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Indeed, his current biography at King Features Syndicate, for whom he writes a weekly column called "And That's The Way I See It" notes that "In a nationwide viewer opinion poll as recently as 1995, more than a decade after leaving the CBS anchor desk, he again was voted 'Most Trusted Man in Television News.'"
Cronkite was born in [[Saint Joseph, Missouri]], and grew up in [[Houston, Texas]]. He attended middle school at [[Sidney Lanier Middle School, Houston|Lanier Middle School]]. Thereafter he attended the [[University of Texas at Austin]]. After various [[newspaper]] reporter jobs covering news and sports, he entered broadcasting as a [[radio]] announcer for a station in [[Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]]. He joined the [[United Press]] in [[1937]], and became one of the top American reporters in [[World War II]], covering battles in [[North Africa]] and [[Europe]]. After the war, he covered Nazi war crimes trials, and served as the United Press main reporter in [[Moscow]] for 2 years.
In [[1950]] he joined [[CBS]] news, in their growing young television division. He anchored the network's coverage of the [[U.S. presidential election, 1952|1952 Presidential election]], as he would continue to do with American elections until his retirement.
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