Includes index

Autobiography of the now-retired executive editor of the Washington Post, telling how he made his way from barely graduating from college to the heights of American journalism, a career that encompassed the Watergate scandal and the contested publication of the Pentagon Papers

Early years -- Harvard -- Navy -- New Hampshire -- Washington post : first tour -- Paris I : press attaché -- Paris II : Newsweek -- Newsweek, Washington -- JFK -- Newsweek sale; JFK; Phil -- Post-JFK -- Washington post, 1965-71 -- Pentagon papers -- Watergate -- After Watergate -- Washington post, 1975-80 -- Janet Cooke -- National security : public vs. private -- Moving out, moving on

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