so i got overs to the office one day and there was an invitation from katherine graham and jacqueline kennedy o nas sis to have dinner. i thought i must be the most important person here. i get over to this lovedy dinner at katherine graham's house, me, the two women on the end and all of these male senators. and here's what happened. jacqueline kennedy had edited a book called "remember the ladies" from abigail adams plea to her husband when he was writing the constitution. obviously he didn't do it but -- and it was about all of the things that we didn't know about her story, you know all of the women in our backgrounds that had just been left out of history. they take history too seriously and no reason to put hers in. she wanted this as part of the official part of the by centennial. made sense to me. i thought it was about time women learned their history. i passed it out and since no one was paying attention, it got to the senate and they were like, no way. so i'm sitting here at this dinner and thinking these are probably the two most powerful women i can think of in washington

a very special thanks tonight to "washington post" chairman don graham and publisher katherine waynus, our host, and a big thank you to penzance, the owner of the -- warren is a key player in the watergate scandal. and what you're going to hear onstage, there are lots of people in the audience who loomed large in watergate and i see a couple of them there. alexander butterfield, the man who revealed a taping system from the oval office came all the way from california tonight. and earl filbert, former u.s. attorney for the district of columbia profited quite a bit on "all the president's men." it was on the sixth floor downstairs in this building that 40 years ago this week there was a botched break-in. burglars working for president nixon who started it all and forever gave the suffix to every political scandal. those sixth floor offices with actually open tonight. 40 years ago they housed the democratic national committee headquarters, but tonight artist lori munn has done portraits of many of the figures, and we urge you to take a look on the way out. tonight we're going to keep th

feel the pressure that was being put in terms of the paper itself and journalism itself and katherine graham and ben bradley? >> no, because we were kind of operating in a bubble. >> that's right. >> go get the story. what's the next story? and there was an absence of that pressure. we knew -- we could turn on the television and see ziegler, for 15 minutes, scream and denounce us and the campaign manager for nixon and so forth. there was a point in october, october 10th, 1972, when we did a story that essentially was the dna of watergate. it said, look, it was part of a basic campaign, spying and sabotage, directed at the democrats. and if you look at what, in all of these five wars of watergate, the most insidious one was nixon and his people saying we're going to hire saboteurs and we're going to pick who nixon runs again. they derailed and helped destroy senator muskogee and pat buchanan wrote a memo saying this is great. our strategy paid off. so, the idea -- you think about this. we've talked at some length about it's really an attack on the free electoral process to say, oh, i'm runnin

editors, and there was a moment when "newsweek" was known for its coverage of cause, eliot, katherine graham or big people in that world, and they found that in that organization that took such pride in covering those events, why were they feeling so much discrimination and at the same time "newsweek" "newsweek" produced a cover story women and result. cities media savvy women who were getting together decided that the only way to change the discrimination was to confront "newsweek," use the discrimination suit and they filed the same i think the same data that cover story came out. so we had two sides of the story right there. one of the things that prompted them is that the cover story realized had to be written by a woman but they didn't use one of their incite people to do it. they said they are not ready for a cover story and they hired a freelance journalist and they didn't feel any of their people were ready because they hadn't and so this story was there was a lot of women involved. they are all in the book as everything is reported. putting the book to get started a few years ago sh

the first woman to do it you may remember katherine graham when she took over "the washington post" back in 1972. and 40 years later there are just 19. the c.e.o. of our parent company gannett is on that short list. why do you think her selection as c.e.o. is creating such a buzz at yahoo? >> i think first of all it's a terrific choice. you were just reading about her credentials. she obviously has a great background, a lot of great experience at google. i think some of the buzz is because she's young, 37, and it's her first c.e.o. slot and oh, by the way, she happens to be having a child. i think that's actually terrific and i think it speaks to the fact that we've come a long way in terms of being open to all kinds of different possibilities. i think it's wonderful that she's setting a lot of firsts and i think the boorldz of yahoo obvious -- board of yahoo obviously chose her not just for the next couple of months but a long ten wriewr to turn around the -- tenure to turn around the company. >> 50% of the population is women yet only 4% are in the fortune 500 list of c.e.o.s. why do y