Ronald Reagan

Diana Walker, a Time magazine photographer, took this photograph after Walter Cronkite interviewed President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office on March 3rd, 1981.

“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 Diana Walker. “White House staffers, including Vice President Bush, enjoyed a good laugh over a joke that has never become public.”