[Yardstick]

Maybe Cronkite was catching flak on the cocktail party circuit for being too gung ho early in the war. Maybe his defeatism towards the end was a way of proving that he had “evolved”.

[aruanan]

Maybe Cronkite was catching flak on the cocktail party circuit for being too gung ho early in the war. Maybe his defeatism towards the end was a way of proving that he had “evolved”.

Sounds right. And wasn't he the one who wondered on air whether the U.S. needed "democracy" any longer or words to that effect?