and then i continued to be free around the world, especially connected with the vienna philharmonic,ra that has been connected with me all of my life, because i made my debut in vienna with the vienna philharmonic in 1971 and since then, i have conducted them every year with tours, concerts, 200 concerts in salzburg. so an enormous quantity, and so i was always -- i could enjoy playing with them and then the president of the chicago symphony started to appear here and there in berlin, in vienna, in paris. and i saw this nice hey difficult, president of the chicago symphony, and so she started to -- her presence, one, two, three, four, times and made clear to me that she was interested to invite me to conduct the chicago symphony. so she invited me, in fact, and i went back to chicago. i was not sure, because, you know, after you have conducted so many orchestras all of your life, especially in the last years, i had abused my presence with four or five orchestras, the orchestras, that are very dear to my heart, so to go back to an orchestra that i had not conducted for 30 years, i was

he would cover the vienna philharmonic for pbs, and he would host the kennedy center gala that pbs wouldcarry. he has a great affinity for public broadcasting. yes. >> to what extent was mr. cronkite's -- were mr. cronkite's political beliefs shaped by his experiences growing up with a family of the midwestern or transported to the harsh jim-crow conditions of houston texas during the 1920's and 30's. >> again, an excellent question. cronkite's family was in kansas city, and they just did not experience jim-crow institutionalize prejudice and misery, although it existed. they were very urban. and that was where jazz was taking place and all that. vine street and casey. they moved down to houston in 1927, and they were shocked by the caste system, the jim-crow laws. in fact, his father who was a dental surgeon working at texas dental college was aghast that the head of the texas dental school had these deeply bigoted prejudiced use. cronkite had zero tolerance for bigotry his whole life, and it was one of the things that attracted him and allowed cbs, i believe, to cover civil rights in t