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Cronkite Remembers: Cronkite on Energy
From the CBS archives, Walter Cronkite recounts the Arab oil embargo in the early seventies, the toll it had on gas prices and the lean toward nuclear energy.
Added: Jul 23, 2009
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Runtime: 02:24
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