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(June 16, 1917 – July 17, 2001) Publisher of The Washington Post.. Graham’s father bought the newspaper in 1933. Graham joined the Post five years later. She took over the newspaper after her husband committed suicide in 1963. She presided over the paper during some of its most famous investigations, including “The Pentagon Papers” and the Watergate scandal. United States Attorney General John Mitchell, who helmed both the Justice Department and the
FBI, warned reporter Carl Bernstein that “Katie Graham’s gonna get her t*t caught in a big fat wringer” if she published
the Watergate investigation. Graham won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.
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