The Coffee House Philosopher

The most trusted man in America – Part 2

 

March 25, 2018



When Walter Cronkite was ten years old, the Cronkite family moved from Kansas City to Houston, Texas. Some of the South’s cultural conventions of the time shocked the former mid-westerner. The mistreatment of African Americans was quite disturbing, and he received a rather shocking introduction to conventional southern manners when addressing teachers.

In his first day in fourth grade in a southern classroom, his class was asked to solve a rather complex math problem that, if solved correctly, resulted in a simple answer. Wanting to start out on the right foot with new people, Cronkite ha...



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