but, he told me one point that he had read katharine graham's autobiography, and was actually quite scared by it. it was a very frank book and won a pulitzer prize. , its franken's scared rumsfeld, and so whether he can bring himself to be as honest as i think still is a very open question. >> host: did you get a chance to interview former vice president cheney? >> guest: i talked to and toys about rumsfeld. in not surprisingly, cheney still defends the line he used about rumsfeld at the farewell ceremony in december 2006 were cheney told rumsfeld the best secretary of defense ever. he thinks rumsfeld is hard charging style at the pentagon was just what was needed to bring about change. >> host: here are a couple of more calls. murphysboro tennessee, michael on the republican line. >> caller: i was just going to ask your guest if he had never heard-- i'm going to back to march of 2003 when the war began where cantor you had inspectors on the ground like we dad-- did they ever start a war like this? i remember well for one, where they shot the austrian guy and the austrians demanded to go t

catherine was fortunate to have a strong mentor, a grandmother, the late katharine graham, who led "washington post closed with more than two decades. she has been with open "the washington post" since 2006, serving legal and management roles. she was named publisher and ceo into thousand eight. washington, d.c., resident, she is also mother to three young children. thank you for joining us. [applause] >> thank you, rebecca, for this great and interesting introduction. it is great to be here with such a great pope of women and i see a few select men snuck in. great to see you. i am also thrilled to be part of the first gathering of this group. as i was thinking about women and technology, i want to tell you a little story. i was driving my nine-year-old daughter to school. she was playing on my io -- iphone. i told a, you know, when i was growing up, we did not have computers, e-mail, iphone, you name it. she said, wow, mama, it must have been hard growing up in the olden days. [laughter] we are living in this incredible time when the pace of change seems to be speeding up. new devices are bei