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.

Graham and editor Bradlee first experienced challenges when they publiKatharine Grahamd the content of the Pentagon Papers. Graham's father was a financier and later a public official.

Her memoir Personal History won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16 1917 – July 17 2001) was an American publiKatharine Grahamr.