648 Cronkite helping the Walter Cronkite School: “Cronkite Takes First Dig at School’s New Digs,” ASU News Now, February 21, 2007.
649 “Every day, Mike, is a blessing”: Author interview with Joanna Simon, January 14, 2012.
649 “Walter and I had a great romance”: Author interview with Joanna Simon, January 15, 2012.
650 “Mar-a-juana”: Author interview with Peter Simon, January 15, 2012.
650 “the war on drugs is a failure”: Walter Cronkite, “Telling the Truth About the War on Drugs,” reprinted by Huffington Post, March 1, 2006.
651 “Now Walter Cronkite, the most trusted news broadcaster in American history”: Phillip Smith, “Cronkite vs. O’Reilly: May the Most Trusted Man Win,” AlterNet, March 3, 2006, http://www.alternet.org/drugs/33009/.
651 He would do the same at Gordon Manning’s funeral: “Gordon Manning, 89, a TV News Executive,” New York Times, September 9, 2006.
652 “It left us numb”: Author interview with Jimmy Buffett, July 18, 2011.
652 Cronkite had a flurry of health scares: Author interview with Kathy Cronkite, June 3, 2011.
652 “Sometimes, he would look out the window at the East River”: Author interview with Chip Cronkite, February 20, 2012.
653 “He didn’t recognize me from Adam”: Author interview with Bernard Kalb, February 26, 2011.
653 By late 2007, ninety-one-year-old Cronkite started contributing weekly editorials: Brian Stelter, “Cronkite Joins Retirement TV,” New York Times, November 15, 2007.
653 “It turned into a ghastly moment”: Author interview with Caroline Graham, March 29, 2011.
653 “Let’s get this thing going”: Steve Samaras, “Sailing Hall of Fame Will Boost City,” The Capital, March 9, 2008.
653 “Did anyone ever tell you that you look just like Walter Cronkite”: Polly Paddock, “Cronkite Reassures as Always—Former CBS Anchor Guides Charlotte Audience Through Century in Review,” Charlotte Observer, October 22, 1999.
653 Cronkite and Simon went out for dinner with Nick and Nina Clooney: “We Hear,” New York Post, March 13, 2003.
654 “They didn’t applaud”: Matea Gold, “Obama Extols Cronkite at Memorial,” Los Angeles Times, September 9, 2009.
654 “It was hysterical”: Author interview with Joanna Simon, January 14, 2012.
654 “It’s Uncle no more, he’s Grandpa Walter now”: Tom Shales, “Dear, Trusted Uncle Walter and the ‘Legacy’ of World War II,” Washington Post, April 29, 2009.
654 “I wanted to spit on them”: Walter Cronkite, “Legacy of War,” PBS (transcript), April 29, 2009.
655 “my God, my God, my God. It’s too damn much”: Ibid.
Epilogue: Electronic Uncle Sam
656 “Everybody who loved Dad just surrounded him”: Author interview with Kathy Cronkite, June 3, 2011.
656 “He’d smile . . . at peace with the world”: Author interview with Jimmy Buffett, September 18, 2011.
657 “Walter Cronkite just died too”: Author interview with Deborah Rush, February 21, 2012.
657 “Cronkite was—and this is what psychologists say is the greatest tribute to a parent—there”: David Shribman, “Can Viewers Kick Cronkite Habit?” Washington Star, March 2, 1981.
657 He was, as the Los Angeles Times and, later, the Huffington Post said, paterfamilias: Reed Johnson, “Tethered in Technoculture,” Los Angeles Times, December 18, 2005; Peggy Drexler, “Gasp! Katie Plays Rough,” Huffington Post, September 11, 2007.
658 “The one guy in TV history nobody ever got sick of”: Author interview with Ted Turner, April 20, 2011.
658 “We have a self-confidence we didn’t have in the beginning”: Ferretti, “What Do They Do?”
659 “a kind of innate, Calvinist honesty that can’t be manufactured”: Al Reinert, “The Secret World of Walter Cronkite,” Texas Monthly, January 1976.
659 “our electronic Uncle Sam”: Kurt Vonnegut, “A Reluctant Big Shot,” The Nation, March 7, 1981.
659 Cremation and a low-key ceremony, before burial next to Betsy: “Cronkite to Be Buried Beside Wife in Missouri,” AP, reprinted in Denver Post, July 19, 2009.
659 Any donations were directed to the Walter and Betsy Cronkite Foundation: Chad Butler, “Now Late Walter Cronkite to Be Buried Here in Missouri,” St. Louis Examiner, July 18, 2009.
659 “I hate the world without Walter Cronkite”: Michael Essany, “George Clooney Weighs In on the Loss of Walter Cronkite,” Entertainer Examiner, July 18, 2009.
659 dubbed him “truly the father of television news”: Valerie J. Nelson, “Walter Cronkite, Longtime CBS Anchorman, Dies at 92,” Los Angeles Times, July 18, 2009.
660 his extraordinary sense of “purpose and compassion”: Brian Stelter, “Television Icons Reflect on Cronkite’s Career,” New York Times, July 17, 2009, http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/television-icons-reflect-on-cronkites-career/.
660 Couric had used Cronkite’s voice to introduce her CBS Evening News: Ed Pilkington, “Cronkite to Couric; CBS Weighs Anchor,” Guardian, September 6, 2006.
660 “Thanks for watching”: Howard Rosenberg, “Katie Couric, News Anchors, and the Cult of Personality,” Los Angeles Times, July 14, 2008.
660 Barbara Walters used Sirius XM Radio to air a marathon: Cherie Saunders, “CBS RLTV and Sirius XM Announce Walter Cronkite Special,” Washington Examiner, July 19, 2009.
660 “Walter had that ability”: “Dan Rather Reflects on Walter Cronkite,” MSNBC.com, Saturday, July 18, 2009.
660 “There was nobody better than him”: Author interview with Dan Rather, May 28, 2011.
660 “I feel like I’m almost sitting in for Wally Schirra this morning”: Face the Nation transcript, Sunday, July 19, 2009, CBS News Archive, New York.
661 “Because everybody knew that Walter didn’t get his suntan in the studio lights”: Face the Nation transcript, Sunday, July 19, 2009, CBS News Archive, New York.
661 “ ‘Boy oh boy—when and where do you want me?’ ”: Tom Brokaw, “The Most Trusted Man in America,” Time, August 3, 2009, p. 20.
661 “I feel so terrible about Walter’s death”: Matea Gold, “Cronkite Eulogized as Newsman, Friend, Father,” Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2009.
662 “He was the original social media guy”: Author interview with Mickey Hart, February 17, 2011.
662 “a seagull—graceful in flight, rapacious in appetite”: “Proust Questionnaire.”
662 “He had an antenna sensitive to friends’ pain”: Author interview with Mike Ashford, May 7, 2011.
662 A favorite of Cronkite’s was “Sea Fever”: Author interview with Bill Harbach, January 24, 2012.
663 Everyone in America, Mason soon learned, wanted to be part: Author interview with Linda Mason, April 30, 2011.
663 “Helping establish some TV news standards”: “Proust Questionnaire.”
663 “but I got there in time”: Christiane Amanpour to Douglas Brinkley, January 23, 2012.
664 “What would Walter do?”: Christiane Amanpour, “Diary,” September 18, 2009, Private Archive, New York, NY.
664 Obama had “grown up watching Cronkite”: President Barack Obama, comment to Douglas Brinkley, July 11, 2011.
664 “Everybody in the building was glued to the ceremony”: Author interview with Armen Keteyian, July 3, 2011.
664 “Journalism is more than just a profession”: “President Obama,” September 9, 2009, Lincoln Center Memorial (transcript), CBS News Archive, New York.
664 that viewed news as “just another profit center”: Jim Wallace, “Cronkite Says TV News Fails to Tell Whole Story,” Charleston Daily Mail, December 12, 2000.
665 “Storytelling was Walter’s passion”: Buzz Aldrin, “Cronkite Remembered,” transcript, September 18, 2009.
665 “There are better writers than me, better reporters”: Roger Vaughan, “Cruising with Cronkite,” Motor Boating & Sailing, November 1976.
666 “Nobody’s asked me, which is strange, but I
think the networks ought to be doing headlines”: Howard Kurtz, “Walter Cronkite Was the Last of the Towering Anchormen,” Washington Post, July 18, 2009.
666 Cronkite’s desk may have been turned to pulp wood: Author interview with David Rhodes, January 7, 2012.
667 “For a news analyst and reporter of the happenings of the day to be successful”: “Neil Armstrong Statement on the Death of Walter Cronkite,” NASA Newsroom Press Release, July 17, 2009.
667 “He invited us to believe in him, and he never let us down”: Todd Leopold, “Former CBS Anchor ‘Uncle Walter’ Cronkite Dead at 92,” CNN.com, August 29, 2009, http://articles.cnn.com/2009-07-17/us/walter.cronkite.dead_1_walter-cronkite-huffington-post-egyptian-leader?_s=PM:US.
AUTHOR’S INTERVIEWS
George Abbey, Houston, Texas • Marlene Adler, New York • Roger Ailes, New York • Buzz Aldrin, Washington D.C. • Neil Armstrong, Houston, Texas • Mike Ashford, Annapolis, Maryland • Bob Asman, Washington, D.C. • James A. Baker III, Houston, Texas • Joel Banow, Naples, Florida • Ben Barnes, Austin, Texas • Fred Barnes, Washington, D.C. • Kay Barnes, Kansas City, Missouri • Warren Beatty, Beverly Hills, California • Russ Bensley, Homewood, Illinois • Carl Bernstein, Washington, D.C. • Porter Bibb, New York • Izzy Bleckman, Vero Beach, Florida • Merv Block, New York • Julian Bond, Charlottesville, Virginia • Ron Bonn, San Diego, California • Ben Bradlee, Washington, D.C. • Ed Bradley, Woody Creek, Colorado • Rita Braver, Washington, D.C. • Tom Brokaw, New York • Aaron Brown, Scottsdale, Arizona • Skip Brown, San Francisco, California • Patrick Buchanan, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware • Jimmy Buffett, Key West, Florida • Joseph Califano, New York • Don Carleton, Austin, Texas • Liz Carpenter, Austin, Texas • Nick Clooney, Augusta, Kentucky • Connie Chung, Glacier National Park, Montana • Charles Colson, Naples, Florida • Katie Couric, New York • Chip Cronkite, New York • Kathy Cronkite, Austin, Texas • Nancy Cronkite, New York • David Dary, Norman, Oklahoma • Tom Davis, New York • Morton Dean, Truro, Massachusetts • Sam Donaldson, Washington, D.C. • Daniel Ellsberg, Alameda County, California • Stephen Erlich, Los Angeles, California • Jeffrey Fager, New York • Bill Felling, New York • Michael Finley, Ashland, Oregon • Gerald Ford, Rancho Mirage, California • Ed Forgotson, New York • Ed Fouhy, Chatham, Massachusetts • Michael Freedman, Washington, D.C. • David Friend, New York • Ruth Friendly, New York • Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, Lake Charles, Louisiana • John Glenn, Columbus, Ohio • Andrew Goldberg, New York • Stanhope Gould, New York • Caroline Graham, Los Angeles, California • Jeff Gralnick, Weston, Connecticut •Phil Gries, Albertson, New York • Bill Harbach, Fairfield, Connecticut • Bob Hardesty, Austin, Texas • Mickey Hart, San Francisco, California • Dennis Hayes, Seattle, Washington • Don Hewitt, New York • A. R. Hogan, Bethesda, Maryland • Brit Hume, Washington, D.C. • Tom Johnson, Atlanta, Georgia • Phil Jones, Naples, Florida • Gordon S. Joseloff , Westport, Connecticut • Carol Joynt, Washington, D.C. • Bernard Kalb, Washington, D.C. • Marvin Kalb, Washington, D.C. • Rick Kaplan, New York • Jay Kaufman, Atlanta, Georgia • Ethel Kennedy, West Palm Beach, Florida • David Kennerly, Los Angeles, California • Henry Kissinger, New York • Joe Klein, Washington, D.C. • Mathilde Krim, New York • Ron Kucera, Columbia, Missouri • Brian Lamb, Washington, D.C. • John Lane, Rye, New York • Lewis H. Lapham, New York • John Laurence, Haslemere, United Kingdom • John Lehman, New York • Jim Lehrer, Austin, Texas • Richard Leibner, New York • Norman Mailer, Austin, Texas • Frank Mankiewicz, Washington, D.C. • Wynton Marsalis, New York • Linda Mason, New York • Chris Matthews, Washington, D.C. • Jim McGillian, Carmel, California • George McGovern, St. Augustine, Florida • Megan McKinney, Chicago, Illinois • Don Michel, Dallas, Texas • Harry Middleton, Austin, Texas • Bill Minor, Phoenix, Arizona • Andrea Mitchell, Washington, D.C. • Les Moonves, New York • Patt Morrison, Los Angeles, California • Roger Mudd, McLean, Virginia • Dee Dee Myers, Washington, D.C. • Al Neuharth, Cocoa Beach, Florida • Tom Noel, Dallas, Texas • Barack Obama, Washington, D.C. • Bill O’Reilly, New York • Al Ortiz, New York • Charles Osgood, New York • Scott Pelley, New York • Robert Pierpoint, Santa Barbara, California • Bill Plante, Washington, D.C. • Sandor M. Polster, Durham, Maine • Hugh Raisky, Newport, Rhode Island • Dan Rather, New York and Austin, Texas • Missie Rennie, Vero Beach, Florida • David Rhodes, New York • Lynda Johnson Robb, Austin, Texas • Andy Rooney, New York • William Ruckelshaus, Seattle, Washington • Deborah Rush, New York • Morley Safer, New York • Bob Schieffer, Washington, D.C. • David Schneider, New York • Jack Schneider, Westport, Connecticut • Mark Segal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Doug Shadel, Seattle, Washington • Bernard Shaw, Takoma Park, Maryland • Don Shelby, Minneapolis, Minnesota • Fay Shoss, Houston, Texas • Joanna Simon, New York • Peter Simon, Edgartown, Massachusetts • William Small, New York • Richard Snow, New York • Sandy Socolow, Austin, Texas, and New York • Ted Sorensen, New York • Lesley Stahl, New York • Oliver Stone, Los Angeles, California • Mary Lou Teel, New York • Doug Terry, Washington, D.C. • Lee Thornton, Bethesda, Maryland • Ted Turner, Atlanta, Georgia • Ed Vebell, Westport, Connecticut • William J. vanden Heuvel, New York • Bob Vitarelli, Chevy Chase, Maryland • Diana Walker, Washington, D.C. • Chris Wallace, Washington, D.C. • Barbara Walters, New York • Jann Wenner, Sun Valley, Idaho • Shirley Wershba, Floral Park, New York • Lally Weymouth, East Hampton, New York • Bill Whitehurst, Austin, Texas • Elie Wiesel, New York • Jon Wilkman, Los Angeles, California • Brian Williams, New Canaan, Connecticut • Lew Wood, Los Angeles, California • Bob Woodward, Washington, D.C. • Arnold Zenker, Weston, Massachusetts
INDEX
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Abbey, George, 428
ABC News, 157, 166–67, 516
anchorman offer to Rather, 532
and Apollo 11, 413
Brinkley with, 567
and Cronkite-CIA rumor, 519
and Glenn’s Friendship 7 flight, 234
Good Morning America, 572
half-hour news format of, 257
and Iranian hostage crisis, 535
Issues and Answers, 179
Jennings death, 647
News Tonight, 641
Nightline, 535, 614, 615–16
and 1960’s elections, 210, 219, 220, 307
and Pentagon Papers, 460
Presidential Round Up, 220
ratings over CBS News, 551, 554
Reagan assassination attempt on, 552
Reasoner as co-anchor for, 516, 523
Sawyer with, 377
Smith with, 250, 253, 320, 480
space coverage, 333
This Week, 567
Walters and Sadat, 530
Walters as co-anchor for, 516, 523–25, 526
Walters at 1980 GOP Convention, 540–42
World News Tonight, 551
ABC Radio, 112, 115, 269
ABC TV, 175
and Kennedy assassination, 267, 269, 272, 273, 275, 280
Abdel-Rahman, Omar, 560
abortion, 343, 522, 598
“Abortion and the Law” (CBS Reports), 343
Abrams, Creighton, 373–74
Abrams, Warren, 215
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, 648
Acme Newspictures, 252
A. C. Nielsen Company, 288
Adams, Ansel, 429
Adams, John, 593
Adler, Larry, 579
Adler, Marlene, 618, 619, 634, 639, 646, 652, 659
advertisers
AFTRA strike and, 359
for CBS News, 153, 155, 162, 165, 166, 191, 212, 252, 399
television, 242–43, 270, 271
Advocates, The (public TV show), 463
African Americans
Chesterfield Club waitresses, Kansas City, 50
and civil rights struggle in Birmingham, AL, 245–46, 329–30
Cronkite and Bernard Shaw, 482–85
and King’s assassination, 395–96
and March on Washington, 258
treatment of blacks in 1920s Houston, TX, 24–25, 297–98
treatment of black Vietnam servicemen, 331
use of term “negro,” 331
African National Congress, 604
Agence France-Presse (AFP), 527, 528
Agnew, Spiro, 415, 445, 446, 448, 471, 481
Des Moines, Iowa speech, 440–41, 442–43
resignation of, 493, 502
Agronsky, Martin, 309
AIDS, 496
Ailes, Roger, 631
Air Force One, 264–65, 266, 276
Air Force, U.S., 196, 197
Operation Rolling Thunder (North Vietnam), 342, 347, 354
Air Time: The Inside Story of CBS News (Gates), 403, 406
Aldrin, Buzz, 412, 419–22, 424, 425, 603, 628, 665
Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award in Broadcast Journalism, 532
Allbritton, Louise, 130
Allen, Woody, 470, 580
Allred, James, 56
All Things Considered (NPR), 622
al Qaeda, 633, 635, 636
Alter, Jonathan, 593
Alvarez, Roberto, 607
Amanpour, Christiane, 607, 639–40, 658, 663–64
Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, 396–97
America as a Civilization (Lerner), 55
“America Held Hostage” (ABC News), 535
American Assassins, The (CBS News), 284
“American Challenge, The” reports (CBS Radio), 501
American Experience series (PBS), 134
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), 357–59
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