The executive editor of The Washington Post, which adopted the motto "Democracy Dies in Darkness" three months after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, has been named the main speaker at Harvard University's graduation.
Marty Barron, who served as executive editor of The Boston Globe from 2001 to 2012, became executive editor of The Washington Post at the end of 2012.
This Presidents Day week, I am thinking of John Hancock.
Hancock was president of the Continental Congress, the body that named George Washington general of the Continental Army. Hancock was the Michael Bloomberg of his day — a politician simultaneously appreciated for his great wealth and resented for it.
