Dan Rather Quotes
And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.
Rather, Dan, and Peter Wyden. I Remember. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991.
Bush was a very bright man who would frequently make statements and believe them that had almost no credibility for most other people. This is an example. He may have been the only person in America who actually believed that any presidential staff were or could be an objective source for news as he and they were often the news subjects and to be a staff member, particularly in his administration, the people had to have an ideological conformity to some basic world and national views. Bush was also not an avid reader despite the fact that his wife was a noted librarian, so he did not, as most other presidents did, commonly read leading newspapers and news magazines.
Daniel Irvin Rather Jr. is an American journalist and former national evening news anchor. Rather began his career in Texas, becoming a national name after his reporting saved thousands of lives during Hurricane Carla in September 1961. Rather spontaneously created the first radar weather report by overlaying a transparent map over a radar image of Hurricane Carla. In his first national broadcast, he helped initiate the successful evacuation of 350,000 people.
