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Cronkite as VP? It Nearly Happened

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 25, 2009 10:08 AM CDT

(Newser) – A lot of things would have been better in America if Walter Cronkite had been elected vice president in 1972, writes Frank Mankiewicz in the Washington Post, and it could have happened. Mankiewicz was the political director for George McGovern’s campaign, and, “armed...   Read full story »

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