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Byline: Julia Reed
When I first met Susie Buffett, in the early eighties, in Washington, it was over the phone. She was the assistant to my friend Jim Glassman, then publisher of The New Republic, and she was so smart and so witty and so much fun to talk to that half the time I'd forget to ask for Jim. I had no idea she was the daughter of legendary investor Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and then one of the richest men in the country (now he's the second-richest man in the world), or that no less a figure than Katharine Graham had asked the magazine's owner to give her the job. I knew only that she was married to a public-interest lawyer and ...