cronkite's reason for disdain and brothers to seem for cronkite. it comes back to the base that is really the last of the murrow boys. he was not liked by the crowd. more than that, cronkite actually promoted rather to takeover in 1981. but within days, cronkite regretted stepping down as cbs anchorman in turning it over to rather because the rather teaching the cold shoulder. there wasn't a very warm way of keeping in mind. cronkite had a show in the 80s called universe that not too many people remember. once i got taken off of primetime, there is a show about science and oceanography. good show, but didn't get ratings. cronkite was grumpy about rather and brother didn't do anything to extend a role the way nbc has first tom brokaw. cronkite became kind of an old and in the way, almost like an faster too many reasons why the relationship never work. but how great admire rather's journalism particularly during the kennedy assassination in dallas. they were a team. he knew what a good investigative reporter he was, but didn't think it the right pers

cronkite is holding up a sign. unbeknownst to homer, the whole idea was to surprise homer with this. the sign read, keep off the grass. there was no grass to keep off of. this was an error drone-based and it was just absolute muck. but it's absolutely amazing to think that on february 19, 1943, they were both anonymous. had done very little to distinction themselves in their wartime correspondence to all of that changed one weekends when they went on an amazing bombing run over -- we have been bombing the third reich since july of 42, but we had only bombed germany proper three times at the point. think about that for a second here it is 40 months after pearl harbor, and the only real action to speak of in the european theater are these amazingly brave bomber boys a wrist life and limb to take the fight directly to adolf hitler. and yet, it's taken all this time to get the manpower, the material, everything required for a meaningful bombing campaign against him. so that day, february 26, 1943, the writing 69th as t

so the biography of cronkite that he wrote, i think, will be the definitive biography of walter cronkite. and i think both the fact that doug brinkley wrote it and my high regard for him and the fact that cronkite, of course, is so well hone the and loved -- well hone the and loved in our country that having this kind of a biography is an excellent thing for us to have for historic documentations in the future. the last book, um, i have a chapter in this book. it's "vital voices." now, "vital voices" is an organization that was formed with then-senator hillary clinton and myself as the honorary co--chairs. and i relate to this and put a chapter in as did now-secretary of state clinton because i have been so impressed by the role that women have taken throughout the world particularly in countries that are in trouble. and the women leaders have emerged to create peace or create honesty and integrity or just to fight for human rights in these countries where it is so lacking. all of us, i think, were taken with the women, the treatment of women in afghanistan and what they endour -- endure

another buck is of book of cronkite we love him in texas. then he was a foreign correspondent and got to a lot of reporter experience. but when the cbs evening news feathery major networks have them, walter cronkite started in the '60s through the early '80s. he said he covered eight presidents. he was fascinating because he was so thoughtful. douglas brinkley is a wonderful historian. also teaching at the naval academy he is a historian the bagger fee of cronkite is the definitive one. and the fact that douglas brinkley wrote it to and the fact walter cronkite is so well known and loved to have this by our coffee this or documentation in the future. fu. last book is final voices in organization formed to list senator hillary clinton as the honoraria co-chair. i have ben so impressed by a their role women have taken particularly in countries that are in trouble. to create honesty and integrity to fight for human rights where it is so lacking. follow the us word taken with the treatment of women in afghanistan. how some of them demerged in th

walter cronkite at cbs news, david brinkley of nbc and leader of adc and howard k. smith, who left cbs to anchor at adc. when you were watching them on television, you were getting an authentic person, not the creation of focus groups, queue ratings honeycutt artists and publicity people. these virginia and journalists, and i can promise you that the way they can cross on the air is very much the way were in person. the personality was different it's notable how similar they were in terms of background and journalistic philosophy. a remarkable, too all were southerners. the background turned out to be very important to how they approached probably the most important story of their times and hours, the civil rights movement of the 1960's. as young men, none of these three had been an activist for racial equality. cronkite actually confessed as a young man he had not have the courage to challenge his teenage friends at his texas high school when they made racist remarks. but all of these men had seen enough racism in the south to know that it was morally wrong to perp

and walter cronkite with cbs. and we also respected greatly the correspondents with those programs, the likes of the brothers marvin and bernard kalb, sam donaldson and one of the best, barrie dunsmore. as ted koppel says in in his forward to the book, we gave american television viewers what we thought they needed to know, not necessarily what they would have selected for themselves. now, that era's largely gone. we have good news, sources of good news today, but they no longer provide a common starting point for our national dialogue. we're very fortunate to have mr. dunsmore here with us today from an era that many of us think was a golden era of newscasting. he has an illustrious and long background. i've provided his background for you to be read. i don't think you want -- i would think you want to hear him rather than me. but let me just say he covered foreign affairs for abc news for 30 years reporting from washington and abroad on the policies of seven u.s. presidents from lyndon johnson to bill clinton. h

walter cronkite was the ambassador to both countries. >> welcome. this is pledge time for public television, when we remind you there are programs here unlike anything else on tv. programs such as this one. there is no stretch of territory in the world quite like the borderlands between the united states d mexico. a vast swath of terrain, a long and tortured history, and an endless stream of humanity both separate and join our two countries. it's as complex a coupling as you will find anywhere. from brownsville and matamoros on the gulf of mexico, the border runs along the rio grande river to intersect with the continental divide. where it turns toward tijuana and san diego on the pacific ocean. 1,969 miles snaking through desert and desolation, dividing towns and cities marked now by stretches of steel and concrete fence, with infrared cameras and sensors, national guardsmen, and border patrol agents. well over 100 million people cross this border every year, one way or another. one day in may eleven years ago, 26 mexican men set out across the mur

a very modest life you know he has net worth was never even close to being a millionaire walter cronkite was making sixty thousand dollars a year doing the c.b.s. evening news. since reagan dropped that top tax rate down below seventy four percent there's been this explosion in the nature of elites in the united states what what what are the consequences of that and what are the solutions to. i'm glad that you you know the dropping of the top marginal tax rate i think is a i don't write about it in the book when i write about taxation policy in the last chapter but i think it's a really important thing because it really does change if you if you believe as as conservative economists say they do in incentives right the idea of dropping the top tax rate is that people will work harder build the you know that the mark zuckerberg of the world formerly would have just sat around on their duff but now they're going to invent facebook and they're going to keep working on facebook and keep giving us all some products because they're going to take home more of every marginal dollar they make i do

so when walter cronkite ended his newscasts saying, that's the latest, we pretty much had to take hisfor it. now we have so much choice. of wider range of voices to liberal and conservative. a few libertarians. also, people don't have to rely on gatekeepers. we can hear it firsthand when president obama says this to a russian leader. >> after my election. john: and much more debate about serious stuff. in july you said everything was great. of that people bought stock and lost everything they had. oh, yes. no, yes. don't give me any of that. we just heard the words. you may not like the yelling, but it is good. the truth often emerges from confrontation. so comediennes give theirs. if. >> how did ron paul become the 13th floor in the hotel? john: good to hear all these opinions. finally, i love it that there are no enough channels so that i could say what i want to say. for 20 years at abc news lawyers and producers come through by scripps to meditate this out are told that tab. most of them were unfamiliar with free-market or hostile to the. usually i could persuade them to let me sa

south of here and attempt to kill the b c one two three ball with the powerful but be allowed to cronkite a distinguished t.v. reporter and presenter expresses that the time the official conception regarding the war coverage in vietnam the great way to go to war for the american media the conception that described the war as an exciting adventure gradually changed the vietnam war turned out very bad for america. and after that was it news organizations in a to some degree felt responsible. in a pit so shaded protests you know i want to pulitzer prize for writing stories that attacked the u.s. military in the u.s. government the pictures that a.p. people took eddie adams a picture of the police executing a viet cong in the streets of saigon a nine hundred sixty eight nick but another a.p. photographer take your picture of a young girl with the clothes burned off by napalm running down a country road these were very negative images. u.s. media turned away from. reporting. from then on independent journalism was regarded as a collateral and a. after the terrorist attacks of september elevent

in fact, mike wallace being interviewed for kathy cronkite's book and numerous other people that yout, not artistes, necessarily -- strong men with intellectual careers. that was so great to hear about that. i'm not crazy. we're not crazy. we're just sick. it's just like cancer, and it could be treated. tavis: so what do we do about the -- so the meds can help with the depression and the other issues that we've talked about, and sleep and rest and all that, but what do you do about this man problem? other than write songs about it, what you doing about that one? >> i quit. i have quit. tavis: you just gave up on us, huh? >> i'm giving up. i'm giving up. tavis: wow. >> i'm happy by myself. it's working out just fine. i had my share of that too, and there have been great things that happened to me with men -- great things. it was a lot of good material for the book. tavis: a lot of good -- yeah, exactly. a lot of good stuff. let me shift gears, because i don't know where to go after that comment, so i'm going to move on. >> maybe there's nowhere to go. tavis: yeah, so i'll move on to s

it is different than when we had walter cronkite way back when. now it is all day long. i am a bit of a jaunty, to a point. then i have to sleep. [laughter] isis: i don't know that this ever the case, because he is such a great writer, but when you look at the script and there is something that sorkin has written that you think ought to be changed, how do you say that to aaron sorkin? >> very quietly, and usually through someone else. [laughter] a lot of layers in between so it cannot be traced back. tavis: right. >> here is the deal, and this comes from having done theater. it speaks also to the cast. they were very smart to cast theater people who could handle that dialogue and know that when the writing comes in, that's what to do. that's what you learn, every word. it is not restrictive, it's very liberating in a way because i don't have to paraphrase or come up with some kind of better joke here like you would if you are on a movie where it's kind of been written by a lot of people, some of whom who are not even writers. aaron will tell you, and rightfully so, if yo

nancy cronkite was my first girlfriend. >> i didn't know we were going down this road. >> it's true. convention memory. >> it is indeed. >> you should have seen nancy back in 1964. in 1980 i was on the floor for nbc news at the convention and the big story was that reagan was going to pickford as his running mate. it was going to be a copresidency, he was sweeping the convention in detroit. the reagan political directors came out on the floor. they were going to announce george bush. i got the word 45 seconds before leslie stall and i was in the papers the next day as the big scoop. >> true or not wallace had no moves back in the 60s or there after. >> i don't know what i was doing but i wasn't getting pencils for walter cronkite i tell you that. the most distinct memory i have where the nominees are no longer decided at the convention was reagan coming in in 1976. ford beat him by 117 delegates was all and when ronald reagan appeared in the hall and his name was placed in nomination there erupted on the convention floor in kansas city, a demonstration that really was a spontaneous d

read what they are very sensitive and i think when you read a book like the biography of walter cronkite or lyndon johnson were the stories of the women who have done so much, it doesn't reach everyone of us. i hope you had a great summer reading. [appltie pavlicek discussed her book, au"fast and furious: barak obama's bloodiest scandal and its shameless cover-up." well. >> good morning, everyone.c. apparently it is red friday. i hope you are having a good time in washington dc. the weather is holding out pretty good. you thi which is great. wha how many of you have heard whato do you think has happened about >> passengers? >> the scandalous. >> the scandal, the movie? >> website. exactly his own justice department set them to cartels to kill people. t the obama justice department sh, actually named this program after the hollywood movie. and i had the official hollywodi government slideshow cover to prove it. they actually took aas screensht of the hollywood movie cover and put it into their official ring documents and official names.tel theing unfortunate thing is thah this "operation

getting nasty with the president isn't the same when walter cronkite ripped the vietnam war and bolted on president lyndon johnson. combined with polls showing the smallest percentage of americans are satisfied with the way things are going. clear problems with the white house right now. to professor larry sabado. >> the media relationship with president obama the honeymoon is over. the bloom is off the rose. this often happens as reality meets the promise of what a candidate said during a campaign. this happened to jimmy carter in 1980. the media was much taken to him in 1986 but by but they moved to ted kennedy or necessity liked john anderson the middle of the road semi liberal independent who ran against both reagan and carter in november 1980. i think some of that is going on now. they recognize that the market, their market is not as entrenched with president obama as they were four years ago. they follow their market. they have to get viewers and get buyers. you know how that works. >> neil: absolutely. newsweek, i'm going explore more on this on fox business network, if you can

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so when walter cronkite ended his newscasts saying, that's the latest, we pretty much had to take hisit. now we have so much choice. of wider range of voices to liberal and conservative. a few libertarians. also, people don't have to rely on gatekeepers. we can hear it firsthand when president obama says this to a russian leader. >> after my election. john: and much more debate about serious stuff. in july you said everything was great. of that people bought stock and lost everything they had. oh, yes. no, yes. don't give me any of that. we just heard the words. you may not like the yelling, but it is good. the truth often emerges from confrontation. so comediennes give theirs. if. >> how did ron paul become the 13th floor in the hotel? john: good to hear all these opinions. finally, i love it that there are no enough channels so that i could say what i want to say. for 20 years at abc news lawyers and producers come through by scripps to meditate this out are told that tab. most of them were unfamiliar with free-market or hostile to the. usually i could persuade them to let me say mo

so when walter cronkite ended, that is the way it is, you had to take his word for it., we 6 so much choice and a wider range of voices, liberal and conservative and a few libertarians. people don't have to rely on gatekeepers. we can hear it firsthand when president obama says this to a russian leader. >> after the election there will be more reflection built. >> there is much more debate did about serious stuff. >> you threw it out in july and lot people bought stock and lost everything they had. oh, yes. >> don't give me any of that. we heard the words. >> john: you may not like the yelling but it's good there is more than that. the truth often emerges from confrontation. comedians give their spin. >> how did libertarian ron paul become the 13th floor in a hotel? >> it's good to hear these opinions. finally, there are enough charges i can say what i wanted the say. for 28 years at abc news, lawyers and producers combed through my scripts demanding i take this out or tone that down. most of them were unfamiliar with free markets are hostile to them. most of what i wan

. >>> it hasn't happened in 75 years, you don't have to be walter cronkite to figure out that's news. time the u.s. has defeated mexico in mexico in soccer. the only goal of the game. even though mexico dominates most of the play. scoreboard, u.s. 1-0 over mexico. that's the sporting light for wednesday night. >>> thanks mark. >> thank you for trusting ktvu channel 2 news, we'll see you the next time news breaks. >> the ktvu morning team will be here starting at 4:30 tomorrow morning, tracking the traffic and changes in the weather. we're always here for you at ktvu.com and mobile ktvu. someone says, "yes, i will stand in the tunnel breathing exhaust fumes, watching cars go by." someone goes, "yes, i will work behind the elephant with the big shovel." doctors go, "yes, i will confine myself "to one particularly objectionable part of the human body "all day, every day. i will do it." i think a lot of people that are unemployed are not unable to find work-- they're just easily disgusted. yes, i'm starving, my family has no clothing or shelter,

today we have a multiplicity we all know that cronkite was a raving liberal. we all know that but he hid it he hid it they don't hide t anymore. >> i don't know how well he hid it. look, hey how about fox news and all these blogs and news organizations. people select news organizations. >> bill: it's like 10 to 1. we are fair here. i don't think we are promoting mitt romney on this network. there are a few people who are but certainly our hard news guys aren't. next on the run down, president obama says mitt romney wants to raise money on the middle class and give money to the wealthy. income redistribution in reverse. crawl and colmes moments away. making more than $3 million a year. [boos] >> it's like robin hood in reverse. [ laughter ] >> it's romney hood. [cheers] >> bill: i'm wondering if carl rove will be fryer tuck. with us now is alan colmes and monica crowley, author of the big new best seller "what the bleep just happened?" so the president is basing his projections of governor romney taking money from the poor and the working people and giving it t

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occasion in the context of the flight of john glenn on the space shuttle back in 1998, got walter cronkitetter to neil armstrong and always refused and it's interesting. in 2004 i had the high honor of being asked by the sitting sewnian air and space museum to bestow an award on neil armstrong, an achievement award. you know, you talk about are you sure you want me to do that kind of moment and i did that and i had the most pleasant evening with he and his wife, and my wife at the time. we had dinner with him. it was a delightful evening. he was -- we talked about family. we talked about kids. we talked about life. we talked about everything, but what was it like to be on the moon which he clearly didn't want to talk about. it was very interesting. i left that evening thinking he was my best buddy, and a few months later in the same building at the air and space museum, upon the celebration of the 35th anniversary of the moon landing, i arrived with the cnn crew in tow and i said neil, it was miles with the camera and he did a 180 and ran away from me. that sums him up. he was a quiet, eng