Pioneering Reporter Sally Quinn on Ben Bradlee, Katharine Graham, Betty Friedan, and the Mother Who Shaped Her

She had a front-row seat to history and remembers having dinner with Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and executive editor Ben Bradlee — who she married in 1978 — the night President Richard Nixon resigned. Katharine had steered the paper’s investigative reporting into the Watergate scandal, and she told Sally and Ben that she didn’t want to be alone that night.

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Then the trio went to Nathan’s in Georgetown. Katharine told the waiter: No champagne.

Find out why Katharine Graham is one of the women who shaped Sally Quinn’s personal and private life on this episode of “How She Led To Me.”