The Washington Post
The Washington Post is the largest and oldest newspaper in Washington, DC.
It gained worldwide fame in the early 1970s for its Watergate investigation by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
Controlled by two generations of the McLean family,it was purchased in a bankruptcy sale by Eugene Meyer (1875-1959) whose daughter, Katharine Graham, took control of the Washington Post Company after the suicide of her husband Philip L. Graham in 1963. For a while she was publisher of the newspaper but handed this responsibility to her son Donald E. Graham in 1979. Donald later succeeded her as head of the entire company.
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