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Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, – July 17, ) was an American publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of PresidentRichard Nixon. Her memoir, Personal History, won the pris Prize in

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• We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.
  • Speech given in at CIA headquarters, Langley, Virginia. Cited in Encyclopedia of American Journalism, Stephen L. Vaughn, New York: Routledge, , p.

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American newspaper publisher (–)

For the golfer with the similar name, see Katherine Graham (golfer).

Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, – July 17, ) was an American newspaper publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, from to Graham presided over the paper as it reported on the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. She was one of the first 20th-century female publishers of a major American newspaper and the first woman elected to the board of the Associated Press.

Graham's memoir, Personal History, won the Pulitzer Prize in

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Katharine Meyer was born on June 16, in New York City to Agnes (née Ernst) and Eugene Meyer.^[1] The Meyers were a wealthy family &#; her father was a financier and, from , the Chairman of the Federal Reserve; her grandfather was the financier Marc Eugene Meyer; and her great-grandfather, Rabbi Joseph Newmark, was also a businessman.

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