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Remembering Walter Cronkite
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Remembering Walter Cronkite - LIFE.com
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Cronkite Steady at the Wheel
Walter Cronkite pilots a sailboat in 1971. “Errol Flynn died on a 70-foot boat with a 17-year-old girl," Betsy Cronkite joked. "Walter has always wanted to go that way, but he's going to have to settle for a 17-footer with a 70-year-old.”
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Walter Cronkite
Photo: Leonard McCombe/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Jan 01, 1971
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