Walter Cronkite has some advice for modern media types eager to dig up the dirt on American leaders: Enough is enough. It's gotten boring.

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"I think that we have gotten to this business of probing for the most unimportant peccadilloes of our leaders," Cronkite said on Mario Cuomo's nationally syndicated radio talk show."Show me the man that does not have a few scars in that regard and I'll show you a guy who hasn't lived," Cronkite said. "I don't want that man as my leader."

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