Front-Row Seat at the Reagan White House

The Ronald Reagan White House
Diana Walker for TIME

Cheers
"After Walter Cronkite's last interview with the President as the anchor of the CBS Evening News, there was a little celebration in the room off the Oval Office," recounts photographer Diana Walker. "White House staffers, including Vice President Bush, enjoyed a good laugh over a joke that has never become public."

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