and later that afternoon he called katharine graham who is the publisher and owner of the "washington post" and the "washington post" then told "newsweek." to tell her that the women at "newsweek" had sued. and katherine graham as she said in a wonderful autobiography, as she famously said to them, which side am i supposed to be on? so we quickly negotiated an agreement that vaguely promised to hire and promote and change women. we signed our agreement on august 261970 which was the first women's strike for equality -- august 26, 1970. unfortunately, very little happened after that. osborn elliott runs a business i could use. the editors that took over were not committed to the cause, and two years later, 1972 we are so frustrated that we voted to sue again. this time eleanor holmes norton had become human rights commission of the city of new york and could not represent us. so we found a brilliant young lawyer at columbia need harriett who was running and employment rights clinic at columbia law school. and she came in and she started to do an evidence-based system of discrimination.

i work for katharine graham's for many years. i know something about this world. it is a later generation. it was the in-crowd. they could be snooty. richard nixon never quite recovered from going up to one of these parties and being snubbed. his resentment was rooted in part in going to this dinner. >> to talk about you for a moment, back when we did "book notes" in 1995. [video clip] my background growing up in the 60's, going to harvard, i had a liberal sensibility but i came from a conservative background. the combination gave me a sense of skeptical curiosity and fascination with the workings of the american aristocracy. >> have those terms changed any since 1995? >> no. i am still curious. i look younger. i have not really changed. i did come from a liberal background. i got more conservative. i am a moderate now. i am unpredictable. i politics have become more unpredictable. the source of my curiosity, coming from a liberal background but having grown up in a fairly rich, conservative environment, created a kind of yin-yang thing for me that helped spur my