Eugene Meyer Quotes
This paper does not wish to damage the dignity of the President of the United States.
A reporter had uncovered the fact the President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was having an affair with Lucy Mercer. The publisher explained why the Washington Post would not print the story.
Eugene Meyer, 1875-1959, Publisher, The Washington Post, Chairman, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Director, War Finance Corporation, First President, World bank, Quoted by Richard Harwood, C-SAPN Interview, July 1993
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To afford the President the greatest deference and respect should be a gratification to any citizen.
The Secretary was a very formal and proper man.
He was justifying the millions he was spending on state official functions when most of the people were in abject poverty. He didn’t know his people well enough. They overthrew him and sent him into exile.
Eugene Isaac Meyer was an American financier, public official, and newspaper publisher. He published The Washington Post from 1933 to 1946, and the paper stayed in his family throughout the rest of the 20th century. He served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1930 to 1933 and was the first President of the World Bank Group.
