Walter Cronkite

[sparks]

A lot of memories with this reporter:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_walter_cronkite





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[StinkerBell]

RIP Walter.

[Curtis]

On a kind of related note, I named my kitten Walter Cronkite when we got him a month or so ago.



May his memory live on in the form of this playful kitten.

(I also have a cat named Al Roker)

[ScottA]

"It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order. But the American colonies did it once and brought forth one of the most nearly perfect unions the world has ever seen."

-from a speach given by Walter Cronkite at the U.N.

[sparks]

Interesting quote Scott. Do you have the source for it? I'd like to read the whole speech.



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[ScottA]

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/United_Nations/Chronkite_UN.html There's a link to the text of the speach. You can also google "walter cronkite un speech" and find the video of the same speech.

I'd like to point out that while the idea of global government may sound reasonable on the surface the nature of man ensures that all power will be abused.

[sparks]

Thanks Scott,

I meant to get back to you earlier, but the computer took a dump and then I had to leave town for a few days.


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