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Walter Cronkite
Age: 92 †
Born: 1916
Born: November 4
Died: 2009
Died: July 17
Journalist
News Presenter
Saint Joseph
Missouri
Walter Leland Cronkite
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Walter Leland Cronkite
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Jew
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Opinion
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Truth

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It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate.
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Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.
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For nearly five decades the World Federalists have worked to promote a strengthened UN and more effective institutions of global governance. I offer my personal endorsement. Now a great opportunity has opened for the realization of the dreams of the UN's founders.
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We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good.
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We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
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Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day-23 minutes-and that's supposed to be enough.
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I am neither Republican nor Democrat. I am a registered independent because I find that I cast my votes not on the basis of party loyalty but on the issues of the moment and my assessment of the candidates.
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We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.
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If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.
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It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.
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The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.
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The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.
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As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: And that's the way it is. To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.
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Our country today is at a stage in our foreign policy similar to that crucial point in our nation's early history when our Constitution was produced in Philadelphia.
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Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.
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I grew my mustache when I was nineteen in order to look older. I never shaved it off even though it overran its usefulness many, many years ago. Once you get started in television, people associate you with your physical appearance - and that includes the mustache. So I can't shave it off now. If I did, I'd have to answer too much mail.
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I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.
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Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an explored, comprehensive medium, it is not a substitute for print.
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I sort of think in a way that many of us young reporters who had the opportunity to go overseas for our organizations were kind of, in a sense, war profiteers. We were enhancing our careers while covering that terrible conflict.
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For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling civilized? And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing one another.
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