Walter Cronkite passes

[Bill O'Neill]

Donna Halper wrote:
> From then on, while you didn't see it on screen, his views became more 
> aligned with those who were moderately liberal, and he became much 
> more skeptical-- that was his big problem with Nixon's cover-up of 
> Watergate.  He respected the office of the president, but he hated 
> being lied to.  He has seen the Johnson administration being less than 
> honest, and he didn't like it when Nixon did the same thing.  
I suppose, then, only time will tell if moderately liberal alignments 
among media recapitulates a similar or like skepticism now that decision 
makers at the federal level are no longer of the conservative camp.

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the Cronkite posts. There's gotta be 
many undocumented stories about the wild world of the "first in the 
nation primary" in the Granite State.  What a book that would be! (Hmm, 
I wonder if there are any historians on this list who would dig into that...

"That's thirty."  # 30 #

Bill O'