Personal History: A Memoir

by Katharine Graham

Recently Henry Kissinger told me he felt that Nixon had always hated the Post. Henry said of Nixon, “He was convinced that the Post had it in for him. At what point he got that idea, I don’t know, but when I met him, he already had that idea. He wanted a confrontation with the press. He really hated the press. As soon as there was an unfavorable article about him, he’d send notes around … prohibiting you from talking to the Post or to this or that reporter. Nobody ever fully honored it, because you couldn’t do your business if you did, but he was antagonistic to the press. It was a big mistake.”