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Cronkite and the 50 years since his liberal anti-war efforts during the Vietnam War. It was a celebration of the abandonment of objectivity from journalists and the coming of activist reporters who no longer just reported the news but who also tried to shape it.
“For it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate,” Cronkite said in the clip CBS played after they came back from a commercial break. “But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy and did the best they could.”
Anchor Jeff Glor touted the clip noting, “that was Walter Cronkite 50 years ago tonight. 33 days later, President Johnson announced he would not run for re-election. Years later, Cronkite reflected on Johnson's decision.”
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