Stephen Graham (I) Actor Producer Writer IMDbPro Starmeter Top 5,000 150 Play video 3:58 The Rise of Stephen Graham 68 Videos 99+ Photos Stephen Graham was born August 3, 1973, in the small town of Kirkby, Lancashire, to a pediatric nurse mother and a social worker father. In 1987, Graham won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. I mean it's so crazy it's hard to answer," she said. Press runs often were so late that morning delivery schedules were missed. Stephen C. Meyer. Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 July 17, 2001) was an American newspaper publisher. [39], In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Graham's name and picture.[40]. ", Mrs. Graham was often described as the most powerful woman in the world, a notion she dismissed out of hand. I did all the scut work: paid the bills, ran the house, drove the children. He is survived by his wife, Margo Anderson, and children Jennifer Meyer Stearns (James Stearns), Rachel Sherry Meyer (Marlo Mrak), Stephen Eugene Meyer (Joy Zotalis), Eric Joseph Meyer (Melissa Czarnik), grandchildren Graham, Liam, Stella, and Theo, and many other family. 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 President Richard Nixon. Fortune magazine later chose Mrs. Graham for its Business Hall of Fame. Our thanks to friends and neighbors, Helen Graham Cancer Center, Bayada Home Care and Bayada Hospice for all of their wonderful help throughout Steve's illness. 1,845.60. "It isn't right for a publisher to tell an editor what to do or not to do. Mrs. Graham also insisted that she never be surprised by what she read in the paper, although she believed in leaving most journalistic decisions to her editors. Mrs. Graham also accepted and capitalized on her growing global stature. Such was the case with the editorial stand on the conflict in Vietnam. And that was no choice at all.". In social and political Washington, Mr. Graham was widely known as a man of influence. His work tears down many purported barriers between science, philosophy, and religion. His work tears down many purported barriers between science, philosophy, and religion. Sizable financial issues also were at stake. What she despised was the sexist way that her mistakes, particularly with executives, were ascribed to the belief that she was a "difficult woman" to work with, one who acted on female whims. In 2017, Graham was portrayed by Meryl Streep in the Steven Spielberg film The Post. By 1969, the newspaper had become a major critic of U.S. policy. Regarding his educational history, he received his diploma from St. Albans School, a private institution. The debate lasted for hours. "Night after night, the questions were: How could we get tomorrow's paper out, and how late would it be?". ", Warren Buffett, the legendary stock investor and the company's largest shareholder outside the Graham family, became a close friend and business mentor to Mrs. Graham after he began buying large amounts of Post stock soon after it was first offered publicly in the l970s. His only son, Eugene III, who was called "Bill," had become a physician, and Meyer didn't think the role of publisher was suitable for a woman. The Post played an integral role in unveiling the Watergate conspiracy which ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Graham published her memoirs, Personal History, in 1997. J. Pierpont Morgan once said, "Watch out for this fellow Meyer because if you don't he'll end up having all the money on Wall Street." Mrs. Graham recalled that "curiously I not only concurred but was in complete accord with the idea. They had a daughter, Lally Morris Weymouth (born 1943), and three sons: Donald Edward Graham (born 1945), William Welsh Graham (1948-2017) and Stephen Meyer Graham (born 1952). "People literally do think that I run downstairs and tell them what to print and what not to print. Graham took over the Post company in 1963 after the suicide of her husband, Philip Graham, and built it into a profitable conglomerate of newspaper, magazine, broadcast and cable properties, including Newsweek. These relationships, often reaching across party and ideological divisions, were nurtured at the large dinners and receptions she held in her home. They were married on June 5, 1940, settling down in a two-story row house on 37th Street NW that was just wide enough for a door and one window. "[14] Her father, Eugene Meyer, went on to become the head of the World Bank, but left that position only six months later. Science & Technology Seattle, WA returnofthegodhypothesis.com Joined March 2013. Several employees, including editorial and commercial workers who had voted to cross the picket line because of the pressroom violence, were beaten. Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) . Media. "In fact, it never crossed my mind that he might have viewed me as someone to take on an important job at the paper.". Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. She stimulated conversation and explored ideas. She had an impact because she brought together people who had something to say. (His half brother, Bob Graham, became governor of Florida and a senator). [37][38], In 1975, Graham received the S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards. [citation needed], Meyer's parents owned several homes across the country, but primarily lived between a "castle" on a large estate near Mount Kisco, New York, and a mansion in Washington, D.C. Meyer often did not see much of her parents during her childhood, as both traveled and socialized extensively; she was raised in part by nannies, governesses and tutors. Her mother, Agnes Meyer, was born in New York and was an active patron of the arts and supporter of education. It immediately jumped ahead of the Evening Star in circulation, and in 1959, it passed the Star in advertising linage. Purposefully, she made friends on both sides of Washington's political divide. Like his father, Phil Graham, he died by suicide. [41], In 1988, Graham was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[42]. Graham attended Miami High School and graduated from the University of Florida in 1936, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, and from Harvard Law School, where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review and earned a magna cum laude degree, in 1939. When she drove to the paper early on the morning of Oct. 1, Mrs. Graham found firetrucks, police cars, flashing red lights and shouting pickets. 12. [12], Philip Graham became publisher of the Post in 1946, when Eugene Meyer handed over the newspaper to his son-in-law. The medications that are now used successfully to treat the illness were not then available. He was chairman of the Federal Reserve Board under President Herbert Hoover and the first president of the World Bank under President Harry S. Truman. What made them such a formidable newspaper team was their shared desire to publish stories that had what Bradlee described as "impact.". 103 Following. She played a major role in The Post's shared ownership and direction, with the New York Times, of the International Herald Tribune. When Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein brought the Watergate story to Bradlee, Graham supported their investigative reporting and Bradlee ran stories about Watergate when few other news outlets were reporting on the matter. ", After Nixon's resignation, the newspaper's role in unraveling the Watergate story produced, among other things, worldwide acclaim for Mrs. Graham and the paper, a Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service, a Robert Redford movie based on the Woodward and Bernstein book "All the President's Men" -- and discomfort as well as pleasure for the paper's publisher. We look back at some of his best TV and movie roles, below. . She visited Vietnam in the early 1960s, and she continued to inform herself. The book, written in longhand on legal pads, fully reveals a life marked by personal struggle and tragedy as well as public triumph. If profitability was going to be increased, she had to change this. A beloved figure throughout The Post Co., she devoted considerable time to its other holdings, especially Newsweek, for which she traveled widely to assist in its advertising sales and publishing arrangements around the world. Her father bought The Washington Post in 1933 at a bankruptcy auction. A Merrill Lynch analyst termed Simmons's tenure "one of the best 10 years that anybody has seen in any company and in any stock.". Helicopters landed on the roof to fly pages to six plants that had agreed to print an abbreviated Post while the paper's presses were being fixed. The Post obtained its own copy of the papers on the day of that court order, and Bradlee brought reporters to his Georgetown home to begin secretly preparing stories for publication about the 7,000 pages of Vietnam war history. Stephen Meyer Philosopher of Science Stephen C. Meyer received his Ph.D. in the philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge. As production costs rose, profit margins decreased. Mrs. Graham decided to find out what he did want to do and invited him to lunch at the 1925 F Street Club. All along the way, her heart remained in The Washington Post, of which she once said: "When my husband died, I had three choices. The business picture improved only slowly. And a Wall Street friend with administration contacts ominously warned Mrs. Graham "not to be alone. Eugene Meyer once said to legendary Washington social figure Alice Roosevelt Longworth, "You watch my little Kate. News of the suicide was first. A former geophysicist and college professor, he now directs Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture in Seattle. In the spring of 1939, at her father's behest, she returned to Washington to edit the letters to the editor at The Post. I could find somebody else to run it. Stephen Graham Birth Name: Stephen Graham Kelly Birth Place: Liverpool, Merseyside, England Profession Actor Actor 60 Credits The Walk-In 2022 White House Farm 2020 Little Boy Blue 2017 Decline. Graham was the fourth of five children. Supporters said the process showed she set high standards and insisted that they be met. Graham pointed to a picture of his grandfather Eugene Meyer and his father, Philip Graham, . She was so ill at ease before attending the company Christmas party five months after her husband's death that she spent some time rehearsing how to say "Merry Christmas." She never regained consciousness after suffering a head injury Saturday in a fall outside a. It was harder for Mrs. Graham to make her mark as a businesswoman than as a news executive. She was born in New York City, United States of America. He was the publisher (from 1946 until his death) and coowner (from 1948) of The Washington Post. The home at 18 East 78th Street spans. She was the first woman to head a Fortune 500 company and the first to serve as a director of the Associated Press, the news service owned by member newspapers, and of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. The once passive Mrs. Graham, who had long thought of herself as a "Goody Two Shoes," as always trying to please, clearly was no longer the same person. "What most got in the way of my doing the kind of job I wanted to do was my insecurity," she wrote. She could also be extremely forceful, and she could match Ben Bradlee's well-known facility for colorful language. I was always the butt of family jokes. It ended with replacement workers being hired. Post lawyers urged Bradlee to wait until the courts decided the New York Times case. Washington Post heir Stephen Graham is getting a divorce, and it might not be amicable. Many men also said it helped them better understand what it meant for women to move out of traditional roles and into positions of power. Refine Your Search Results Sort by RelevanceSort by Age (Ascending)Sort by Age (Descending) All Filters 2 Steven Raymond Meyer, 63 Resides in Graham, WA Lived InSeattle WA, Carnation WA While running the newspaper, he played a backstage role in politics. In the end she changed, she said, because "things just happened. Mrs. Graham was impressed, and it counted a great deal with her that Lippmann and Reston were admirers of Bradlee. ", With time running out to get a story into The Post's second edition, Graham made the difficult decision: "Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. "Far from troubling me that my father thought of my husband and not me, it pleased me," she wrote in her autobiography. Steve was born in Brooklyn, NY, May 24, 1942, to Edith and Stephen Meyer Jr. "I felt desperate and secretly wondered if I might have blown the whole thing and lost the paper.". We had been brought up to believe that our roles were to be wives and mothers, educated to think that we were put on earth to make men happy and comfortable and to do the same for our children.". The award was presented by Awards Council member Coretta Scott King. "And so the person who succeeds you inherits something different, and you add to it or you subtract from it or you do whatever you do. The Post Co. also has interests in Bowater Mersey Paper Co., the International Herald Tribune newspaper and the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service. "That's a fantastic legacy.". She connected local, national and international figures she met with each other, with Post and Newsweek journalists and with her friends in the Washington establishment. Even when speaking about her role at The Post, she insisted that no single person could shape the persona of a newspaper. [citation needed], On June 5, 1940, Meyer was married in a Lutheran ceremony,[9] to Philip Graham, a graduate of Harvard Law School and a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Am I making clear how extraordinary this book is? The Pentagon Papers was such a story. The Post, founded in 1877, had fallen on hard times. [43], In 2000, Graham was named one of the International Press Institute's 50 World Press Freedom Heroes of the past 50 years.[44]. shelved 20,638 times. Let's publish.". She asked if he would support publishing that day. [15], The Grahams were important members of the Washington social scene, becoming friends with John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Robert F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, and Nancy Reagan among many others. In 1974, the company bought the Trenton (N.J.) Times. An important book of both breadth and depth. She arrived at college an unquestioning Republican, like her parents. The book was praised for its honest portrayal of Philip Graham's mental illness and received rave reviews for her depiction of her life, as well as a glimpse into how the roles of women have changed over the course of Graham's life. The cream-colored mansion sits on more than an acre and has the feel of a country estate. Katharine Meyer was born in New York City on June 16, 1917, the fourth of the five children of Eugene Meyer and Agnes Ernst Meyer. Her candid account of her journey from shy homemaker to a pioneering female leader in male-dominated journalism and business resonated with countless women among her book's hundreds of thousands of readers. She held the title of president and was de facto publisher of the paper from September 1963. "By the time the story had grown to the point where the size of it dawned on us," she said, "we had already waded deeply into the stream. Impatient to get ahead, he left for a job with the U.S. Embassy in Paris and then joined the Newsweek bureau there. She was affiliated as a Lutheran. At 5 a.m. on Oct. 1, Mrs. Graham was awakened by a telephone call from Mark Meagher, The Post's general manager. Global Teachers Conference group IBM Leadership Award Forum St. Petersburg Lifestyle Bentley Motors group Rotary Club International Former president Jimmy Carter emphasized yesterday that "she was dedicated to the principles of fairness and accuracy." Meyer founded Allied Chemical Co. In December, after the pressmen overwhelmingly rejected a final contract offer, The Post began hiring and training replacement workers, a fatal blow to the union. By then, Philip Graham already was in the grip of the illness that would plague him until his death. They had sabotaged the presses, set fire to one of them and beaten their night foreman, Jim Hover, who had come to Meagher's office with a bloodied head to report the news. She manages to rewrite the story of her life in such a way that no one will ever be able to boil it down to a sentence.[citation needed], In 1999, Graham received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. "Stephen Meyer is a genuine renaissance person. Mrs. Graham made frequent public speeches, particularly on news media issues on which she was widely recognized as an authority, ranging from the roles of investigative reporting and foreign correspondence to the impact of the Internet on the news. On June 13, 1933, a box on Page 1 announced that Meyer was the new owner. [1] Her father was a financier and, later, Chairman of the Federal Reserve. The book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. ", As the head of the company, Mrs. Graham wrote in her autobiography, she was guided by the principle that "journalistic excellence and profitability go hand in hand. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, from 1963 to 1991. Dr. Henry F. Schaefer III A pleasure to read, [Meyer's] inviting voice brings light to bear on complicated and profoundly influential subjects. [27][28] As the only woman to be in such a high position at a publishing company, she had no female role models and had difficulty being taken seriously by many of her male colleagues and employees. Graham presided over the paper as it reported on the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Stephen Meyer Graham: Parent(s) Agnes Ernst Meyer Eugene Meyer: Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. USD/t oz. Graham does not appear in the film adaptation of All The President's Men, but Robert Redford, who plays Woodward, revealed that Graham had a scene written for her in earlier versions where she asks Woodward and Bernstein (played by Dustin Hoffman) about the Watergate story, beginning with, "What are you doing with my paper? 464 Graham Ave, Camarillo. Mrs. Graham grew up as Katharine Meyer in New York and Washington, where the family had a mansion on Crescent Place just off 16th Street NW. Then the meeting devolved into a scene youd expect in the hallways of a high school. Meyer acted through an intermediary and kept his identity secret until the sale became final. Simons told her of two strange developments the night before: A car had driven through a house where two people were making love on a sofa -- and five men had been arresting after breaking into Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office building. On January 30, 1998, television station WCPX-TV in Orlando changed its callsign to WKMG-TV in honor of longtime Washington Post publisher, Katharine M. Graham. Financier Eugene Meyer bought the bankrupt Washington Post at auction in 1933 for $825,000. [21][23] On August 3, 1963, he committed suicide with a shotgun at the couple's "Glen Welby" estate near Marshall in the Virginia horse country.[24][25]. Some of her pleasures were modest. With Meg Greenfield, who in 1979 succeeded Geyelin as editor of the editorial page, she sometimes sneaked away from the newspaper for an afternoon at the movies. He told her that he liked working for Newsweek in Washington but that "I'd give my left one to be managing editor of The Post.". Stephen Meyer Graham - Biographical Summaries of Notable People - MyHeritage Stephen Meyer Graham In Biographical Summaries of Notable People Save this record and choose the information you want to add to your family tree Save record Spotted an error? ", Style, the groundbreaking section on culture and lifestyles created by Bradlee in 1969 to replace the traditional women's pages in The Post, was the subject of many of what Mrs. Graham called "continuing conversations" with her editor. Four other papers in the city were competing for advertising and circulation, and all were in better shape. Eugene Meyer had bought the newspaper on June 1, 1933, for $825,000 from the estate of Edward B. . She particularly delighted in being the first to give them tips for promising stories that she picked up around town or from her travels around the world. She was a big influence in Washington in part because of that. Graham outlined in her memoir her lack of confidence and distrust in her own knowledge. Liderazgo de The Washington Post. Let the Times carry the burden of the First Amendment argument against the government, they said. Of the five Meyer children, she was the closest to her parents, and she was the only one to show an interest in journalism. The diagnosis was manic depression. @StephenCMeyer. Steve served in the Air Force, and following his service, graduated from the State University of New York, Stony Brook with a degree in History, and received his PhD in . Katharine Graham was born Katharine Meyer on June 16, 1917, in New York City. "You inherit something and you do what you can," she said. Characteristically, she prepared thoroughly for her speeches, interviewing other experts on their subjects at The Post, Newsweek and elsewhere, just as she had done much of the painstaking research for her autobiography. . The moment he walked into the Graham home for the first time back in 2001, he was sold. Mrs. Graham traveled widely, often joining Post and Newsweek editors and reporters in meetings with foreign leaders. But Post Co. Chairman Fritz Beebe, who joined the debate at Bradlee's home, found the editor and his staff determined to print their own Pentagon Papers stories in the next day's Post. - Stephen Meyer at Dallas Science Faith Conference 2020 Discovery Science Mathematical Challenges to Darwin's Theory of Evolution 130K views Sir Roger Penrose: Are Singularities Real? 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