Posted on 11/04/2016 11:52:51 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU
In his book "Russian Assignment" (Vice Admiral) Leslie Clark Stevens, details his time as Naval attache to Russia. He writes that, during his first days there he was shown various things and places. He mentions, on page 30, that he was in the countryside when he wanted to see what a small crowd was doing at picnic they'd passed. He writes; "From a neighboring dacha came the sounds of a loud-speaker playing Russian popular music. The highpoint of the day was when, towards evening, Walter Chronchite (sic), the smooth and able United Press correspondent, led us all in a typical Russian parade with much throwing out of chests and chanting of ;Slava! Slava! (Glory! Glory!)".a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/vice-adm-leslie-c-stevens/russian-assignment/">Russian Assignment
[And how can he be having a 100th birthday?]
Nobody in the world has ever had more than one.
Good point.
Episode of All in the Family where Archie was to be on the “Cronkite News”. Ultimately his segment is cut (”probably an important announcement about Boy Scout Week”, says Mike). I think they head to the bar because their TV is broken.
ARCHIE: Edith, what channel is Cronkite on?
EDITH: Channel 2 Archie—the one we don’t watch because you keep saying Walter Cronkite is a Communist.
(segment cut due to bulletin, speech by the Prez...)
To lighten the mood.
Johnny Carson commemorating Walter Cronkite’s Final Broadcast...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPK9Uoh-uHM
commie,just like Morrow,Lippman,etc.
Younger folks don’t realize just how much power Cronkite had in his heyday. He single handedly ended Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1968 re-election bid over the Vietnam war. Cronkite declared the was was “lost.”
Walter Cronkite was probably one of the worst things that happened to this country. My friend and I were sitting watching his first broadcast on television. When it was all done, I said to my friend that we were in serious trouble. I told him that if this clown and his type of commentating catches on, the country is in serious trouble. Walter Cronkite was a simpleton clown that they were trying to sell to the television advertisers and it worked. We went from a simple 15 minute forcast by John Facenda which included news, weather and sports to an hour long session of opinion by a jackass.
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