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Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.

Walter Cronkite

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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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To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past.
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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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For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible. When I had my own strong opinions, as I often did, I tried not to communicate them to my audience.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.
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I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
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