See Photos. Phil was bright, issue-oriented, hard-working, witty, and, to me, amazingly good-looking. 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. 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. Without Graham working as a go-between at the 1960 Democratic Convention, Kennedy might never have picked Johnson as his running mate. Philip Leslie "Phil" Graham (July 18, 1915 - August 3, 1963) was an American newspaper publisher. In later years, he wanted to mold the career of his friend Senator Lyndon Johnson. Why are Vladimir Putins opponents dying? The story, of course, revealed nothing of Mrs. Graham. Grahams mentor, Felix Frankfurter, talked him out of firing Barth, but Graham did print an apologetic note in the paper undermining the original editorial. After lunch, we went upstairs to our bedroom for a nap. Nonetheless, Phil was the fizz in our lives. Soon Phil began telling his friends that he was going to divorce his wife and marry Robin Webb. Basketball I rang her up and explained the situation. Health problems and death 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. 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. Film/TV You are stuck with me as a mascot repeat mascot. At Harvard, Phil made the Law Review and, at the end of his second year, became its president. 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. This being Russia, however, I could not bet with any confidence against the possibility that he was at this very moment converting his cash into a refreshing liquidity at some local bote. 12 Phil Graham pictures. Curie. There were moments of strain between us, mostly when he drank too much, after which -- almost inevitably -- a rather violent quarrel would ensue, followed by abject apologies and diminished drinking, or even a temporary period of no drinking at all. 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. Then I lied. In the fall of 1942, Dad and I were on a train coming back from New York, and naturally we were talking about Phil. Five months later, Phil Graham, once again in a trough of depression, ended the affair and came home.}. By 1906, Meyer had made several million dollars by investing in securities; by 1915, he was worth between forty and sixty million. But by the summer of 1958, he was starting to do a little more. Nixon told his men to treat the Post absolutely coldly and spoon-feed scoops to its local rival, the Star. . Into this vacuum, Phil moved swiftly and with great assurance. We danced the twist -- or attempted to. Katharine Graham is now seventy-nine, and the Post is in the hands of her son Donald, who is fifty-one. My father had said that he himself was too old to let Phil work his way up. While the Times and the two wire services, A.P. The cost of failure was incalculable. With Webb, he traveled to a publishing convention in Phoenix and caused a stir when, taking the microphone in a manic state, he started talking about the alleged affairs of John F. Kennedy, with whom he had been closely associated for some time. There was, of course, no way to press the point. The appearance of this messenger, a Newsweek stringer whose name was Robin Webb, was the beginning of the tragic end. See Photos. This is a very significant case and has huge repercussions for freedom of expression & religious liberty in our country. Love is still strong between Dr. Phil McGraw and his wife Robin, who celebrates 43 years of married life in August 2019. Page Three The subject of the cruise seemed to cause her, so many years later, intense painpain beyond the loss of her husband. Please reload the page and try again. My mother seemed to undermine so much of what I did, subtly belittling my choices and my activities in light of her greater, more important ones, she writes. Join Facebook to connect with Robin Graham and others you may know. 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. 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. 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. ), Graham had undeniably, historically, made the right decision, and in the years to come she supported the investigative efforts of the Post; but the signs of her ambivalence about her social and political role never ceased. Philip planned to divorce Katharine for Webb and started the process of dividing up the couple's assets. Whoops! He came to Washington in 1917 as a dollar-a-year man for the Wilson Administration; and, while he was holding a variety of positions on the War Industries Board, the Farm Loan Board, and the Federal Reserve Board, the Meyers became friendly with Bernard Baruch, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Evans Hughes. you are repressing free expression and limiting the truth.. Robin Webb (Robin Elaine Riddle) See Photos. See Photos. The area was still a wilderness. 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. Phil wrote him on March 17, 1940, in his nervousness misspelling my name: "I am going to get married. 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. In some ways, this was the bottom moment for me -- very confusing, very difficult, and very painful. But that statistic has to be balanced by the conservatism of nearly all publishers. What made the situation even more complicated was the status of the Post. I have now gone. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. 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.. Under Ochs, the Times institutionalized the notion of nonpartisan, objective reporting. Apparently, the interview went well. Her name is Katherine Meyer and I've not a doubt in the world that you'll love her. See Photos. 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.) That Christmas Eve afternoon, the world I had known and loved ended for me. Robin Webb. According to Otis, who told me all of this only much later, Phil was disheveled and spinning out ideas, some of which were unintelligible. Meyer began his financial career by investing six hundred dollars his father had given him for not smoking until he was twenty-one. 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. I felt close to history. He kept questioning whether this was the reason for his success and his prominence. 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. Facebook. I hadnt realized that the Post wasnt perfectly okay.). He welcomed her with a carload of flowers, and together they flew to Sioux Falls, S.D., where he was to talk to the publisher of the local paper about buying it. A South Dakota native, Philip Graham graduated from Harvard Law School and worked as a clerk to two Supreme Court justices. Grahams insecurity as a woman, as a publisher, and as a parent has clear and painful origins. Unlike Phil, I find it hard to express emotion. . 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. . Only a few minutes later, there was the ear-splitting noise of a gun going off indoors. 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. The moment of happiness you gave me is more help than most people are given in a lifetime, Thank you for it. 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. They met earlier that year. Sure, we can go, I ventured, but the second act has some really great animals. I began to describe Misha the Bear, who wore skates on his hind paws and played ice hockey. Gradually, I ceased talking much at all when we were out together. She felt like Trilby to his Svengali; she felt as if he had created her, that she was totally dependent. . For years, Katharine witnessed her husbands violent mood swingshis periods of heavy drinking, his bizarre behavior, his prolonged depressions. We don't have one. Phil suffered from numerous illnesses, increasingly so as the years went by. This arrangement was never an issue. . His health, already frail, was affected physically and mentally. community.". 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. . Olympic Sports, Savage Love It similarly (if with less success) pursued Iran-Contra and Bill Clintons ethical droppings. 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. . There, in a ballroom full of the nation's top publishers, Phil Graham lost it. . My father said, "Done." We were both up all night, with me trying desperately but to no avail to be of some reassuring help. Both were full of humor -- with an edge. She had not thought about what marriage entailed in the way of relationships to spouse and children, Graham writes. I went because it was my Destiny. I was charmed and dazzled. In the early days of Watergate, she tried, in rather submissive terms, to build a personal bridge to the one man who exceeded even Nixon in his public hatred of the PostSpiro Agnew. It was unendurable to him not only that he couldn't make any of it right but that he might cause more hurt again. By contrast, the Wall Street Journals editorial page ignored Watergate and Iran-Contra as ideologically inconvenient and has pursued Whitewater with the foam visible on its lips. It wasnt until years later that I looked at the downside of all this and realized that, perversely, I had seemed to enjoy the role of doormat wife. This was my most important contribution to the interview with the General Secretary of the Communist Party. When I opened the door to a downstairs bathroom, I found him. On Saturday, Aug. 3, Phil's driver picked him up at Chestnut Lodge, and then they came to R Street to get me. In 1962, he began an affair with Australian journalist Robin Webb, for whom he would later threaten to divorce his wife Katharine Meyer Graham. He had come into a job for which he was ill-prepared. Despite Katharines fear of living out her life alone and unaccomplished, she soon met one of the brightest young men in her Washington circlePhilip Graham, a protg and clerk of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. 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. ~ Gambling. On the eve of the first Moratorium against the war, the Post published a nasty editorial (also not quoted in Personal History) that tried to set the paper apart from the antiwar movement. "So I restated the matter urging him not to count on Johnson's turning it down . She had to learn to be a publisher and, what was more, to be a far better publisher than her husband had been. Great risk was involved, or so one heard. Charles Colson, for one, tried to dismiss the conspiracy as fictiona charge that, if true, would probably have ruined the paper forever. . 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. After lunch, we went upstairs to our bedroom for a nap. CAPTION: The Grahams with their children at Glen Welby in 1956; Lally, left, Katherine, Phil (holding Steve), Bill and Don. One did not want to spend the remainder of ones career taste-testing lima beans. As a publisher, Don Graham may never face a pair of crises as critical as the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. Under Philip Graham, the Post had no prayer of even pretending to match the standards of the countrys best paper. Weymouth's brother, Stephen Graham,. In the summer of 1963, Phil seemed to be getting betterhe was undergoing treatment at a psychiatric center in Marylandand there was even hope of resuming a normal life at home. In addition, Farber believed that labeling something, giving a name to a disorder, changed how the patient viewed himself and was viewed by those around him. The legends of correspondents and their varying abilities to cope with a royal visit were countless. She was a woman of inchoate ambitionan ambition that took the shape mainly of ambitious friendships and painfully comic intellectual pretensions. The Formative Years. Certainly he saw his whole endeavor as useless unless he could project a future for The Post in the family. 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. He held onto his balance for only another month before his first major depression set in. The interview had been heady stuff. Mr. Thats enough, Buster, he said, and he dragged Bradlee into a meeting with two officials from the Department of the Interior and with Clark Clifford, from the Truman White House. The reporters returned to The Post to write the story, expecting, of course, that it would be on the front page. When the plane landed in Washington, he was taken first to George Washington University Hospital and later to Chestnut Lodge, a private mental hospital in a suburb of Washington. 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. Grahams father had had trouble coming up with the funds to send him to Harvard Law, but managed to do so. I passed the box without incident. . 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. Johnson worked actively to cultivate the press, and Phil was always drawn to politics. Circumstances seemed to conspire in challenging Graham. Mrs. Graham looked quite handsome, I thought. All right, she told Bradlee on the telephone, in the midst of a reception at her house, with the Posts lawyer counselling caution in her free ear. From the start, she was intent on keeping the paper within the family and eventually passing it on to her children. He was married to Katharine Graham, the daughter of Eugene Meyer, the previous owner of The Washington Post. . It was featured, with a photograph, in the next days edition of Pravda. And by the words you came near enough for help and I touched you and we went for a walk and were again in life. . On Oct. 28, in the middle of the night, he broke. Indeed, the paper was still struggling for its life. Before making speeches, she shook with terror; in the face of unsettling news, she had the unfortunate habit of breaking down in tears. "Very complicated business, a newspaper," Phil noted in a letter to my father late in 1947. She, too, saw it, felt its heat, and began running for the exit. He was a manic-depressive. It worked, but at the same time it hurt the paper. On Christmas Eve in 1962, she discovered he was having an affair with Newsweek freelance journalist Robin Webb. It's hard to describe my devastation after my discovery of the affair. He loved me, and I loved him. Renewed Activity. I can see today that his activities had become increasingly frenetic, though still fairly constructively so, the most obvious example of which was his purchase of Newsweek, then a weak, marginally profitable newsmagazine for businessmen, far behind its rival, Time. Telling his father about the marriage proved difficult. Philip Leslie "Phil" Graham (July 18, 1915 - August 3, 1963) was an American newspaper publisher. Phil, who had been helping him prepare for this moment for months, was at his side working on his statement. Phil and my mother also got along well. Privacy Policy At about the same time, she was on a cross-country flight and ran into Senator Bob Dole, who was then working as chairman and chief hatchet man for the Republican National Committee. Phil was clearly upset, too. At one point, Mrs. Graham asked for ice cream. Even considering the style of rich American families in the early part of the century, her parents, Eugene and Agnes Meyer, seem to have exceeded the norm for emotional reticence. It is not usually advisable, or possible, to argue with a Soviet bus, but my priorities were clear. 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. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. He was the publisher (from 1946 until his death) and co-owner (from 1948) of The Washington Post. 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. journalism. To read Personal History is to understand how ridiculous is the right-wing image of Graham as the matriarch of the liberal-media conspiracy. He was in charge of a losing newspaper in what was rapidly becoming the capital of the world. As he emerged more on the journalistic and political scenes, I increasingly saw my role as the tail to his kiteand the more I felt overshadowed, the more it became a reality. Phil Graham began referring to his wife, who by 1952 had given birth to four children, as Porky; to heighten the joke, he gave her as a present a French butcher-shop head of a pig. He was intent, however, on making his mark in public life as well as on the stock exchange. Having Phil back was a tremendous -- and tremendously complicated -- relief. He felt he owned it because he had worked for 17 years to make it a success, so from his point of view the paper was his. Robin Webb. Mumble Sauce, About Us City Lights: Your weekly guide to artsy goings-on, hitting your inbox Thursdays and Sundays. Eugene Meyer was a Jew who might have preferred not to be. and he began an affair with a young Newsweek staffer, Robin Webb. See Photos. ", Early Thursday morning, Kennedy called Johnson, waking him up and making an appointment to see him a little later. . Robin . Early the next day, Phil and Larry in Paris both wrote letters to Stanton. Advertisement. I was not about to give up the paper without a fight. I insisted. 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.. "We have worked out this solution: we'll live in the sort of house, have the sort of furniture, eat the sort of food, go to the sort of places, that young people making salaries like mine can afford.". By the way, Senator, I didnt say I hated Nixon, she told Dole. 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. 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. Events: A heads up about City Paper events, from panels to parties. When I opened the door to a downstairs bathroom, I found him. Money, my fathers being Jewish, and sex were taboo subjects at home. He was quite a success. . Everything rotated around him, and I willingly participated in keeping him at the center of things. The most imposing woman in journalism delivers an unexpectedly confessional autobiography. 2023 Cond Nast. 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. Facebook gives people the power to. He has an example to follow. Phil Graham was forty-eight when he died. His mother, the former Florence Morris, had been a schoolteacher in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Events, Football On July 5, Johnson held a press conference at which he announced his candidacy. All that has changed now, with the publication of Katharine Grahams own Personal History (Knopf; $30). 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. 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. In the midst of the crisis, she wrote to Ehrlichman, saying, What appears in the Post is not a reflection of my personal feelings. There he was diagnosed with manic depression, a condition today known as bipolar disorder. robin webb phil graham photos Coach Thomas returned to Servite in January of 2018 after coaching at his alma mater, Crespi from 2012-2017. When she spoke to her daughter, it was often in the barbed rhythm of insult. Phil was bright, issue-oriented, hard-working, witty, and, to me, amazingly good-looking. 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.. 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. At one of the embassies, I found a young woman who was said to own a blow-dryer and a brush. The year leading up to Grahams death was a turbulent one for him and his family. Sometimes you become friends with people with whom you work because of some common interest or just because you have to work together. He sparked ideas, praised and persuaded, criticized and cajoled. However, on Feb. 4, he traveled to New York and went straight to Idlewild, where he met Robin once more. 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