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What did Walter Cronkite accomplish at CBS?

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He joined the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) in 1950, where he covered (1952) the first televised presidential nominating conventions and in 1962 became managing editor and anchorman of "The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite." ...

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