True leader
Wednesday November 20th 2024, 8:58 pm
Filed under: History,Knit

It had not occurred to me that this was a thing you could buy (thank you random Etsy prompts): cane socks. Or, how to be a walking yarnbombing project.

Meantime, I stumbled across Gene Weingarten’s essay on Katherine Graham, who was the owner of the Washington Post for years; her children sold it to Bezos long after her death, after he promised them he would not interfere with the paper.

The second half of the piece is about Bezos’s refusal to let the editorial department publish their endorsement of Harris, old and regretted news at this point.

But the first half. I had not known–or possibly had long forgotten–that when faced with the lawyers saying which of the staff would go to jail if the Post published the Pentagon Papers, Graham said then send them to my house. Make me personally responsible for exposing what they’re doing, not you.

I read that and thought, integrity and courage. The one word repeats the other.


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Gene Weingarten is a powerful writer. I still remember a long piece he did years ago on babies who died from being forgotten in cars, which brought me to tears for the parents as well as the babies.

Comment by ccr in MA 11.21.24 @ 7:27 am

Cane socks! What a fun idea! As I emerge from the rabbit hole of looking for patterns. And thank you for the link to Gene’s article. Katherine Graham was a force for good.

Comment by DebbieR 11.21.24 @ 8:16 am



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