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...Walter Cronkite was the most famous journalist of his time, the personification of success in his beloved profession, with all that brought with it: a journalism school named for him, a Presidential Medal of Freedom and the adulation of his peers and audience...
...Walter Johnson, another African American studies professor, wrote in an e-mailed statement that the charge of disorderly conduct in one's own home was absurd and that "the structure of ideas and institutions which render such action commonsensical in this society are appalling." And Michèle Lamont, a sociology and African American studies professor who specializes in American race relations, called the arrest "egregious" and said that the incident helped expose the need for broader racial dialogue not only within the Harvard community but also in the broader Cambridge area...
...those who worked with him said that behind his controlled on-air persona was an intense determination to be the best. "Walter has an almost messianic turn of mind. He feels so much responsibility; he feels that if he doesn't get it right, nobody else is going to get it right," one of his writers told the Washington Post on Cronkite's retirement in 1981. "And that is the reason he is number one. It comes across. People know that Walter Cronkite would never lie to them. Never. Because it is his religion...
...rare occasion when he ventured an opinion. After reporting in Vietnam in 1968, Cronkite commented on the air that "it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate." President Lyndon B. Johnson remarked that if he had lost Walter Cronkite, he had lost Middle America; soon after he announced that he would not seek re-election...
...more important, he had faith that his viewers, even in a painfully divided period in history, were sophisticated enough to understand this. What finally distinguished Walter Cronkite, perhaps, was not the trust his audience placed in him. It was that he was a good and wise enough newsman to place his trust in his audience. Read TIME's 2003 interview with Walter Cronkite.Read a TIME article on Cronkite's retirement...