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" I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.' "

Walter Cronkite

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" History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past. "

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