and very painful. friends for the Aegean cruise. Phil and my mother also got along well. View the profiles of people named Robin Webb. A few days later, I was assigned to show her and her close friend Meg Greenfield, the Posts editorial-page editor, around the city that was then known as Leningrad. I was not about to give up the paper without a fight. I simply didnt connect my lack of self-confidence with his behavior to me., The end of this increasingly painful marriage was prolonged and extremely public. An exception is David Halberstams 1979 book, The Powers That Be, which provides a vivid group portrait of the men and women behind the Post, CBS, Time, and the Los Angeles Times. Also, it was part of my bafflement at what I saw as Phil's increasingly strange behavior. . I believe that Phil came to the sad conclusion that he would never again lead a normal life. That decision may have been right for me, she writes, but it was so wrong for Bill and Steve and even for Donso wrong that I wonder how I could have made it. After lunch, we went upstairs to our bedroom for a nap. His mother, the former Florence Morris, had been a schoolteacher in the Black Hills of South Dakota. But then Mrs. Graham was laughing. This time, he saw his departure as final. Phil was clearly upset, too. . Under Ochs, the Times institutionalized the notion of nonpartisan, objective reporting. That. My father had said that he himself was too old to let Phil work his way up. Phil called me once or twice, and carried on in his usual irreverent, breezy way. Baseball Despite his early apprehensions about my father's wealth, politics, and possible impulse to control, Phil gradually grew very close to him. For whatever reason, I liked to be dominated and to be the implementer. And by now helping you I believe and I pray I shall help you. 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. Phil then cut a deal. By the way, Senator, I didnt say I hated Nixon, she told Dole. 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. Robin Webb Retweeted Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham 4 Dec 2017 TOMORROW morning Jack Phillips' case will be coming before the Supreme Court. If there was one journalist she admired more than any other, it was her friend James Reston, and it was Reston who, despite his many virtues, had famously said, I will not have the New York Times muckraking the President of the United States. But in the end she made her decision. She had not thought about what marriage entailed in the way of relationships to spouse and children, Graham writes. Love is still strong between Dr. Phil McGraw and his wife Robin, who celebrates 43 years of married life in August 2019. Email or phone: Password: . 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. 243 replies 897 retweets 2,932 likes Robin Webb Retweeted On Oct. 28, in the middle of the night, he broke. At Vassar and at the University of Chicago, Katherine took an interest in left-wing politics, which were very much in the air, but always her sense and her sense of breeding prevented her from taking what seemed like extreme steps. Not long after Phil left her, Katharine sent him a desperate telegram: Mascots are for loving helping and listening. By 1906, Meyer had made several million dollars by investing in securities; by 1915, he was worth between forty and sixty million. Philip planned to divorce Katharine for Webb and started the process of dividing up the couple's assets. . Graham was from a Florida family whose financial prospects, while far from dire, were a matter of occasional drama. 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. Under Philip Graham's management, the newspaper, thanks to its collaboration with the CIA, experienced an upswing and its empire expanded, including the purchase of the then-moribund Newsweek magazine [1] and other media properties. (The Meyers had five children, of whom Katharine was the fourth.) The Young Publisher, In many ways, Phil was at his very best as a publisher in these years. In fact, Graham played a significant role in convincing JFK to appoint Johnson to the vice presidency instead of Missouri Senator Stuart Symington. 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. The truth is that I adored him and saw only the positive side of what he was doing for me. View the profiles of people named Robin Graham. In 1940, he married Katharine, daughter of millionaire Post owner Eugene Meyer, who made Graham publisher in 1946. Surrounded by her male editors and executives, Graham could recognize in herself the same reflexes of deference she had learned as a daughter and as a wife. It was with Felix that Phil entered the world of great minds, ideas and books, stimulating conversation, and above all an interest in current events. Gear Prudence And I was incredulous -- this brilliant, charismatic, fascinating man loved me! There is no doubt that the vast majority of reporters at papers like the Post are themselves more liberal than the general population: a recent poll showed that eighty-nine per cent of Washington-based correspondents voted for Clinton in 1992. 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 October 1962, Phil accepted an invitation from President Kennedy to serve as an incorporator of the Communications Satellite Corp., known as COMSAT, with the understanding that he would be elected to head it. The only thanks you ever seem to receive is a deafening chorus of carping criticism. Grahams mentor, Felix Frankfurter, talked him out of firing Barth, but Graham did print an apologetic note in the paper undermining the original editorial. It was incredibly exciting. In the summer of 1949, there were race riots in Washington over the integration of a city swimming pool. Weymouth's brother, Stephen Graham,. This was my most important contribution to the interview with the General Secretary of the Communist Party. He does not live in Georgetown. In the late nineteen-fifties, Phil Grahams health and behavior also presented increasingly difficult problemsproblems that might have been solved with medication, if he had not refused it. Local Activists Work With Falls Church City Council To Reinvest In Eden Center. Darren has released eleven albums to date, plus she has been featured on various other albums and compilations. Still, I believed that with enough rest he'd recover and we'd go on. The Formative Years. {Rauh favored a much broader civil rights bill, but the Senate had watered it down.} 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. Then Mrs. Graham started past it. Robert McNamara, Henry Kissinger, Lawrence Eagleburger, George Shultz, Paul Nitze, Douglas Dillon, McGeorge Bundy, Jack Valenti, Joe Califano: her list of establishment friends is long and decidedly nonpartisan. I found it impossibly difficult to learn and never really did, although my children tried having me learn by stamping out cigarettes and drying myself with bath towels. See Photos. Tomorrow: Watergate. His health, already frail, was affected physically and mentally. Oh, you know, he said, during a campaign they put these things in your hands and you just read them. (Dole admitted the same to a Times reporter after the 1996 campaign. . Graham was gambling every sort of inheritance that was important to her: the paper, her fortune, and, perhaps most important, the judgment of the ghosts who crowded around her. 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. . He was simply not interested in the Times ideal so much as he was in making the Post a player in Washington and, perhaps more, in being a player himself. This was a typical example of the way Phil used power to accomplish something good. The General Secretary had revealed his plans for a joint United StatesSoviet space mission to Mars, and we led the paper with that world beat. . . that he wrote speeches for him and advised him on civil rights and key appointments; he even had power of attorney for Johnson and went out and found him a house to buy. Facebook. He wants it.". I have now gone. I bolted out of the room and ran around in a frenzy looking for him. James Reston, who was then a friend of the Grahams and was the most eminent figure at the Times, repeatedly declined offers to go to the Post. 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.. Phil remained loyal to Johnson until he lost the bid for the nomination. I cant write in the eloquent words he used. Grahams insecurity as a woman, as a publisher, and as a parent has clear and painful origins. 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. Charles Colson, for one, tried to dismiss the conspiracy as fictiona charge that, if true, would probably have ruined the paper forever. Eugene Meyer had bought the Washington Post at auction for eight hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in 1933, and in 1946 he made Phil its publisher. At that point, Phil got together with {columnist} Joe Alsop to discuss the merits of Lyndon Johnson as Kennedy's running mate. He and his girlfriend flew to Phoenix to attend a meeting of The Associated Press. The mask was made to match, also at Bergdorfs, by Halston, who was then still making hats.) Graham considered the ball a kind of coming out for a middle-aged debutante. But in Pete Hamills column in the New York Post she was suddenly Marie Antoinette. He left no note of any kind. 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. On Jan. 1, 1946, he started his postwar work at the age of 30 as associate publisher of The Post. 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 went to school in Miami. Katharine Grahams establishment position on the war did not go unnoticed. I was charmed and dazzled. The Post publisher took a mistress, Robin Webb, whom he set up in a large house in Washington and a farm outside of the city. It was all kept very private; our one idea was to conceal what had happened not only from the world but from our friends, my family, and even our children. The cost of failure was incalculable. See Photos. The most imposing woman in journalism delivers an unexpectedly confessional autobiography. . This was in 1988, and I had recently been assigned to the Washington Posts bureau in Moscow. He refused to be used, particularly by my mother, or to be dominated by her. Nor did Phil Graham always have the mettle to stand by his best people. Money, my fathers being Jewish, and sex were taboo subjects at home. Graham supported Eisenhower in 1952 and, in the service of that support, censored the work of his greatest star, the cartoonist Herblock, in the last two weeks of the campaign. Health problems and death Phil received the larger share of the stock because, as Dad explained to me, no man should be in the position of working for his wife. Toward the end of her life, I was a success in her eyes, and perhaps that is what she loved. On Feb. 1, Phil came home briefly. Ronald Reagan made sure to accept invitations to Mrs. Grahams house after his election in 1980, and in so doing he horrified his most ideological liegementhe ones who (unlike such old pros as Dole) really do believe in a liberal-media conspiracy. The two most powerful presences in her lifeher mother and her husbandwere both clearly suffering from psychological problems, yet Katharine still felt inferior to them. Meyer began his financial career by investing six hundred dollars his father had given him for not smoking until he was twenty-one. It was incredibly exciting. 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. Dr. Phil McGraw and Robin McGraw during TNT's "Christmas in Washington 2004" - Show and Audience at National Building Museum in Washington, DC, D.C.,. She did not have to. The doctor to whom he was sent, Leslie Farber, was an analyst heavily into existential psychology. It was plain white crpe with slate-colored beads around the neck and the sleeves. Pretty soon this kind of thinkingindeed, this kind of lifetook its toll: most of us became somehow inferior. I told him I had the feeling that he thought my point of view was different from Phils, but that in general Phil and I had agreed. Phil Graham, he said, was too hot for me, too involved in politics, felt too deeply about people, even his own people on the paper.. The moment of happiness you gave me is more help than most people are given in a lifetime, Thank you for it. At dinner at Joseph Alsops one night early in 1961, Graham continually offered political advice to the new President, John Kennedy. Graham eventually met Australian journalist Robin Webb, and in 1962 they began an affair. 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 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. He told me that he loved me and said we would be married and go to Florida, if I could live with only two dresses, because I had to understand that he would never take anything from my father and we would live on what he made. Around this time, my father decided to pass the paper on to Phil and me. Phil Graham maintained Meyer's intimacy with power. Gravely, as if we were negotiating the Treaty of Ghent, I gave her an annotated copy of Vogue, a mug shot of Mrs. Graham, and a hundred dollars. But hurry, she said. Unlike Phil, I find it hard to express emotion. Eugene Meyer was a Jew who might have preferred not to be. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. My limousine driver had been given strict instructionsand a sizable bribeto wait outside in case of emergency. My father said, "Done." She was in a good mood. 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. Her gesture in retrospect seems to me undignified, considering the awful slamming we were taking from him, she writes. 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. I found him captivating. In 1962, he began an affair with Australian journalist Robin Webb, for whom he would later threaten to divorce his wife Katharine Meyer Graham. My feeling that something fundamental had been destroyed was a result of my total commitment and my belief that these feelings went both ways. I did not go to help you. 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. The pressures were enormous and her preparations for them slight. As for Phil, at the same time that he was building me up, he was tearing me down. She once took the time to introduce her friend the architect I. M. Pei to Agnes. Everything except Phil's personal expenses was carried by me from the modest trust started for each of the Meyer children by my father. 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. On Aug. 3, having apparently made noticeable improvements, he convinced doctors to let him take a retreat to the Virginia farmhouse. And, under Bradlees urging, she began spending the money necessary to create, among other things, a first-rate foreign staff. The Times was immediately in trouble with the White House and the courts. Film/TV @robin.webb.100. Katharine Graham revealed in her 1997 autobiography Personal History (which her biographer Deborah Davis reviewed for Washington City Paper) that she felt her husband received inadequate treatment at Chestnut Lodge, going so far as to say that his condition required electroshock therapy. Into this vacuum, Phil moved swiftly and with great assurance. Perhaps if the turmoil had ended there he might have been able to rest and get his strength back. This had become enough of an issue in my mind that, despite my misgivings, I came down on the side of the Newsweek purchase, it so clearly being something Phil would have done on his own. And then nothing more. And he was very interested in ensuring that women were working on the paper as well as reading it. Theater I almost rather died!. She'd been told that Harvard was the best, so her dying wish was that he go there. When they were taken to see JFK, Phil spoke -- "shrewdly and eloquently," according to Joe -- pointing out all the obvious things that Johnson could add to the ticket and noting that not having Johnson on the ticket would certainly be trouble. 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. Mixing Politics. She went ahead with the publication of the Pentagon Papers, and she backed her reporters and editors during Watergate, when the Post Companys survival was under threat and the paper was all alone in pursuing the story. Name variations: Kay Graham; Mrs. Phil Graham; Katharine Meyer. Phil firmly stated his intention to divorce me and marry Robin. We had one small cushion, a $500 wedding present from an aunt, which I thought I would use for extras like theater and travel tickets. How Dangerous Is Getting Shot in the Shoulder? See Photos Inside His Beverly Hills Home. ), it is preposterous to say that the rules of the game are the same. If you have the goods, you say, Screw it, and publish. . He was a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed while waiting to clerk the following year for Felix Frankfurter, his mentor from Harvard Law School. 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. In the fall of 1942, Dad and I were on a train coming back from New York, and naturally we were talking about Phil. The next step in the battle for civil rights was on. 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 ended up on his hands and knees, crawling around at the last minute to retrieve one of Lyndon's contact lenses. Even before Adolph Ochs bought the paper, in 1896, the Times had earned its record for rigor when it went after Boss Tweed. 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