“I think I’m good,” said Joseph Kraft, and paused to pick up the phone. He was sitting in the basement office of his home in Washington’s Georgetown on election day 1974. Upstairs there were Paris Review posters on the wall and objets d’art from China on the coffee tables. Here in his office, his secretary […]
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