Katharine Graham says deciding to publish the Pentagon Papers felt unheroic
Katharine Graham · Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers] · Jul 29, 2025 · at 33:54
Former Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham reflects on making the fateful decision to publish the classified Pentagon Papers in 1971 against corporate legal advice.
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“And I really was convinced by the editors and the reporters that they were right, and that we really had to go ahead. And so I really gulped, and I really was not what your heroic leader is. I just said, oh, go ahead.”
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