Walter Cronkite

(Photo by CBS)

I'm sure the tributes for this great man will keep rolling in, from people who knew him well or speak more eloquently than I can. For me, all you need to know about Cronkite was the comment that Lyndon Johnson made after the anchorman returned from Vietnam and expressed serious reservations about the war effort: "If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America." We will never have another journalist as influential, respected and trusted as Walter Cronkite. Rest well, sir.