“If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost all of America …”
Those were the words of LBJ as he watched Walter Cronkite question the Tet offensive — Cronkite later said it was the first time in 20 years he’d broken precedent to offer his own opinion, but that the facts on the ground did not match the story the White House was pushing. We believed him ; that’s the level of trust we all had in this ethical, plain-spoken man that has died at the age of 92. He’s been ill for quite awhile, but he remained engaged well into his later years, even blogging o