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...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...
...counterargument is that Begin, in emerging from opposition to leadership, may be drawn to what Walter Lippmann once called "the suction of the center." Campaign Manager Weizman puts it another way: "There is a great difference between the behavior of the main opposition party and the major political power which has to lead the country." As for Begin's supposed intransigence, Weizman insists: "Believe me, give him time and he will behave as the head of a government. He will negotiate more than all the Premiers before him. You will see him becoming more flexible than anybody believes...
...power (F.D.R. on the eighth night), the differences were great. "Let us unite in banishing fear," said Roosevelt, and he made huge news by announcing that the nation's banks, closed by his order, would begin reopening the next day. The reaction was electrifying-and overwhelmingly positive. Walter Lippmann declared: "The nation, which had lost confidence in everything and everybody, has regained confidence in the Government and in itself." Said William Randolph Hearst: "I guess at your next election we will make it unanimous...
Once the world of Washington pundits included a few giants, ranging from the Olympian sage, Walter Lippmann, and James Reston, the best informed of Washington reporters, to the feared scandalmonger, Drew Pearson-and that was it. Now so many syndicated Washington columnists exist that it is hard to keep track of them, keep up with them, or tell one from another...
Only the indefatigable Joseph Kraft, though he lacks Lippmann's magisterial authority, sometimes approaches the master's command of foreign and domestic topics. In fact, in an overreported town like Washington, the best reporting generally comes from those who are specialists in defense, diplomacy or Congress, rather than those who focus on the big picture. Jack Anderson, who minds Drew Pearson's store, still deals successfully in the tattletales of disgruntled bureaucrats. But he no longer has an exclusive franchise, ever since the archtattler of them all, Deep Throat, told his tales elsewhere. Among the newcomers...