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walter cronkite with our own bob schieffer, former senator and astronaut john glenn and historian douglas brinkley. but first fixing health care on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs "face the nation" with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. and now from cbs news in washington, harry smith. >> smith: welcome again to the broadcast. bob schieffer is off but he'll be joining us again in just a few minutes. joining us now from new york congressman charles rangel and here in our studio senator orrin hatch. good morning, gentlemen. >> good morning, harry. >> smith: congressman, let me start with you. the head of the congressional budget office came out this week and said the plans he's looked at so far don't do the job nor... in fact, the cost of health care might go up. have you guys botched this job so far? >> no. i'm surprised that the congressional budget office had these views and shared them with the ways and means committee before we concluded our work. but it's clear that they're working with different assumptions than the white house and the congress is. but we'v

>>> the story of douglas brinkley, cbs news consultant and studying walter cronkite's personal papersfor an upcoming biography. he joins us from austin texas, this morning. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> you had a chance to look at walter's personal archives reporter's notebooks what have you uncovered? >> they're just the old-fashioned kind with the spiral, but many reporters scrawl on them and cross out and flip it in their very messy. walter kept perfectly kept notebooks, he kept control of his pen at all times, no crossouts, yet he would always find time to write the word source and add a colon and then put exactly where he got the figure from or the person he talked to at where, at what time. this was while he was an anchor. for example, i was looking at his tet 1968 notebook just yesterday, and you go through it and it is filled. every line is -- it is small writing throughout it but it is very neat and organized. so i think that was a key to him. he had an ability to organize cbs news. he had a lot of young reporters running around and cronkite seemed to be able to st

but i was talking to douglas brinkley, john, earlier today, and he's writing a biography about walter, and the university of texas is the repository of all his papers. apparently he was a pack rat. he has boxes and boxes, and he has the reporters' notebooks from when he was in vietnam. and very early on, in fact, as early as 1965, he was growing disillusioned with this war, and his reporters' notebooks indicate that. but i think he waited and went there numerous times. he was on the front lines. he showed tremendous courage in putting himself in harm's way. and, of course, i think there was that moment after the tet offensive where he felt he could be silent no longer. >> as you mentioned that, he felt he could be silent no longer. our business has changed so much. walter cronkite worked in the days of film and black and white. now came tape. now we work in the 24-hour, high-definition, digital environment. there is cable television. as his era passed, what is the lesson katie couric takes sitting in the chair? of course, so much changes. but the key is to take the things that matter

. >> historian douglas brinkley. we thank you for your reflection tonight. we look forward to your continued work and research here. you mentioned walter's work for the wire service. i didn't know him well. i did meet him a few times. earlier in my career in cnn, he knew i came from the ap, he said probably from that experience i would do okay. probably he said. dan rather had kind words and memories of the man whose chair he filled. we'll hear from dan shortly. that and more, next. (announcer) imagine one eye drop so exceptional, it relieves seven symptoms. new visine totality multi-symptom. now reduce the red; bathe the dry and gritty; soothe the itch, irritated, burning and watery. visine totality. no other drop does more. >>> we just had a chance to talk to the former cbs news anchor dan rather about the death of walter cronkite. here's some of what dan told us. >> he was literally a living legend and now a legend in memory of the very best in the journalistic craft. in many ways, many important ways, he defined the role of the network anchor. >> walter

>> that's good. >> that might be the line. >> douglas brinkley, thank you so much. "the wilderness warrior." looks great. i'm bringing it on vacation. we'll be right back with arianna huffington. you're watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. >>> welcome back to "morning joe." we are looking at washington, d.c. we've had some on-and-off shower activity as we've gone throughout your morning. it looks like it will be a wet day today compared to the 92-degree heat you had yesterday. here's the radar showing you the i-95 corridor here. we are watching the rain up out of the pittsburgh area, possible airport delays there early today. the i-95 airport from dulles to reagan all the way up through boston logan, you're okay this morning. it's really going to be this afternoon that we're going to see the problem. thunderstorms in the forecast. temperatures are going to be lower, so we could have airport delays. and of course, we'll continue to watch the big story in the northwest. our friends there will see the warmest day in most of the people's lives. 100 is the forecas

. >> reporter: his historian and cbs news consultant douglas brinkley is write ago biography of walterronkite. >> i don't want to make him seem as if in '65 he was an anti-war person, per se, but this is a public remark. he's saying this is an insoluble quandary. >> reporter: he went back to etnam in 1965 after the tet offensive. >> these are the kind of reporter notebooks he kept. this one is vietnam, tet offensive. he always puts his sources, exactly where he's getting his information from. he would just turn. look how neat. >> reporter: meticulous. >> yes. >> reporter: cronkite the meticulous reporter came home convinced the war was unwinnable and said so. >> i simply told people what i thought about the state of the war in vietnam. it was that we had better get out of it. >> increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate not as victors but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy and did the best they could. >> lyndon johnson was sitting at a television set that night and said, "if i've lost walter cronkit

>> that training center is the national conservation training center, one of the many places douglas brinkleywent. >> we talked about the eagle's nest with our discussion -- in our discussion with doug brinkley. >> we had a pair of bald eagles i came in and started to try to build a nest. the first season, they did not do a very good job. the second season, they came back and try again. they succeeded in building that nest. they had to eaglets that year. -- two eaglets taht year. -- that year. one died, the other one lived. it was actually taken off the endangered species list about a year ago. i think it is a good model for us to aspire to, critters that were almost gone have come back. >> why you do this job here? >> i am environmental historian. the dream for me was to work in a history job. i help teach a lot of biologists. the displays your seen by of 15,000 students a year. i feel like my history is making a difference. >> we know that people can see it on the web, but does it bring anybody to your telephone? >> we have a history website. we get a lot of phone calls there. we have pictu

. >> historian douglas brinkley, we thank you for your refrexs and we so look forward to your continuedd research. you mentioned walter's work for the wire service. i didn't know him well. he knew i came from the ap and he said i would probably because of that experience do okay in this business. i needed to prove it. probably he said. a few moments ago, dan rather had kind words and memories of the man whose chair he filled. we'll hear from dan shortly. that and more, next. if we don't act, medical bills will wipe out their savings. if we don't act, she'll be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition. and he won't get the chemotherapy he needs. if we don't act, health care costs will rise 70%. and he'll have to cut benefits for his employees. but we can act. the president and congress have a plan to lower your costs and stop denials for pre-existing conditions. it's time to act. >>> we just had a chance to talk to the former cbs news anchor, dan rather, about the death of walter cronkite. here's some solve what dan told us. >> he was literally a living legend and now a legend

douglas brinkley's look at teddy roosevelt.hour saturday on "book tv." >> this week, as expected, the senate judiciary committee voted to recommend the confirmation of sonia sotomayor s. supreme court justice. what's the committee debate and see the vote this saturday on c- span at 7:00 eastern. next we come her confirmation moves to the senate floor. live coverage of the full senate debate on c-span2. coming in october, tour the home to america's highest court, the supreme court. >> the health-care debate continued on thursday as the house energy and commerce committee marked up its version of the bill. over the next several hours, we will show you some of the debate over amendments, including one offered by nathan deal of georgia. it would require new enrollees of medicaid to prove they are not illegal aliens. this is a half-hour. >> mr. deal, do you have an amendment? >> yes, i do, mr. chairman. >> the clerk will call jim clarke will inform us whether -- gillon >> it was submitted in a timely fashion. >> without objection, t