ellauri089.html on line 172: July 20, 1969, is probably the most important day in human history - the day men from Earth first set foot on another planet, Earth's moon. Robert Heinlein was a guest commentator (along with Arthur C. Clarke) with Walter Cronkite on this historic occasion.
ellauri089.html on line 174: Joopa joo olihan se hienoa, vaikkei siitä seurannutkaan sitten paljon paskaakaan. Muistan että oli Münchenin rautatieasemalla lähdössä junalla kohti Ateenaa. Kuulähetys tuli rautatieaseman rakeisista mustavalkotelevisioista katonrajassa. Ei kyllä Walter Cronkite vaaan joku saxalainen uutislähetys. Me pojat oltiin aika uupuneita ja levättiin tovi aseman ulkopuolella olleella Liegewiesellä. Me oltiin 16-vuotiaita, suunnilleen All-American Boy Cliffordin ikäisiä. Hyvä Kip! Hyvä Oliver!
ellauri089.html on line 177: Walther Cronkite muistuttaa Asterixin pientä rättipäistä egyptiläistä kauppiasta.
ellauri089.html on line 178: Venäläisten miehittämätön 😂 satellitti oli tuomassa Aldinille votkapulloa, veistelee Clarke. AAHHAHHAH nauraa Cronkite tekonaurua.
ellauri284.html on line 743: Vuosien varrella se on ylpeillyt poliitikkojen, diplomaattien, liikemiesten ja kirjailijoiden eliittijäsenyydestä, johon ovat kuuluneet Henry Kissinger, Margaret Thatcher, Caspar Weinberger, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Henry Lude, Lord Carrington, Alexander Haig, Paul Volcker, Buster Keaton, George Shultz ja Walter Cronkite monien monien muiden joukossa. Lähimmän kuninkaallisen perheen jäsenet, Yhdysvaltain ulkoministerit ja Yhdysvaltain suurlähettiläät St. Jamesin tuomioistuimeen saakka hyväksytään tavallisesti viran puolesta yhdistyksen jäsenyyteen.
xxx/ellauri167.html on line 580: CBS’ Walter Cronkite was the pre-eminent emcee of the whole affair. Cronkite was a moderate, establishment type of guy. He was perplexed by hippies, including his own daughters, with their “indescribable” outfits that looked like they came from a “remnant sale”, which they did. He recognized that the young generation no doubt saw him as “an old fuddy-duddy.”
xxx/ellauri167.html on line 582: In Saigon 1965 he was a "cautious hawk”. When the Tet Offensive erupted in early 1968, Cronkite returned to Vietnam and reluctantly reported that America was facing a stalemate in Southeast Asia at best. President Lyndon B. Johnson was agog, proclaiming: “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.” To the majority of viewers, Cronkite’s Vietnam broadcast was more of a wake-up call than a partisan assault. “Uncle Walter” was regularly rated in surveys as the most trusted man in America.
xxx/ellauri167.html on line 584: But Chicago was different. Not just because Cronkite was sympathetic to the youngsters in the streets, but because he lost his cool. After his correspondent, Dan Rather, was punched in the solar plexus by a Chicago plainclothes security man on the delegate floor, Cronkite let loose, saying, “I think we’ve got a bunch of thugs here, Dan.” Asked once why Cronkite was so trusted, his wife had responded, “he looks like everyone’s dentist.” But in calling out Daley’s thugs, he had given his conservative viewers a surprise root canal.
xxx/ellauri167.html on line 586: Cronkite thanked Rather “for staying in there, pitching despite every handicap that they can possibly put in our way from free flow of information at this Democratic National Convention.” Cronkite clearly suspected that Daley had purposely avoided resolving the electrical workers’ strike in order to hinder network coverage. “Dick Daley’s a fine fellow, but when his strong hand is turned agin’ you, as the press has felt it was on this occasion, he’s a tough adversary.”
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