Elizabeth Morris "Lally" Graham Weymouth (born July 3, 1943) is an American journalist, and senior associate editor of The Washington Post. She was previously special diplomatic correspondent for Newsweek magazine during her family's ownership of the publication. Early life and education She is the eldest of the four children of Katharine Graham and Philip Graham, both of whom were publishers of The Post. Her maternal grandmother, Agnes Meyer, was a Lutheran of German ancestry. Her mother was baptised as a Lutheran but attended an Episcopal church while growing up. Her father, Philip (Phil) Leslie Graham, was born to a Lutheran family in Terry, South Dakota. The eldest of her three younger brothers is Donald E. Graham, who was the publisher of The Post from 1979 to 2000, a position held by Weymouth's daughter Katharine Weymouth from 2008 until 2014, the co-founder of Graham Holdings Company, which has Kaplan tutoring services and The Washington Post among its various subsidiaries. Weymouth attended The Madeira School and graduated from Radcliffe College at Harvard University cum laude with a degree in American history and literature. Career From 1968 to 1969, Weymouth worked at the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. Weymouth edited and compiled Thomas Jefferson: The Man, His World, His Influence (1973, G.P. Putnam), a collection which includes contributions from leading Jeffersonian scholars. She is the author of America in 1876, The Way We Were (1976, Random House). She 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. From 1983 to 1986 she was a contributing editor for the Los Angeles Times. Weymouth presently serves as Senior Associate Editor of The Washington Post. She has been writing on foreign affairs and conducting exclusive interviews with foreign heads of state since 1986. She is well known for having secured hard-to-get exclusive interviews with heads of state. Among her most famous interviews are her 1984 interview with Saddam Hussein, which was the first interview he granted an American journalist; her 2002 interview with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in his tent in the Libyan Desert; and her 2007 interview with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto two weeks before she was assassinated. She has also 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. In