Lally Weymouth, journalist and daughter of The Washington Post’s Graham family, has died

Lally Weymouth, the daughter of the late Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham who forged her own journalistic career that included interviewing Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi among other world leaders, has died. She was 82.

Weymouth died Monday at her home in Manhattan. The cause was pancreatic cancer, her daughter Katharine Weymouth told The Washington Post.

Born Elizabeth Morris Graham, Lally Weymouth was most recently a senior associate editor at the paper. Her latest piece was an interview with Qatari Emir Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani that ran shortly before President Donald Trump visited his country in May. It appeared in the opinion section in her preferred question-and-answer format.

Weymouth interviewed every Israeli prime minister since 1981, a bio