Katharine Graham
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Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
- Published
- July 29, 2025
- Duration
- 57:36
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Jul 5, 2026
Discusses society, culture.
Summary
When Katharine Graham took over the Washington Post in 1963, she was a shy socialite who'd never run anything. By retirement, she'd taken down a president, ended the most violent strike in a generation, and built one of the best-performing companies in American history. Graham had no training, no experience, not even confidence. Just a newspaper bleeding …
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When Katharine Graham took over the Washington Post in 1963, she was a shy socialite who'd never run anything. By retirement, she'd taken down a president, ended the most violent strike in a generation, and built one of the best-performing companies in American history. Graham had no training, no experience, not even confidence. Just a newspaper bleeding money and a government that expected her to fall in line. When her editors brought her stolen classified documents, her lawyers begged her not
Themes
- society
- culture