her name was betsy maxwell. >> reporter: cronkite married betsy maxwell in 1940.ear later, at the age of 25, cronkite was offer to cover the second world war for the united press. >> the press service was one of the most exciting, interesting, demanding businesses in the world. you got to be right and fast and first, if possible. i'm just back from the biggest assignment that any american reporter could have so far in this war. >> reporter: it was the first war in the age of television, and the first time walter cronkite would appear in living rooms across america. >> i just fell into whatever it is i do naturally. i never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. i might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if i had. this is walter cronkite. good night. >> to talk more about walter cronkite, the man, we go to his long time friend and colleague, morley safer. good morning again. >> good morning. >> let's talk about this remarkable marriage that he had with betsy, married 65 years. what were they like together? >> well, they were remarkable. walter really wa

as betsy pointed out in her piece, it takes 2.5% growth to actually start to create jobs. that's not going to come at the earlier, according to administration estimates, until next year. that's why they continue to focus on this. they also know this could be the biggest threat to their party in the midterm elections next year. >> all right, george stephanopoulos, thank you. >>> the economy will be the toc this sunday when george's exclusive guests are treasury secretary time geithner and former fed chairman alan greenspan. >>> just before leaving town for its recess, the house also passed a bill that would give shareholders of banks a nonbinding vote on how much wall street executives are allowed to earn. the vote comes just as nine of the nation's biggest banks reported losses of $82 billion, while paying bonuses totaling $33 billion to employees. banks that took taxpayer bailout money. here's bianna golodryga. >> reporter: 2008 was an awful year for the nation's biggest banks. but that didn't stop a bonus bonanza. the nine banks that received the most help from the massi

walter and betsy, his late wife, never missed an opening night or movie premier.ife of the party. i think it's an old-fashioned journalist attitude if there is something going on, i want to be there. >> i understand quite a family man. some of us will never forget he was on with one of his grandchildren sitting there in a la-z-boy chair with his grandson and describing it as one of the most interesting experiences of his broadcast life. >> it was. he was very close to his family. it's not easy having the kind of attention he did we had no larger celebrity than walter cronkite. he kept a measured life when it came to his family. he was helped a great deal by his wife betsy who met when they were reporters on the "kansas city star." she had a wonderful sense of humor. they lived in a townhouse and then moved to a high-rise apartment. somebody said to betsy, this will be more convenient. she said i would miss the townhouse. she said i'll miss the backyard because i could bury all those damn plaques walter keeps getting. they had that kind of relationship in their liv

walter and betsy were the celebrity couple. it was a rather dull affair, actually. mrs.ed content. she was whistling a little ditty to herself. seemingly. of course, all of us that know betsy's little whistle, and the nuclear submarine might herald the same concern. betsy was done fundraising and ready to go down to the old annapolis waterfront to visit a small 100-year-old saloon that i just happened to own. we had great fun that night and spent the next day on the water. for the first day of a lifetime of sailing together. visits to each other's homes, laughter, and lots of adventures. walter and i sailed our boats side by side or shared the same deck for the next 35 or so years. we had the best seats in the house for the latest broadway shows and did new york. and let me tell you, with cronkite, that was quite a ride. the day would eventually come to an end. walter stuffed 25 hours into the 24-hour day. and late at night, the call would come up the stairwell in the old brownstone up in new york, good night, old boy. good night, walter. thanks for a great night. we fle

walter and betsy cronkite for models for us in so many ways. there is a hole in this country tonight, but at the same time there is also a reason to celebrate all they stood for. >> indeed. thank you. we appreciate it. cbs news announced earlier tonight the death of walter cronkite. it's difficult to say much more than you already heard. again, the broadcasting world, american history lost a pillar of americana and of broadcast news and integrity and journalistic excellence. walter cronkite dead at the age of 92. our coverage will continue here on msnbc. i'm david shuster, msnbc coverage continues now with rachel maddow. > good evening. we do have breaking news that walter cronkite who anchored cbs evening news for 20 years has died. he was 92 years old. mr. cronkite died at his home in new york with his family by his side. a cbs executive tells us mr. cronkite passed away at 7:42 p.m. eastern time this evening after a long battle with cerebral vascular disease. mr. cronkite was called the most trusted man in america in a 1972 poll, beating out

walter turned to betsy and said you're just loving this, aren't you?bably put the flight attendant up to it in the first place. the fact is that there was a time when nobody in this country didn't know who walter cronkite was. he was our national town cryer, the 20th century equivalent of the fellow in immediate evil times who walked the streets and yelled 7:00 and all is well. or who explained what had gone wrong if all wasn't well. what's more, you had the feeling that absent television or radio, walter would have been perfectly happy distributing the news door to door. walter cronkite was the man for whom the term anchor was created. rely. it was during theup n-ru to the political conventions in 1952 and there's some debate over who gets the credit, someone on the production team d den-decithat they there to be a title to describe the fellow sitting at the desk. pulling it altogether, holding it all in place. isn't that, after all, what walter did all those years? hold it altogether? held it all in place. walter cronkite, america's anchor. and that'

betsy stark is here to talk abt it. what is driving is anand whwhat tuz it anorororhe cost-cutting, which means layoffs, and in some cases, pay cuts, as all of these people have been furloughed. >> there is a disconnect between wall street. and the green chutes in the larger economy and what we feel on main street. going to play you a sound byte from george stephanopoulos, talking to paul krugman. >> paul, you're the laureate in economics. is the recession over? >> probably in a very limited sense. the numbers right now look a lot like november 2001, which is the date that retrospectively was considered to be the end of the 2001 recession. it looks like we're probably going to be seeing positive economic growth this current quarter. >> so, technically, the recession might, maybe be over. but the pain doesn't subside. >> reporter: that's right. i mean, the economy has stabilized. that's the good news. but you have to look at where it stabilized. and it stabilized in a pretty poor place. we're not falling off a cliff anym

he sharerd with his beloved betsy, their family and others. march 6, 1981, after nearly 20 years on the "cbs evening news" he anchorrd his last broadcast. >> good evening. president walter was -- >> walter was a gold standard, he set the pace. personification of integrity. >> sometimes television is a sports stadium. sometimes it's theater. sometimes it's a movie house. sometime sometimes it's strength. people would come to him and he'd say, walter was the ultimate television preacher who they came to to be told, everything's fine. >> reporter: walter cronkite live out the rest of his years still itching to cover the big stories that broke. accepting the celebrity that followed him everywhere. he worried, though, about the fate of journalism, compromised, he feared, by more instant and sensational global communication. >> journalists, about telling people what they need to know. not what they want to know. you must be responsible if we're going to have the informed public that we need to have to make this democracy work. >> i want to see a scr

and one reason was his wife, betsy. i've seen her saying, hey, come on, big guy. that sort of thing. and she really kept him on an even keel. that's to take nothing from himself. it is very easy to forget on recognizing that a lot of people in the audience never saw walter cronkite, were not of memory age. but he was the proverbial household name. it's an over worked phrase. he was a living legend and his legend will out live him by far. he was, again, down home doesn't quite say it but he was regular, walter. i think the audience recognized that. they ripgzed that he was trying to be as honest, as truthful, as integrity filled as he possibly could. there was another side to him. he loved race cars. race cars when he was a younger man. loved sailing. was an excellent sailor. really did sail a pretty good sized sail boat for a long while. but one of the things that i haven't seen, paid attention to much, i'm sure it will be as time goes along, is that walter cronkite was a very brave and very good combat correspondent in world war ii. for example when they sent gli

walter and betsy were there.become friends and walter dpab me a small toast but he had this very instructive line for me to remember. he said there will be nights when you do the nbc nightly news when you think you've done the best possible job of covering a great and important story and you'll feel so satisfied with yourself, and then you'll walk out onto the streets of new york and there in new york alone will be millions of people wandering around who have not seen anything that you've done that day and you have to keep that in mind. i think that was not only instructive to me but it is reflective of walter cronkite. >> one of the things he said that i think is very instructive to all journalists, he said never finish a newscast that i was completely satisfied with. so he set the bar very high not just for himself but all of us who have tried to follow in his footsteps. but on a personal level, what is it that you'll remember most about walter cronkite? was it what you see is what you get? was he the guy we al

he was married, betsy, his wife, was very funny, and would put him down in a loving way. and so we have demagogues, and this man was not that. and he easily could have been. there will about no one else quite like walter. and people really did feel that we don't call anybody uncle this or aunt that or grandpa, but we really did feel that walter was part of the family, that he understood it, that he calmed us. we went through some very perilous times with walter, and he had a unique position that he did not abuse. >> mary cronkite, known as betsy, predeceased him, died from complications of cancer, back in 2005, she was 89 at the time, they had three children, nancy, kathy, and chip cronkite. any funny stories about him that you recall that maybe we wouldn't have heard, maybe off the air or when you ran into him at a social event? >> i can only tell you -- first of all, by the way, if walter had his way now, he would be in martha's vineyard on his sailboat. nobody loves sailing more than walter. i'm going to tell you a story that's going to sound self-serving, but walter h

his wife betsy died in 2005. he covered most of the 20th century and beyond. he anchored the cbs news from 1962 to 1981. he was a professional bringing us the news of john f. kennedy's death. he was so excited he could barely speak at the first moon landing. here are some of those moments. >>> good evening from cbs news center in new york, this is walter cronkite. >> we have landed. thanks a lot. >> oh, boy. boy. >> we're going to be busy for a minute. >> i want to say something. i'm speechless. from dallas, texas, the flash official. president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time, 2:00 eastern standard time, some 38 minutes ago. >>> old anchor men don't fadeaway, they keep coming back for more. that's the way it is, friday, march 6, 1981. i'll be away on assignment and dan rather will be sitting in for years. >> he came to regret leaving the anchor chair when he did. more on his legacy ahead. >>> now, a space walk is underway. two men are shuttle "endeavour" are putting pieces together. it's the first of five planned space walks for the crew. nasa

now, betsy mccaughey has also done this before. in 1994 she wrote an attack on the bill clinton health care reform proposal in a magazine called "the new republic." that article was so riddled with errors that the magazine ultimately distanced themselves from it even though they published it in the first place. that didn't stop the opponents of health care reform back then from citing her disproven attacks over and over and over again. so far, nothing is stopping the opponents of health care reform now from doing the same thing. the deathers' theory is everywhere on the right. it's on the house floor. it's on talk radio. it's in tv ads. and it is a script, a nonsense, totally made up, totally disprovable script written by the corporate interests who have wanted to block health care reform forever because they're making a mint off of the way it is now. welcome back to 1993. joining us now is governor tim kane of virginia, chairman of the democratic party. thank you so much for joining us tonight. >> good to be back, rachel. thanks.

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. >> walter cronkite is survived by three children, four grandchildren, his wife betsy died in 2005. >>> walter cronkite's 70-year plus career in journalism covered most of the 20th century and beyond. he anchored the cbs evening news from 1962 to 1981. he was visibly shaken, but a consummate professional bringing us the news of president john f. kennedy's death. he was so excited he could barely speak at the first moon landing. here are some of those moments. >> good evening from the cbs news control center in new york. this is walter cronkite reporting. >> the eagle has landed. rocket 22. thanks a lot. >> oh, boy. boy. >> we're going to be busy for a minute. >> i'm speechless. >> from dallas, texas, the flash apparently official, president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. 2:00 eastern standard time some 38 minutes ago. old anchormen, you see, don't fade away. they keep coming back for more. and that's the way it is march 26, 1981. i'll be on assignment and dan rather will be sitting in here for the next few years. good night. >> cronkite said he came to regret leavi

and betsy was his rock. >> and, susan, you know, you talked about when he did speak out about an issue, the power it had that, you know, how much it conveyed because he so rarely did. and even after he left the air, he did speak out against the war in iraq, though, he said it had reminded him of vietnam. was that ever a struggle for him as an anchor, you know, the objectivity and far different today, as you know in cable news, full of opinion. but he completely set a different standard. >> you know, i think he understood the power and the growing power of the medium. you know, edward r. murrow talked about lights in a box and wires in a box and the power of it. walter was the next generation and, you know, the increasing power during watergate, you know, walter would come down to washington to do all these specials that were breaking on a daily basis. the press during that era, in the '70s, and until nixon resigned, you know, the power of the press was pretty remarkable. vietnam was pretty remarkable. you -- you know, you were holding people accountable. and for walter, that was the pe

his wife, betsy, died in 2005. >>> a voice of certainty in an uncertain world. that is how president obama is remembering walter cronkite. others describe him as, quote, somebody we knew next door and the consummate tv newsman. here's how anchor dan rather remembers walter cronkite. >> he was literally a living legend and now a legend in memory. the very best in journalistic craft. in many ways, many important ways, he defined the role of the network anchor. >>> a nation loses a legend walter cronkite remembered today. he died yesterday at the age of 92. we'll have much more on this story next hour and, of course, throughout the morning. right now some of the other stories making headlines we're following for you. >>> president obama is asking congress to keep the ball rolling on his proposed health care reform but six moderate senators say lawmakers should take more time with it. a new government report concluded the bill won't cut long-term health care costs. those senators represent both parties plus one independent but president obama says this is not time t

betsy mccoy. i want you to explain these two big has. >> this is the house tricommittee bill, this is the kennedy bill making its way through the senate. sean: this is the kennedy bill, and this is the house tricommittee bill. >> these are going to be melded together at some point. sean: this is what congress never reads. >> what's really important to know about these bills is that they are not about covering the uninsured. they are about forcing everyone into budget grade hmo's and giving government the power to limit your health care even though you or your employer is paying for the whole plan. in both bills kennedy bill page 62 house bill page 37 an appointed commission will decide all the specifics, how much the plans will cost, what they will cover, but most importantly what the limits will be on the care. sean: isn't that the equivalent of great britain's government rationing body or seemingly? >> certainly in the letter of the law, it appears to be that way, and i'm particularly concerned

parenting expert betsy braun brown is here with some timing tips. can remember the fights i had with my sisters in the back seat of the car and how my parents would get involved. you're going to get some tips for us this morning. the first one, ignore the fight, not the kids. >> that is, of course, unless you bought the car that had the chauffeur screen that you were supposed to have bought, yeah. the idea is that fighting in the car is going to happen. if you ignore it, you're going to be much better off. pay attention to the kids, though. and will distract that way. >> ignoring, though, obviously can sometime become a safety hazard in the back seat, too. if the kids are really fighting and going at each other. >> most parents tend to turn up the radio or turn up the music. >> trying to zroun it out. >> that's a safety hazard. you don't want a model that's okay for anybody. we're trying to keep our kids safe and if you're fighting in the back seat, you can't concentrate on the road. >> don't accept tattling. why not? doesn't it matter if the 8-year

, probably my wife. ( laughter and applause ) >> when he lost his north star in life, when we lost betsythere would be a wobble in his trajectory. >> she was a fantastic, fantastic woman and a great leveling presence in his life. but life went on, it turns out, for this man with so many lives. >> ♪ hallelujah hallelujah ♪ hallelujah hallelujah ♪ hallelujah >> to see him conducting the orchestra, a great thing to see. that was another skill he had i didn't know. maybe, if all of a sudden he put on skates at that moment, i'd go, "okay, a double axle?" "i think i can do it. it seems appropriate." >> and that's the way it is, monday, september the second, 1963. ( van morrison plays "into the mystic" ) >> ♪ we were born before the wind also younger than the sun ♪ ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic ♪ >> his legacy will be one of the great legacies of, you know, great americans. it sounds overstated, but it isn't. he's...he's that important to us, not just to generations before him, but to generations coming up. >> walter got, early on, that this job is part handholding, a

he is from kansas city and he will be laid to rest next to his wife betsy of 65 years. he died in 2005. -- she died in 2005. she had her funeral here also. the director is the same priest that did her service. he tells me that's really when he got to know walter cronkite so well and so the service, it will be personal from all aspects from the priest that will be given the service as well as family members and his colleagues that go back to so many decades. we are expecting big names in the world of journalism, barbara walters as well as diane sawyer are expected here to be here but today it is about a family affair. >> reporter: karen brown, thank you so much for reporting live om new york. >>> walter cronkite died at his new york city home at the age of 92 and you can watch live coofra geth e funeral by going to our website at wusa9.com. and it begins at 2:00 this afternoon. >>> coming up next, kim and the forecast. >>> oh, j.c., i have found a cutie pie up for adoption. yep, the weather segment is next and then we will introduce you to this little bunny rabbit that n

his remains will be buried next was what betsy in a family plot. the family requests donations in lieu of flowers. >>> the taliban released a videotape showing an american soldier captured in afghanistan. the soldier's identity has not been confirmed. the associated press reports the man in this video was the soldier who was captured on june 30. the video shows the soldier being interviewed by his captors. >> i have a very good family. i love my home. i miss them everyday when i am gone. i miss them. i am afraid that i might never see them again. >> on that tape, the soldiers as the date is july 14. the information cannot be confirmed. we will have more on this story as information becomes available. >>> the white house is considering creating a unit of professional interrogators to handle high-value terror suspects. a task force will send its recommendations to the white house on tuesday. a unit of intelligence and law- enforcement agency should be created, b they have not determined which agency should be included. >>> president obama is making a

>> heavens to betsy, you know, gosh, the biggest retailer and capitalist in the united states almost uses the free market and customers to give them feedback in this thing called a democracy and we don't have to have anybody pass a law to get us to behave the way we like. that is why cap in trade is such a crock, forget the fact that kline and india will do more and it is just a way to pay for healthcare or something else. this is capitalism. let it work. brenda: you are pulling us over to another subject, mike let's get back to this subject. do you like what wal-mart is doing? >> i do love wal-mart. it doesn't have anything to do with the economy but they have brilliant advertising agencies working for them trying to fix an image problem. their c.e.o. is brilliant. scott is a hand-on way to fix the image, unfair to labor and small community businesses. brenda: i know how much you love wal-mart because lee scott is not the c.e.o. any more. >> well, whatever. brenda: that is all right. >> that is my level of memory. brenda: gary b, jump on it. do you like the wal-mart thing? >> mike i

he was married, betsy, his wife, was very funny, and would put him down in a loving way. and so we have demagogues, and this man was not that. and he easily could have been. there will about no one else quite like walter. and people really did feel that we don't call anybody uncle this or aunt that or grandpa, but we really did feel that walter was part of the family, that he understood it, that he calmed us. we went through some very perilous times with walter, and he had a unique position that he did not abuse. >> mary cronkite, known as betsy, predeceased him, died from complications of cancer, back in 2005, she was 89 at the time, they had three children, nancy, kathy, and chip cronkite. any funny stories about him that you recall that maybe we wouldn't have heard, maybe off the air or when you ran into him at a social event? >> i can only tell you -- first of all, by the way, if walter had his way now, he would be in martha's vineyard on his sailboat. nobody loves sailing more than walter. i'm going to tell you a story that's going to sound self- serving, but walter

and most of all for sailing, a sport he shared with his beloved betsy, their family, and others., 1981, after nearly 20 years on the cbs evening news, he anchored his last broadcast. >> this is the cbs evening news with walter cronkite. >> good evening. >> walter was a gold standard. he set the pace. he had this almost personification of integrity. >> walter was the ultimate television preacher who they came to to be told, everything's fine. >> reporter: walter cronkite lived out the rest of his years still itching to cover the big stories that broke. he worried, though, about the fate of journalism. >> journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know not what they want to know. you must be responsible if we're going to have the informed public that we need to have to make this democracy work. >> reporter: but in the end walter cronkite remained an optimist who believed mightily in america. >> anything i've learned, it is that we americans do have a way of rising to the challenges that confront us. there's reason to hope for the 21st century. >> again, the news

he melt his future wife, mary elizabeth betsy maxwell while working alt a kansas city radio station, kcmo. at the university. of texas he volunteered for the college newspaper, the daily texan, getting paid for part-time work as a copy boy and reporter for newspapers in the capital bureaus. again, he was the original anchorman. it was noted that he would be the anchor of coverage of the political convention in 1952 and the name stuck. those of us who have followed him in this business have been anchors ever since but walter con cite -- cronkite was the original. let's talk a little bit about his career with chris wallace. i -- the host of "fox news sunday" is joining us on the phone now. chris, your thoughts on the passing of walingt -- walter cronkite? >> well, i've known him really all of my life. grew up around him, worked for him as a teenager at the conventions. he was a great journalist and although obviously he went to fame and fortune as a tv anchor, his training was in the wire services, in u.p.i. during world war ii over in europe and he always had that news man's sense of

he will be buried next to his wife betsy in kansas city, missouri. known as the most trusted man in america died last friday at 92. >>> possible gang violence left six people wounded when gun shots rang out at a massive block party in texas's southern university campus. rival gangs are the houston area are believed to be behind last night's gunfire. she says at least one of the injured was a tsu student, though, no arrests have been made, but police are reportedly questioning people and as many as 6,000 people were at that block party. >>> we're really learning chilling details about a brutal attack on an 8-year-old girl in arizona. phoenix police say she was gang raped by four boys who lured her into a storage shed with chewing gum. this happened last week, police say the suspects between 9 and 14 years old held this girl down and brutally assaulted her for 10 to 15 minutes. here's what makes this story even more shocking. police say the girl's parents who are originally from the country of liberia blame her for bringing shame to their family. >> th

family is saying the legendary newsman will be cremated and his remains buried next to his beloved wife betsy in kansas city, the city where the two met. colleagues are remembering him as a man who set the standards for broadcast journalism. and his death is eliciting tributes from americans in all walks of life. >> and that's the way it is. >> and that's the way it is. >> and that's the way it is. >> that's the way it is. >> reporter: and so the most trusted man in america says "good night" to the millions who turned to him each day for more than a generation. professionally, he personified television journalism, as anchor and managing editor of the "cbs evening news." >> a kind, caring man, with a razor sharp mind and an unquenchable desire to know things. >> i think we all owe walter. >> ironic he would die so close to the anniversary of the first walk on the moon. >> when they landed on the moon, i was speechless. >> reporter: noting his speechless path. privately, cronkite had another passion, sailing. for 35 years, he shared that with annapolis's mike ashford. the two were countless com

his final resting place will be next to his late wife, betsy, at a family plot. >>> byrd and melanie billings' daughter promises to raise those children as her own. the florida couple was murdered earlier this month. ashley marcum says she and her husband plan to raise the children as was her mother wish. they will move back into the house where the murders took place. it has new doors, new locks and a security gate. >>> a moment of silence at the tour de france held in honor of a spectator who died yesterday. the 61-year-old woman was hit by a motorcycle involved in the race. one official said she had been seen crossing the road many times before she was struck. two others were injured by the same motorcycle, but they are expected to be just fine. the spectator's death was the first fatal accident on the tour sie a child died back in 2002. >>> still ahead, toilet trouble in space. what astronauts do when their bathroom is out of order. >>> and what a beautiful weekend. will it last into the workweek? steve is in with the forecast teafth. bakrete Ññ?wrwr q 7, >>> there is never a g

i said for what, betsy?ng like that. >> and steve, your thoughts on their marriage as well? >> it was a unique marriage and it was a perfect one. it was a love match, you could see that the interaction between the two and while she loved him, he she also, as don indicated, and chris wallace before, she knew how to keep his feet on the ground and knew how to gently, when he got a little hot air, in a very nice way, it worked. >> now, don, i wanted to ask you about the retirement. he was in the business for 30 years and as they were saying earlier pushed out by cbs after 30 year career. i can't imagine what that would be like. we all on the sophia love this business, the idea of retiring makes us sad. i'm sure that was hard for him, the videos saying goodbye, signing off, brings a tear to our eye and knew how much the business meant to him. what was that like for him to actually have sigh goodbye and give it up? >> he didn't like it, he thought that there was absolutely no reason for him to retire. and quite f

we are back with betsy mccoy. also joining the panel james free man senior editorial page writer joseph riggo and washington columnist kim strassel. starting with the claim you will be to keep plan if you want to, is that true? >> i don't think so. first a government insurance option like medicare, but open to the middle class that will pay doctors and hospitals, market rates uncut private insurers. private insureers will be regulated to within an inch of their life basically. then you have the government mucking around with some of these rules that allow larger employers to offer coverage to their employees. >> and avoid state mandate and state rules because they have national plans. >> and a lot of federal rules too. now this will be subject to a health choices administration that will make employer-sponsored coverage work just as poorly as the rest of the insurance. >> it is not a matter of speculation or prediction. the letter of the bill say you will be forced to move into a managed care plan that restricts y

that's betsy. how long have you been married? >> guest: we've been married 56 years and i'm--say that they've been 56 mighty wonderful years. betsy maxwell, which was her maiden name, is a woman with one of the great senses of humor of all time. there she is with her mother and our firstborn, nancy. the--her mother had a sense of humor as well. the fam--the whole family did, the maxwell family. see, my wife had a new knee replacement not too long ago. and i must say, with all the pain at the hospital, all the doctors and all the nurses says, 'my gosh, what a sense of humor that woman has.' it was passed around the hospital immediately that she was a wit. c-span: what's nancy, your oldest daughter, doing today? >> guest: nancy is in real estate in martha's vineyard. my other daughter there they are with the beatles. they were the--they got to meet the beatles on the first trip to the united states backstage at "the ed sullivan show." and my other daughter is kathy. she lives in austin, texas, with her lawyer husband and her two ch

walter cronkite will be buried in kansas city next to his wife betsy who passed away in 2005.ervice today will begin at 2:00. >>> a celebration today in baltore. think of it as a harvest for the homeless. right in front of baltimore city hall. gardens will be growing and they've been growing since april. big gardens. now that's going to help feed hundreds of people in baltimore. mayor sheila dixon is scheduled to take part today as hundreds of pounds of vegetables are collected for our daily bread which serves as many as 800 people everyday. >>> here's the latest on towson catholic high school and the baltimore archdiocese decision to shut it down for good coming up this fall. tonight the alumni association is going to hold a fundraiser and rally for the school at the padonia station. there will be a silent auction, starts 5:00, continues until 9:00 tonight. tomorrow a hearing is scheduled at 2:00 in the afternoon to get a restraining order to block the school's closing. the high school announced it would shut down earlier this month because of financial issues and low enrollm

and his ashes will be buried next to his wife betsy. he died friday at age 92. those are your headlines at this hour. >> speaking of bad boys i just was jumping on here, we'll talk about that in a second. bat boy bad names. what happens when someone is born and you have a name off the chart not a normal common name. i would say dave is a common name. >> dave as common as they come. >> the new study says the more unpopular your name is or the more uncommon your name is the the more likely, as a guy, you're likely to end up behind bars some day. >> this is the study in social science quarterly. they actually named the top ten bad boy names and they were as follows. now, the first one i have a-- >> no, no, ignore that for a second. >> alec. >> the name of the university professor who did it callist. >> that shouldn't be on the list. we'll move past kalish. >> although i would say that's off the wall. >> that's a last name. we accidentally put there on there, ignore that. >> that threw me off. alec is number one. >> we'll move past alec. earnest, garland, kareem, lu

he and wife betsy were married for 65 years until her death in 2005. they had three children. >> covering the occupation of north africa. >> reporter: a former unite press war correspondent, cronkite joined cbs in 1950 when television was still in its infancy. walter cronkite and television grew in stature together. in fact, when television came to sweden, the verb invented to describe anchoring was cronkite. he anchored the cbs evening news more than 3500 times steering it as it grew to a world-encompassing half-hour broadcast, a broadcast that mirrored the events of the time. >> the auto company says it is recalling full-size chevrolets. >> he scrupulously avoided offering opinions on camera but he condemned u.s. involvement in vietnam. >> it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only way out will be to negotiate not as victims but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy. >> reporter: lyndon johnson observe feerksd we've lost crone cierkts we've lost the country. cronkite was always rock in turbulent times. >

to give the dow its best july since 1989 but behind the gains there are still signs of trouble, and betsy stark joins us now. we have had so many nice numbers, whether housing or corporate profits report. the dow, are things really getting better? >> things are better. things have stabilized. what we're seeing the phenomenal run up in the dow is a change in psychology. the old fear was fear of the great depression coming upon us again. the new fear, if i don't get my money back i might miss out on the opportunity to be in on this rally. >> what are the troubling signs in the economy? >> where we've stabilized is a pretty clear place. some of these corporate profits are a good case in point. look at motorola. first profit in a year. $26 million, but revenues dropped by 32%. how did it get that profit? cutting 4,000 jobs, freezing pension plans and not giving out raises in 2009. a lot of companies reported profits by cutting costs. that's not a recipe for long-term growth. if you're cutting people's paycheck, jobs, it's difficult to get a healthy growing economy over the long term. >> not q

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there, he called me one day and invited hillary and chelsea and me to go sailing with him and with betsy, and we had the most wonderful day. it was a kind and generous thing to do, and we went out together and he was then, i think, 81, and already -- he was still a great sailing, and -- he was really a great sailor and we struck up a friendship. he was what he seemed to be -- a kind, caring man with a razor-sharp mind and an unquenchable desire to know things and he had a very high standard. when he said something, he believed it to be true. >> reporter: what are the qualities that stand out to you personally that made walter cronkite such a venerated american, such an icon? >> first, i think people could identify with him. he seemed accessible and open. you never thought he was trying to spin you. you never had the feeling that there was a story line with walter cronkite -- that he just looked at the facts that is best to find out what was going on and then told them to you. it made him incredibly trusted and that's a very valuable commodity. >> reporter: do you think you have ever seen