[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 100 (Wednesday, July 18, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Page S7875]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      THE LOSS OF KATHARINE GRAHAM

  Ms. LANDRIEU. Mr. President, yesterday Washington D.C. and the Nation 
lost a great friend. A first-rate role model and deft businesswoman, 
Katharine Graham was a believer in the first amendment who printed the 
stories that defined our Nation and impacted our lives. As one of the 
first female executives to run a major newspaper, Katharine Graham 
opened the doors of power for women here in the Nation's capital and 
around the country. When Katharine Graham assumed the reigns at The 
Washington Post, two women served in the U.S. Senate, and none served 
as Governors of States. Today, in large part because of the path that 
she and other women of her generation have blazed, there are more women 
serving as Members of Congress, as Governors, and as corporate 
executives than ever before. Among all her accomplishments, it is this 
inspiration for which I am most grateful. Katharine Graham will be 
surely remembered by her family, friends and her many admirers around 
the world.

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