This is wonderfully warm and refreshing. An inside glance that we do not often get to see. Thank you, Doug, and thank you to the others who shared such tender moments.

Thanks for a great story! Very touching.

In 1999, Cronkite appeared at the UN to accept the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award from the World Federalists Association. He told those assembled that the first step toward achieving a one-world government — his personal dream — is to strengthen the United Nations.
"It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace," he said. "To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order."
In his acceptance speech, Cronkite added, "Pat Robertson has written in a book a few years ago that we should have a world government, but only when the Messiah arrives. He wrote, literally, any attempt to achieve world order before that time must be the work of the devil. Well, join me. I'm glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan."