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Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Katherine Graham
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Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Katherine Graham
Katharine Graham , (1917-2001) 84, chairman of the executive committee of The Washington Post Company, died Tuesday July 17th 2001 in Boise, Idaho, after suffering head injuries in a fall Saturday.
After nearly 35 years of leading The Washington Post Company -- as publisher, chief executive officer and chairman of the executive committee -- Mrs. Graham wrote her memoirs, "Personal History," in 1997. The best-selling chronicle of her life with The Post won the Pulitzer Prize for biography.
Katharine Graham in her Washington office in 1997. (AP)
Some of her quotes:
To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?
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. (1988)
Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.
If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage. (on Watergate)
The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.
If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.
For more information visit Remembering Katherine Graham at the Washington Post
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