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Just moments ago it was announced that the man considered "the most trusted man in America" died at the age of 92. An era has ended.

I missed having him do the news. To think they ousted him to bring us Dan rather.

Is it strange to you, that an "ICON" in the television journalism died, yet he didn't get the same response as the creepy "king of pop"? I think more people were influenced by Walter Cronkite than by Micheal Jackson. Here's someone that shaped the way our evening news is reported, and yet it's some obscure blip, "oo, by the way, Walter Cronkite died" It seems that every day, i grow angrier and angrier at what our country and our society has become...am i alone in this? R.I.P. Mr Cronkite

I agree with you. Walter Cronkite touched way more lives and in a positive manner.

I woulda trusted my kids with Walt......the same can't be said for others that receive much more attention......

Amen to that Robbie, mysticct and Katie... Cronkite was one of the last of the breed that just reported the news, good and bad, with out personal political beliefs. He had them for sure, but held them in check until after his broadcasting days were over. He knew his responsibility was to report. Not make or shape the news. RIP and thanks!

Walter Cronkite was the voice that many of us remember when we recall those "where were you when. . ." moments. The assassinations of JFK, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King. The grim reality of the Tet Offensive when we realized that the war in Vietnam was not winnable. The exciting first moments of Neil Armstrong's touchdown on the moon. And many more.

He was the voice of the evening news for many years, not just in the U.S. but around the world.

"And that's the way it was......." will ring in my ears for a long time. And I have to confess I've even used that line a time or two.

When I first saw that he had passed away my first comment was, "Now THAT'S the guy that really brought you the first moonwalk!"

CBS did a good piece on Walter Cronkite on the Sunday Morning show. I hope some of you caught it.

No offense Ron, but we kicked their asses during the Tet Offensive. That is an example of the news not being reported as was. Do I think The Viet Nam conflict was winnable? No. Should we have been there at all? No. Did the Military do a good job. Yes, as much as the US Government and politicians let them.

Yes, Shop, the U.S. won the Tet. But it was during his reportage of that event that Cronkite said that the best that could be expected of the war was a stalemate. It was in response to Cronkite's comment that Johnson said "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America."

I'll also agree that the military did a good job with what it had in Vietnam. They faced two major obstacles however: (1) a president who couldn't keep his nose out of the day-to-day conduct of the war (maybe he thought he was Churchill), and (2) having to fight a type of war (insurgency) that they'd never seen before.

To be fair, the U.S. was invited in (by the French) and after the French bailed, were asked to stay by South Vietnam; thereafter, they gradually got sucked deeper and deeper into the cesspool.

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Ok, there seems to be a distinct disconnect with the 'Uncle Walter' that people fondly remember and the flaming liberal that Walter Cronkite was before his time. Cronkite had such liberal beliefs that he was hand picked from a mediocre journalism career track to front an organization, CBS News, that has been lorded over by extreme communists and liberal idealogues. Try googling "Meet the Real Walter Cronkite" for an entry point in investigating this character.

I enjoyed Walter Cronkite when I was young. I enjoyed his delivery and accepted the things he said without the healthy skepticism that years of life has a tendency to hone. Here's a little insight into Walter Cronkite that should stir the juices of any true American:

>>>In 1999, he appeared at the United Nations to accept the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award from the World Federalists Association. He told those assembled, including Hillary Rodham Clinton, that the first step toward achieving a one-world government his personal dream is to strengthen the United Nations.

"It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict 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," he said. "To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order."

In his acceptance speech, Cronkite added, "Pat Robertson has written in a book a few years ago that we should have a world government, but only when the Messiah arrives. He wrote, literally, any attempt to achieve world order before that time must be the work of the devil. Well, join me. I'm glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan." <<<

Oh, I don't think Cronkite would have any problem being termed "liberal." Keep in mind however, that "liberal" does not necessarily mean the same thing to all people. To some, "liberal" is one step short of communist (in itself not necessarily a bad thing, but a concept tainted by decades of "Leninist-Stalinist" government in the former USSR).

To other people, "liberal" means progressive governance with a focus on social, ecomomic and cultural rights. The late John Humphrey (http://www.mcgill.ca/about/history/pioneers/humphrey/)was fond of saying "civil and political rights without economic, social and cultural rights are meaningless, especially to someone with an empty belly."

Any attempt at world government under the UN would have to have as a framework the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which may seem a bit far left to many, but it is the body of international law that has been ratified and recognized as the standard by which the UN's member states measure themselves.

Cronkite undoubtedly believed that a world government would solve many of the modern world's troubles. He is not alone; however, I'm not sure that the vision is achievable. But that is for another discussion.

Hi All,

Walter Cronkite was my Great, Great, Cousin. Meet him once, at a family reunion, when I was 13. At that time...I didn't understand all the attention, as I was into Donny Osmond. To this day...I regret, not realizing who he was, (as a Top Newscaster) but only a great, great cousin.

If only I knew and understood then, what I know now...., things would have been different!!

My Great, Great Cousin Walter...will always be remembered, as the Great, Great Cousin, that never focused on his Career, while being with his family.

I will miss that wonderful smile, that he showed me, in that family reunion 34 yrs ago.

I will miss his smile, but remember his love he had for his family.

My Love Always