Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite was an American broadcast journalist who anchored the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981, becoming one of the most widely recognized and, according to opinion polling of the era, most trusted news figures in the United States. Cronkite anchored coverage of major events of his era, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Apollo moon landings, and the Vietnam War, and his 1968 broadcast expressing skepticism that the war was winnable is often cited as a turning point in American public opinion. He signed off each broadcast with the phrase and that's the way it is, which became closely associated with his public identity as an anchor.