Lally Weymouth
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Elizabeth Morris "Lally" Graham Weymouth (born 3 July 1943) is an American
journalist who serves as Senior Associate Editor of the Washington Post. She previously served as Special Diplomatic Correspondent of Newsweek
magazine, during her family's ownership of the publication.
.
and Philip Graham, both of whom were publishers of the Post. She attended The Madeira School
and Radcliffe College
. She is the sister of Donald Graham
, the Washington Post Company's chief executive officer
, and the mother of Katharine Weymouth
, the newspaper's publisher. The company owned Newsweek from 1961 - 2010.
Lally Weymouth graduated from Radcliffe College
at Harvard University
with a degree in American History and Literature.
She married architect Yann R. Weymouth (older brother of Tina Weymouth
, bass player for the rock band Talking Heads
) in 1964; The groom was an architect who worked for I.M. Pei in the 1960s (he was the co-architect of Pei's East Wing for the National Gallery of Art
) and is presently the creative director of the architecture firm Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum
. The couple had two daughters, Katharine and Pamela, before divorcing in 1971.
From 1968 to 1969, Weymouth worked for Senator Robert F. Kennedy
at the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.
She was quoted by Jamie Kabler in "The Andy Warhol Diaries
" as having said to Ronald Reagan Jr., regarding his exclusive interview with Warhol's "Interview" (magazine)
, "How can you work for that Homosexual publication? The two of us are more the same kind of person. I mean, I've got top family and you've got top family, and you're giving an exclusive to that newspaper?" A.W.D. Thursday 25 September 1980
Weymouth edited and compiled Thomas Jefferson
: The Man, His World, His Influence (1973, G.P. Putnam), a collection which includes contributions from leading Jeffersonian scholars. She is the author of America in 1876, The Way We Were (1976, Random House). She worked as a freelance journalist and contributing editor from 1977 to 1983 for such publications as New York
magazine, The New York Times Magazine
, Esquire
, Atlantic Monthly, and Parade
. From 1983 to 1986 she was a contributing editor for the Los Angeles Times
.
Lally Graham Weymouth serves as Senior Associate Editor of the Washington Post. Mrs. Weymouth has been writing on foreign affairs and conducting exclusive interviews with foreign heads of state since 1986. Some notable past interviews include: the last foreign interview with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto two weeks before her death, President Karzai of Afghanistan, Colonel Gaddafi of Libya, President Musharraf of Pakistan two months after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President Chavez of Venezuela, President Assad of Syria, Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, and Saddam Hussein. During the last year, Lally Weymouth has traveled to Brazil, where she was granted President Rousseff's first English-language interview following her election. She interviewed President Lukashenko in Belarus after the violent crackdown of the opposition on the eve of the December 2010 elections. She traveled to Israel and Ramallah in February 2011, where she conducted an interview with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Fayyad. In May 2011, Lally Weymouth met with Egyptian Foreign Minister el-Araby, Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa, and members of the Supreme Military Council in Cairo. In September 2011, Lally Weymouth traveled to Tehran, where she was granted an exclusive interview with President Ahmadinejad in advance of his trip to the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
journalist who serves as Senior Associate Editor of the Washington Post. She previously served as Special Diplomatic Correspondent of Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
magazine, during her family's ownership of the publication.
.
Life and career
She is the only daughter of Katharine GrahamKatharine Graham
Katharine Meyer Graham was an American publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon...
and Philip Graham, both of whom were publishers of the Post. She attended The Madeira School
The Madeira School
The Madeira School is a private, non-denominational preparatory boarding school for girls located in McLean, Virginia, United States. Originally located on 19th Street near Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., it was founded by Lucy Madeira Wing in 1906 and moved to the Northern Virginia suburb of...
and Radcliffe College
Radcliffe College
Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was the coordinate college for Harvard University. It was also one of the Seven Sisters colleges. Radcliffe College conferred joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas beginning in 1963 and a formal merger agreement with...
. She is the sister of Donald Graham
Donald E. Graham
Donald E. Graham is chief executive officer and Chairman of The Washington Post Company. He is also the director and chairman of Facebook Inc.- Early life :...
, the Washington Post Company's chief executive officer
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...
, and the mother of Katharine Weymouth
Katharine Weymouth
Katharine Bouchage Weymouth is the publisher of The Washington Post and chief executive officer of Washington Post Media.-Family:...
, the newspaper's publisher. The company owned Newsweek from 1961 - 2010.
Lally Weymouth graduated from Radcliffe College
Radcliffe College
Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was the coordinate college for Harvard University. It was also one of the Seven Sisters colleges. Radcliffe College conferred joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas beginning in 1963 and a formal merger agreement with...
at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
with a degree in American History and Literature.
She married architect Yann R. Weymouth (older brother of Tina Weymouth
Tina Weymouth
Martina Michèle "Tina" Weymouth is an American musician, best known as a founding member and bassist of the New Wave group Talking Heads and its side project Tom Tom Club .-Profile:Weymouth is of French heritage on her mother's side. Weymouth was a cheerleader in high school...
, bass player for the rock band Talking Heads
Talking Heads
Talking Heads were an American New Wave and avant-garde band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison...
) in 1964; The groom was an architect who worked for I.M. Pei in the 1960s (he was the co-architect of Pei's East Wing for the National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...
) and is presently the creative director of the architecture firm Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum
Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum
HOK is a global architecture, interiors, engineering, planning and consulting firm. HOK is the largest U.S.-based architecture-engineering firm and the "No. 1 role model for sustainable and high-performance design." HOK also is the second-largest interior design firm...
. The couple had two daughters, Katharine and Pamela, before divorcing in 1971.
From 1968 to 1969, Weymouth worked for Senator Robert F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy , also referred to by his initials RFK, was an American politician, a Democratic senator from New York, and a noted civil rights activist. An icon of modern American liberalism and member of the Kennedy family, he was a younger brother of President John F...
at the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.
She was quoted by Jamie Kabler in "The Andy Warhol Diaries
The Andy Warhol Diaries
The Andy Warhol Diaries is a posthumous work by the American artist Andy Warhol and was edited by his secretary Pat Hackett. Warner Books first published it in 1989 with an introduction by Hackett....
" as having said to Ronald Reagan Jr., regarding his exclusive interview with Warhol's "Interview" (magazine)
Interview (magazine)
Interview is an American magazine which has the nickname The Crystal Ball Of Pop. It was founded in late 1969 by artist Andy Warhol. The magazine features intimate conversations between some of the world's biggest celebrities, artists, musicians, and creative thinkers...
, "How can you work for that Homosexual publication? The two of us are more the same kind of person. I mean, I've got top family and you've got top family, and you're giving an exclusive to that newspaper?" A.W.D. Thursday 25 September 1980
Weymouth edited and compiled Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom , the third President of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia...
: The Man, His World, His Influence (1973, G.P. Putnam), a collection which includes contributions from leading Jeffersonian scholars. She is the author of America in 1876, The Way We Were (1976, Random House). She worked as a freelance journalist and contributing editor from 1977 to 1983 for such publications as New York
New York (magazine)
New York is a weekly magazine principally concerned with the life, culture, politics, and style of New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to The New Yorker, it was brasher and less polite than that magazine, and established itself as a cradle of New...
magazine, The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine is a Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times. It is host to feature articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors...
, Esquire
Esquire (magazine)
Esquire is a men's magazine, published in the U.S. by the Hearst Corporation. Founded in 1932, it flourished during the Great Depression under the guidance of founder and editor Arnold Gingrich.-History:...
, Atlantic Monthly, and Parade
Parade (magazine)
Parade is an American nationwide Sunday newspaper magazine, distributed in more than 500 newspapers in the United States. It was founded in 1941 and is owned by Advance Publications. The most widely read magazine in the U.S., Parade has a circulation of 32.2 million and a readership of nearly 70...
. From 1983 to 1986 she was a contributing editor for the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
.
Lally Graham Weymouth serves as Senior Associate Editor of the Washington Post. Mrs. Weymouth has been writing on foreign affairs and conducting exclusive interviews with foreign heads of state since 1986. Some notable past interviews include: the last foreign interview with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto two weeks before her death, President Karzai of Afghanistan, Colonel Gaddafi of Libya, President Musharraf of Pakistan two months after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President Chavez of Venezuela, President Assad of Syria, Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, and Saddam Hussein. During the last year, Lally Weymouth has traveled to Brazil, where she was granted President Rousseff's first English-language interview following her election. She interviewed President Lukashenko in Belarus after the violent crackdown of the opposition on the eve of the December 2010 elections. She traveled to Israel and Ramallah in February 2011, where she conducted an interview with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Fayyad. In May 2011, Lally Weymouth met with Egyptian Foreign Minister el-Araby, Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa, and members of the Supreme Military Council in Cairo. In September 2011, Lally Weymouth traveled to Tehran, where she was granted an exclusive interview with President Ahmadinejad in advance of his trip to the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly.