Word: krafts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grant, from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, will supply funds for a one-year project enabling archivist Katherine Kraft to work with the National Organization for Women (NOW) in up-dating the library's collection of information on women's organizations, projects director Eva Moseley said in a press release yesterday...
Most overrated: James Reston. Most respected: David Broder. Least respected: Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. Most pretentious: Joseph Kraft. Most thoughtful: Richard Strout and John Osborne of the New Republic. Most predictable: Patrick Buchanan and Tom Wicker...
...call Joe Kraft pretentious, in a capital that also contains Marvin Kalb of CBS, is surprising. Ambitious might be a better word for the hard-working Kraft. He aspires to be as wide-ranging as Walter Lippmann once was but lacks Lippmann's rumbling, reflective authority. He gets around as Lippmann never did. Kraft can dispose of Jerry Brown one day, the Federal Reserve or neutron bomb the next, argue in another column that Carter follows "a policy of divine misguidance" (he has from the beginning condescended to Carter), then emplane to the Horn of Africa to see things...
Nowadays, in many major newspapers, a Washington columnist can't even count on appearing regularly. Michael Gartner, editor of the Des Moines Register, subscribes to "a passel of them" and pays but $25 a week for Kraft, $20 apiece for Broder, George F. Will and Mary McGrory. He does not always run the columns he receives and often prints only three or four of their "most important paragraphs...
Following that standard, Kraft drives his battered 1969 Ford to the White House by 8 a.m. every day, stays past 8 p.m. and puts in some weekend hours as well. There are job lists to consider, a sea of memorandums from the Cabinet departments, political invitations for presidential visits. Gone is the time for backpacking trips or even the occasional poker game that he once enjoyed. He counts himself lucky to spend a little time on Sundays at the pool in the backyard of the Georgetown house he shares with Jordan and Presidential Pollster Pat Caddell (Kraft's marriage...