THE POST focuses on Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) and publisher Kay Graham (Meryl Streep) worked with the New York Times in exposing the Pentagon Papers in 1971, and their fight with the federal government over the right to publish them. Dealing with accusations of treason from the White House, the case was a major victory for freedom of speech and unveiled a plethora of revelations of secrets and details regarding the Vietnam War.