but cronkite took the title "managing editor." >> everybody under cronkite was the last word on whatre handled and how they were handled. >> pelley: sandy socolow became the executive producer of the cbs news with walter cronkite and he was there for that very first broadcast which ended with cronkite inviting viewers to get the details of the stories he'd reported in the next day's papers. >> an explosion broke out among the suits and management who were very upset that walter was sending people to read newspapers instead of coming to him for the news. >> pelley: so walter came up with an alternative signoff-- the one he would use for the next 19 years. >> and that's the way it is. >> pelley: and that's the way it was april 16, 1962. it's been nearly three years since we lost walter cronkite but his legacy is part of every evening news broadcast. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. >>> this is 9 news now. >>> possible criminal charges and more officials under fire tonight as the general services administration scandal gets even wider and today for the first t

extraorhard to imagine anybody bigger than walter cronkite. and talkhan walter cronkite.ege of uy.wing and talking to many he loved td talking to many times. kenneeople don't know he was a york,un loving guy. have too manyd to get him to run for the united states senate , walt, ark, he said i couldn't do that. say, walt's very helpful hered make me unelectable. >> his grandson is a great to gos grandson is a great addition to cbs news. he said he loved to go sailing you know, he didn't have to ng abohim that was his time away. he didn't have to worry about with hones or blackberries. he could go out on the water and relax. d go out on the water and relax. >> you know what the name of the s?at was? > tell us. >> on assignment. >> when inabout walter cronkite tthink about cbs news. ien i walked in the studio for the first time and thought in buildilding where he used to ork, it's kind of a sobering moment for me. very humbling. ary nice. when jeff said there was a time when walter cronkite was looked imagine. er cronkite was looked down upon that's so hard to imagine. aid,t

but cronkite took the title "managing editor." >> everybody under cronkite was the last word on whatre handled and how they were handled. >> pelley: sandy socolow became the executive producer of the cbs news with walter cronkite and he was there for that very first broadcast which ended with cronkite inviting viewers to get the details of the stories he'd reported in the next day's papers. >> an explosion broke out among the suits and management who were very upset that walter was sending people to read newspapers instead it is goliath verses goliath. oracle accusing google of ripping off their intellectual property rights. >> priestly shows us that both companies have lot to lose. >> oracle believes they are entitled to $1 billion in licensing fees and it is not just the money that makes this so important but the judge is calling its eworld series of intellectual property. and experts believe that is one case could impact every company in silicon valleys. that is how big it is. >> it is not exactly reality show but as close as silicon valley will get. >> it is opening day, the firs

beauty shot of walter cronkite's map. i get goose bumps every time i see it.ortant anniversary here at cbs. 50 years ago tonight walter cronkite became anchor of the "cbs evening news." >> at the time, few people had any idea just how important cronkite would become. his legacy still lives here at cbs news and in newsrooms around the world. >> 30 seconds. >> cue. >> good evening from the "cbs evening news" control center in new york. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with walter cronkite. >> for a generation of americans, those simple words were a comforting nightly cue, a moment to stop and listen. to the man known as uncle walter. >> the relationship america has with cronkite is intense and very personal. he broke through the glass. >> to ensure man's survival -- >> reporter: walter cronkite was, simply, a member of the family. present each night at dinner with a snapshot of the day. >> he had an impact on this country, like reporters never do. i mean, imagine a reporter is considered the most trusted man in america. >> that's the way it is. >> reporter: tha

cronkite says i want to live forever.ook at the water, the sunshine, the beach, and the trees here, every day, mike is a blessing. parse that out for us. it's usual for somebody to say i've done everything i've wanted to, i'm ready. >> that is right'. wallace were a part of the martha vineyard set that included cronkite and art bu buchwald and many others. they were relaxing and out of nowhere, mike wallace said kind of i'd like to be dead. we know he had a great history of depression. but he said it in a kind after normal conversation way and it startled cronkite so much that along with joanne simon, they decided after that evening talking about it that they were going to do the last things they wanted to do in their 80s before they had health problems so they traveled the world. cronkite having this exchange with wallace on the vineyard was quite meaningful and it gave him and extra impetus to not get that way in his last years as we know mr. wallace the last few years has been taken care of. he wasn't somebody you coul

lyndon johnson was watching, he said if i've lost cronkite, i've lost the country.oon after that he decided to retire. richard nixon was not watching apparently because from '68 to '72 vietnam did enter a new phase. we well know it, the later years. nixon began to look for peace with honor. folks at home began to hear from wallace terry an don north and we're going to hear from them right now also. come up, please. and in addition, richard heil who will be speaking for "life" magazine's dick swanson who was going to come until last night but has been called away on an emergency. >> i'm wally terry from "time life." when you went into the field in vietnam, you wore fatigues so you looked like everyone else. plenty of us carried guns because we knew if our choppers came down, the enemy was not likely to yell to reporters, hey, would that black guy move over and we'll start to fire fight? back in saigon you wore a modified safari suit which we called a walking suit. it was usually tan in color. well, in time to combat the boredom, we all had our little pick dill lows a

lyndon johnson perhaps was overly sensitive to walter cronkite. although cronkite did hedge his bets. i simply saw no sense to where are we headed. which actually is a legitimate question. but the more legitimate question would be, what is the state us of the vietcong? well, they're decimated. but now what? well -- so i see that. the -- johnson did pay -- on the other part of your question, president johnson paid a lot of attention to campus protest, especially, you know, columbia university, in the backyard of the major media, was inevitably going to receive disproportionate cover. this is changed. i think president bush today is largely ignoring academia. ignoring campus protests. recognizes that it's a percentage. now, whether or not that small percentage will grow is something -- that's why i say, we hold our breath with unease, waiting. nothing worse than living in a historical moment. you know? and much rather like live in the future and have the present be done. at least you know the answer. so i would say that. would be my answer. >> in th

in the beginning, nbc huntleigh-brinkley report was the leader, giving way to walter cronkite.ite's retirement opened the way for world news tonight with peter jennings. in the 1980s. by that time, things had begun to change. emergence of cable tv with the huge menu of shows siphoned away broadcast viewership but did nothing to halt the growth and costs. cable news added further to audience erosion. the as a result the network news division gradually turning out the lights for two decades. staffs have been cut repeatedly. bureau closed. first overseas and then at home. cable news with the instant access to the audience robbed the network news programs and the immediacy and much of their impact. but those magazine shows led by "60 minutes" with no need of a huge staff of chain of bureaus survived and thrived. mike wallace worked until he was 88, and infectious enthusiasm never waned. bret? >> bret: you talk about his enthusiasm and mike wallace had it. do you think that explains his longevity in the business? >> well, you know, cynicism is occupational hazard of the business. yo

like he always said about cronkite after '68, but we listened to walter cronkite and when walter cronkitey it is," my dad believed him. the swam "60 minutes," water garkt the darkest days of watergate, when my dad was sure they were going after nixon because of alger hiss and vietnam and all those things, when "60 minutes" came on, dad just watched. >> right. >> and i remember after, one time in '74 he said and he loved nixon to the end, said, you know exif nixon's done half of what they say he's done, the man is unfit for office and should be thrown in jail. you know, it's -- >> that was a particularly good interview by mike wallace with john ehrlichman. he really hammered him. >> he did. >> if your father accepted that, he had gone a long way on the nixon trip. >> the interview in which he listed all the things ehrlichman had done wrong and he stop and then ehrlichman said "is there a question in here somewhere?" >>> coming up next, newark mayor cory booker will be here. >>> and we will preview a new cnbc documentary that goes to the frontlines of the health care fraud. >>> the revival

they took the same attitude by the way to walter cronkite because he was merely a wire service guy. i think with mike, there was no way mike wasn't going to whip these guys. he was determined -- >> rose: to get the story. >> to get the story. to get the attention. and sure enough he did. and i must say that ultimately few of those guys anyway, really respected him. >> rose: he earned their respect by the work he did. >> absolutely. and you know, there was nothing, mike got down in the trenches. mike d as you said, somebody said, the homeland, he really did. and again -- >> rose: don't you have to do that. don't the best ones always have to do that. >> we all have to do that but mike was particularly diligent about that. and he would find that one kernel in the research that he knew was going to really make this story. he could find the core of that and he was brilliant at finding it. >> he used to go through the research and try and find out what is the stunne stupidest ths person has ever said. [laughter] and he was acting like why did you say this, why were you unwise enough to sa

but one of the things that we do is, the lear center gives out the walter cronkite award for excellence in television political journalism every two years. and we get amazing entries from all over the country of stations large and small of reporters under these horrendous odds doing brilliant pieces and series of pieces, which prove that you can not only do these pieces on a limited budget, but you can still be the market leader. >> what do they say when you say, "but look, you have this public franchise. you've been given this hotdog stand in your neighborhood to sell all the hotdogs you want to. in return, we'd just like more attention to serious issues and to take politics seriously." what do they say? >> well, some of them say, "you're right. we're going to do it. and hold us accountable." that's the miracle. the hearst chain of television stations, for example, has won the cronkite award over and over, because they've risen to the challenge. if you have management and ownership from top down, saying to all their stations, "okay, you are required to run news stories about campaigns.

walter cronkite this cbs. we also respected greatly the correspondence with those programs, the likes of the brothers marvin and brick house. sam donaldson. or of the best, barry does more. as ted koppel says in his foreword, we gave american television viewers a week of the need to know, not necessarily what they would have selected for themselves that there is was a gun. we have sources of news today, but they've largely billowing provide a common starting point for our national dialogue. very fortunate to have barry dunsmoore here with us today. he has an illustrious and long background. i have provided his background for you to be read. i would think you want to hear him rather than me, but let me just say that he covered foreign affairs for abc news for 30 years of reporting from washington and abroad of the policies of seven u.s. presidents from lyndon johnson to bill clinton. he traveled with the mall overseas and was a regular on planes and their secretaries of state for 96 -- to 95, more than 100 coun

walter cronkite is our guest narrator as the u.s. army proudly turns back a page of its own history to salute citizen soldier, george marshall. >> the marshall family had settled in southwestern pennsylvania a few years before george catlet was born in 1880. a union town, he entered a slow-moving world that was more a part of the past than of the future. marshall's boyhood passed quietly and the only contact this serious child had with the army he would someday serve came secondhand through his father's recollections of the civil war. america's indian frontier had only recently been tamed and the stories of carson and custer were still fresh enough to excite the imagination of any boy. looking backward over the years, it's hard to find the precise reason why young george marshall decided to make the army his profession. but choose it he did and he began his soldiering at a soldier school. the virginia military institute trained many distinguished army men before george marshall arrived in september 1897. they once boasted stonewall j

walter cronkite basically broke with the president johnson over the war because of the offensive and it completely guided the country and flamed the anti-war movement. within three weeks after nixon had filed, our opponent, george romney, dropped out of the race. the father of mitt romney. because we were leading him in our own closet polls 7-1. then came the new hampshire primary and the startling perceived upset of lyndon johnson by gene mccarthy. actually johnson won the race 49-42 and johnson was a write-in candidate. but mccarthy's 42% was so dramatic that everyone said, the press said, president of the united states is in deep trouble. four days later, after that bobby kennedy who had stayed out of the race, he jumps into the race and i remember many people were bitter about that and said it was completely opportunistic. remember murray kempton said that bobby kennedy enerring this race proves that st. patrick did not drive all the snakes out of ireland. [ laughter ] that was -- he gets into the race and then we got nelson rockefeller supposed to get in and challenge us. he get

murrah, cronkite and wallace, a news man's news man.ust want to sit by on the desk, but wanted to get out there and investigate and uncover a role model for all of us, mike wallace, sadly, reporting this morning, has died, at the age of 93. we'll be right back. have two we're going to have you taste. the first one we're going to call x. go ahead and take a sip, and then let me know what the baby thinks of it. four million drivers switched to this car insurance last year. oh, she likes it babies' palates are very sensitive so she's probably tasting the low rates. this is car insurance y, they've been losing customers pretty quickly. oh my gosh, that's horrible!, which would you choose? geico. over their competitor. do you want to finish it? no. does the baby want to finish it? no. having one of those days? tired. groggy. can't seem to get anything done. it makes for one, lousy day. but when you're alert and energetic... that's different. you're more with it, sharper, getting stuff done. this is why people choose 5-hour energy over 9-mill

the former executive producer of the cbs evening news with walter cronkite.ch for your remembrances. >> my pleasure. >>> more than 100,000 christians packed into vatican city to hear a special easter message from pope benedict today. greg burke live from rome with more on what the pope had to say. >> reporter: doug, that's right, what a day in rome. you know, the message was eis sentencingly two fold. part of it geopolitical, part spiritual. the spiritual side saying the encounter with the risen christ is something that should change your life. massive crowds here in and outside of st. peter's square. overflow at st. peter's square to hear the message. flags and faces from all over the world. incredible vibes going through that crowd except for a few pick pockets perhaps all were really there to celebrate the joy of the resurrection along with the pope in st. peter's square. now, the pope making a major plea for peace. that perhaps is the more geopolitical message. he was going through a number of the trouble spots around the globe, many of them in africa, he

i have talked to cronkite enough about vietnam. if you start talking to me about vietnam, i will send you boys talking. >> i said you have got to talk about vietnam, mr. president. vietnam [bleep] mr. president. and as a result, you [bleep] the country and you have got to talk about that. well, he looked at me as though i was out of my mind. >> bill: what do you think of the elder bush? >> i think is he a fine man. >> bill: smarter than the son? >> certainly in every way better prepared for the presidency. the greatest super bowl. -- super power. >> bill: richard nixon fundamentally dishonest or just get in over his head on the watergate thing. >> dishonest or stupid. >> bill: what's your read on it. >> he wasn't stupid. >> bill: got it jimmy carter, going to go down in history as one of the weakest presidents. what's your. >> as far as i'm concerned the capital one cash rewards card gives you a 50% annual bonus. and who doesn't want 50% more cash? ugh, the baby. huh! and then the baby bear said, "i want 50% more cash in my bed!" p

i just learned that walter cronkite's boat was called "the assignment."o when he was not there he was out on assignment. cenk uygur is on assignment. mitt romney won delaware, road rhode island. a huge night for mitt romney. this is what newt had to say. >> governor romney is not the nominee at this point. he cuss not have the majority of the delegates and i think it's a little bit presumptuous. there's a different between the frontrunner and the inevitable. he's mistaking the two. >> 12 hours ago we have newt gringrich again oh my god five states and the costed delaware where he said, this is where we're going to make our stand. >> governor romney had a very good day yesterday. give the guy some credit. he has worked six years put together a big machine and a serious campaign. i think obviously that i would be a better candidate. the voters didn't think that. it's also very very important that we be unified. >> but wait newt, i thought you were the nominee. just for old time's sake i love hearing this. here is newt gringrich sometime earlier this year. >

harry r.n.er walked across the street from cbs to abc and said the reason i did this was walter cronkite is not going to step out in front of a truck any time soon. no one wishes that fate on mitt romney, but the fact is, newt will stay there with his ideas and now, as the conservative alternative as opposed to ron paul, who is really more the libertarian alternative, it is another name on the ballot and it is -- it is something that will give conservative voters pause in primaries coming up in states like my native north carolina. >> so he is the just-?injust-in-case something happens candidate. tony perkins said something very interesting today, which was that a lot of the very conservative movement and obviously you reflect those voters as well were disappointed obviously in romney and are going to focus now on taking back the senate, more than campaigning for romney for president. what's your reaction to that? >> this is a team effort. you have to look at coattails. it's important to achieve change, you want a united government with conservatives in charge at 1600 pennsylvania avenue