'The Prophet': Cronkite on Watergate/Nixon, 1973.

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Interesting that Cronkite sees Nixon's resignation as one possible 'solution' to the problem.
Less than one year after this interview, Nixon resigned.

NEW YORK - From the December 26, 1973 issue of The Christian Science Monitor

Watergate may prove to be a great boon to the American people, predicts Walter Cronkite, the most trusted public figure in the U.S.A., according to a recent Quayle survey in which he out-polled President Nixon by 14 percent. Says the CBS-TV evening newsman: "I have a feeling that when this administration is squared away - whether by resignation, impeachment, or accommodation - we are in for a period of considerable moral soul searching which may straighten us out for a good number of years to come. People have become so fed up with subterfuge, dishonesty, and lack of candor that we are going to find them demanding of their politicians a straightforwardness such as we haven't had for many generations."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0720/p25s01-ussc.html