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'''Walter Cronkite''' ( St. Joseph, Missouri, November 4, 1916 - New York, July 17, 2009) was an anchorman for [[CBS]] Evening News, 1962-1981. Widely regarded as authoritative, he was known as "Uncle Walter". Unfortunately, he was soft on [[Communism]]. <!-- and began to oppose the US & South Vietnam's side in the Vietnam War? -->
'''Walter Cronkite''' (Born, St. Joseph, Missouri, November 4, 1916 - New York, July 17, 2009) was the chief correspondent and an anchorman for, and managing editor of, the [[CBS]] Evening News, 1962-1981. Widely regarded as authoritative, he was known as "Uncle Walter". Unfortunately, he was a liberal-progressive and failed to see the threat of international [[Communism]]. <!-- and began to oppose the US & South Vietnam's side in the Vietnam War? -->
*He was the first journalist that told the nation in 1963 that [[John F. Kennedy]] had been assassinated.
*He was the first journalist that told the nation in 1963 that [[John F. Kennedy]] had been assassinated.
Cronkite's influence on the America's public perception of the Vietnam War was recognized by President [[Lyndon Johnson]] when he stated after a critical report on the war, "if we've lost Walter Cronkite, we've lost the country."<ref>http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0312/28/rs.00.html</ref>
Cronkite's influence on the America's public perception of the Vietnam War was recognized by President [[Lyndon Johnson]] when he stated after a critical report on the war, "if we've lost Walter Cronkite, we've lost the country."<ref>http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0312/28/rs.00.html</ref>
{{cquote|'''''However nice a person he may have been, Walter Cronkite was, more importantly, a model voice for liberal-progressives’ brand of socialism. His lack of understanding about the nature of the Constitution and about the founding ethos of the United States allowed him to warp the minds of millions of Americans with the historicism that characterizes liberal-progressivism. <small>-- Thomas E. Brewton'''''<ref>[http://www.thomasbrewton.com/index.php/weblog/walter_cronkite_quintessential_liberal_progressive/ Walter Cronkite: Quintessential Liberal-Progressive]</ref></small>}}
In 1972 [[Democratic]] extreme [[leftist]] Presidential nominee [[George McGovern]] asked Cronkite to be his Vice Presidential running mate.<ref>''The Pulse of Politics: Electing Presidents in the Media Age'', By James David Barber, New York, W.W. Norton and Co., 1980, pg. 102.</ref><ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,879139-8,00.html McGovern's First Crisis: The Eagleton Affair], ''[[Time magazine]]'', Aug. 07, 1972.</ref>
In 1972 [[Democratic]] extreme [[leftist]] Presidential nominee [[George McGovern]] asked Cronkite to be his Vice Presidential running mate.<ref>''The Pulse of Politics: Electing Presidents in the Media Age'', By James David Barber, New York, W.W. Norton and Co., 1980, pg. 102.</ref><ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,879139-8,00.html McGovern's First Crisis: The Eagleton Affair], ''[[Time magazine]]'', Aug. 07, 1972.</ref>