Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal.
When he (Walter Cronkite) drank, he had an appetite for both history and political bullshit.
Unlike most fine writers, he wasn’t in love with his own words.
If life were fattening, Walter Cronkite would weigh 500 pounds.
Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.
Having recorded his first album, ‘Tapestry,’ in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the ‘generation lost in space.’
One thing ‘not right’ on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus Bridge hasn’t been renamed the John Lewis Bridge.
Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership – if you’re right about what you’re stubborn about.
The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.
John Kerry had a very vivid imagination as a young person. I mean, he actually did go and take his bicycle from Norway to go camp in Sherwood Forest to be around the ghost of Robin Hood.
There is no real way to categorize McLean’s ‘American Pie’ for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock.
I think there’s a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he’s an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.