His obituary ends:
Cronauer attended the University of Pennsylvania’s law school and went into the legal profession, working in communications law and later handling prisoner-of-war issues for the Pentagon.
“I always was a bit of an iconoclast, as Robin (Williams) was in the film,” Cronauer told the AP in 1999. “But I was not anti-military, or anti-establishment. I was anti-stupidity. And you certainly do run into a lot of stupidity in the military.”
Heard him do a radio interview about 30 years ago with Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr., who wrote the original M*A*S*H. Both of them were thoroughly disgusted with what Hollywood had done with their memoirs.