"And so the person who succeeds you inherits something different, and you add to it or you subtract from it or you do whatever you do. ", Bradlee remained determined to pursue his vision for Style and answered another of her suggestions for it by saying, "I can't edit this section unless you get your finger out of my eye.". The Post obtained its own copy of the papers on the day of that court order, and Bradlee brought reporters to his Georgetown home to begin secretly preparing stories for publication about the 7,000 pages of Vietnam war history. , " ", , . Her son Donald was publisher from 1979 until 2000.[29]. ", The Princess of Wales visited Mrs. Graham in Washington on several occasions during the period when Diana was struggling through a divorce from Britain's Prince Charles. The Post's pressmen, he told her, had gone on a rampage. Stephen Hills, who is the president of the Post Media Group and Katharine's deputy, suggested that . She also served as chairman of the newspaper publishers group. And a Wall Street friend with administration contacts ominously warned Mrs. Graham "not to be alone. The award was presented by Awards Council member Coretta Scott King. By the early 1970s, the unions for both the printers, who set stories in type, and the pressmen, who ran the presses that printed the paper, were using slowdowns as bargaining tactics in contract negotiations in which the company sought work rule changes. Philip Graham se convirti en editor del Post en 1946, cuando Eugene Meyer entreg el peridico a su yerno. ", "I really felt I was put on earth to take care of Phil Graham," she said many years later. SPECIAL MUSEUM & CULTURAL PROGRAMMES AND MICE. I just admired and liked her a whole lot.". Within days after her husband's death, Mrs. Graham told the board of directors that The Post Co. would stay in the family. "By the time the story had grown to the point where the size of it dawned on us," she said, "we had already waded deeply into the stream. Stephen Meyer Graham - Biographical Summaries of Notable People - MyHeritage Stephen Meyer Graham In Biographical Summaries of Notable People Save this record and choose the information you want to add to your family tree Save record Spotted an error? Graham credited others for a good deal of the company's business success, particularly Buffett and Richard D. Simmons, former president of Dun & Bradstreet, whom she named Post Co. president in 1981. ", But Mrs. Graham again stood behind Bradlee and his staff. News of the suicide was first. Supporters said the process showed she set high standards and insisted that they be met. Former secretary of state George P. Shultz, a particularly close friend, said in an interview that "her friendship was not something that passed with the changing of one's Washington role." 12. Stephen Meyer Graham: Parent(s) Agnes Ernst Meyer Eugene Meyer: Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. The printers got the point: In September 1974, in return for cash buyouts and guaranteed lifetime jobs, they agreed to accept the new technology. One of her first important decisions was one of her most successful. Mrs. Graham guided The Washington Post through two of the most celebrated episodes in American journalism, the publication in 1971 of the Pentagon Papers, a secret government history of the war in Vietnam, and the Watergate scandal, which led to Richard M. Nixon's resignation from the presidency in 1974 under the threat of impeachment. A leading figure in international political, business and social circles, Mrs. Graham was a personal friend of many of the most prominent leaders of her time, including American Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Ronald Reagan; Presidents Valery Giscard d'Estaing of France, Corazon Aquino of the Philippines, Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic and Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia; Chancellor Willy Brandt of West Germany; and Prime Minister Edward Heath of Britain. In all, Meyer put about $20 million into the enterprise. Lally was born in Washington D.C. the United States on 3rd July 1943 as Elizabeth Morris Graham. Philip Graham planned to follow in his father's footsteps in the Florida legislature and perhaps one day run for the U.S. Senate. ( : Katharine Meyer Graham ; 16 1917 - 17 2001) . Every year on March 2 they celebrate "Graham Day," honoring their namesake and her accomplishments.[36]. Eugene Meyer had another idea. While Graham cited many other people, as well as sheer luck, for playing vital roles in the company's success, the driving force behind it all was her passionate devotion to the company. When he returned to work, periods in which he functioned brilliantly alternated with periods in which he was morose and erratic and drank heavily. Mrs. Graham traveled widely, often joining Post and Newsweek editors and reporters in meetings with foreign leaders. She was 46 years old. Stephen J Meyer, 44. She was a big influence in Washington in part because of that. +8.90 +0.48%. ", Mrs. Graham was often described as the most powerful woman in the world, a notion she dismissed out of hand. "Stephen Meyer is a genuine renaissance person. Science & Technology Seattle, WA returnofthegodhypothesis.com Joined March 2013. Veteran reporter Chalmers Roberts, who was writing the first day's article, threatened to resign two weeks ahead of his planned retirement and publicly accuse The Post of cowardice if publication was delayed, and Bradlee thought others might resign as well. Katharine Graham was born Katharine Meyer in 1917 into a privileged family in New York City, the daughter of Agnes Elizabeth (ne Ernst) and Eugene Meyer. Stephen Meyer, III The Department of History shared the sad news that Dr. Stephen "Steve" Meyer, Professor Emeritus of History at UW-Milwaukee, passed away on June 22, 2020. [15], The Grahams were important members of the Washington social scene, becoming friends with John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Robert F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, and Nancy Reagan among many others. By this time, Mrs. Graham had acquired glamour as well as fame and influence. Her candid account of her journey from shy homemaker to a pioneering female leader in male-dominated journalism and business resonated with countless women among her book's hundreds of thousands of readers. He received his Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University. In addition, he has three siblings: Lally Weymouth, William Welsh Graham, and Stephen Meyer Graham. Meyer's summary of this opening talk can easily be misunderstood. Agnes was reportedly very negative and condescending towards Katharine, which had a negative impact on Meyer's self-confidence. Stephen C. Meyer directs Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture in Seattle. [47] Her funeral took place at the Washington National Cathedral. Ephron said. I had to try to assure Wall Street that I wasn't some madwoman, interested only in risks and editorial issues, but that I was concerned with how we ran our business. Peaky Blinders - Hayden Stagg. It involved Ben Bradlee, who had worked for the paper from 1948 to 1951. It was harder for Mrs. Graham to make her mark as a businesswoman than as a news executive. Moreover, if convicted of a felony under the espionage laws cited in the Times case, the company would lose the licenses for its two Florida TV stations, then worth about $100 million. [43], In 2000, Graham was named one of the International Press Institute's 50 World Press Freedom Heroes of the past 50 years.[44]. Such was the case with the editorial stand on the conflict in Vietnam. . Once I found myself in the deepest water in the middle of the current, there was no going back. The cream-colored mansion sits on more than an acre and has the feel of a country estate. ", Warren Buffett, the legendary stock investor and the company's largest shareholder outside the Graham family, became a close friend and business mentor to Mrs. Graham after he began buying large amounts of Post stock soon after it was first offered publicly in the l970s. On Jan. 1, 1946, he became associate publisher. Revenue grew nearly twentyfold, the company acquired numerous new businesses, and it became a public corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The sale was conducted under the supervision of a bankruptcy court on the steps of the old Post building on E Street NW near the Willard Hotel. Her grandfather was Marc Eugene Meyer, and her great-grandfather was rabbi Joseph Newmark. After graduating from college in 1938, she got a job on the San Francisco News for $24 a week. Our thanks to friends and neighbors, Helen Graham Cancer Center, Bayada Home Care and Bayada Hospice for all of their wonderful help throughout Steve's illness. As a manager, her strengths were intelligence, toughness, a willingness to listen and learn, and an ability to judge character. Buffett, who had been a Post carrier as a teenager after his father's 1942 election to Congress, became the company's largest stockholder outside the Graham family as well as one of its directors. She became the first female Fortune 500 CEO in 1972, as CEO of the Washington Post company. But Bradlee pressed for publication, and editorial page editor Geyelin said that "there's more than one way to destroy a newspaper. At 5 a.m. on Oct. 1, Mrs. Graham was awakened by a telephone call from Mark Meagher, The Post's general manager. Following up on Richard Dawkins's attempted takedown of Stephen Meyer's bike-lock analogy ("It's irrelevantbecause natural selection is a NONRANDOM process"), our Biologic Institute colleague Douglas Axe joined the conversation over at Why Evolution Is True. On January 30, 1998, television station WCPX-TV in Orlando changed its callsign to WKMG-TV in honor of longtime Washington Post publisher, Katharine M. Graham. A key figure in this evolution was Philip Geyelin, who joined the paper in 1967 and served as editor of the editorial page from 1968 to 1979. Of the five Meyer children, she was the closest to her parents, and she was the only one to show an interest in journalism. . Stories in The Post about Mrs. Graham's many friends were handled in the same way as stories about anyone else. Their first baby died at birth. Meyer concentrated on advertising, circulation and the editorial page, which soon gained stature as a forum for discussion of public affairs. She stimulated conversation and explored ideas. In the 1990s, her younger friends included Bill Gates, the co-founder and head of Microsoft Corp., and Diana, Princess of Wales. [37][38], In 1975, Graham received the S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards. Mr. Stephen Meyer Graham Private Party Private jet tours for Forbes list clients: Mr Russel Wight, Mr Edward Easton, Mr Gerald Hosier, Mr William Schenkman. She was well aware, as she said, that male corporate heads "fired executive after executive, but no one attributed their actions to their gender. In this role, her conversations with editorial page editors sometimes led to major new opinion policies. [16][17], Graham was also known for a long-time friendship with Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway owned a substantial stake in the Post. He had mood swings and often belittled her. She denounced various stories as "bitchy," "tasteless," "snide" or "grisly." (His half brother, Bob Graham, became governor of Florida and a senator). "I felt desperate and secretly wondered if I might have blown the whole thing and lost the paper.". At a newsroom celebration of the awarding of the prize, the late Meg Greenfield, then The Post's editorial page editor and a close friend of Mrs. Graham's, turned to her and said: "Now do you believe you wrote a good book?". He later headed the magazine's Washington bureau. 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. ", Style, the groundbreaking section on culture and lifestyles created by Bradlee in 1969 to replace the traditional women's pages in The Post, was the subject of many of what Mrs. Graham called "continuing conversations" with her editor. Lang and directed by Peter Sellars. Eugene Meyer had bought the newspaper on June 1, 1933, for $825,000 from the estate of Edward B. She remained active in the company and the community after her retirement, hosting newly elected Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush at her home, actively participating in interviews that Post and Newsweek editors and reporters had with newsmakers in Washington and New York, leading delegations of editors and reporters on visits to heads of state overseas, lending her presence to charitable events throughout the country and working on such local mattters as improving public schools. As a young woman living in Paris, she knew many luminaries of the art world. Graham presided over the Post at a crucial time in its history. She found an influential mentor in Buffett, the investor from Omaha. An important book of both breadth and depth." Dr. Henry F. Schaefer III, Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry, Director, Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia He said in an interview that she "used The Post editorial board as a bully pulpit for self-determination . She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate scandal coverage that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Former Congressman Stephen Buyer criminally profited from his access to power and confidential information, a federal prosecutor told jurors in the first of a . With the new crews running the presses, the mailers' union voted in mid-February to accept a new contract, and other unions soon followed. Other important advisers were James Reston, the chief of the New York Times bureau in Washington, and Walter Lippmann, the columnist. Throughout her life, she was attracted to great men she knew, from Auguste Rodin, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Claudel and Thomas Mann to Adlai Stevenson and Earl Warren. In 1946, Mrs. Graham bought the house on R street NW in Georgetown that was to be her principal residence for the rest of her life. Katharine Meyer Graham 19176162001717 . 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