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"I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years - well, ..." — Walter Cronkite
I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years - well, I take it back. Once perhaps. But during 19 years, with perhaps one exception, was I ever aware of any political or commercial pressure on that broadcast whatsoever.
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