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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

Everybody trusted Cronkite because he reminded them of their favorite uncle or trusted family physician. Being square in the age of the Beatles made Cronkite retro cool.

Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.

As Walter Cronkite would say, that's the way it is.

Believe me, happiness is not ticking off Walter Cronkite.

Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.

I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.

I'm not a crier.

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.