Kraft began his career in journalism at the age of 14 where he worked as a stringer covering high school sports for the New York World-Telegram.
[1] After working at The Washington Post and The New York Times in the 1950s, he became a speechwriter for 1960 Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy.
He served as one of three panelists for the third and final debate, held at Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall at the College of William & Mary, in the 1976 presidential election.
Kraft was viewed as one of America's foremost analysts of domestic and international affairs.
He also wrote an extraordinary journalistic account of the explosion of Mexico's debt crisis in 1982: