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Cronkite said he never anchored a single newscast that left him fully satisfied.

"It's been so far a newspaper story, " Cronkite said. "We have to make it a television story. "

Walter Cronkite is a famous American TV news show host. He began to be interested in the news since he was a kid.

It was not long after the Kennedy assassination that I actually got to meet Mister Cronkite.

Cronkite was the first to acknowledge, privately, that this was not CBS' finest hour.

Asked to run for public office, Cronkite reportedly said he could not step down from his anchor post.

There was Walter Cronkite in shirtsleeves, with a microphone in front of him.

Cronkite enjoyed fame, but his was the result of his labors in the vineyard.

In a statement, Barack Obama paid tribute to Cronkite, who was often referred to as the "most trusted man in America" .

CBS was widely considered the best news-gathering operation among the three major networks, and Cronkite was a major reason why.

As a widower, Cronkite was the companion of opera siner Joanna Simon, the older sister of pop singer-songwriter Carly Simon.

President Lyndon Johnson reportedly watched Cronkite's report and concluded that the war had now lost the backing of America's middle class.

President Lyndon B. Johnson was widely quoted as having told aides, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America. "

As a child, he says, he learnt about the Vietnam war from Walter Cronkite, the great television news anchor of the time.

Cronkite was not the first journalist to come out against the war.

THE best hours of Walter Cronkite's life were not spent in a newsroom, or in pursuit of a story.

Many viewers doubted it, claiming "Pinko Cronkite" helped to push the country to the left and lose the war in Vietnam.

In a statement last night, President Obama called Cronkite "more than just an anchor. "

Cronkite was born in St Joseph, Missouri, in 1916 and discovered his passion for journalism by writing for his high-school newspaper.

You could see the flash of emotion as Cronkite removed and replaced his glasses and regained his composure.

It was a major national news event itself when Cronkite anchored his last "CBS Evening News" broadcast March 6, 1981.

My eyes were elsewhere, but my ear was caught by the unmistakable voice of Walter Cronkite.

Later, Walter Cronkite reported on the trials of Nazi war criminals at Nuremburg, Germany.

CBS Vice President Linda Mason said Cronkite died at 7: 42 p. m. with his family by his side at his home in New York after a long illness.

And Walter Cronkite, in measured tones, informed us that yes it was.

As we will hear later, Walter Cronkite had the sad duty of reporting that the young president was dead.

Of all the big shots Cronkite took on, the biggest was President Nixon.

Daniel Schorr, who worked with Walter Cronkite for 20 years, is senior news analyst at National Public Radio.

STEVE EMBER: For almost twenty years, that was how Walter Cronkite would end his newscasts.

At the end, Cronkite announced that the second segment would air on Monday.

Cronkite died in New York after an illness, CBS said.

CBS Television newsman Walter Cronkite shared the excitement that he and so many people felt as man first walked on the surface of the moon.

All was tranquillity and repose. Suddenly into the picture staggered Walter Cronkite.

Cronkite's career reflected the arc of journalism in the mid-20th century.

Walter Cronkite, the legendary news anchor who came to be called the most trusted man in America has died. He was 92.

The simple answer, but maybe too simple, is that Cronkite inspired trust.

Arizona State University, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunication

They saw the US newscaster Walter Cronkite wiping away his tears; people gathered around televisions from China to Brazil;

Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication

They saw the US newscaster Walter Cronkite wiping off his tears;

They saw the US newscaster Walter Cronkite wiping away his tears;

Walter Cronkite, newsman, died on July 17th, aged 92