Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite
Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr.was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years. During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll. He reported many events from 1937 to 1981, including bombings in World War II; the Nuremberg trials; combat in the Vietnam War; the Dawson's Field hijackings; Watergate; the Iran Hostage...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth4 November 1916
CitySaint Joseph, MO
CountryUnited States of America
I think he's terrific. I've always had a great appreciation of his ability. And I would rather like to see him stay on the job there.
They're going to have to eat their words. Some of the things I've seen her do on Today when there's breaking news, I thought she's done a fine job. ... Her own journalistic instincts come to the fore.
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.
Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the decisions that have to be made at election time and particularly in the selection of their legislatures and their Congress and the presidency, of course. I don't think we're bright enough to do the job that would preserve our democracy, our republic. I think we're in serious danger.
The very first day we were there, ... I started getting notes in my box to call this Bernard Shaw.
Errol Flynn died on a 70-foot boat with a 17-year-old girl. Walter has always wanted to go that way, but he's going to have to settle for a 17-footer with a 70-year-old.
Congress & the Presidency in the Television Age.
It is difficult to think of our craft without him.
To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion.
It's my belief that we should get out now.
Well thank you very much, I didn't expect birthday greetings from outer space.
We are keeping company, as the old phrase used to be. I'm not making any moves immediately. I don't think it's proper. My wife has only been gone less than a year. I'll wait until that year has passed, at least.
There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.