community.". It happens to be a beautiful Destiny and I shall be there while it is beautiful and while it is not. 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. Health problems and death 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. . In fact, Graham played a significant role in convincing JFK to appoint Johnson to the vice presidency instead of Missouri Senator Stuart Symington. I didnt think much about it at the time, but this was the beginning of a pattern that I can see now was quite unhealthy. His temperament, his interests, and his style are quite different from his mothers. 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. . You are stuck with me as a mascot repeat mascot. 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. The story would run on the front page of The Post unless the people with the power to do something about it integrated the pools. Film/TV 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. This arrangement was never an issue. As is true of any royal visit, there were many logistical problems to be worked out. It proceeds from my belief that the editors and reporters have fulfilled the highest standards of professional duty and responsibility.. 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 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. But what of it? 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. Love is still strong between Dr. Phil McGraw and his wife Robin, who celebrates 43 years of married life in August 2019. Both were full of humor -- with an edge. This article is adapted from the forthcoming book "Personal History" by Katharine Graham, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf. I think this definition of roles deepened as time went on and I became increasingly unsure of myself. . But, if he does, the decisions should not be as hard for him as they were for Katharine Graham. He contracted polio at less than one year of age and, due to the lack of metal immediately after the second world war, was placed by doctors in a plaster of Paris cast for two and a half years. 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. For all its glamour and great personages, Personal History is a litany of humiliations, incidents in which the memoirist faults herself for lack of judgment, of independence, or of strength. 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. CAPTION: Phil Graham, as publisher of The Washington Post, often involved the paper in righting wrongs, as he saw them. She pursued hard the company of the well known. At that point, Phil got together with {columnist} Joe Alsop to discuss the merits of Lyndon Johnson as Kennedy's running mate. Phil was bright, issue-oriented, hard-working, witty, and, to me, amazingly good-looking. 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 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. He and his girlfriend flew to Phoenix to attend a meeting of The Associated Press. My limousine driver had been given strict instructionsand a sizable bribeto wait outside in case of emergency. Only a few minutes later, there was the ear-splitting noise of a gun going off indoors. 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. Robin Lee Graham is seen on his boat "Dove" during his solo trip around the world in the late 1960s. Email or phone: Password: . 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. In the beginning, even Richard Nixon got the same treatment. 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. 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. Philip Leslie "Phil" Graham (July 18, 1915 - August 3, 1963) was an American newspaper publisher. He had come into a job for which he was ill-prepared. 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. 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. 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. I passed the box without incident. Bradlee had been Phils friend, not hers, but he pushed for the job of managing editor, pushed with his customary blend of charm and vulgarity (Id give my left one for the job, he told her at lunch one day), and she melted. I never should have gone, she said. Bradlee was incensed, and said so in terms both loud and profane. 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. The area was still a wilderness. Philip Pannell Collapsed at a Statehood Rally. How Dangerous Is Getting Shot in the Shoulder? The evening was fine and fun. 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. This was a typical example of the way Phil used power to accomplish something good. I said that, much as I admired and loved President Kennedy, Phil personally had got along with him much better than I had. He wanted Estes Kefauver to head an anticrime commission and told him so, repeatedly, until Kefauver did it. Grahams mentor, Felix Frankfurter, talked him out of firing Barth, but Graham did print an apologetic note in the paper undermining the original editorial. Toward the end of her life, I was a success in her eyes, and perhaps that is what she loved. Robin Webb. Phil was born in 1915 in . Mr. I was already committed to Kennedy. But there was also a certain Africa-based correspondent who carved his own career coffin by arranging for a balloon safari over the Masai Mara at dawn; just as the sun was glinting off the savanna and the balloon was rising above a herd of grazing giraffes, Mrs. Graham is said to have turned to the correspondent and announced, with a profane burr, You know, I didnt travel all the way here to be a fucking tourist. It is said that the correspondent ended up as a recipe checker in the food section. It was unendurable to him not only that he couldn't make any of it right but that he might cause more hurt again. Until now, Katharine Graham, considering her influence, has been almost invisible. 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.,. 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. Both Phil and Felix worked on Joe throughout our dinner, suggesting that the most important first step for the 1950s was the right to vote. Still, I believed that with enough rest he'd recover and we'd go on. 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. . After lunch, we went upstairs to our bedroom for a nap. 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. "Very complicated business, a newspaper," Phil noted in a letter to my father late in 1947. By 1906, Meyer had made several million dollars by investing in securities; by 1915, he was worth between forty and sixty million. Gone not to my Far Country but to my Destiny. Born Katharine Meyer on June 16, 1917, in New York City; died on July 17, 2001, in Idaho; daughter of Eugene Meyer (owner of . in 1964, in his bedroom, she sat in an armchair while the President lay down on the bed. I also think that he realized the illness would recur. The first nights entertainment was an easy choice: the Kirov Ballet. 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. By the way, Senator, I didnt say I hated Nixon, she told Dole. Nobody knew what to do. . Soccer Im not sure she was ever really able to. He committed suicide that day. See Photos. From the start, she was intent on keeping the paper within the family and eventually passing it on to her children. Philip Leslie "Phil" Graham (July 18, 1915 - August 3, 1963) was an American newspaper publisher. Bradlee now sees himself as the self-appointed leader of. I felt he finally had doctors who were treating a real and known illness. I insisted. 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. He does not travel the globe to interview foreign leaders. 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 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. We grew less able to keep up with what was happening in the world. 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. 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. Phil, Kennedy said, when you get elected dogcatcher I will listen to you on politics. But in fact Kennedy had listened to him. A nice full head of hair, and well combed. Her obeisance was institutional and political, not merely personal. Inside the TV Star's Beverly Hills Home. He wept and wept and couldn't stop. After lunch, we went upstairs to our bedroom for a nap. 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. Facebook. Meyer began his financial career by investing six hundred dollars his father had given him for not smoking until he was twenty-one. . The paper sent out a young reporter named Ben Bradlee to cover what was happening, but Bradlee could barely find his story in the paper: it was buried deep inside, and nearly all mention of race and violence had been excised. Apparently, the interview went well. She hardly exists in Woodward and Bernsteins books, and she is portrayed in cardboard terms almost everywhere else. journalism. 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.. Mixing Politics. . 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. Despite Phil s constant self-flagellation about being the son-in-law of a rich and powerful clan, he did not shy from the advantages for long. Phils greatest successes were in business: buying and absorbing the Times-Herald in 1954, purchasing Newsweek (for a song) in 1961, and making inroads against the dominant paper in town, the Evening Star (which folded in 1981). ", "Washington City Paper has made me feel like I am part of the D.C. 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. He was the publisher (from 1946 until his death) and co-owner (from 1948) of The Washington Post. Nonetheless, Phil was the fizz in our lives. But there are also relationships that start out that way yet cross over to become real friendships that last forever. Following the lead of my successful colleague the Latin-American correspondent, I tried to schedule every minute of the two days allotted me. Phil's mother had discussed her desire that he go to law school. 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. But I want you to know I am among the many people in this country who believe in you and are behind you with trust and devotion.. 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. I bolted out of the room and ran around in a frenzy looking for him. So Phil returned to Washington and stayed with Lyndon almost constantly for several days, working day and night. They met earlier that year. The moment of happiness you gave me is more help than most people are given in a lifetime, Thank you for it. 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. 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. . Its hard to remake decisions and even harder to rethink nondecisions. Because of this, he never put a name to Phil's illness. See Photos. . Beer Which is precisely the wrong way to conduct business as the publisher of a newspaper. . The Life and Death of a Ukrainian Photographer. But even this was hard to understand. (According to some accounts, Philip also threatened to divorce Katharine and marry Robin Webb, a Newsweek stringer with whom he'd been having an affair.) So does her imperious carriage. He was one month shy of his 31st birthday, the youngest publisher of a major newspaper in America. 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. I hadnt realized that the Post wasnt perfectly okay.). 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. At one of the embassies, I found a young woman who was said to own a blow-dryer and a brush. 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. 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. Joe persuaded Phil to accompany him to urge Kennedy to offer the vice-presidency to Johnson. But in the spring of 1971 the Supreme Court had not yet declared its strong support of press freedoms to the degree that it would in the Pentagon Papers case; moreover, the Post itself did not yet have the financial standing or the self-identity to go forward simply and with confidence. We in Moscow had neither the time nor the luxury that would allow us to confirm these legends. The Young Publisher, In many ways, Phil was at his very best as a publisher in these years. This is a very significant case and has huge repercussions for freedom of expression & religious liberty in our country. On the appointed day, I put on my good blue suit, fired up the office Volvo, and proudly drove the hairdresser to Mrs. Grahams suite at the National Hotel. and mass movements aimed at breaking the President. Eventually, the debate over the war led to a shift in the editorial pagethe conservative Russell Wiggins was replaced by the more liberal Philip Geyelinbut the Post never completely distinguished itself on Vietnam. Since Eisenhower was not very interested, except in theory, and was concentrating on his vacation golf games, there was a vacuum within the administration. In the midst of the crisis, she wrote to Ehrlichman, saying, What appears in the Post is not a reflection of my personal feelings. The next step in the battle for civil rights was on. His remarks quickly degenerated, turning into nonsense interspersed with ugly language. . Freelancers Guide . 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. "So I restated the matter urging him not to count on Johnson's turning it down . With time, Katharine was becoming more and more troubled, less and less secure. 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. Sometime after the "brainwashing" party, Johnson urged Phil to be at his side during the final push for passage of the bill. Mann was once asked if Agnes was German. . Advertise with Us, Sponsored Posts from our Partners Phil asked Joe to bring Felix Frankfurter along. 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. That Christmas Eve afternoon, the world I had known and loved ended for me. Phil firmly stated his intention to divorce me and marry Robin. He refused to be used, particularly by my mother, or to be dominated by her. Although at the time I didnt realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that might displease those around me. I had to face facts -- Phil was really gone. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. {Rauh favored a much broader civil rights bill, but the Senate had watered it down.} 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. Philip planned to divorce Katharine for Webb and started the process of dividing up the couple's assets. 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. He was intent, however, on making his mark in public life as well as on the stock exchange. This was my most important contribution to the interview with the General Secretary of the Communist Party. Naturally, they voted that he be allowed to go. robin webb phil graham photos Coach Thomas returned to Servite in January of 2018 after coaching at his alma mater, Crespi from 2012-2017. He acknowledged that he used humor as a weapon with which to keep people at a distance. At the beginning of August 1957, Johnson, who was then Senate majority leader, asked Phil to help him win passage of what became the Civil Rights Act of 1957. . I had no understanding of the terrible depression he had gone through or the polar-opposite mood that was dominating him at the time. After the honeymoon, we settled into our little house, which we rented for $80 a month in a pleasant neighborhood called Burleith. Sometimes you become friends with people with whom you work because of some common interest or just because you have to work together. . It was incredibly exciting. Certainly he saw his whole endeavor as useless unless he could project a future for The Post in the family. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. 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. 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. CAPTION: A June wedding: Phil and Katharine Graham married in 1940. Grahams father had had trouble coming up with the funds to send him to Harvard Law, but managed to do so. I would not insist that Moscow was short on luxury in those days except to note that I did not so much find a hairdresser as create one. Dr. Phil McGraw has worked extremely hard over the years . I went because it was my Destiny. It was a fleeting, mystifying moment, but a very real one. 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