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"There have been two periods in my lifetime when the excitement of government and of public issues dr..." — Katharine Graham
There have been two periods in my lifetime when the excitement of government and of public issues drew to Washington many of the bright young people graduating from colleges and law schools. These were essentially the Roosevelt and the Kennedy years.
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View AllI truly believed that other people in my position didn't make mistakes; I couldn't see that everybody makes them, even people with great experience.— Katharine Graham
It took me a while to learn that certain people may have important skills that are not always blazingly apparent. Gradually I came to realize - slow as I may have been - that what mattered was performance, that sometimes people might have to be helped to develop, and that it takes all kinds to make an organization run properly.— Katharine Graham