Talk:Katharine Graham

message: What was the nature of her relationship with Robert McNamara?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.146.141.49 (talk) 21:54, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Personal life

message: The quote about keeping secrets - which I moved to a separate section - seems jerry-rigged to make some sort of point. It needs to be included in more context: It implies that Graham's career was built on keeping things from people and helping the government hide things. - DavidWBrooks 01:58, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it is.  See Operation Mockingbird.Rich   Farmbrough 19:25, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Agenda?

message: Reverted from reversion by John Broughton, added sources.  This is very much about Katharine, when she flies to Arizona to escort her husband back to DC, after he has accurately and publicly "outed" President Kennedy for having an affair with Mary Pinchot Meyer, then been drugged against his will, tied into a straitjacket, and hustled across country.  Kennedy's affair with Meyer has been corraborated by a dozen people, it is no longer controversial.  The story of Kate Graham is the story of a woman utterly enmeshed in DC power circles.  This is the most important example of that story.  Sources include: 
*T. Kelly, The Imperial Post. 1983
*Deborah Davis, Katharine the Great, Sheridan Square Press; 3rd edition (October 1991)
*J. DiEugenio, L. Pease, The Assassinations. 2003
*Nina Burleigh , A Very Private Woman : The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer (Bantam: 1998) 
* Interview with James Truitt's widow, Anne Truit, 2004
*Oberdorfer, Don. "JFK Had Affair With D.C. Artist, Smoked 'Grass,' Paper Alleges." The Washington Post 23 Feb. 1976: pp. A1, A9.  
*Bradlee, Benjamin C., A Good Life. Simon & Schuster: New York, 1995.  
*Nobilem, Phillip, and Rosenbaum, Ron. "The Circus Aftermath of JFK's Best and Brightest Affair." New Times 9 Jul. 1976: 22-33.
*von Hoffman, Nicholas. "Unasked Questions." The New York Review of Books, 10 June 1976: 3+.
*Ward, Bernie, and Toogood, Granville. "JFK 2-Year White House Romance." National Enquirer 2 Mar. 1976: 1.  (Interviews James Truitt, story picked up by Washington Post, NYT, NYROB, others.)
:I've done another edit - I tried to leave as much information in the article as possible while not turning it into a duplicate of the Philip Graham article, which is where all of your sources, above, belong.  I appreciate all the work you're doing on this, but Katherine Graham was influenced by a lot of people - her father, her husband, Ben Bradlee, Warren Buffett, etc.  If any extended details of those lives went into Katharine's article, it would be closer to a book than an article.
:Also, putting sources into a talk/discussion page is not standard in any way.  Among other reasons, content in these pages often is archived.  John Broughton 18:15, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Philip Graham's Arizona conference episode

message: I added a fact tag for that. Thanks, --Tom 19:48, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: one of the most powerful American women of the 20th century

message: I reverted a recent edit by User:Dukered concerning speculation that Philip Graham may have been murdered. If there is indeed notable speculation concerning this, I would ask that:
*multiple sources be provided (a search for "Philip Graham" "Katharine Graham" murder did not convince me that there is widespread speculation);
*direct quotations be provided, but limited in size (the previous one of 12 sentences is too much), and used to illustrate assertions made in the article, not AS the assertion;
*the bulk of any text about such speculation should be placed in Philip Graham, not in this article.
Maralia 17:13, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: RE Edit reverted on August 12

message: Could we get some additional input regarding this quote? While I don't doubt its authenticity, it seems awfully selective to highlight this one particular quote. Is this quote exemplary of Graham's convictions? Is this really the most relevant quote that can be attributed to her? By highlighting it, we're attaching quite a bit of weight to it, perhaps even editorially advancing a point, and I'm not convinced that it's appropriate. The editor who inserted the quote restored it with an edit summary indicating that it was, indeed, selected to advance a point, if I read correctly. Anyone else? MastCell Talk 22:20, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: How easy it is to imagine a prominent Washingtonian saying such a thing. I'll be reinserting this as necessary. Eye.earth (talk) 21:27, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, so you think it's "easy to imagine" and therefore belongs in the article, and you intend to "reinsert it as necessary". Anyone else care to weigh in? MastCell Talk 22:14, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I know I'm a decade late to the party, but I'll weigh in. I have added sources providing the full text of Graham's speech and better context for it. Graham believed in freedom of the press, but she also believed that there were some responsibilities that went along with it. The quote is frequently cherry-picked and delivered out of context by those who think the CIA controlled Graham or mass media for nefarious purposes. Rgr09 might have more on this. -Location (talk) 19:12, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Quotes

message: I removed the following text temporarily so we can discuss better language here:
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:;Affair with Warren Buffett
:According to an authorized biography titled "The Snowball" , biographer Alice Schroeder writes that Buffet and Graham had an affair that led to the demise of his first marriage to the late Susie Buffett. "When not trotting around the country "on business," they holed up at her Martha's Vineyard mansion. Rather than hide her flirtation, Graham would toss her house key to Buffett at parties.
:...Susie "made it plain to several friends that she was furious and humiliated," but sent Graham a letter granting her permission to date her husband. "Kay showed the letter to people as though it let her off the hook..."  ''
This text is clearly based on the daily news article, which focuses on Buffett. Any suggestions for a rewrite that focuses more on Graham and less on Buffett (and therefore less on words like 'affair' which are arguably inappropriate here as Graham herself was widowed at the time)? Maralia (talk) 19:49, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Buffett biography

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message: In the article we say "As the only woman to be in such a high position at a publishing company" -- but Oveta Culp Hobby ran the Houston Post from the 1930's. Should we rephrase? Or is it just wrong? ubiquity (talk) 16:55, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  ONLY woman?