The Washington Post

[Fact 1]: Bush's ambitions to invade Iraq.

[Fact 2]: Edgar Hoover reportedly told President Lyndon B.

[Fact 3]: To promote the paper, the new owners requested the leader of the Marine Band, John Philip Sousa, to compose a march for the newspaper's essay contest awards ceremony.

[Fact 4]: The newspaper's reporting greatly contributed to the resignation of U.S.

[Fact 5]: On January 28, 1999, its first color front-page photograph appeared.

[Fact 6]: No woman before had ever run a nationally prominent newspaper in the United States.

[Fact 7]: Galt, but instead wrote, erroneously, that he had been entering Mrs.

[Fact 8]: I view it like the Daily Worker."..As Katharine Graham |publisher=washingtonpost.com |date= 2004-10-24|accessdate=2009-04-04}} It also has endorsed Republican politicians, such as Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich. In 2006, it repeated its historic endorsements of every Republican incumbent for Congress in Northern Virginia. There have also been times when the Post has specifically chosen not to endorse any candidate, such as in 1988 when it refused to endorse then Governor Michael Dukakis or then Vice President George H.W.

[Fact 9]: In 1946, Meyer was succeeded as publisher by his son-in-law Philip Graham.In 1954, the Post consolidated its position by acquiring and merging with its last morning rival, the Washington Times-Herald.