Finally gone around the bend? Did you see the spot in that article where Cronkite was talking about a one-world-government? That was 5 years ago, there's no finally about it. The fact that someone like him has been called "the most trusted man in America" only strengthens my cynicism.
Of course it was someone else in the "media" who gave him that title.
From A Speech to the UN by Walter Cronkite:
It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order.
But the American colonies did it once and brought forth one of the most nearly perfect unions the world has ever seen.