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* In stones based on a garbled leak from a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, the Washington press corps propagated the apparently indestructible myth that Wilson said: "What's good for General Motors is good for the country." The official transcript of the hearing released later, showed that what Wilson really said was: "I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa. But the impact of the first stories was never overcome by the fact, and probably never will be. To its credit, the Washington Post reported the story correctly from the start.
* Another famed Democratic cartoonist the St. Louis Pest-Dispatch's Daniel Fitzpatrick refused to draw political cartoons in the 1936 campaign after his paper came out for Alf Landon.
* Truman says that he thinks the Post handled the news fairly when he was in the White House, but he has shown his dislike for its comment. Most famous example: his invective-choked letter of protest about Post Music Critic Paul Hume's criticism of daughter Margaret's singing in 1950. Publisher Graham has two far hotter letters from Truman that he says he will never make public.
* The Post also delighted F.D.R. with a gift of 50 suppressed copies of an edition with the classic typographical error headline: PRESIDENT CONFINED TO BED WITH COED.