Walter Cronkite

July 18, 2009 at 6:52am PST

Tags: Barack Obama, CBS Evening News, death, Walter Cronkite

Photos: CBS

It's been a bad summer for celebrity mortality.

Walter Cronkite, the face of the CBS Evening News for over 19 years, died in New York yesterday.

In a statement, President Obama praised the iconic TV news anchor, saying he "was someone we could trust to guide us through the most important issues of the day; a voice of certainty in an uncertain world. He was family. He invited us to believe in him, and he never let us down."

Our hearts go out to his family.

And that's the way it is...

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