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Remembering Walter Cronkite

Cronkite Interviews Eisenhower

Cronkite Interviews Eisenhower

Walter Cronkite interviews former U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower at Arlington Cemetery. Cronkite was famous for his catchphrase closing out the evening-news broadcast: "And that's the way it is." Years later, successor Dan Rather would attempt his own sign-off phrase to much less success.

In this photo: Walter Cronkite

Photo: CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images

Aug 01, 1963