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Article: Walter Cronkite, 92, American icon and longtime TV anchorman News legend Cronkite dies at 92 [Correction 8/7/09] ; Earned Americans' trust and attention
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 18, 2009
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Walter Cronkite, whose steadying, avuncular presence made "The
CBS Evening News" the dominant network news program for much of his
19 years as its anchorman, died yesterday in New York. He was 92.
Mr. Cronkite's longtime chief of staff, Marlene Adler, said he
died at 7:42 p.m. at his Manhattan home surrounded by family, the
Associated Press reported. She said the cause of death was cerebral
vascular disease.
Columnist Nicholas von Hoffman once called Mr. Cronkite America's
"national security blanket," and public opinion polls often named
him as the man Americans trusted most. One such survey, in 1973,
found that Mr. Cronkite led the runner-up, President Nixon, by 16
percentage points.
Mr. ...