I've been reading up on Danny Rather. I found this interesting tidbit:
"Dan's a girl...Dan has the enthusiasm of a girl. There's a girl's soul lurking in him."
--CBS News campaign producer Susan Zirinsky in the March 23, 1996 TV Guide.
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Danny, we hardly knew ye...
We are learning a lot about our CBS news anchors - -
ReplyDelete"I do think one of the factors was we were of different sexes." .... "That doesn't mean I wouldn't have been happy to be married to several friends I had of the same sex," he followed. "It just never came up in our particular relations."
Walter Cronkite
San Francisco Chronicle
March 2, 2004
I think Cronkite was completely classless in his criticism of Rather the day before his last broadcast.
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