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In 2004 Dan Rather tarnished his career forever with a much-criticized report on George W. Bush’s National Guard service. Eight years later, the story behind the story can finally be told: what CBS’s top-ranking newsman did, what the president of the United States didn’t do, and how some feuding Texas pols got the whole ball rolling.
Dan Rather, the award-winning journalist whose career has spanned six decades, has won the Peabody Career Achievement Award. Dolly Parton presented Rather with the honor this morning via video. Rather, who has interviewed every president since Eisenhower, was the CBS national evening news anchor from 1981-2006.
He exposed endemic corruption in the DC cesspool. Wed Feb 10, 2021 Candidate Donald Trump promised that if he was elected President he would “Drain the swamp.” (The term “Swamp” to describe the pervasively corrupt District of Columbia should be replaced by “Cesspool.” Swamps are natural elements of our planet’s ecosystem and are home to many forms of plant and animal life and are, therefore essential to our environment. Cesspools however, are entirely artificial, filled with fetid rotting feces and detritus and there is nothing good to be found in cesspools!)...
Access tv, dan rather reports. never would have thought in a million years i would be sitting across from you. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you, thank you very much. let's talk about the two big huge stories. hacking in cuba. what is your opinion, what's the bigger story here? >> in my newspaper headline, or my evening news broadcast, it is a twin lead. and by the way, what a terrific news day. what a news day. the story in russia hasn't gotten much play because of what happened with the cyberattacks and the change in policy of cuba is a huge story with potentially far reaching consequ...
>> governor wallace is now walking away from the door, apparent recapitulating now in his battle against the united states government to prevent two negro students from entering the previously all-white university of alabama. >> i spoke earlier with dan rather in new york city. dan rather, welcome to "reliable sources." >> glad to be here. thank you for having me. >> now, of course you're known as the former anchor of the "cbs evening news" and now the current anchor of "dan rather reports" on axis tv but your first big national story was covering the civil rights movement in the early 1960s. ...