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" I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist. "
Walter Cronkite
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" In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of the American people. "
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" I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along. "
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" I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years - well, I take it back. Once perhaps. But during 19 years, with perhaps one exception, was I ever aware of any political or commercial pressure on that broadcast whatsoever. "
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