Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]

Catherine Graham was hosting a farewell party in her Georgetown home when she got a phone call that would change history. While the capital's elite filled her living room, her editors waited on the line with an impossible question. Should they publish the Pentagon Papers and risk destroying the company? Frightened and tense, she took a big gulp and said, Go ahead. Let's publish.

And she hung up the phone. І на момент за матві вона. In American media, and one of the most powerful women ever. Welcome to the Knowledge Project. I'm your host, Shane Parish.

In a world where knowledge is power, this podcast is your toolkit for mastering the best for what other people have already figured out. Catherine Graham documented her remarkable life and journey in a Pulitzer Prize winning memoir called Personal History, which is the main source of the material today. She wrote it with an unflinching honesty because she wanted everyone to understand that courage isn't the absence of fear, it's doing what's right despite being terrified. The image of me is this this tough sort of decisive Combative.

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