Welton Gaddy, president of The Interfaith Alliance Foundation, told me that
Cronkite had agreed to take part in a First Freedom First event in San Jose, Calif., sponsored by the Commonwealth Club, I was delighted.
On the project website, visitors may hear a radio tribute to the last surviving veterans of World War I hosted by Walter
Cronkite. The Los Angeles County Office of Education receives funding from the Teaching American History program in the Office of Innovation and Improvement.
Think of them as hybrids: Where once we had political operatives like Lyn Nofzinger and Lee Atwater, anchormen like Walter
Cronkite, pundits like the Alsops, and comedians like Mort Sahl, all tending to their plots in the garden, now we have political opundits like Tony Snow and David Gergen, comedidits like Rush Limbaugh and Steven Colbert and Al Franken, anchoredians like Keith Olbermann and Jon Stewart.
Rogers instead of Walter
Cronkite; accept a world full of barcodes; and have always been searching for "Waldo." For more insights into the teenage mindset, visit www.beloitedu/%7Epubaff/mindset/2010.htm.
CBS recorded Walter
Cronkite's endorsement to be piped in the first night, a sort of "gravitas" injection.
In an interview with Walter
Cronkite, held the day after the UN award ceremony, Petrov talked about that fateful night when the red button beamed "START" along with flashing lights and a huge map of the United States with a U.S.
+++++ Former CBS anchorman WALTER
CRONKITE, whose 1968 conclusion that the Vietnam War was "unwinnable" said he'd say the same thing today about Iraq.
Some, said Koppel, had a flicker of recognition at the name David Brinkley and even more had a vague recollection of Walter
Cronkite.
Former CBS anchorman Walter
Cronkite, in an October 19, 1999 speech at the United Nations headquarters
Honors: The Advocate's 1992 Woman of the Year; recipient of the Walter
Cronkite Faith and Freedom Award in 1999
However, in the foreword to this book, Walter
Cronkite reminds us "the gift of telling what war is really like has been bestowed upon the poets." Hedin presents 175 poems written by 140 different authors, half of whom have direct experience of war as combatants.
On that basis, Henri Camara is the new Henrik Larsson, Chick Young is the new Walter
Cronkite and Nicola Sturgeon the new Cameron Diaz.