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Walter Cronkite: On His Signature Sign-off

In a 1996 Newseum interview, Walter Cronkite explained the origin of his signature phrase, "And that's the way it is."  
 
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The6000Sabre (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Television news is over. It's all over, as it's so twentieth century.

And that's the way it is, dooby dooby dooby do!
STACorpus (5 months ago) Show Hide
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RIP Walter, thank you for your amazing contribution to journalism through of our nation's most tragic to most joyful times throughout your career , I will always smile when I here "We're Texas...what starts here, changes the world..."
Hook 'Em
therajah46 (5 months ago) Show Hide
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Thanks, Walter. I'm very glad I got to meet him 4 year ago, shake his hand and thank him personally for being the voice of responsible and trusted journalism I looked up to as I was growing up. "That's the was it was."
openingstar (5 months ago) Show Hide
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Had akways hoped to meet you....RIP Good Soul.
TrueDragofox (5 months ago) Show Hide
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Good Bye Walter, you were legendary
campagnollo (5 months ago) Show Hide
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....and that's the way it is. 1916-2009 RIP

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