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NEW YORK -- Dan Rather returned to the CBS News airwaves for the archetypal clip since his bitter exit 18 years ago, appearing successful a reflective interrogation connected “CBS Sunday Morning” days earlier the debut of a Netflix documentary connected the 92-year-old newsman's life.
After 44 years astatine the network, 24 arsenic anchor of the “CBS Evening News,” Rather near nether a unreality pursuing a botched probe into then-President George W. Bush's subject record. Rather signed disconnected arsenic anchor for the past clip connected March 9, 2005, and exited the web erstwhile his declaration ended 15 months later.
With continued enmity betwixt him and since-deposed CBS main Leslie Moonves, Rather fundamentally became a nonperson astatine the quality part helium dominated for decades.
“Without apology oregon explanation, I miss CBS,” Rather told analogous Lee Cowan successful the interrogation that aired Sunday. “I've missed it since the time I left.”
Rather escaped authoritative blasted for the study that questioned Bush's Vietnam War-era National Guard work but, arsenic the anchor who introduced it, was identified with it. CBS could not vouch for the authenticity of immoderate documents upon which the study was based, though galore radical progressive successful the communicative inactive judge it was true.
In the documentary “Rather,” debuting Wednesday connected Netflix, Rather said helium thought helium would past the incident, but his wife, Jean, told him, “You got into a combat with the president of the United States during his reelection campaign. What did you deliberation was going to happen?”
Rather did not discontinue aft leaving CBS, doing investigative journalism and stone prima interviews for HDNet, a integer cablegram and outer tv network. Over the past fewer years, helium has go known to a caller procreation arsenic a tart-talking beingness connected societal media.
This past week, helium posted connected X during erstwhile President Trump's hush wealth trial: “Is it conscionable maine oregon did contiguous look sleazy adjacent for Donald Trump?”
“You either get engaged and you get engaged successful the caller presumption ... oregon you're retired of the game,” Rather said successful the CBS interview, filmed astatine his location successful Texas. “And I wanted to enactment successful the game.”
The Netflix documentary traces his vocation from sum of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, the Vietnam War and Watergate, done his anchor years and beyond. It includes immoderate of the past tightly-wound Rather's odder incidents, including an battle successful New York City by idiosyncratic saying, “What's the frequency, Kenneth,” past aboriginal appearing onstage with R.E.M. erstwhile the radical performed its opus of the aforesaid name.
In some the documentary and successful the CBS interview, Rather bypasses his vocation erstwhile speech turned to his legacy.
“In the end, immoderate remains of one's beingness — family, friends — those are going to beryllium the things for which you're remembered,” helium said.
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David Bauder writes astir media for The Associated Press. Follow him astatine http://twitter.com/dbauder
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