When I was little, I loved Walter Cronkite. See, he was really cool - he'd do the news for grown-ups, and then go backstage, change, and do his show for kids. I loved that about him - here was an adult with an adult job for adults, but he still thought about kids.
Years later, I found out that Walter Cronkite did not in fact, moonlight as Captain Kangaroo. But he was still cool.