i said, "you want to have dinner with walter cronkite?" she said, "who's walter cronkite?" [laughter] my wife, she's an anthropologist and she spent a couple of years living with -- in a tribe of indians in colombia, so she really wasn't clued into what was on television and all that. and that was it. walter and betsy, i had a -- i had a bentley, an old bentley convertible with a rumble seat and the -- which in british automobile parlance is called a dicky, the rumble seat. so off we went, picked up cronkite, betsy, who got in the rumble seat in the open car and we had a lot to drink that night, walter and i. walter and betsy were great, great fun to be with, i must say. and when we finally sort of ended the evening, which was about 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning, i'm driving walter to his hotel, we went past buckingham palace, and then there was no security around it. now the whole -- all those roads are blocked. no security, so, except for the guardsmen out in front, and walter insisted that i do a couple of circle, circuits around buckingham palace and he got out and did hi

cronkite and betsy, walter and a etsy cronkite were coming to ondon. i cannot remember why. i had been invited to a july 4 evening. a friend of mine, the husband was american, the wife was british. the fellow -- walter had called and said, i met walter at his hotel. i said, i have to go to this party in north london. i'll meet you at the restaurant. i went to this party and there was a young woman who was a graduate student studying at oxford, an american, who was a cousin of the family giving the party. she seemed pretty bright and was very beautiful. i said hey, do you want to have dinner? would you like to have dinner with walter cronkite? she said, who is walter ronkite? y wife is an nthropologist. she spent a few years living with a tribe of indians in colombia. she was not clued into what was on television. and that was it. i had a bentley, an old bentley, a convertible with a rumble eat. which in british automobile parlance is called a dickey, the rumble seat. so we picked up cronkite, who got in the rumble seat in the open car. he had a lot to drink that night. they w

cronkite and betsy -- walter and betsy cronkite were coming to london. i cannot remember why. i had been invited to a july 4 evening. a friend of mine, the husband was american, the wife was british. the fellow -- walter had called and said, i met walter at his hotel. i said, i have to go to this party in north london. i'll meet you at the restaurant. i went to this party and there was a young woman who was a graduate student studying at oxford, an american, who was a cousin of the family giving the party. she seemed pretty bright and was very beautiful. i said hey, do you want to have dinner? would you like to have dinner with walter cronkite? she said, who is walter cronkite? my wife is an anthropologist. she spent a few years living with a tribe of indians in colombia. she was not clued into what was on television. and that was it. i had a bentley, an old bentley, a convertible with a rumble seat. which in british automobile parlance is called a dickey, the rumble seat. so we picked up cronkite, who got in the rumble seat in the open car. we had a lot to drink that night. th

i was talking to wander -- walter cronkite about censorship in world war ii. he said, i did have access to the whole war. on aew over normandy glider over d-day. he said, at least we can know all about it. introducedwas not until vietnam. felt thattalked to the political climate in america would not produce that kind of onerous censorship. okay, without censorship then, we were free to go and report stories where we could find them. what is not understood is that each american division that landed in vietnam came from a hometown. from fort bragg or fort polk -- or fort hood. the pineapple division from hawaii. those soldiers wanted the folks back home to know what they were doing in vietnam. the information officers from these units would come to saigon and lobby for the attention of the media. i'm sure dad was invited. the marines had a very successful operation to invite journalists. all of the units wanted our appearance. i wrote over 2000 stories while in vietnam. many were written with these soldiers in the field. i kept getting invited back. in terms of

every member talking to walter cronkite about censorship and world war ii. he says i did not particularly liked it. i did have access to the whole war. he flew over normandy in a glider on d-day. he said at least ahead access to the war. after the war we could come out and we know all about it. censorship was not introduced into vietnam. i interviewed the secretary of state. feel thee did not climate -- political climate at the time would have supported that kind of onerous restrictions involving having censorship of the war theater. ok. but without censorship we were free to go and report stories where we can find them. what is not understood is that each american division that landed in vietnam came from hometown, from fort bragg, fort hood. the25th infantry division, pineapple division from hawaii. those soldiers one of the folks back home to know what they were doing in vietnam. the information officers from these units would come to saigon and lobby for the attention of the media. i'm sure dan was invited many times. the marines had a very successful op

these are the walter cronkites of the spanish language world. a huge deal but it's also, on the spanish media side, someone like ted cruz, who is a latino but also has similarly harsh anti-immigrant policies is sort of viewed as a traitor, in a lot of ways. fernando: let me ask you. some of the big news networks, cable news networks, have these huge panels with commenters and political analysts and so forth. there are very few, and i can -- latinos on those panels. how could that happen when there 55 million latinos in the country, there must be more than one who is qualified to appear in one of those panels. kristian: it's not just latinos that this is an issue for. one of the things that has been fascinating about this election cycle is you can be talking about muslims, women, reproductive rights, things like that. latinos are included in that group as well. they are not just represented in these panels and it's even more -- it's much easier to say nasty things about someone who isn't there. and, i would hope, if there is more representative o

you would see walter cronkite or someone like that.an't say i share. but let's move on to things that are bigger that we're talking about. you're saying i don't accept that about walter cronkite. i happen to know him. i think he was trusted because he was even and he covered things from both perspectives, shading, as he thought, appropriate. that's the the job. right? >> what i said about him was complimentary. this is the way it should be. >> he was not a radical person. >> should not enter into the way you disseminate the information. >> of course. that's the way to do the job. i'm just saying walter cronkite, in my experience, has not a radical left-wing guy who was just hiding it on tv. the compliment should be offered plainly, which he is did the job the right way. >> he did a very good job. we can agree on that. >> you do something that's not a big deal. when confronted about it, if you lie about it, you elevate the significance of it. would you agree that that's what's going on with this fake alleged pr deal with donald trump? i

into the same attitude walter cronkite because he was really a wire service guy. was no way he was not going to whip these guys. he wanted to get the story and get the attention. sure enough, he did. ultimately it fueled those guys. he earned their respect. charlie rose: don't the best ones always had to do that? >> mike was particularly diligent. he would find that one colonel in the research that was really going to make this story. he could find the core of that. charlie rose: he told me once about an ambush style interview that involved what it has undertaken. >> there was a period when it was constant. he was good at it. charlie rose: did he enjoy that? >> i think he grew very weary of that. >> the broadcaster was benefiting from it. >> the broadcaster was benefiting from it, but everyone felt uneasy about that. we all felt this is not really what we want to be remembered for. charlie rose: so his legacy was? energy, thevity, fact that he became such important figure in the last half of the 20th century. i said this on the morning news the other day. he was p

walter cronkite is giving his papers. andy rooney has. many of the giants of journalism have given their papers there. >> a quote from our interview 22 years ago -- you said, writing the book you had written in 1989 was very satisfying. then he said, i would like to do it again, perhaps in a year or two. what happened? > you know what happens. that is something i have been thinking about a lot, and what keeps me from doing at, i have been asked i cannot tell you how many times to write a memoir, which i have no interest in. there are one or two subjects i would like to expand on, but i hink what people don't quite understand is the physical strain of writing a book. it's hard work. it's hard physical work. and it's very draining. there's something about a book and the permanence of a book and the hard covers of a book. -- that you really want to make it at every step of the way, the best it can possibly be. not that i phone in anything i do for television. but there's extra pressure. there's something about the permanence of book. i like

you are, for history, and especially for american history, what walter cronkite was for so many americansn television. you are the most trusted voice in america. it is such an honor to be with you on this dais and present you this flag that was flown over the united states capitol for your outstanding service to your nation that you so eloquently chronicle. >> thank you so very much. [ applause ] >> john, thank you very much. i failed to mention that john is on our board. we rotate republicans and democrats on to our board. we're the only bipartisan group in this, on the hill. we hope to rectify that. i would like to introduce and ask to come forward the democratic leader, nancy pelosi, who in her own right is a historical figure, being the first female speaker of the house of representatives, to say a few congratulatory remarks. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. one time i was honored at brandeis university getting one of the honorary degrees and so was david mccullough. you can just imagine how exciting it was to be honored at the same time he was. you can just imagine how horrible i

after the tet offensive, after lbj refusing to run again, after walter cronkite, there was peace with honor as a striving, yet it cost tens of thousands of casualties. it would have been better to skip the honor and dodge so many of the casualties? getting out earlier? >> what's the question? >> would it -- given the fact that peace with honor took such a toll in terms of human life, would it have been better just to withdraw altogether? is that a fair -- >> yes. the invasion of cambodia, the extended time of the u.s. soldiers, certainly later '69, '70, sustained a lot of casualties. perhaps we should have withdrawn. thank you. >> if you look at the american political debate there was no one -- if you look at the position of the democratic party at that time, you will find that nobody in 1969 and '70 recommended unilateral withdrawal; that the position of the johnson administration was that the vietnamese troops had to withdraw first, and six months after that, american withdrawals would start. so, a unilateral withdrawal of american forces in the middle of a war, declaring we cannot

portrayed in the media, especially by walter cronkite, one would think, if you polled americans today, they would think it was a major military defeat. but it was not. it was a major american victory, but you would not know that by having watched american television. shortly thereafter, the u.s.s. pueblo was hijacked and intelligence ship by north korea. so you had to ongoing things, the war in vietnam and suddenly north korea makes an appearance again. the american crew was imprisoned and tortured, president johnson seemed paralyzed with indecision and there was no public response. i would like you to listen, but i need to tell you one thing, one of the major changes that john kennedy did in terms of overall military strategy, compared to eisenhower, dwight eisenhower's philosophy was massive retaliation. we have many nuclear weapons and arms so nobody will mess with america. jfk did not particularly like that, he wanted a flexible approach. when the u.s. as pueblo hijacking -- u.s.s. pueblo hijacking occurred and nothing was done, ronald reagan was very upset. listen to what he says

after the tet offensive, after lbj refusing to run again, after walter cronkite, there was peace with honor as striving, yet it cost tens of thousands of casualties. would it have been better to skip the honor, getting out earlier? given the fact that peace with honor took such a toll in terms of human life would it have been better to withdraw? is that fair? audience member: the invasion of cambodia, the extended time of the soldiers, 69, 70. perhaps we should have withdrawn. mark: thank you. if you look at political debate, -- if you looke at the position of the democratic party at that time, nobody in 1969 and 70 recommended unilateral withdrawal. that the position of the johnson thenistration was that vietnamese troops had to withdraw first. six months after that, american withdrawals would start. withdrawal of american forces, in the middle declaring we couldn't stand the consequences of the war, i don't know anybody who recommended it at that time. three years later we were increments of withdrawals. there were few casualties. there were casualties. if you lose a war, you cannot

when dan rather took over walter cronkite's anchor chair for cbs evening news, he first tried couraget finally settled on saying what, a, expect the world. b, and so it goes. c, that's part of our world tonight. or d, good night and have a pleasant tomorrow. >> b. >> that is incorrect. >> expect the world, and so it goes, that's part of our world tonight. or good night and have a pleasant tomorrow. >> that's part of our world tonight. >> that is correct. nicely done. i totally knew that. so, alisyn got one, brianna got two. head back. finally, kamau and brooke. come on down. grown-up-sized people. >> that's right. all right, your theme is innovations, inventions, and discoveries. just three questions. in 1982, what was the first and only man-made object to be named "time" magazine's newsmaker of the year? was it, a, the walkman. b, the computer. c, nintendo. d, the tv? >> walkman? >> that is incorrect. a, walkman. b, the computer. c, nintendo. d, the tv? >> b, the computer. >> that is correct. >> yeah! >> nice job. nice job. >> number two, april 12th, 1982, nasa launched the first eve

we head back to september 2, 1963 when television history as made with walter cronkite anchoring the first ever half- hour news program. the first story - an interview with president kennedy. "mr. president, the only hot war we've got running at the moment is of course, the one in vietnam and we've got our difficulties there quite obviously. the headline and the story in the new york times yesterday was rather an interesting one. it said that the administration will try diplomacy in vietnam which i'd assume we had been trying all along. what can we do in this situation which seems to parallel other famous debacles of dealing with unpopular governments in the past?" "well, in the first place, we ought to realize that vietnam has been at war for 25 years and the japanese i remember a good many people who said that two years ago that it wouldn't last six months. a good many newspapers said that. a good many local correspondents said it well the war is still going. in many ways, it's going better. that doesn't mean however that the events of the last two months are very onimous. i don't

media, especially by walter cronkite, one would think that if you polled americans today, they would think it was a major military defeat. but it was not. it was a major american victory, but you would not know that by having watched american television. shortly thereafter, the u.s.s. pueblo was hijacked and -- was hijacked, and intelligent curry -- and intelligence ship was hijacked by north korea. so you had 2 things going on. the war in vietnam and suddenly north korea makes an appearance again. one of the things president in terms of overall military strategy compared to dwight eisenhower's velocity -- eisenhower's philosophy was massive retaliation. if we have many nuclear weapons and arms so nobody will mess with america. jfk did not particularly like that, he wanted a flexible approach. when the uss pueblo hijacking occurred and the united states did nothing ronald reagan was , very upset. listen to what he says. >> this, beginning with the bay of pigs, and closing with the kidnapping of 82 young americans. this is a nation given to the inability of our air force to move out a

one 94 infantry, after the after lbj refusing to run again, after walter cronkite, there was peace with cost tens of thousands of casualties. would have been better to skip and get the casualties are earlier? dr. kissinger: what was the question? >> given the fact that peace with honor took such a toll, and terms of human life, would it have been better to just withdraw? cambodia, thef extended time of the u.s. later 69 and 1970 sustain casualties. should we have just withdrawn? like you. -- thank you. at kissinger: if you look the american political debate, there was no one -- if you look position of the democratic party, at that time, nobody inind that 1969 and 1970 recommended unilateral withdrawal. the position of the that theation was vietnamese troops had to address first.- withdraw and six months after that, american withdrawals would start. unilateral withdrawal in the middle of a war, declaring we cannot stand the consequences of this war, i don't know anybody who recommended it at that time. two years later, we were talking incidents of withdrawal and a few casualties. but of

they took the same attitude by the way to walter cronkite because he was merely a wire service guy is that. >> rose: yeah. and i think when mike came, there was no way mike wasn't going to whip these guys. he was determined to do it. >> rose: to get the story. to get the story. to get the attention. and sure enough, he did. and i must say that, ultimately, a 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 out of the trenches. as you said, somebody said, he did the homework. he really did. >> rose: don't you have to do that? don't the best ones all 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 story, and he was brilliant and finding it. >> rose: he taught me once about the ambush style of interviewing which in an evolving part of the role "60 minutes" has undertaken as done less, fair to say? >> oh, y

. >> walter cronkite: ok. what's his name? morley safer. right. my name is morley safer. >> kroft: but eventually-- >> safer: i'm morley safer. >> kroft: -- it became a household name. >> safer: i'm morley safer. i'm morley safer. i'm morley safer. >> morley safer? >> safer: yes, himself. >> how are you? >> safer: very well. >> hi, morley. >> ms. piggy: hi, morley. how are you? >> kroft: everybody wanted to meet morley. well-- almost everybody. >> safer: in a sense, what you're saying is that-- >> kroft: in a business that's fast-moving and sometimes cutthroat, he survived and prospered. either outworking, outfoxing, or outliving everyone else. and always... >> safer: did you murder those patients? >> no! >> kroft: trying to get to the bottom of things. >> safer: what goes through your mind? are these companies ashamed? what do they do down there? they really go after you. admit it. you've got a temper. how did we get in this fix? all right. >> kroft: like all of us, he's got his contradictions. he swears in all seriousness that looking into the c

after walter cronkite there was peace with honor yet it cost tens of thousands of causalities. would it have been better to skip the honor and dodge so many of the causalities getting out earlier? >> what was the question? >> given the fact that peace with honor took such a toll in terms of human life would it have been better just to with draw all together? is that a fair? >> the invasion of cambodia, the extended time of the u.s. soldiers, certainly later '69, '70 sustained causalities. perhaps we should have just withdrawn. >> thank you. >> if you look at the democratic party at that time and nobody in 1969 and 70 recommended unilateral and the deposition of the administration was that vote in a meez troops had to with draw first and six months after that american withdrawal and an withdrawal of american troops. and clearly we can understand the consequences of this war. i don't know anybody that recommended it at that time. that by two years later we were talking about increments of withdrawal. and all of these causalities. of course if you lose a war you get them but what

after lb j refusing to run agai, after walter cronkite, there was peace with honor yet it caused tens of thousands of casualties. would it have been better to skip the honor and skip the casualties given out earlier? >> what is the question? >> given the fact this peace with honor took such a toll in terms of human life, would it have been better just to withdraw all together? >> yes, the invasion of cambodia, later '69, '70 sustained a lot of casualties and perhaps weep shou should ha withdrawn -- >> and dispense with honor. thank you. >> if you look at the political debate, there was no one -- if you look at the position. democratic party at that time, you will find that nobody in 1969 and 70 recommended unilateral withdraw, that the position of the johnson administration was that vietnamese troops had to withdraw first and six months after that, american withdrawals would start. so a unilateral withdrawal of american forces in the middle of a war declaring we cannot stand the consequences of this war, i don't know anybody who recommended it at that time then by two years later we w

audience member: after lbj refused to run again, after walter cronkite, there was peace with honor. there were tens of thousands of casualties. would it have been better to given theonor casualties. mr. updegrove: thank you. would it have been better to withdraw altogether? audience member: the invasion of cambodia, the extended time of u.s. soldiers, many sustained casualties, perhaps we should have withdrawn. dr. kissinger: if you look at the american political debate, there was no one. if you look at the democratic party at that time, you will find that nobody in 1969 and 190 recommended unilateral withdrawal. the position of the johnson administration was that the enemies -- vietnamese troops had to withdraw first and the six months after that the american withdrawal would happen. so, a unilateral withdrawal of american forces in the middle of a war, declaring that we cannot stand the consequences of this war, i do not know anybody who recommended it at that time. three years later, we were talking about infantrymen -- [indiscernible] in retrospect, of course if you lose a war,

. >> once walter cronkite retires, all three network news anchors within a couple of years switch overay have been the last gasp where people liked and trusted the media. >> nuclear arms and how to prevent global destruction expected to be the major topic of president reagan's news conference tonight. that conference will be nationally televised within the hour. leslie stahl is at the white house. >> the white house is hoping -- >> in the '80s, women came into the newsroom. when i first joined, it was '72. there are very few. by the '80s, there were more and more. the decade of the '80s was still sink or swim. you had to be resilient in your own way to survive in a period when you were going up against a lot of people who still didn't think women had what it took. >> these are some of the most famous faces in broadcasting. all of them happen to be women. >> the best producers, i'm going to get fired -- the best producers at cbs news are women. and they're at the level of taking hold and making decisions about individual pieces. they are not yet executive producers of all the news shows

. >> once walter cronkite retires, all three network news anchors within a couple of years switch overhave been the last gasp where people liked and trusted the media. >> nuclear arms and how to prevent global destruction expected to be the major topic of president reagan's news conference tonight. that conference will be nationally televised within the hour. leslie stahl is at the white house. >> the white house is hoping -- >> in the '80s, women came into the newsroom. when i first joined, it was '72. there were very few. by the '80s, there were more and more. the decade of the '80s was still sink or swim. you had to be resilient in your own way to survive in a period when you were going up against a lot of people who still didn't think women had what it took. >> these are some of the most famous faces in broadcasting. all of them happen to be women. >> the best producers, i'm going to get fired -- the best producers at cbs news are women. and they're at the level of taking hold and making decisions about individual pieces. they are not yet executive producers of all the news shows.

when word of this editorial reached walter cronkite, he invited patterson to read it, in full, on theolumn. >> a negro mother in the street sunday morning in front of a baptist church in birmingham. in her hands she held a shoe, one shoe, from the foot of her dead child. we hold that shoe with her. every one of us in the white south holds that small shoe in his hand. it is too late to blame the sick criminals who handled the dynamite. the fbi and the police can deal with that kind. the charge against them is simple -- they killed four children. only we can trace the truth, southerner, you and i. we broke those children's bodies. we watched the stage set without staying it. we listened to the prologue unbestirred. we saw the kicurtain opening wi disinterest. we have heard the play. we who go on elected politicians who heat the kettles of hate. we who raise no hand to silence the mean and little men who have their nigger jokes. we who stand aside and imagine rectitude and let the mad dogs that run in every society slide their leashes from our hand and spring. we, the heirs of a proud so

. >> walter cronkite is no longer with it. >> the show part of it is getting bigger and bigger, wheredonald trump does to everybody else, which is talk over them. >> when i was tap dancing and had the glitter outfit on, that was not show business. i was making a point. >> i didn't see that one. >> i never did it. go on. >> what i'm saying is, we have to start -- you had bob woodward on your show at one point. >> fascinating. >> i remember him saying, we have to hold these people accountable, we have to ask those tough, second, third, fourth and fifth year questions. chris matthews -- >> see what happened. let woodward ask the second, third, fourth, fifth questions, same exact thing that happens to everybody else. >> doesn't matter, doesn't matter. >> i know. >> chris matthews held trump accountable on his position on abortion. he didn't let him off. he kept going at it and was the most revealing thing that happened during this entire campaign season. the words that have been flung out from his mouth are insane. if he was not a celebrity, if donald trump was not a celebrity, the words