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Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

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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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Correspondents
Persuasion
Liberal
Heavy
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Everybody

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