Power, Privilege and the Post by Carol Felsenthal

Author:Carol Felsenthal [FELSENTHAL CAROL]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: american history, us history, sociology, biography, journalism, politics, journalist, 20th century history, united states history, vietnam war, biographies, business books, business, autobiography, bio, biography autobiography, political, government, political commentary, urban development, political biography, political memoir, democrat, political science, presidents, conservative, president, finance, hollywood, 20th century, economics, historical, communism, white house, great depression, fraud, gilded age, news, 1960s
ISBN: 9781609802905
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2018-02-20T18:00:00+00:00

*That was a perfect example of the colossal insensitivity for which Kay would become infamous. Whether she was aware of Phil’s announcement in Europe that he was bringing Manning in as a potential managing editor—Friendly’s replacement—is not known, however.

*His father, Frederick “Beebo” Bradlee. was an All-American football player at Harvard and, in his son’s words, “sort of a golden boy” (the model, it was said, for one of J. P. Marquand’s proper Bostonians in The Late George Apley).26 His mother was Josephine de Gersdorff, whose grandfather had been a founding partner of what was then known as Cravath, de Gersdorff. Swaine & Wood, the white-shoe Manhattan law firm that would later handle personal and corporate matters for the Meyers and the Grahams. His great-uncle Frank Crowninshield, an editor at Vanity Fair27 in the 1920s, once said that he wanted the magazine to be read by “the people you meet at lunches and dinners.”28

*The man in question was said to be Howard Simons, the son of Polish immigrants, who would be more responsible than anyone for bringing her paper its Watergate fame.32

*She had four children from her first marriage and two with Bradlee.

†As the New York Herald Tribune neared death, the Post in 1966 acquired part-ownership of its Paris edition, renamed the International Herald Tribune after the parent paper folded. The acquisition brought, as Post historian Chalmers Roberts wrote, “a major new source of prestige for the Post. . . . For the first time many important . . . people discovered that there was another must-read American paper besides the Times,”55 which later became another owner of the paper. The Trib was composed largely of stories from the Post and the Times.

*Later, in 1971. when Estabrook told Kay that he was quitting as UN correspondent, her response to the twenty-five-year Post veteran was. “Oh, good, we can close the UN bureau.” According to Karl Meyer, who as the Post’s New York correspondent shared offices with Estabrook. “Bob was crushed. It was the only time I ever heard him utter a bitter remark about that family.”69

*Clifford says he has “no recollection” of Johnson’s ever asking him to take on such a task, although it is possible that the president made the approach first and planned to bring Clifford in later. George Reedy calls the notion of Johnson’s engineering a takeover of the Post “implausible.” But like others, he says it is possible that Johnson was putting out feelers, that had he sensed the slightest receptivity or wavering in Kay, he would have pounced and put others (Clifford, perhaps) to work to ease the Post into friendlier hands.85 “Johnson was testing something,” speculates Frank Waldrop. “She might have been scared and yellow and wanted to run for the money, and if he heard the right sort of echo, he’d say, ‘All right, let’s get to work and get the money.’ ”86 William Greider, who, like Waldrop and Reedy, had not heard of the approach, conjectures that Johnson was “just putting the squeeze on her.

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