To: 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.
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?
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07/18/2009 6:39:19 AM PDT by
aruanan
To: aruanan
I hadn’t heard that one. Was he suggesting that democracy is overrated and that a non-democratic Vietnam wouldn’t be such a bad thing?
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