1. Elizabeth Morris "Lally" Graham Weymouth was born on July 3,1943 and is an American journalist, and senior associate editor of The Washington Post.
21 Facts About Lally Weymouth
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Lally Weymouth was previously special diplomatic correspondent for Newsweek magazine during her family's ownership of the publication.
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Lally Weymouth is the eldest of the four children of Katharine Graham and Philip Graham, both of whom were publishers of The Post.
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Lally Weymouth's maternal grandmother, Agnes Meyer, was a Lutheran of German ancestry.
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Lally Weymouth's mother was baptised as a Lutheran but attended an Episcopal church while growing up.
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Lally Weymouth's father, Philip Leslie Graham, was born to a Lutheran family in Terry, South Dakota.
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Lally Weymouth's father died by suicide in 1963 in the summer preceding her junior year at college.
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From 1968 to 1969, Lally Weymouth worked at the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.
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Lally Weymouth is the author of America in 1876, The Way We Were.
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Lally Weymouth worked as a freelance journalist and contributing editor from 1977 to 1983 for such publications as New York magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Atlantic Monthly, and Parade.
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Lally Weymouth presently serves as Senior Associate Editor of The Washington Post.
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Lally Weymouth has been writing on foreign affairs and conducting exclusive interviews with foreign heads of state since 1986.
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Lally Weymouth is well known for having secured hard-to-get exclusive interviews with heads of state.
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Lally Weymouth has conducted exclusive interviews with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi and Hosni Mubarak; Jordan's King Abdullah II; and Syria's Presidents Hafez al-Assad and Bashar al-Assad.
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In June 2017, Lally Weymouth conducted the first foreign interview with South Korea's new President Moon Jae-in in Seoul to discuss the crisis in North Korea.
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Lally Weymouth then went to Lithuania, where she interviewed President Dailia Grybauskaite about the same topics.
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In December 2016, Lally Weymouth travelled to Peru to conduct an interview with Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
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Lally Weymouth has spent significant time in the Middle East.
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Lally Weymouth has interviewed every Israeli Prime Minister since 1981, including Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, and, most recently, Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Lally Weymouth conducted the last interview with Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto before her assassination in December 2007.
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Lally Weymouth was portrayed in the 2017 film The Post by Alison Brie.