Cronkite received numerous awards and honors throughout his career, including multiple Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award. In 1981, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States, by President Jimmy Carter. In 1985, he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame, and in 1995, he received the Norman cousins Global Governance Award for his promotion of a more just and peaceful world.
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