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[Dan Rather] Sometimes you investigate,
you get to the end of the alley,

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and what you thought was there
is not there.

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To get to the truth,

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or as close to the truth
as is humanly possible to get,

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requires a lot of persistence.

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And also you have to be prepared
to pay the consequences,

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that any very controversial story one does
involving powerful people,

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eventually you're going to have to
face the furnace and take the heat,

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and unless you're prepared to do that,

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then you need to get another line of work.

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["Gimme Some Truth"
by John Lennon playing]

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Testing, testing, testing,
testing, testing testing.

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Dan Rather has become
the symbol of television journalism.

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♪ From uptight, short-sighted
Narrow-minded hypocrites ♪

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-♪ All I want is the truth ♪
-♪ Truth ♪

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-♪ Just gimme some truth ♪
-♪ Truth ♪

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Live from Tiananmen Square…

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…from Baghdad, Iraq.

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…near the Cambodian border, South Vietnam.

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It's in the nature of reporters
and politicians not to get along.

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That goes with the territory.

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-Are you running for something?
-No, sir, Mr. President. Are you?

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[audience laughing]

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[Nixon on tape] Rather is just
a son of a bitch, don't you think?

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[Rather] How I see myself
is as a watch dog.

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I'm not an attack dog,
I'm not out to get anybody,

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but I'm not a lap dog either.

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Don't push me take your hands off of me
unless you plan to arrest me.

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[Rick Perlstein] The fact that Dan Rather
is located by some people

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as a uniquely malevolent figure

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is merely evidence
that he has done his job.

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When people talk about liberal media,

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a lot of times they're really talking
literally about Dan Rather, the man.

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This lady thinks
Dan Rather's ears should be pinned back.

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I've always found Dan Rather
to be a little odd.

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She ran away with it
like a hobo with a sweet potato pie.

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[Jon Stewart] Yeah!

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♪ Truth, truth, truth, truth, truth ♪

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[Wayne Nelson] It was a big mistake,
but does it mean the end of Dan Rather?

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[Douglas Brinkley]
Rather now became the story.

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It was a damaging moment
for media culture.

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Rather, the godfather
of modern media fake news

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talking about how this is
the greatest crisis we've ever seen

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-in modern political history.
-[Brinkley] From that point on

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it really is the start
of a different kind of journalistic world.

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[screaming]

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[Soledad O'Brien] My teenagers
don't even watch evening news,

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but they know Dan Rather.

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The level of shade on this man… Whew!

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[Andy Cohen]
Do you not give a shit anymore, Dan?

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-[audience laughing]
-Short answer: No.

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[laughter and applause]

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♪ All I want is the truth ♪

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♪ All I want is the truth ♪

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♪ Just give me some truth ♪

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[song fades out]

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[keyboard clacking]

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[Dan] I've never known why it is
that I aspired to be a reporter.

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The best guess that I can come up with
is that because my mother and father

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were so riveted to newspapers.

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Newspapers were around the house,
they were discussing newspapers.

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At an early age, I came to believe
newspapers must be important.

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So the dream for me
was always to be "a reporter."

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Keep in mind at that time,

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being a reporter
basically meant being a newspaper person.

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The television news revolution
was only just beginning.

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[Margaret Sullivan] There were
the three TV networks: CBS, ABC and NBC.

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CBS was known as the Tiffany Network.

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They were the gold standard,
and there wasn't a lot of choice.

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The benefit of that was that everybody had
the same grounding in reality.

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CBS News built an amazing organization
and reputation.

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Literally were like
The New York Times of television.

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[announcer] This is
the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.

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There may be something brewing in Cuba,

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besides coffee, that is.
For the first time…

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[Brinkley] Walter Cronkite
was the most admired man in America,

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and he developed a bipartisan following.

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[Dan] There was a widespread belief
among the people who owned the networks

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that a network news division
was a public trust.

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There's an enormous responsibility
that goes with being a broadcaster,

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that you're talking
to literally 20 million people.

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[announcer] Here is Dan Rather
speaking directly from Galveston.

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As of the moment, Hurricane Carla
is spotted near latitude 26.0 north

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and 92.9 west,
that's 255 miles southeast of…

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I was the news director
broadcasting live from Galveston.

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The story became a national story,

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and first CBS News
began monitoring what we were doing.

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These are by far the calmest people
in a flood I've ever seen.

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We superimposed
a scale map of the Texas coast

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onto the Galveston radar image
of this gigantic storm

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which put the storm in perspective.

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Nobody had ever done it before.

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About half a million people
took one look at it

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and basically fled to higher ground.

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That job at the television station
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had resulted in our coverage
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which CBS had seen
and as result of that hired me,

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and so by 1962 I'm working at CBS News.

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But very quickly having gone to New York,

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moved back to Dallas
to open the Dallas Bureau,

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and the biggest, most important
running domestic story

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was Dr. Martin Luther King

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and the early stages
of the civil rights movement.

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The Negroes who live in this rural area
have been told for years

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that that moss-covered oak back there,

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was a hanging tree
during the time of the Civil War.

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[Robin Rather] I think my dad had
a certain destiny that he listened to.

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He had a calling to do what he does.

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My dad is
a deeply, deeply religious person.

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-[man] Start walking.
-[Dan] Right.

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[Robin] My dad reads the Bible often.
It's a source of comfort to him.

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His faith, that you love your fellow man,

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and his particular way of showing love
is reporting.

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[choir singing indistinctly]

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The Albany Movement
depends on these people,

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they are the heart of it.

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This is Dan Rather in Albany, Georgia.

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["Sinnerman" by Nina Simone playing]

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[explosion]

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[people shouting indistinctly]

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♪ Oh, sinnerman, where you gonna run to? ♪

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♪ Sinnerman, where you gonna run to? ♪

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[Andrew Young] The violence against us,

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the destruction of any little sense
of progress and prosperity that we had,

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just to keep people down,

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that was not known until television came.

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[Dan] There was a lot of violence,

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women, children, older men,
threatened, beaten,

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dogs turned loose on them,
fire hoses turned loose on them.

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Klan rallies at night.
Terrible Klan rallies.

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You got a bunch of people
standing right over here

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with their cameras and their news things.

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Half of them ain't got enough backbone
to get them a job and go to work.

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They'll print half of the story.

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They ain't got enough backbone
to tell the truth.

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Anybody that lies with the devil
will die and go to hell without God.

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[people cheering]

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[Dan] The sights, sounds, smells…

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I do remember even the smell
of the wooden cross burning.

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And I defy anyone to go to a Klan rally

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and not be deeply affected
by what it really represented.

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Deep hate.

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♪ Oh, yeah… ♪

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[Dan] For the first time
I began to understand

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what this emerging civil rights movement
was about,

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and I began to see up-close, personal,

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bear witness to the violence
of institutionalized racism.

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[song ends]

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If the bombings do not stop,

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someone is going to be confronted
with a full-scale race riot here,

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because I know of people personally
that's not going to be tolerated with,

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bombing in their sleep
and shooting them on the streets.

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[Dan] CBS was called
the Colored Broadcasting System,

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the Communist Broadcasting System.

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Station after station
wouldn't feed our material,

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some stations wouldn't carry
the CBS Evening News.

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[Howard Stringer] We were often accused
of being liberal in the news media.

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That's what a journalist is,
a seeker of causes,

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but we, I believe, presented the truth.

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Mr. Singleman, you must be aware
that at least one Northern newspaper

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has termed you a bigot and a racist.
What's your reaction to that?

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They can call me anything they want

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as long as they don't call me
too late for dinner.

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[Young] We always had our demonstrations
in the morning.

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We had to be through by twelve o'clock

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because they'd have to take-off

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and fly the news
back to New York every day.

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[Dan] I was very impressed with Dr. King
from the moment I met him.

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I had never seen anyone
up close and personal that heroic.

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Now let's move out or you're under arrest.
Either one now.

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[Dan] Moment to moment,
on the razor's edge of lethal danger.

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The fear that I felt seeing this deep hate
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and changed me as a professional.

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[Young] The press was hated
almost as much as we were

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so it required a lot of courage
just to tell the story,

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because the same people
that were beating us up,

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started beating them up.

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Then there was guilt,

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something nobody really likes
to talk about.

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[dogs barking]

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I have the job I dreamed of doing,

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but I did have those moments,
and I said, "Easy for you, Dan.

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"Should you just quit this work

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"and become part of the active effort
to change this?"

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As a journalist you're not saying,
"Damn it, I want this to be fixed"

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or "Damn it,
I'm going to cause the change."

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You're showing people what happens,

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they decide what to do
with that information.

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Savannah, Georgia
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the past few weeks than any other city
in the Deep South is not…

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The role I'm in
as being a chronicler of this,

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being an eyewitness to it

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and bringing it to people's screens,
is important work.

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This is Dan Rather in Savannah, Georgia.

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[Dan] It was very difficult as reporters

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during this period
covering Dr. King and the movement.

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On the one hand, you wanna be
an honest broker of information.

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On the other hand, some of the things
were so outrageous, so disturbing,

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there was a constant struggle
within yourself to say,

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"Remember what your role is here."

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You wanna be the witness, that's your job,

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and you're trained as a journalist
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and for me that all started in Houston.

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[man] Stand by, please.

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[mid-tempo jazz playing]

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[Dan] I began working
at the radio station KTRH, 50,000-watt,

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Voice of the Golden Gulf Coast in Houston.

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I've gotten a job there
beginning in late 1954.

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I was on the air,
I was doing play-by-play work.

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-[man on radio] Again, Dan Rather.
-[Dan on radio] Houston leads…

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All that experience
at the tiny radio station

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paid enormous dividends later on,

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because I was in the process
of making myself a strong ad-libber,

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frequently with no script,

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and that gave me the confidence
that I could talk and describe

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and create word pictures,

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and I don't think I would've made it
in television without that ability.

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It was fast becoming
a kind of dream job for me,

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but from time to time,
you know, I certainly wanted a family,

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and there came to work
at the radio station Jean Grace Goebel.

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First time I saw her,
I know it's cliche but it's true,

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it was "Wow."

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She has such a winning smile.

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Just everything about her
got my immediate attention.

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One thing developed into another,
and I finally asked her out.

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I was working parts of seven days a week.

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She would come
and sit with me in the newsroom

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as I did my work on Saturday nights.

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I asked her to marry me.

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Jean surprised me by saying "Yes."

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[Martin Rather] My grandparents
have the best relationship that I know of,

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because of the level of trust
and communication

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that the two of them have
with one another.

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And I guess that's no surprise since
they've been married for over 60 years.

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[Dan] She was so supportive,
and so kind, and really smart,

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and besides that she was smoking-hot.

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[opening theme of As The World Turns
playing on TV]

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[announcer] And now, As The World Turns.

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Your great-grandson and his mother

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are going to have Thanksgiving dinner
with us.

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[sighs]

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I must say I'm surprised.

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[static crackling]

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This is Walter Cronkite in our newsroom.

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There has been an attempt,
as perhaps you know now,

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on the life of President Kennedy.

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[reporter 1]
Something has happened in the motorcade.

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The presidential car coming up now.
You can see Mrs. Kennedy's pink suit.

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There's a Secret Service man
spread-eagled over the top of the car

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We can't see who has been hit,
if anybody's been hit,

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but something is wrong here.
Something is terribly wrong.

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[reporter 2] President Kennedy's
been given a blood transfusion

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at Parkland Hospital here in Dallas
in an effort to save his life.

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We just have a report from
our correspondent Dan Rather in Dallas

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that he has confirmed
that President Kennedy is dead.

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There is still
no official confirmation of this…

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[Dan] I remember
in the first seconds and minutes

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my own emotions
of anger, fear, heartbreak.

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"Get that out.

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"You can't afford to do that.

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"Just concentrate on the story."

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[Brinkley] But that's just
an announcement: the President's dead.

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What happened? Who killed Kennedy?

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Nobody had answers,
the only people who had answers was CBS.

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Dan Rather in Dallas.

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[Brinkley] And Dan Rather
was at the right place at the right time.

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A definite air of anticipation

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has built up here in downtown Dallas
in front of the county jail.

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The county jail
is where 24-year-old Lee Oswald

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is expected to be brought anytime now.

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[Sullivan] The assassination
of President Kennedy,

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it's one of the signal events
in modern American history.

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It comes along at a time
when TV is in its infancy

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and Dan Rather makes a name for himself
by covering this huge event.

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[Dan] Dallas Police this morning
resumed questioning

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the man they have formally charged with
the assassination of President Kennedy.

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This is the kind of headline…

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That weekend, CBS played the role of
rabbi, preacher, hand holder, therapist,

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news source, investigators.
They were everything.

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This is a terrible thing for our country.

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Not only for our country
but for the entire world.

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And now, let's go back to Dallas
and to Dan Rather.

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[Dan] There was no time to draft a script,
not at all.

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When it was airtime,
it was just stand and deliver.

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[gunshot]

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[reporter] This is the basement floor
of the Dallas City Hall,

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and that's a scuffle
on the basement floor.

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It seems to concern the target…

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Oswald had been shot.

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[people shouting indistinctly]

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What kind of man shot Lee Oswald?

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Dan was just young, aggressive, serious.

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He was about business.

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Lee Oswald, like President Kennedy,
had no chance to live after he was shot.

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Television's coverage
of this national tragedy

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changed the country.

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It also changed the basic relationship
people at home had with their television.

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As night fell in Dallas,
the man accused of assassinating,

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the accused assassin of President Kennedy,

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was still at police headquarters.

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[Brinkley]
Following the Kennedy assassination,

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Dan Rather's stature was elevated.

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He became the voice from Dallas.

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He became a household name.

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There was no mistaking him
with any other correspondent.

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And it happened to be
that Kennedy was killed in Texas,

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and Dan Rather grew up in Texas.

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This was where he was born and raised,

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and now he was back
covering the story of a lifetime.

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So there was something organic
about the coverage.

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["Why Don't You Love Me"
by Hank Williams playing]

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♪ Well, why don't you love me
Like you used to do? ♪

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♪ How come you treat me
Like a worn out shoe? ♪

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♪ My hair's still curly
And my eyes are still blue ♪

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♪ Why don't you love me
Like you used to do? ♪

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[Robin] Being a Texan
is everything to my dad.

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It is in him. It's in his DNA.
He's fourth-generation Texan.

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There's a real deep pride.
The eyes of Texas are upon you.

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This is a picture of my father,

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but obviously this is not a workday
because my father is dressed in

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what I think were his best clothes.

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[Robin] My father's father
laid pipeline in the ground,

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in the hot 100-degree Texas sun.

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[Dan] My father preached the gospel of

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"You're never gonna be
the smartest person around.

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"There's no excuse for you not working
as hard as you possibly can."

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[song ends]

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[Dan] When I was growing up in Houston,
roughly between ages 10 and 14,

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I was diagnosed with rheumatic fever,

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and the doctor told my mother
there's no cure for it.

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I know my father was very disappointed
in that, to say the least.

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He used to come in sometimes at night
after he'd work.

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He would say, "Steady, steady, steady."

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So that word stuck in my head, of just,
"Well, don't lose your composure."

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My companion was a radio

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and that turned out to be
a big break for me.

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Hello, America. This is Edward Murrow
speaking from London.

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You can have little understanding
of the life in London these days.

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[Robin] To him,
Edward R. Murrow was a heroic figure.

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Someone that put it all on the line
in war,

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to really bring
perspective and truth back.

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[Dan] The rheumatic fever began to fade.

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I was thin as a riding whip.

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My father said,
"What Dan needs is to go to work.

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"It needs to be physical work.
He needs to be outside."

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I cut brush for a survey crew.

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Very quickly began to regain my strength.

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I graduated from
Sam Houston State Teachers College.

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The Korean War was on.

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I volunteered for the Marines.

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Rheumatic fever
was a disqualifying disease.

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There's no pride in it, matter of fact,

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in many ways I'm ashamed of it,
but I lied about it,

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because I wanted to get in
and I wanted to serve.

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When I got in the Marines, they found out.

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I asked them to stay in,
but they said, "No."

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[Robin] In his fashion,
he served the country.

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His way of expressing that
is to chase the good stories,

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to find what they're trying to hide
and bring it into the light

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because he thinks
that's what's best for the country.

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[explosion, gunfire]

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[indistinct conversation]

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We've been in one company strength,

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but now the other company
is moving in by helicopter.

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We're now getting the second company.

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00:22:58,168 --> 00:23:01,004
The Vietnam War was becoming a big story.

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I wanted to go, I asked to go,
and was eventually sent to Vietnam

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and spent almost a year there.

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What about these
rocket launchers, Colonel?

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I don't believe I've seen these before.

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[colonel] We've captured
these rocket launchers

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on several occasions when operating
against the North Vietnamese.

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It's a Chinese rocket launcher, and…

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[Dan] The key to this victory was this
particular company of the 101st Airborne

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under the command of Captain Hank Lunde
of Clarksville, Tennessee.

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[Dan] When I first went to Vietnam,

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combat units were disproportionately
made up of young Black men

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out of places like Watts and Harlem,

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and white country-boy men
out of places like East Texas.

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When you ask them,
"What about race in the ranks?"

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The infantryman saying was,
"Same mud, same blood."

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For more than two days
elements of the 101st Airborne brigade

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were engaged against
North Vietnamese troops

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in this extremely thick jungle
near the Cambodian border.

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00:24:12,033 --> 00:24:13,910
You can see how thick this bamboo is.

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Reporters couldn't get in here,
neither could helicopters of any kind,

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and only today is the full extent
of the battle being known.

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A number of bodies, the wounded,
already have been taken out.

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[soldier] Emergency medevac ASAP!

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[Robin] People don't understand
how deeply patriotic my dad is.

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My dad is old-school,
to the bone patriotic.

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[Dan] I didn't go in with any agenda.
I had no agenda while I was there,

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except to put on American
television screens the war as it was.

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[indistinct conversation]

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00:24:54,201 --> 00:24:55,869
Manny? Is the pain a lot, Manny?

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[indistinct conversation]

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00:25:00,165 --> 00:25:03,793
-You want any water or anything?
-Take it easy, Manny. You're laid down.

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00:25:05,212 --> 00:25:08,882
When my dad was away for months at a time,
he sent a lot of postcards

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00:25:08,965 --> 00:25:11,885
and he wrote the exact same thing
on every postcard.

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00:25:12,636 --> 00:25:15,055
He wrote, "War is hell. Love, Dad."

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00:25:16,223 --> 00:25:17,641
The rebels during the night

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00:25:17,724 --> 00:25:21,436
extended their perimeter
at least four blocks in one direction,

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00:25:21,519 --> 00:25:24,231
and now the Marines are trying
to recapture those four blocks.

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[explosion]

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[Robin] You know, as a young girl,
you understand that's dangerous,

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00:25:28,818 --> 00:25:32,030
but at the same time, he always did that.

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00:25:32,113 --> 00:25:35,408
I never knew a time when
he wasn't doing that, as a young girl.

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00:25:35,492 --> 00:25:38,536
[Dan] There are a lot of civilians
up and down these streets.

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00:25:38,620 --> 00:25:42,123
In the distance, someone is screaming
in Vietnamese, "My father is wounded!"

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00:25:42,207 --> 00:25:45,126
A grenade came through an open window
in the next room,

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00:25:45,210 --> 00:25:47,087
where a sniper was believed hiding.

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00:25:47,170 --> 00:25:50,757
And for the first time an all-out attack
by Premier Ky's Skyraider.

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00:25:51,591 --> 00:25:54,469
[Robin] My mother didn't shield us
from what he was doing.

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00:25:54,552 --> 00:25:56,346
I have a lot of memories of my dad

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with him crouched down
and bullets everywhere.

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00:26:00,141 --> 00:26:02,852
-[gunfire]
-This is the 25th Infantry Division.

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00:26:02,936 --> 00:26:06,314
The newest troops in South Vietnam
for the United States.

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This is part of
their first heaviest action.

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00:26:08,650 --> 00:26:10,485
[gunfire continues]

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00:26:11,278 --> 00:26:13,238
[Robin] I really, really missed him.

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00:26:13,321 --> 00:26:16,241
I didn't really have a perspective
on his work.

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00:26:17,867 --> 00:26:20,662
[Dan] We tried our best
to tell it as it was.

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00:26:21,371 --> 00:26:22,372
"Here's your war.

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00:26:23,081 --> 00:26:24,916
"For better or for worse,
know what it is."

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00:26:26,835 --> 00:26:30,213
Five hours after the Buddhist nun
burned herself in Hue,

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00:26:30,297 --> 00:26:33,591
Saigon Buddhists marched downtown
in what they hope will be

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00:26:33,675 --> 00:26:37,095
their biggest demonstration
in more than two years.

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00:26:38,972 --> 00:26:40,557
I saw a good deal of Vietnam.

431
00:26:41,433 --> 00:26:44,436
And increasingly,
the more of the war I saw,

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00:26:44,519 --> 00:26:47,939
what was being said in Washington
about what was happening in the war

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00:26:48,023 --> 00:26:49,941
did not match the facts on the ground.

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00:26:50,692 --> 00:26:56,323
So it became a clash
between those who knew what the war was,

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00:26:56,406 --> 00:26:57,699
what it really was,

436
00:26:57,782 --> 00:27:00,910
and those who were trying
to convince the American people,

437
00:27:00,994 --> 00:27:02,746
"Look, don't listen to those guys."

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00:27:04,831 --> 00:27:07,042
We will see this through.

439
00:27:07,792 --> 00:27:09,919
We shall persist.

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00:27:10,503 --> 00:27:12,130
We shall succeed.

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00:27:13,423 --> 00:27:17,010
[Perlstein] When officials began
to make representations about the war

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00:27:17,093 --> 00:27:19,304
that were demonstrated
to be false and untrue,

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00:27:19,387 --> 00:27:22,057
for example, that we are winning the war,

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00:27:22,140 --> 00:27:24,976
and journalists began pointing that out,

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00:27:25,060 --> 00:27:28,063
they used the phrase "credibility gap."

446
00:27:28,146 --> 00:27:29,272
It was a euphemism.

447
00:27:29,981 --> 00:27:32,233
They were talking about
the government lying.

448
00:27:33,485 --> 00:27:36,404
Lyndon Johnson would actually
pick up the phone when he was president

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00:27:36,488 --> 00:27:37,947
and call you. Is that right?

450
00:27:38,031 --> 00:27:39,699
Yes. As well as other reporters.

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00:27:39,783 --> 00:27:42,577
It was fairly common for him
to call reporters and say,

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00:27:42,660 --> 00:27:45,413
-"What the hell are you doing to me, boy?"
-Yeah.

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00:27:45,497 --> 00:27:46,998
-[Dan] I mean, you're a Texan.
-Yeah.

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00:27:47,082 --> 00:27:48,750
[Dan] We have to stick together.

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00:27:48,833 --> 00:27:52,712
What folks saw on television
was increasingly at variance

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00:27:52,796 --> 00:27:54,381
with what they were being told.

457
00:27:55,382 --> 00:27:59,677
That dichotomy would eventually call
the whole US commitment into question.

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00:27:59,761 --> 00:28:02,847
♪ If you love your Uncle Sam ♪

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00:28:02,931 --> 00:28:05,850
♪ Bring them home, bring them home ♪

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00:28:05,934 --> 00:28:08,812
♪ Support our boys in Vietnam… ♪

461
00:28:09,562 --> 00:28:12,524
That ancient nemesis of armies, rain,

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00:28:12,607 --> 00:28:15,693
has washed out the hopes
of 15,000 American troops.

463
00:28:15,777 --> 00:28:17,612
♪ I may be right, I may be wrong ♪

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00:28:17,695 --> 00:28:18,905
♪ Bring them home ♪

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00:28:18,988 --> 00:28:21,199
If you want us to stop our bombing,

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00:28:21,282 --> 00:28:23,076
you have to ask them
to stop their bombings.

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00:28:23,159 --> 00:28:25,370
-[shouts indistinctly]
-[guns firing]

468
00:28:25,453 --> 00:28:28,164
These marines
are trying to move in on the pagoda

469
00:28:28,248 --> 00:28:30,125
which is the rebel headquarters.

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00:28:30,208 --> 00:28:33,878
The bombs in Vietnam explode at home.

471
00:28:33,962 --> 00:28:39,467
They destroy the dream
and possibility for a decent America.

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00:28:40,468 --> 00:28:43,096
♪ Bring them home, home! ♪

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00:28:44,347 --> 00:28:47,100
[Brinkley] Lyndon Johnson,
he had no idea what was going on.

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00:28:47,183 --> 00:28:52,689
Why is CBS showing American troops at war
in a grim fashion?

475
00:28:52,772 --> 00:28:55,275
Because we did not do that
in World War II.

476
00:28:55,358 --> 00:28:57,110
We were all in it together.

477
00:28:57,193 --> 00:29:00,864
The press worked as a propaganda arm
of the US Military.

478
00:29:01,865 --> 00:29:03,616
This was something new.

479
00:29:03,700 --> 00:29:05,702
Dan Rather was part of all that.

480
00:29:06,578 --> 00:29:08,788
Dan Rather, CBS News, Da Nang.

481
00:29:14,377 --> 00:29:18,089
[Dan] Many in the upper echelons
of government and in the military

482
00:29:18,173 --> 00:29:19,883
absolutely felt and they stated

483
00:29:19,966 --> 00:29:23,470
that television incited
much of the anti-war movement.

484
00:29:23,553 --> 00:29:25,555
As a matter of fact,
it's not a Vietnamese war now.

485
00:29:25,638 --> 00:29:28,975
It's now a land war in Asia that
everybody's worried about for 20 years,

486
00:29:29,058 --> 00:29:31,603
and we're in, and we want it out now.

487
00:29:31,686 --> 00:29:34,856
If we may to continue to wrap here
for moment, another point that…

488
00:29:34,939 --> 00:29:38,485
[Dan] To them,
the press was the real enemy.

489
00:29:38,568 --> 00:29:42,781
We don't let people influence us
and pressure and force us

490
00:29:42,864 --> 00:29:46,743
to divide our nation
in a time of national peril.

491
00:29:46,826 --> 00:29:48,745
-[audience clapping]
-The hour is here.

492
00:29:48,828 --> 00:29:52,332
There's an old saying that
"The first casualty of war is truth."

493
00:29:52,415 --> 00:29:54,209
And the stakes are so high.

494
00:29:54,292 --> 00:29:58,505
When you're asking people to surrender
their very lives for their country,

495
00:29:58,588 --> 00:30:00,965
you have to ennoble the enterprise,

496
00:30:01,049 --> 00:30:03,676
and often the way
that enterprise is ennobled by lies

497
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:07,013
and the greatest threat to that
is journalism.

498
00:30:08,807 --> 00:30:11,059
For it seems now more certain than ever

499
00:30:11,142 --> 00:30:15,438
that the bloody experience of Vietnam
is to end in a stalemate.

500
00:30:15,522 --> 00:30:18,691
When Walter Cronkite said
the war in Vietnam couldn't be won,

501
00:30:19,359 --> 00:30:20,360
it was over.

502
00:30:21,152 --> 00:30:25,156
When should an anchor person,
an anchorman, become a commentator?

503
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:26,741
Maybe once in a lifetime.

504
00:30:27,408 --> 00:30:29,410
[Sullivan]
When the most trusted man in America

505
00:30:29,494 --> 00:30:34,165
tells you something pretty stunning
about your government

506
00:30:34,249 --> 00:30:37,335
and its role in a foreign war,

507
00:30:37,418 --> 00:30:41,172
people listened,
and it was very consequential.

508
00:30:43,591 --> 00:30:47,762
[announcer] This is a CBS News campaign
'68 Convention special.

509
00:30:47,846 --> 00:30:49,722
What's going to happen in Chicago?

510
00:30:49,806 --> 00:30:52,976
Here is CBS News correspondent
Walter Cronkite.

511
00:30:53,643 --> 00:30:55,144
Good evening from Chicago

512
00:30:55,228 --> 00:30:58,773
where the 35th National
Democratic Convention opens tomorrow

513
00:30:58,857 --> 00:31:01,734
with the promise of turmoil
inside this hall

514
00:31:01,818 --> 00:31:03,778
and a threat of violence without.

515
00:31:03,862 --> 00:31:04,863
By the end of the week,

516
00:31:04,946 --> 00:31:08,324
Hubert Humphrey probably will emerge
as the party's nominee.

517
00:31:08,408 --> 00:31:12,787
Inside the hall we can expect floor fights
over the rules, over credentials,

518
00:31:12,871 --> 00:31:15,999
a bitter one
over the Vietnam plank and the platform,

519
00:31:16,082 --> 00:31:19,043
but throughout,
the political process continues.

520
00:31:20,420 --> 00:31:22,881
[Brinkley] The counterculture
was there in Chicago

521
00:31:22,964 --> 00:31:27,427
and it was basically a war in the city
between Mayor Daley and protesters.

522
00:31:27,510 --> 00:31:29,721
Tear gas flew every which way,

523
00:31:29,804 --> 00:31:34,350
and it was almost impossible
to hold a sane Democratic Convention.

524
00:31:35,810 --> 00:31:39,522
[Donald Peterson] Mr. Chairman,
most delegates to this convention

525
00:31:39,606 --> 00:31:43,276
do not know that thousands of young people
are being beaten

526
00:31:43,359 --> 00:31:45,278
in the streets of Chicago.

527
00:31:47,405 --> 00:31:49,908
[people shouting indistinctly]

528
00:31:49,991 --> 00:31:54,162
And for that reason,
I request a suspension of the rules

529
00:31:54,245 --> 00:31:56,831
for the purpose of adjournment
for two weeks.

530
00:31:57,957 --> 00:32:02,337
Wisconsin is not recognized
for that purpose!

531
00:32:03,171 --> 00:32:06,382
[Walter Cronkite] Looks like a couple
of the sergeants-at-arms security people

532
00:32:06,466 --> 00:32:10,178
have one of the members under both armpits
and forcing him out.

533
00:32:10,261 --> 00:32:11,262
Dan Rather?

534
00:32:11,346 --> 00:32:13,556
-[people clamoring]
-[Dan] What is your name, sir?

535
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,309
Take your hands off of me
unless you intend to arrest me.

536
00:32:16,392 --> 00:32:17,685
Don't push me, please.

537
00:32:17,769 --> 00:32:20,021
-Sir, I'm trying to--
-I know, but don't push me.

538
00:32:20,104 --> 00:32:22,482
Take your hands off of me
unless you plan to arrest me.

539
00:32:22,565 --> 00:32:24,067
Wait a minute, wait a minute.

540
00:32:25,777 --> 00:32:27,236
Walter, as you can see--

541
00:32:29,322 --> 00:32:31,032
[Cronkite] I don't know what's going on,

542
00:32:31,115 --> 00:32:34,619
but these are security people
apparently around Dan,

543
00:32:34,702 --> 00:32:36,162
obviously getting roughed up.

544
00:32:36,245 --> 00:32:39,040
We tried to talk to the man
and we got bodily pushed out the way.

545
00:32:39,123 --> 00:32:42,001
This is the kind of thing
that's been going on outside the hall.

546
00:32:42,085 --> 00:32:45,004
This is the first time
we've had it happen inside the hall.

547
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,716
I'm sorry to be out of breath
but somebody belted me in the stomach.

548
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,302
[Cronkite] I think we've got
a bunch of thugs here, Dan,

549
00:32:51,386 --> 00:32:53,012
if I may be permitted to say so.

550
00:32:53,096 --> 00:32:57,725
Well, mind you, Walter, I'm all right.
It's… It's all in a day's work.

551
00:32:57,809 --> 00:32:59,978
[Cronkite] Thank you, Dan,
for staying in there

552
00:33:00,061 --> 00:33:03,481
pitching despite every handicap
that they can possibly put in our way

553
00:33:03,564 --> 00:33:06,985
from free flow of information
at this Democratic National Convention.

554
00:33:07,860 --> 00:33:13,366
Nowadays there's a tremendous amount
of antipathy towards the press,

555
00:33:13,449 --> 00:33:19,580
but it was pretty startling
to see that happen in 1968.

556
00:33:20,873 --> 00:33:24,335
[Brinkley] Rather, at that moment,
became a heroic figure

557
00:33:24,419 --> 00:33:27,505
for standing up
for reporters to do their work

558
00:33:27,588 --> 00:33:31,175
without fear of violence or death,

559
00:33:31,259 --> 00:33:36,848
and at that point, Rather really becomes
part of the history of 1968.

560
00:33:37,598 --> 00:33:40,309
As I stood and watched
Hubert Humphrey tonight

561
00:33:40,393 --> 00:33:42,437
stand where he has wanted to for so long

562
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:44,856
at the very top
of the Democratic Party heap,

563
00:33:46,065 --> 00:33:48,443
my first thought was, "Some heap."

564
00:33:55,366 --> 00:33:58,703
[Cronkite] Richard Milhous Nixon
in a stunning political comeback

565
00:33:58,786 --> 00:34:00,705
almost denied him in the closing days,

566
00:34:00,788 --> 00:34:03,249
perhaps even
the closing hours of the campaign,

567
00:34:03,332 --> 00:34:06,878
has been elected
the 37th President of the United States

568
00:34:06,961 --> 00:34:10,298
with an electoral majority
over Vice President Hubert Humphrey.

569
00:34:12,175 --> 00:34:15,344
[Perlstein] Richard Nixon
despised the press

570
00:34:15,428 --> 00:34:18,765
as this sort of
unelected cast of aristocrats

571
00:34:18,848 --> 00:34:22,143
who didn't report the news,
but created the news

572
00:34:22,226 --> 00:34:24,395
and decided what Americans should think.

573
00:34:25,354 --> 00:34:29,358
[Brinkley] Nixon got screwed
in the 1960 presidential election

574
00:34:29,442 --> 00:34:32,612
because the media was all JFK crazy.

575
00:34:32,695 --> 00:34:35,907
In 1967, you know,
preparing this run for president,

576
00:34:35,990 --> 00:34:38,910
this young producer
whose name was Roger Ailes,

577
00:34:38,993 --> 00:34:42,080
responded, "If you had taken TV
more seriously in 1960,

578
00:34:42,163 --> 00:34:45,625
"maybe you would be president right now."
And Richard Nixon hired him.

579
00:34:45,708 --> 00:34:47,543
The president is said by aides

580
00:34:47,627 --> 00:34:50,505
to be especially anxious now
to improve his image.

581
00:34:50,588 --> 00:34:54,175
There's always somebody in the press corps
that's gonna stand up and ask

582
00:34:54,258 --> 00:34:58,763
this sort of in-your-face question,
and Rather assumed that role.

583
00:34:58,846 --> 00:35:00,765
[Dan] Mr. President,
I wanna state this question

584
00:35:00,848 --> 00:35:03,476
with due respect to your office,
but also as directly--

585
00:35:03,559 --> 00:35:05,978
-That would be unusual.
-[laughter]

586
00:35:06,062 --> 00:35:07,355
[Dan] I'd like to think not.

587
00:35:07,980 --> 00:35:10,525
[Brinkley] There became
a counter offensive

588
00:35:10,608 --> 00:35:13,236
to start trying to even the playing field.

589
00:35:13,319 --> 00:35:14,195
[Dan] Mr. President--

590
00:35:14,946 --> 00:35:15,780
[Dan] Thank you.

591
00:35:15,863 --> 00:35:16,864
The background of this--

592
00:35:16,948 --> 00:35:18,282
[Nixon speaking]

593
00:35:18,366 --> 00:35:19,367
[laughter]

594
00:35:22,203 --> 00:35:24,413
Thank you, Mr. President.
I remember yours too.

595
00:35:24,497 --> 00:35:25,706
[laughter]

596
00:35:26,374 --> 00:35:30,086
It is important to reflect on history

597
00:35:30,169 --> 00:35:34,590
and all the moments
in which the downfall of democracy

598
00:35:34,674 --> 00:35:40,346
has been preceded and accompanied
and hastened by rhetoric

599
00:35:40,429 --> 00:35:42,807
trying to turn the press
into the enemy of the people.

600
00:35:45,309 --> 00:35:48,229
[Cronkite] At first
it was called the Watergate caper.

601
00:35:48,312 --> 00:35:52,525
Five men apparently caught in the act
of burglarizing and bugging

602
00:35:52,608 --> 00:35:54,777
Democratic headquarters in Washington.

603
00:35:55,695 --> 00:36:01,659
[Sullivan] Nixon didn't like it
when there were leaks given to the press.

604
00:36:01,742 --> 00:36:03,452
You hire a plumber to stop a leak.

605
00:36:04,912 --> 00:36:07,957
[Dan] The so-called plumbers
were a highly skilled group

606
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,168
in the political dark arts,

607
00:36:10,251 --> 00:36:12,503
wiretapping, home break-ins,

608
00:36:12,587 --> 00:36:15,506
against personal enemies and beyond.

609
00:36:16,340 --> 00:36:18,551
The President's men also claim
that CBS News,

610
00:36:18,634 --> 00:36:21,679
in passing along
the allegations of others,

611
00:36:21,762 --> 00:36:25,308
is being politically unfair to Mr. Nixon
by spreading the smear.

612
00:36:26,267 --> 00:36:29,103
Nixon hated the press
and he thought the press hated him,

613
00:36:29,187 --> 00:36:33,149
but in the end,
Watergate was not the press at fault.

614
00:36:33,232 --> 00:36:35,776
They didn't invade Watergate. He did.

615
00:36:35,860 --> 00:36:37,945
…the strong America that I wanna build,

616
00:36:38,029 --> 00:36:42,825
people who do not want these things
naturally would exploit any issue,

617
00:36:42,909 --> 00:36:44,869
if it weren't Watergate, anything else,

618
00:36:44,952 --> 00:36:47,455
in order to keep the president
from doing his job.

619
00:36:48,122 --> 00:36:50,499
[Roberson] Politicians are there
to deliver their message

620
00:36:50,583 --> 00:36:54,337
and the media is there to tell people
if this message should be believed or not.

621
00:36:54,921 --> 00:36:58,299
What we're talking about here
is possible criminal acts

622
00:36:58,382 --> 00:37:00,635
by the highest ranking
White House officials.

623
00:37:01,344 --> 00:37:03,679
[Larry Doyle]
Well, there was tension in the news room

624
00:37:03,763 --> 00:37:05,848
because we knew we were under attack.

625
00:37:06,682 --> 00:37:12,480
But you know, all that did
was force us to hone our product.

626
00:37:13,105 --> 00:37:15,816
[Dan] The President's popularity rating
continued to drop.

627
00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:18,527
The House Judiciary Committee
began to consider impeachment.

628
00:37:18,611 --> 00:37:21,030
[Doyle] And Dan, more than anyone else,

629
00:37:21,113 --> 00:37:24,283
was the brunt of the pressure
that was being brought.

630
00:37:24,367 --> 00:37:29,288
The possibility of resigning
or being impeached

631
00:37:29,372 --> 00:37:32,833
and being tagged historically
as the man who led

632
00:37:32,917 --> 00:37:35,711
perhaps the most corrupt administration
in our history.

633
00:37:40,424 --> 00:37:41,300
[tape playing]

634
00:38:00,361 --> 00:38:04,782
I'm quite confident that
Nixon's plumbers group went after Dan.

635
00:38:05,783 --> 00:38:07,326
[Robin] Our house got burgled.

636
00:38:08,786 --> 00:38:09,787
My main memory of it

637
00:38:09,870 --> 00:38:14,166
is my dad standing with a shotgun
on the landing of the stairs,

638
00:38:14,250 --> 00:38:17,962
cocking the rifle
to try to scare these burglars away,

639
00:38:18,045 --> 00:38:19,297
which he did.

640
00:38:20,756 --> 00:38:22,258
They weren't stealing.

641
00:38:22,341 --> 00:38:25,011
They were opening safes,
they were looking for papers.

642
00:38:25,094 --> 00:38:26,971
They were looking for stuff
to burn my dad with

643
00:38:27,054 --> 00:38:28,514
and they didn't get it,

644
00:38:28,597 --> 00:38:30,558
but to me
it was just a really scary thing.

645
00:38:32,518 --> 00:38:35,021
Thank you, Mr. President.
Dan Rather with CBS News.

646
00:38:35,104 --> 00:38:37,773
[people applauding, booing]

647
00:38:39,483 --> 00:38:40,484
Mr. President…

648
00:38:42,278 --> 00:38:45,698
-[Nixon] Are you running for something?
-[laughter and applause]

649
00:38:55,041 --> 00:38:57,460
-No, sir, Mr. President. Are you?
-[laughter]

650
00:38:59,587 --> 00:39:03,257
It was kind of just a moment,
it was a funny repartee,

651
00:39:03,341 --> 00:39:08,471
but people really held onto that
as Dan taking on the president.

652
00:39:09,096 --> 00:39:12,391
How can the House
meet its constitutional responsibilities

653
00:39:13,100 --> 00:39:15,519
while you, the person under investigation,

654
00:39:15,603 --> 00:39:18,939
are allowed to limit
their access to potential evidence?

655
00:39:19,023 --> 00:39:21,817
I am suggesting
that the House follow the Constitution.

656
00:39:21,901 --> 00:39:23,194
If they do, I will.

657
00:39:24,111 --> 00:39:25,071
[applause]

658
00:39:25,988 --> 00:39:29,700
What people don't understand about
that exchange is actually the aftermath,

659
00:39:29,784 --> 00:39:33,120
because CBS got
a ton of heat from their affiliates.

660
00:39:33,204 --> 00:39:35,456
And so, my main memory from that time

661
00:39:35,539 --> 00:39:37,833
is actually hoping
he didn't get fired for it.

662
00:39:38,584 --> 00:39:43,047
But Dan relished the role.
You could feel it.

663
00:39:43,130 --> 00:39:47,218
He did gain respect, notoriety,

664
00:39:47,301 --> 00:39:51,722
and quite frankly,
the ire of the Nixon White House.

665
00:39:53,349 --> 00:39:55,601
The President's remark
that payment would be wrong

666
00:39:55,684 --> 00:39:58,729
seems to be
not during the discussion of hush money,

667
00:39:58,813 --> 00:40:01,148
but during one about clemency instead.

668
00:40:01,232 --> 00:40:03,609
He simply is
never going to look the same again

669
00:40:03,692 --> 00:40:06,529
to anyone who reads
these pages of private conversation.

670
00:40:09,031 --> 00:40:11,617
[Jim Murphy]
In the Founding Fathers' minds,

671
00:40:11,700 --> 00:40:14,537
the reason they thought
the fourth estate, the press,

672
00:40:14,620 --> 00:40:19,458
was such an important institution to be
part of the building blocks of democracy,

673
00:40:19,542 --> 00:40:23,587
is that they knew that there needed to be
an independent watchdog of government.

674
00:40:27,133 --> 00:40:29,969
[Nixon] In the past few days,
it has become evident to me

675
00:40:30,052 --> 00:40:34,682
that I no longer have a strong-enough
political base in the Congress.

676
00:40:35,349 --> 00:40:40,604
Therefore, I shall resign the presidency
effective at noon tomorrow.

677
00:40:47,611 --> 00:40:50,531
[Cronkite] Dan, this must be something
of an emotional moment for you.

678
00:40:50,614 --> 00:40:53,576
You have covered
the entire Nixon presidency

679
00:40:53,659 --> 00:40:57,413
and have been in the forefront
of some of the conflict

680
00:40:57,496 --> 00:40:59,748
between the press and the President.

681
00:40:59,832 --> 00:41:04,003
My own feelings are those of sadness,
no bitterness,

682
00:41:04,086 --> 00:41:07,840
and some exuberance
about the great American experiment

683
00:41:07,923 --> 00:41:11,218
showing that it's still strong
and healthy and viable, Walter.

684
00:41:13,679 --> 00:41:20,436
Many people in the Republican Party
held The Washington Post and CBS News

685
00:41:21,729 --> 00:41:26,901
as primarily responsible
for what happened to the Nixon presidency.

686
00:41:40,247 --> 00:41:42,625
When you cover a story like this

687
00:41:42,708 --> 00:41:47,129
and when you have emotional feelings
on all sides of the story,

688
00:41:48,088 --> 00:41:51,091
particularly those
who felt they have lost,

689
00:41:52,051 --> 00:41:53,511
they're gonna blame somebody.

690
00:41:55,304 --> 00:42:00,518
CBS News and myself
as the Chief White House Correspondent,

691
00:42:00,601 --> 00:42:02,603
had been under tremendous pressure.

692
00:42:03,938 --> 00:42:08,317
In that moment, what I was feeling was,

693
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,444
"We've been through a lot.
It's finally over.

694
00:42:11,779 --> 00:42:12,780
"Now what?"

695
00:42:20,246 --> 00:42:24,667
Things happened pretty quickly
after President Nixon resigned.

696
00:42:24,750 --> 00:42:28,837
CBS said they wanted me
to move from the White House.

697
00:42:28,921 --> 00:42:31,840
Mike Wallace asked me
to come to 60 Minutes.

698
00:42:31,924 --> 00:42:33,092
I'm Mike Wallace.

699
00:42:33,175 --> 00:42:34,343
I'm Morely Safer.

700
00:42:34,426 --> 00:42:35,678
I'm Dan Rather.

701
00:42:35,761 --> 00:42:39,181
In a moment, those stories and more
tonight on 60 Minutes.

702
00:42:39,265 --> 00:42:43,727
Moving to 60 Minutes
was a watershed moment.

703
00:42:43,811 --> 00:42:45,896
[Dan] The pace at 60 Minutes

704
00:42:45,980 --> 00:42:49,233
was immediately really rapid
and I loved that.

705
00:42:50,109 --> 00:42:52,611
It took off
and became a talk-about program.

706
00:42:52,695 --> 00:42:54,822
-[man] Take one.
-Whatever happened to the hippies?

707
00:42:54,905 --> 00:42:57,575
There's nothing new about prostitution
in Rock Springs.

708
00:42:57,658 --> 00:42:59,034
Indeed it's an old tradition here.

709
00:42:59,118 --> 00:43:02,454
If I asked you to grade yourself,
A through F, foreign policy.

710
00:43:02,538 --> 00:43:04,290
Dan, this is a little bit embarrassing.

711
00:43:04,373 --> 00:43:06,208
Will there be other elections soon?

712
00:43:06,292 --> 00:43:07,293
[In Spanish] Actually,
the elections went perfectly well.

713
00:43:10,296 --> 00:43:13,924
[Dan, in English] This is the scene
outside a New York disco called Studio 54.

714
00:43:14,675 --> 00:43:17,720
[Susan Zirinsky]
Oftentimes Dan was the one calling with,

715
00:43:17,803 --> 00:43:20,889
"Should we be doing this?"

716
00:43:20,973 --> 00:43:24,059
Little or nothing in the way of news
comes out of Afghanistan.

717
00:43:24,143 --> 00:43:26,478
So the only way to find out
what goes on there

718
00:43:26,562 --> 00:43:28,355
is to go in and see for yourself.

719
00:43:28,439 --> 00:43:31,900
I'm standing on the border
between Pakistan and Afghanistan,

720
00:43:31,984 --> 00:43:34,320
a border that is now closed
to most everyone

721
00:43:34,403 --> 00:43:36,739
except refugees
fleeing the Soviet invasion.

722
00:43:38,490 --> 00:43:40,909
[Stringer] He was told
not to go into Afghanistan

723
00:43:40,993 --> 00:43:43,662
because it was dangerous,
but he wanted to do it,

724
00:43:43,746 --> 00:43:45,581
with the possibility of never coming back.

725
00:43:45,664 --> 00:43:47,249
I mean, they knew he was coming.

726
00:43:48,792 --> 00:43:50,502
[Robin] I was in college then,

727
00:43:50,586 --> 00:43:53,255
and I literally thought
he wasn't gonna make it back.

728
00:43:53,339 --> 00:43:55,799
I went home to basically say good-bye.

729
00:43:56,842 --> 00:44:00,304
These Afghan clothes I'm wearing
were part of an operation to sneak me

730
00:44:00,387 --> 00:44:03,140
and a CBS News film crew into Afghanistan.

731
00:44:04,308 --> 00:44:07,770
[Tom Bettag] If there's a story
to be gotten, Dan's gonna get it.

732
00:44:07,853 --> 00:44:09,229
And if somebody thinks that

733
00:44:09,313 --> 00:44:11,899
he's dressed up
in a way that looks ridiculous,

734
00:44:11,982 --> 00:44:13,233
not gonna stop him.

735
00:44:13,984 --> 00:44:17,196
[Zirinsky] People made fun of Gunga Dan
and the clothing.

736
00:44:17,279 --> 00:44:21,367
But you know what?
He went and he reported.

737
00:44:21,450 --> 00:44:22,660
[indistinct shouting]

738
00:44:22,743 --> 00:44:25,204
[Dan] This is a training session
for new recruits.

739
00:44:25,287 --> 00:44:27,706
Afghans who have settled their families
in Pakistan

740
00:44:27,790 --> 00:44:30,125
and are now ready
to go back home and fight.

741
00:44:30,209 --> 00:44:33,170
[Brinkley] Television is about
ratings and money.

742
00:44:33,253 --> 00:44:36,340
It's an industry,
and 60 Minutes was dominant.

743
00:44:39,009 --> 00:44:40,969
[David Buksbaum] There is a theory at CBS

744
00:44:41,053 --> 00:44:44,348
that the worst thing to happen to CBS News
was 60 Minutes,

745
00:44:45,182 --> 00:44:48,227
because it proved you
can make money from news.

746
00:44:48,310 --> 00:44:49,311
Bullshit.

747
00:44:50,521 --> 00:44:57,528
I think 60 Minutes is the best thing
that happened to enhance the value of CBS.

748
00:44:58,821 --> 00:45:00,697
[theme music playing on TV]

749
00:45:00,781 --> 00:45:02,866
Television journalism, as you well know,

750
00:45:02,950 --> 00:45:06,620
has become show business
to a certain extent.

751
00:45:06,703 --> 00:45:09,706
The most important thing in news,
I think, for the long run,

752
00:45:09,790 --> 00:45:12,793
is the believability of the person
who's giving you the news.

753
00:45:12,876 --> 00:45:16,130
That's what Walter Cronkite has
going for him, tremendous believability.

754
00:45:16,213 --> 00:45:17,798
[Stringer] And Cronkite got ratings.

755
00:45:17,881 --> 00:45:21,301
Cronkite could read the phone book
and have an audience.

756
00:45:21,385 --> 00:45:24,304
[announcer]
CBS presents this program in color.

757
00:45:26,390 --> 00:45:30,978
This is my last broadcast as the anchorman
of the CBS Evening News.

758
00:45:31,061 --> 00:45:34,148
For me, it's a moment for which
I long have planned, but which…

759
00:45:34,231 --> 00:45:37,234
He was by far
the number-one news anchor on television,

760
00:45:37,317 --> 00:45:41,113
but he was also getting up in years,
so he accepted the retirement.

761
00:45:42,406 --> 00:45:47,077
Walter Cronkite was probably
the biggest shoes that you could ever fill

762
00:45:47,161 --> 00:45:49,371
in TV news.

763
00:45:50,289 --> 00:45:53,208
[Brinkley] Cronkite knew
what a great reporter Rather was,

764
00:45:53,292 --> 00:45:56,003
and was very comfortable
having him be his successor.

765
00:45:57,379 --> 00:46:00,966
[Dan] When I came to the anchor chair,
I wouldn't try to mislead anybody

766
00:46:01,049 --> 00:46:03,969
and I wouldn't be believable
if I did try to mislead them.

767
00:46:04,553 --> 00:46:05,721
It felt terrific.

768
00:46:08,474 --> 00:46:14,104
I felt in some ways I'd been preparing
for this moment most of my adult life.

769
00:46:15,772 --> 00:46:18,108
[man] You're gonna ask Leslie
two questions, probably?

770
00:46:18,192 --> 00:46:19,902
Three. I got an opening question,

771
00:46:19,985 --> 00:46:22,237
one interior question,
and a closed question.

772
00:46:22,321 --> 00:46:24,823
-The total thing is 1:30.
-Okay.

773
00:46:24,907 --> 00:46:28,243
If it runs any more than that,
it's Harry Caray time.

774
00:46:28,327 --> 00:46:29,411
-Okay.
-Okay?

775
00:46:31,788 --> 00:46:35,042
Cronkite's sign-off was,
"And that's the way it is."

776
00:46:35,125 --> 00:46:38,212
And that's the way it is.
Friday, March 6th, 1981.

777
00:46:38,295 --> 00:46:42,049
So Dan had to do a different kind of show
that played to his strengths.

778
00:46:42,132 --> 00:46:44,510
And he wanted to sign off
by saying, "Courage."

779
00:46:44,593 --> 00:46:47,095
Courage to everybody
who's laying pipeline,

780
00:46:47,179 --> 00:46:48,805
working on a railroad.

781
00:46:48,889 --> 00:46:51,433
48 Hours on Crack Street.

782
00:46:51,517 --> 00:46:54,311
Until then, Dan Rather. Courage.

783
00:46:54,394 --> 00:46:57,898
And the network execs
were just absolutely not having it.

784
00:46:58,732 --> 00:47:01,109
[Murphy] A guy walks into Dan's office
and says,

785
00:47:01,193 --> 00:47:04,446
"Dan, why are you signing off
with 'Courage'?"

786
00:47:04,530 --> 00:47:05,864
And Dan said to him,

787
00:47:05,948 --> 00:47:09,117
"Because it's my favorite word
and it means something to me."

788
00:47:09,618 --> 00:47:13,997
And the guy said to Dan,
"Dan, my favorite word is bullshit,

789
00:47:14,081 --> 00:47:15,999
"and you can't say it on TV, okay?"

790
00:47:16,667 --> 00:47:18,126
[man] Sound up. Mic. Cue.

791
00:47:18,210 --> 00:47:20,045
Good evening,
this is the CBS Evening News.

792
00:47:20,128 --> 00:47:22,089
[Stringer] We had to get through
a transition.

793
00:47:22,172 --> 00:47:25,968
Dan was so attractive
and sharp in the suit and so forth,

794
00:47:26,051 --> 00:47:29,763
and following Walter, who was much more
a crumpled star, in a way,

795
00:47:30,764 --> 00:47:33,517
there was an idea
that we should put him in a sweater.

796
00:47:34,518 --> 00:47:37,187
-Have you seen the ratings lately?
-No, I haven't.

797
00:47:37,980 --> 00:47:40,232
You're doing okay. They like the sweater,

798
00:47:40,315 --> 00:47:44,528
but it still doesn't quite say "CBS News"
to me, I don't know…

799
00:47:44,611 --> 00:47:46,572
He had skirmishes like that

800
00:47:46,655 --> 00:47:49,324
between what upper management
thought he should be as an anchor

801
00:47:49,408 --> 00:47:53,203
and what he really was as an anchor,
which was really a reporter.

802
00:47:53,287 --> 00:47:54,621
[Dan] Petroleum refining?

803
00:47:56,039 --> 00:47:58,041
-[speaking indistinctly]
-I'm sorry, I do have it.

804
00:47:58,125 --> 00:47:59,084
[Dan] Please.

805
00:47:59,167 --> 00:48:01,795
[Cohen]
I was a 22-year-old desk assistant.

806
00:48:01,878 --> 00:48:03,880
He would always say hello to everyone.

807
00:48:03,964 --> 00:48:06,466
"Hello. Hello. How are you?

808
00:48:07,134 --> 00:48:08,468
"Hello. How are you?"

809
00:48:08,552 --> 00:48:11,513
You know, very intense
in his broadcaster voice.

810
00:48:11,597 --> 00:48:15,183
He's a big man, he's larger than life.

811
00:48:15,267 --> 00:48:17,978
He's got a huge head, big face.

812
00:48:18,061 --> 00:48:20,522
Quadruple checking.
It's not that I doubt McManus,

813
00:48:20,606 --> 00:48:23,025
but you know,
trust your mother, but check it out.

814
00:48:23,108 --> 00:48:24,192
[man] Five minutes.

815
00:48:24,276 --> 00:48:27,195
My grandmother thought Dan Rather was just

816
00:48:28,196 --> 00:48:29,615
[kisses] perfection.

817
00:48:29,698 --> 00:48:33,076
Keep it warm and friendly.
Think warm and friendly.

818
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:36,663
[apathetically] I believe I can
manage that without any problem at all.

819
00:48:36,747 --> 00:48:37,789
[canned laughter]

820
00:48:37,873 --> 00:48:38,957
All right. Quiet!

821
00:48:39,041 --> 00:48:40,417
-Can you do it?
-Do it!

822
00:48:40,500 --> 00:48:42,544
And that's the way it is.

823
00:48:42,628 --> 00:48:45,047
Nobody can be another Walter Cronkite.

824
00:48:45,130 --> 00:48:47,883
It would be a mistake
to try to be Walter Cronkite.

825
00:48:47,966 --> 00:48:51,470
I better be
the best Dan Rather I could be.

826
00:48:51,553 --> 00:48:53,388
Good evening.
This is the CBS Evening News.

827
00:48:53,472 --> 00:48:54,348
Dan Rather reporting.

828
00:48:54,431 --> 00:48:56,558
Good evening.
The fate of Korean Airlines flight 007…

829
00:48:56,642 --> 00:48:59,686
Good evening.
I'm Tom Brokaw with NBC Nightly News.

830
00:48:59,770 --> 00:49:03,190
[Cohen] That was the age of the anchorman.

831
00:49:03,273 --> 00:49:05,275
It was like Mount Rushmore,

832
00:49:05,359 --> 00:49:09,154
and Dan Rather was in front
and then there was Brokaw and Jennings.

833
00:49:11,365 --> 00:49:14,409
[Bettag] Peter Jennings,
Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather

834
00:49:14,493 --> 00:49:19,831
existed at a time when
three broadcasts dominated the airwaves,

835
00:49:19,915 --> 00:49:24,544
at a time when
the nation could agree on the facts.

836
00:49:25,545 --> 00:49:32,386
[Nelson] It was 45 million people a night
for ABC, CBS, and NBC.

837
00:49:33,220 --> 00:49:34,888
It's not Super Bowl, but it's damn close.

838
00:49:37,599 --> 00:49:43,146
You're constantly inhaling
NASA-grade rocket fuel for the ego.

839
00:49:43,230 --> 00:49:46,274
How do we make ours better
than either one of the other two?

840
00:49:46,358 --> 00:49:50,404
[Robin] He really respected them.
They really respected him back.

841
00:49:50,487 --> 00:49:52,572
But it was a game of who's scooping who.

842
00:49:53,532 --> 00:49:56,868
[Dan] Okay. Okay.
All right. Well let's go.

843
00:49:57,619 --> 00:50:00,956
-Okay, I'll meet you right down there.
-Bill is coming with my bag.

844
00:50:01,039 --> 00:50:04,584
It may be delayed a second or so.
Shall I meet you back down here?

845
00:50:04,668 --> 00:50:08,171
[Bettag] Dan's instinct
every time there's a story,

846
00:50:08,255 --> 00:50:10,632
it's, "Let's get on a plane and go there

847
00:50:10,716 --> 00:50:14,136
"and let's do the broadcast
from the place of the story."

848
00:50:14,219 --> 00:50:20,559
And Jennings and Brokaw always felt
that we were too quick to move out,

849
00:50:20,642 --> 00:50:23,645
that we went to stories
that weren't that important.

850
00:50:24,354 --> 00:50:27,357
George Bush at that time
was gonna make a quick trip

851
00:50:27,441 --> 00:50:29,860
to Beijing on the weekend.

852
00:50:29,943 --> 00:50:32,821
Brokaw and Jennings said, "No way."

853
00:50:32,904 --> 00:50:37,284
And we walked away
with a big smile on our face

854
00:50:37,367 --> 00:50:40,954
and said, "This is just going to be big."

855
00:50:43,874 --> 00:50:46,376
-[man speaking other language]
-[in English] Okay.

856
00:50:46,460 --> 00:50:47,502
You ready, Jorgen?

857
00:50:48,128 --> 00:50:49,546
Day four of the student strike.

858
00:50:49,629 --> 00:50:52,007
Day four
for the 3,000 or so hunger strikers…

859
00:50:52,090 --> 00:50:56,094
[Bettag] And while we were there,
it became patently clear

860
00:50:56,178 --> 00:50:59,264
that the Chinese students
were going to try an uprising.

861
00:50:59,347 --> 00:51:02,476
In the middle of all of this
is the hospital tent

862
00:51:02,559 --> 00:51:04,186
which handles the worst cases.

863
00:51:04,269 --> 00:51:07,814
-This is day four of the student sit-in.
-[siren wailing]

864
00:51:07,898 --> 00:51:09,816
Day four of the hunger strike.

865
00:51:09,900 --> 00:51:13,320
The sound of ambulances
is almost everywhere because they do lose…

866
00:51:13,403 --> 00:51:17,991
As soon as the uprising began,
the Chinese shut the doors.

867
00:51:18,867 --> 00:51:23,371
Brokaw and Jennings
at that point could not get in,

868
00:51:23,455 --> 00:51:26,666
and we had the story
completely to ourselves.

869
00:51:28,710 --> 00:51:33,465
There was this new fantastic device
called a video camera.

870
00:51:34,299 --> 00:51:38,094
It's just past midnight Beijing time now,
under a full moon…

871
00:51:38,178 --> 00:51:39,679
[Nelson] A television network,

872
00:51:39,763 --> 00:51:43,099
if they were willing to spend the money
could cover the world.

873
00:51:43,725 --> 00:51:44,810
[Dan] Hunger strikers had

874
00:51:44,893 --> 00:51:47,646
what may be their last meeting
before the army moves in.

875
00:51:47,729 --> 00:51:50,190
[Nelson] There's instantaneous news.

876
00:51:53,109 --> 00:51:57,113
[Bettag] Eventually
our live broadcasts from Beijing

877
00:51:57,197 --> 00:51:58,782
were getting so much attention,

878
00:52:00,158 --> 00:52:03,370
the Chinese government made the decision,

879
00:52:03,453 --> 00:52:07,999
"We will not allow you
to use our satellites to broadcast."

880
00:52:08,083 --> 00:52:10,502
[reporter] Shortly before midnight,
Eastern Time,

881
00:52:10,585 --> 00:52:13,338
Rather made one last effort
to keep broadcasting.

882
00:52:13,421 --> 00:52:16,091
I do protest
in the most respectful manner.

883
00:52:16,174 --> 00:52:18,343
[reporter] But the Chinese
had finally had enough.

884
00:52:18,426 --> 00:52:22,305
There would be no more live coverage.
The satellite was being shut off.

885
00:52:22,389 --> 00:52:23,473
[static beeping]

886
00:52:25,892 --> 00:52:29,354
[Bettag] It was a huge moment both for us,

887
00:52:29,437 --> 00:52:32,315
and a black eye
for the Chinese government.

888
00:52:34,192 --> 00:52:39,447
It was amazing to be with Dan
at moments of historic significance.

889
00:52:40,031 --> 00:52:43,618
[Dan] The Berlin Wall.
Once, it divided East from West.

890
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:47,122
[Zirinsky] Because he understood
the value of it,

891
00:52:47,205 --> 00:52:50,250
and he also understood
the responsibility of it.

892
00:52:50,333 --> 00:52:52,836
If you were here,
the feeling that you would feel

893
00:52:52,919 --> 00:52:56,840
is a kind of combination
of 4th of July and Thanksgiving Day.

894
00:52:56,923 --> 00:53:01,678
He was so open to doing what was required.

895
00:53:01,761 --> 00:53:06,516
He was as much a producer
as the producer traveling with him.

896
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:08,935
[Stringer] He'd say,
"What do we do? Where do we go?"

897
00:53:09,019 --> 00:53:10,562
How far we could push it.

898
00:53:10,645 --> 00:53:12,689
And he'd be the first out the door.

899
00:53:12,772 --> 00:53:15,942
You know how he'd travel
with some gold sewn into his clothes

900
00:53:16,026 --> 00:53:17,569
so he had emergency funds.

901
00:53:18,153 --> 00:53:21,072
He looked at his work
like you were in a battle.

902
00:53:21,197 --> 00:53:22,824
[Dan] Scattered gunshots were heard

903
00:53:22,908 --> 00:53:25,118
as the Marines moved
and secured the seaport.

904
00:53:25,201 --> 00:53:27,370
Airport terminal building, Mogadishu.

905
00:53:27,454 --> 00:53:30,081
Out there in the darkness, US Navy SEALs…

906
00:53:30,165 --> 00:53:35,128
[Bettag] There is a bond that comes
on people working on a broadcast,

907
00:53:35,211 --> 00:53:39,591
not unlike soldiers
fighting in the field together.

908
00:53:39,674 --> 00:53:42,218
You depend upon one another.

909
00:53:43,845 --> 00:53:45,680
He truly believed that

910
00:53:45,764 --> 00:53:50,143
he could tell the story
better than anyone else.

911
00:53:51,061 --> 00:53:55,857
[Doyle] He knew the politics.
His preparation gave us,

912
00:53:55,941 --> 00:53:58,693
the grunts who worked with him,
a lot of confidence.

913
00:54:00,236 --> 00:54:02,447
You know,
reporters get paid to be skeptical.

914
00:54:03,323 --> 00:54:04,783
[man] Here we go. Quiet down.

915
00:54:06,159 --> 00:54:09,913
[Nelson] It didn't matter
what Dan Rather reported on,

916
00:54:09,996 --> 00:54:12,916
he was going to be labeled a liberal,

917
00:54:12,999 --> 00:54:18,713
and oftentimes it came from people
who just didn't want to hear the truth.

918
00:54:19,464 --> 00:54:21,132
The real threat to freedom,

919
00:54:21,216 --> 00:54:23,635
the real threat to freedom of speech,

920
00:54:23,718 --> 00:54:26,096
and the real threat
to our constitutional system

921
00:54:26,179 --> 00:54:27,931
is on our TV screens every evening

922
00:54:28,014 --> 00:54:30,600
and on the front pages
of our newspapers every day.

923
00:54:31,977 --> 00:54:34,521
[Murphy] The press has always had
an adversarial relationship

924
00:54:34,604 --> 00:54:36,982
with the government
because that's part of their job,

925
00:54:37,065 --> 00:54:39,067
and what the Founding Fathers wanted.

926
00:54:39,150 --> 00:54:42,278
Is it as strong as we thought
it was gonna be in terms of its content?

927
00:54:42,362 --> 00:54:43,989
Yes, yes. It is. It's very strong.

928
00:54:44,072 --> 00:54:46,241
[Brinkley]
Everything started coming unglued

929
00:54:46,324 --> 00:54:48,493
with the rise of Ronald Reagan.

930
00:54:48,576 --> 00:54:51,204
Reagan is all about deregulating,

931
00:54:51,287 --> 00:54:55,667
and cable turns out to be
the friend of the right

932
00:54:55,750 --> 00:55:00,213
because they're able to create
constituency television.

933
00:55:00,964 --> 00:55:07,595
The only way to really stop what we see as
a slide towards liberalism in this country

934
00:55:07,679 --> 00:55:11,683
is to bring an end to the bias,

935
00:55:11,766 --> 00:55:13,727
the liberal bias
that exists in the major media.

936
00:55:13,810 --> 00:55:17,022
Today, Helms spoke of journalists
who he said have

937
00:55:17,105 --> 00:55:20,442
"forgotten the God
that the rest of us believed blessed us."

938
00:55:20,525 --> 00:55:26,031
And "if they do not hate America,
have smug contempt for American ideals."

939
00:55:26,114 --> 00:55:27,282
End of quote.

940
00:55:27,365 --> 00:55:28,825
This one is Dan Rather.

941
00:55:29,451 --> 00:55:30,994
[crowd laughing]

942
00:55:31,077 --> 00:55:34,873
If it looked like
the right wing was out to get Dan Rather,

943
00:55:34,956 --> 00:55:36,666
you were right, they were.

944
00:55:36,750 --> 00:55:38,209
And they still are.

945
00:55:38,293 --> 00:55:41,796
[reporter] Republican Senator Jesse Helms
wants to take over CBS.

946
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:43,923
He says if one million Conservatives

947
00:55:44,007 --> 00:55:46,760
each buys 20 shares
in the broadcast network,

948
00:55:46,843 --> 00:55:50,430
they can take it over
and "become Dan Rather's boss."

949
00:55:50,513 --> 00:55:54,225
It seems Jesse Helms feels
CBS is the most anti-Reagan network,

950
00:55:54,309 --> 00:55:55,393
and by taking it over

951
00:55:55,477 --> 00:55:58,521
Conservatives can end
what they feel is biased reporting.

952
00:55:59,856 --> 00:56:03,193
The fact that Dan Rather
is located by some people

953
00:56:03,276 --> 00:56:05,361
as a uniquely malevolent figure

954
00:56:05,445 --> 00:56:08,364
is merely evidence
that he has done his job.

955
00:56:08,448 --> 00:56:09,949
[Dan] 0%.

956
00:56:10,033 --> 00:56:14,079
0% said they thought
that you cared a great deal

957
00:56:14,162 --> 00:56:15,997
about the needs and problems of the poor.

958
00:56:16,081 --> 00:56:19,000
Now, let's set aside
what you've done or have not done.

959
00:56:19,084 --> 00:56:21,419
Do you think that you need to do something

960
00:56:21,503 --> 00:56:24,714
that Blacks will perceive
as being positive for them?

961
00:56:26,299 --> 00:56:30,470
[sighs] I don't know
whether they would hear about it.

962
00:56:31,054 --> 00:56:34,474
I think we have been doing things
that are positive for them.

963
00:56:34,557 --> 00:56:36,476
[Samantha Bee] A good journalist to me

964
00:56:36,559 --> 00:56:40,522
is willing to be very unliked
and unpopular in the moment

965
00:56:40,605 --> 00:56:43,191
and willing to be hated.

966
00:56:43,733 --> 00:56:45,193
If you're gonna be in journalism

967
00:56:45,276 --> 00:56:47,487
and you wanna be loved,
you better get a dog.

968
00:56:54,661 --> 00:56:56,454
"Kenneth, what's the frequency?"

969
00:56:56,538 --> 00:56:59,332
Those strange, unexplained words
may hold the clue

970
00:56:59,415 --> 00:57:04,671
to the identities of two well-dressed men
who attacked CBS newscaster Dan Rather.

971
00:57:04,754 --> 00:57:07,882
As Rather began walking south
down Park Avenue,

972
00:57:07,966 --> 00:57:12,387
he said two well-dressed men in dark suits
and white shirts approached him.

973
00:57:12,470 --> 00:57:16,099
According to police, one of the men said,
"Kenneth, what is the frequency?"

974
00:57:16,182 --> 00:57:19,060
When Rather replied,
"You have the wrong guy,"

975
00:57:19,144 --> 00:57:21,771
Rather said one of the men
punched him in the head,

976
00:57:21,855 --> 00:57:24,649
knocked him to the ground
and kicked him repeatedly.

977
00:57:27,110 --> 00:57:30,113
[Stringer] Everybody who disliked Dan
for whatever reason,

978
00:57:30,196 --> 00:57:33,700
particularly politicians,
didn't believe the story.

979
00:57:34,576 --> 00:57:36,453
[Magee Hickey]
The motive remains a mystery.

980
00:57:36,536 --> 00:57:39,038
It doesn't appear to have been
a robbery attempt,

981
00:57:39,122 --> 00:57:42,000
and police say it may have been
just a case of mistaken identity.

982
00:57:42,083 --> 00:57:45,420
Meanwhile, they're still searching
for Dan Rather's attackers.

983
00:57:45,503 --> 00:57:49,883
People thought that
he faked his own assault?

984
00:57:50,467 --> 00:57:51,634
Dan Rather?

985
00:57:52,719 --> 00:57:54,220
Straight-arrow Dan Rather?

986
00:57:54,929 --> 00:57:57,307
[Cohen] The What's-the-Frequency guy
got caught.

987
00:57:57,390 --> 00:58:01,019
He was a real person,
and he was a real dangerous person.

988
00:58:01,102 --> 00:58:03,646
He killed someone at the Today show.

989
00:58:03,730 --> 00:58:06,941
[reporter] Tager is charged with pumping
the bullets into Theron's body

990
00:58:07,025 --> 00:58:09,611
outside of the Today show studios
Wednesday…

991
00:58:09,694 --> 00:58:11,112
People thought it was funny.

992
00:58:11,196 --> 00:58:13,448
It wasn't funny. He… he nearly died.

993
00:58:13,531 --> 00:58:16,367
He has injuries to this day
from that assault.

994
00:58:16,993 --> 00:58:20,455
My dad could have easily lost his life
and got beaten within an inch of it.

995
00:58:21,164 --> 00:58:24,834
But a couple years later,
R.E.M. made a really great song out of it.

996
00:58:24,918 --> 00:58:26,920
[rock music playing]

997
00:58:32,967 --> 00:58:35,094
One, two, three, four.

998
00:58:35,595 --> 00:58:37,597
♪ What's the frequency, Kenneth? ♪

999
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:40,141
[Robin] And my dad can't dance or sing
worth a flip

1000
00:58:40,225 --> 00:58:42,602
but somehow he went and sang with R.E.M.

1001
00:58:42,685 --> 00:58:45,813
And it's one of the geekiest,
most embarrassing clips

1002
00:58:45,897 --> 00:58:49,067
my dad has ever done, but he's hilarious.

1003
00:58:49,150 --> 00:58:51,152
He's a really fun dad.

1004
00:58:52,237 --> 00:58:55,782
A leading psychologist says
that Dan Rather is troubled,

1005
00:58:55,865 --> 00:58:58,451
but David Turkat
of the media psychology newsletter

1006
00:58:58,535 --> 00:59:01,996
says that exactly what is troubling him,
only he knows.

1007
00:59:03,248 --> 00:59:07,502
There was a school of people
who thought Dan was a little nuts,

1008
00:59:07,585 --> 00:59:09,629
that he was gonna crack on the air.

1009
00:59:09,712 --> 00:59:13,758
He was considered to be intense,

1010
00:59:13,841 --> 00:59:15,843
maybe divisive,

1011
00:59:15,927 --> 00:59:19,556
and maybe frankly a little off.

1012
00:59:19,639 --> 00:59:21,641
-♪ Uh-huh ♪
-[Dan mouthing along]

1013
00:59:21,724 --> 00:59:22,934
Whoo!

1014
00:59:24,435 --> 00:59:26,813
[Stringer] When you're anchorman,
you have to be thoughtful

1015
00:59:26,896 --> 00:59:28,398
and careful about what you say

1016
00:59:28,481 --> 00:59:31,776
because you represent the institution,
CBS News,

1017
00:59:31,859 --> 00:59:33,403
and you're talking to the nation.

1018
00:59:33,486 --> 00:59:35,655
So, in some ways he was a chained tiger

1019
00:59:35,738 --> 00:59:38,074
and occasionally
he'd get into trouble for it.

1020
00:59:42,870 --> 00:59:47,417
There was a sports overrun in Miami
that would push the Evening News

1021
00:59:47,500 --> 00:59:49,460
maybe even off the air in the East Coast.

1022
00:59:49,544 --> 00:59:52,589
[reporter] Rather was told
the Steffi Graf-Lori McNeil tennis match

1023
00:59:52,672 --> 00:59:55,508
would run late,
delaying the start of his newscast.

1024
00:59:55,592 --> 00:59:59,095
Rather reported to be angry
about the late start, called New York,

1025
00:59:59,178 --> 01:00:01,764
and when the tennis match finally ended,

1026
01:00:01,848 --> 01:00:05,435
instead of Rather news,
affiliates received nothing.

1027
01:00:05,518 --> 01:00:06,436
Black.

1028
01:00:06,978 --> 01:00:08,771
Dan was not in the chair.

1029
01:00:08,855 --> 01:00:12,692
And that was the wrong thing to do.

1030
01:00:12,775 --> 01:00:14,819
Some network affiliate executives say

1031
01:00:14,902 --> 01:00:19,157
that Rather was trying to make a point
that the news should have gone on on time,

1032
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:21,200
and that he was acting like a prima donna.

1033
01:00:21,284 --> 01:00:23,202
I think he was angry.

1034
01:00:23,286 --> 01:00:25,330
[reporter] Do you see this
as a general drift

1035
01:00:25,413 --> 01:00:27,457
of entertainment versus the news?

1036
01:00:27,540 --> 01:00:30,251
Of course I do,
because that's where the money is.

1037
01:00:30,335 --> 01:00:35,006
You can have a stellar career,
but there can be mistakes.

1038
01:00:37,216 --> 01:00:38,718
Okay. I do.

1039
01:00:38,801 --> 01:00:40,928
We need to raise the audio,
just a little low.

1040
01:00:41,012 --> 01:00:43,389
[man] 10 seconds. Open up, Dan, full 9.

1041
01:00:43,931 --> 01:00:47,518
Eight, seven, six, five…

1042
01:00:47,602 --> 01:00:50,021
The climax of this convention
comes tomorrow night.

1043
01:00:50,104 --> 01:00:52,357
George Bush will deliver
his acceptance speech

1044
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:55,151
to delegates here
and to a national TV audience.

1045
01:00:55,234 --> 01:00:57,528
His political career on the line.

1046
01:00:57,612 --> 01:01:01,199
Early on, one of the senior producers

1047
01:01:01,282 --> 01:01:05,453
had written a letter
asking for a general interview

1048
01:01:05,536 --> 01:01:08,581
that we asked all of the candidates to do.

1049
01:01:08,665 --> 01:01:11,709
Many felt, rightly or wrongly,
that Vice President Bush

1050
01:01:11,793 --> 01:01:14,379
is hiding information
that the public ought to know.

1051
01:01:14,462 --> 01:01:19,175
[Bettag] The Iran-Contra scandal
was very much in the air.

1052
01:01:19,258 --> 01:01:21,219
We really like what we've got.

1053
01:01:21,302 --> 01:01:24,097
Saying arms have been traded for hostages.

1054
01:01:24,180 --> 01:01:26,224
-To the mad Iranians.
-To the Iranians.

1055
01:01:26,307 --> 01:01:29,352
And the White House saying,
"Absolutely no way."

1056
01:01:29,435 --> 01:01:32,689
[Bettag] The question was,
what was Bush's role in this?

1057
01:01:32,772 --> 01:01:36,442
Which at that point he was saying,
"I didn't have anything to do with it."

1058
01:01:36,526 --> 01:01:41,656
The question about arms for hostages
has been answered over and over again.

1059
01:01:41,739 --> 01:01:46,327
[Bettag] Roger Ailes,
who was an advisor to Bush,

1060
01:01:46,411 --> 01:01:48,955
agreed to a live interview.

1061
01:01:49,038 --> 01:01:54,293
And the problem in a live interview
is that the clock is running out on you.

1062
01:01:54,377 --> 01:01:56,379
Mr. Vice President,
thank you for being with us.

1063
01:01:56,462 --> 01:01:58,840
Donald Gregg still serves
as your trusted advisor.

1064
01:01:58,923 --> 01:02:01,050
He was deeply involved
in running arms for the Contras

1065
01:02:01,134 --> 01:02:02,677
and he didn't inform you.

1066
01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:06,264
Why is Mr. Gregg still in the White House
and still a trusted advisor?

1067
01:02:06,347 --> 01:02:08,182
Because I have confidence in him,

1068
01:02:08,266 --> 01:02:12,145
and because this matter, Dan,
as you well know, and your editors know,

1069
01:02:12,228 --> 01:02:15,732
has been looked at
by the $10-million study

1070
01:02:15,815 --> 01:02:17,275
by the Senate and the House.

1071
01:02:17,358 --> 01:02:21,946
[Bettag] And Roger Ailes,
then advising Bush,

1072
01:02:22,029 --> 01:02:27,577
saw an opening in which
Bush could be the tough guy by saying,

1073
01:02:27,660 --> 01:02:29,620
"You asked me for a general interview."

1074
01:02:30,580 --> 01:02:33,583
Now if this is a political profile
for an election,

1075
01:02:33,666 --> 01:02:36,627
I have a very different opinion
as to what one should be.

1076
01:02:36,711 --> 01:02:39,756
You said that if you had known
this was an arms-for-hostages swap,

1077
01:02:39,839 --> 01:02:41,340
that you would've opposed it.

1078
01:02:41,424 --> 01:02:43,801
-Exactly.
-You also said that you did not know--

1079
01:02:43,885 --> 01:02:46,721
-May I answer that?
-It wasn't a question. It was a statement.

1080
01:02:46,804 --> 01:02:48,181
A statement, and I'll answer it.

1081
01:02:48,264 --> 01:02:50,391
[Nelson] What nobody saw at home was that

1082
01:02:50,475 --> 01:02:53,936
Roger Ailes was holding up cue cards
for George Bush

1083
01:02:54,020 --> 01:02:56,147
and giving him the answers.

1084
01:02:57,940 --> 01:03:04,655
Roger Ailes was a master at manipulation
and creating scenes.

1085
01:03:04,739 --> 01:03:06,824
Did Dan fall into the trap? Yeah.

1086
01:03:06,908 --> 01:03:09,327
[Dan] You set the rules
for this talk here.

1087
01:03:09,410 --> 01:03:12,497
I didn't mean to step on your line,
but you insisted that this be live,

1088
01:03:12,580 --> 01:03:14,415
and you know we have
a limited amount of time.

1089
01:03:14,499 --> 01:03:16,793
[Bettag] I am in the control room.

1090
01:03:16,876 --> 01:03:20,880
When it gets that intense,
Dan can't listen to me.

1091
01:03:20,963 --> 01:03:24,300
So all I'm doing is saying,
"Three minutes."

1092
01:03:24,383 --> 01:03:25,760
May I explain out of the loop?

1093
01:03:25,843 --> 01:03:28,095
No operational role. Go ahead.

1094
01:03:28,179 --> 01:03:30,765
You said if you knew
it was an arms-for-hostages swap,

1095
01:03:30,848 --> 01:03:32,809
you'd oppose it.
You said the first you knew…

1096
01:03:32,892 --> 01:03:37,980
Four minutes within a broadcast
that has only 22 minutes of air time.

1097
01:03:38,064 --> 01:03:41,526
We can't go any further than six minutes.

1098
01:03:41,609 --> 01:03:42,568
…what they were doing.

1099
01:03:42,652 --> 01:03:47,198
How can you reconcile you were there
on three separate occasions…

1100
01:03:47,281 --> 01:03:49,450
[Stringer] I wasn't in the studio that day

1101
01:03:50,284 --> 01:03:54,163
and I came back
and I knew the impact it was gonna have.

1102
01:03:54,247 --> 01:03:57,416
-I expressed my concerns and reservations.
-That you can't remember it.

1103
01:03:57,500 --> 01:04:00,628
-Others say he was apoplectic.
-Maybe I wasn't there at that point.

1104
01:04:00,711 --> 01:04:03,631
[Zirinsky] Lesley Stahl and I
are in Iowa for the primary.

1105
01:04:03,714 --> 01:04:06,509
We're in the back room
and we're sitting there watching it,

1106
01:04:06,592 --> 01:04:10,429
and we're holding onto each other
like we were watching a horror film

1107
01:04:10,513 --> 01:04:12,640
'cause we thought it was really bad.

1108
01:04:13,224 --> 01:04:16,894
It's not fair to judge my whole career
by a rehash on Iran.

1109
01:04:16,978 --> 01:04:19,188
How would you like it
if I judged your career

1110
01:04:19,272 --> 01:04:21,941
by those seven minutes
when you walked off the set in New York?

1111
01:04:22,024 --> 01:04:23,025
Mr. Vice President--

1112
01:04:23,109 --> 01:04:25,570
I respect you
but not for what you're doing tonight.

1113
01:04:25,653 --> 01:04:28,281
Six minutes, I'm saying, "Cut."

1114
01:04:28,364 --> 01:04:30,408
Iran was officially a terrorist state.

1115
01:04:30,491 --> 01:04:32,410
"You've gotta stop. You've gotta stop."

1116
01:04:32,493 --> 01:04:36,122
[Dan] Are you willing to go to
a news conference before Iowa caucuses,

1117
01:04:36,205 --> 01:04:39,500
-answer questions from all--
-Been to 86 news conferences since March.

1118
01:04:39,584 --> 01:04:41,669
-86 since March.
-I gather that the answer is "no."

1119
01:04:41,752 --> 01:04:44,297
Thank you very much for being with us,
Mr. Vice President.

1120
01:04:44,881 --> 01:04:46,966
We'll be back with more news in a moment.

1121
01:04:48,259 --> 01:04:49,760
Good morning. Good morning.

1122
01:04:50,803 --> 01:04:53,514
We don't misrepresent.
We come straight at people.

1123
01:04:54,181 --> 01:04:56,183
That's my record and my history,

1124
01:04:56,267 --> 01:04:58,477
and that's CBS News's record
and its history.

1125
01:04:58,561 --> 01:04:59,478
Clearly understand…

1126
01:04:59,562 --> 01:05:01,480
[Stringer] That's Dan unchained,

1127
01:05:01,564 --> 01:05:04,066
and I knew
Dan was going to get in trouble for it.

1128
01:05:04,734 --> 01:05:06,611
As a flaming executive,

1129
01:05:06,694 --> 01:05:09,363
I knew I was gonna have to deal
with the consequences.

1130
01:05:09,447 --> 01:05:11,991
It was an important… very important issue

1131
01:05:12,074 --> 01:05:15,661
which Dan Rather pursued
characteristically with energy.

1132
01:05:15,745 --> 01:05:17,455
That's what Dan does for a living,

1133
01:05:17,538 --> 01:05:20,583
that's what a great reporter does
for a living.

1134
01:05:20,666 --> 01:05:23,127
[Zirinsky] I called a couple people
in New York

1135
01:05:23,210 --> 01:05:29,133
and they were thrilled with it,
and I was horrified.

1136
01:05:29,216 --> 01:05:31,302
We promoted all weekend long on our air,

1137
01:05:31,385 --> 01:05:34,639
an interview with the Vice President
on the Iran-Contra Affair.

1138
01:05:34,722 --> 01:05:36,557
It was in the morning papers

1139
01:05:36,641 --> 01:05:39,685
and why the Vice President
didn't understand that, we don't know.

1140
01:05:39,769 --> 01:05:44,857
The headlines the next day were exactly
what Roger Ailes and Bush wanted,

1141
01:05:44,941 --> 01:05:48,986
that "Rather bushwhacks
the Vice President."

1142
01:05:49,070 --> 01:05:51,989
[reporter] The Bush people say
he was bushwhacked.

1143
01:05:53,032 --> 01:05:56,994
Well, maybe they were interested
in the alliteration more than the reality.

1144
01:05:57,078 --> 01:06:01,916
[Bettag] It made Dan Rather
a central character in that election.

1145
01:06:02,541 --> 01:06:05,628
Good evening. A heated exchange
between Vice President George Bush

1146
01:06:05,711 --> 01:06:07,964
and CBS anchor Dan Rather
about the Vice President's…

1147
01:06:08,047 --> 01:06:09,674
[man 1] Morning. Rather's a jerk.

1148
01:06:09,757 --> 01:06:12,259
[Bond] This lady thinks
Rather's ears should be pinned back,

1149
01:06:12,343 --> 01:06:15,012
and if the Vice President
can stand up to him, he can to anybody.

1150
01:06:15,096 --> 01:06:19,642
[man 2] I think George Bush has decided
that press bashing is a blood sport.

1151
01:06:19,725 --> 01:06:22,395
He picked out Dan Rather last night
and had a shot at him.

1152
01:06:22,478 --> 01:06:26,190
[Dan] My job is to ask honest questions
and try to get honest answers,

1153
01:06:26,273 --> 01:06:27,817
and I'm comfortable with that.

1154
01:06:27,900 --> 01:06:30,528
It's not always comfortable
for everybody involved,

1155
01:06:30,611 --> 01:06:32,154
but I'm comfortable being a reporter.

1156
01:06:32,238 --> 01:06:34,073
I'm lucky to have this job.
I like it a lot.

1157
01:06:34,156 --> 01:06:37,118
-I wanna get to it. Thanks.
-[reporters clamoring]

1158
01:06:37,201 --> 01:06:40,246
-Thanks a lot.
-If you'll let us get to work.

1159
01:06:40,329 --> 01:06:42,748
[Stringer] People'd say,
"Why is he always in the news?"

1160
01:06:42,832 --> 01:06:44,917
That's the dangerous thing
about publicity.

1161
01:06:45,001 --> 01:06:48,671
The spotlight burns
as much as it illuminates.

1162
01:06:48,754 --> 01:06:52,299
When you're in the spotlight all the time,
you'll get into trouble

1163
01:06:52,383 --> 01:06:54,552
because there are people
looking to get you.

1164
01:06:56,262 --> 01:06:59,974
Elephants never forget.
Republicans never forget.

1165
01:07:00,558 --> 01:07:02,059
They're shrewd tacticians,

1166
01:07:03,144 --> 01:07:05,771
but more importantly,
they're long-term strategists.

1167
01:07:07,773 --> 01:07:10,317
[announcer] Fox News Channel.
Fair and balanced.

1168
01:07:10,401 --> 01:07:12,737
Where news is going where news should be.

1169
01:07:12,820 --> 01:07:15,698
What I recognized was, the American people

1170
01:07:15,781 --> 01:07:17,616
[on tape]
didn't wanna be told what to think

1171
01:07:17,700 --> 01:07:19,577
about the information they were receiving.

1172
01:07:19,660 --> 01:07:20,953
So we came up with,

1173
01:07:21,037 --> 01:07:23,372
"We report, you decide.
Fair and balanced."

1174
01:07:25,082 --> 01:07:26,083
[laughing]

1175
01:07:28,002 --> 01:07:30,588
There is a master propagandist at work.

1176
01:07:30,671 --> 01:07:33,466
If you look at the three networks,
ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN,

1177
01:07:33,549 --> 01:07:36,635
but take the three commercial,
not cable networks,

1178
01:07:36,719 --> 01:07:38,220
any difference in those newscasts?

1179
01:07:38,304 --> 01:07:42,141
I think by and large,
ABC and NBC come at it pretty straight.

1180
01:07:42,224 --> 01:07:43,642
-Do you really?
-Yeah.

1181
01:07:43,726 --> 01:07:45,561
And it's only CBS
that you think is biased--

1182
01:07:45,644 --> 01:07:48,355
Well, I think it's Dan Rather
who hates George Bush,

1183
01:07:48,439 --> 01:07:49,815
wants to nail him every night.

1184
01:07:49,899 --> 01:07:52,693
Dan Rather is upset because
George Bush knocked him on his fanny

1185
01:07:52,777 --> 01:07:55,112
in 1988 in that debate.

1186
01:07:55,196 --> 01:08:00,951
I don't think that Dan was trying
to make something happen politically.

1187
01:08:01,035 --> 01:08:04,622
-You don't think he's out to ding…
-Oh, abso… What?

1188
01:08:04,705 --> 01:08:05,623
[both laughing]

1189
01:08:05,706 --> 01:08:07,833
Let's not kid ourselves. Of course he is.

1190
01:08:07,917 --> 01:08:10,044
[Sullivan] But it was useful for Ailes

1191
01:08:10,127 --> 01:08:13,506
to act like
this is a representative of the Democrats,

1192
01:08:13,589 --> 01:08:17,218
this is a lefty,
and we need to take him down.

1193
01:08:17,843 --> 01:08:21,514
It's useful to have a demon to vilify.

1194
01:08:22,223 --> 01:08:25,392
It's one of the ways
that this effort works.

1195
01:08:27,895 --> 01:08:30,689
[Zirinsky] When Ailes came in, he said,

1196
01:08:30,773 --> 01:08:33,943
"I have a vision
to serve part of the country

1197
01:08:34,026 --> 01:08:37,113
"that I don't think
has been served in the news

1198
01:08:37,196 --> 01:08:38,781
"in a more conservative approach."

1199
01:08:39,490 --> 01:08:42,243
How did you do it?
I mean, tell me what the formula is.

1200
01:08:42,326 --> 01:08:44,829
-Whatever the ratings comparison is…
-Right.

1201
01:08:44,912 --> 01:08:48,332
…has led Fox News channel
to be considered.

1202
01:08:48,415 --> 01:08:49,708
Here to stay.

1203
01:08:49,792 --> 01:08:53,504
I think it all comes down to people
and a vision and--

1204
01:08:53,587 --> 01:08:55,089
So what's the vision?

1205
01:08:55,172 --> 01:08:59,135
Roger Ailes is a man
with a very strongly held set of views

1206
01:08:59,218 --> 01:09:01,929
about how he wants the world
to work. Okay?

1207
01:09:02,012 --> 01:09:05,766
And what he did was
he took all of his brain power and energy

1208
01:09:05,850 --> 01:09:07,059
and Rupert Murdoch's money

1209
01:09:07,143 --> 01:09:10,980
to establish a system,
an information processing system,

1210
01:09:11,063 --> 01:09:14,650
that delivers to an audience
Roger Ailes's worldview.

1211
01:09:16,777 --> 01:09:21,740
The culture of cable news partisanship
is not limited to Fox.

1212
01:09:21,824 --> 01:09:26,036
I think that it's a pitfall
on both sides of the aisle.

1213
01:09:26,745 --> 01:09:31,125
But Fox has been uniquely significant
in pioneering a model

1214
01:09:31,208 --> 01:09:36,881
that entwines showmanship
and partisan rancor.

1215
01:09:36,964 --> 01:09:41,260
But the philosophy is that in primetime
you have to create personalities.

1216
01:09:41,343 --> 01:09:44,138
-Is that the idea?
-Yeah. You have to create ratings.

1217
01:09:44,221 --> 01:09:46,140
In the end, it's about ratings.

1218
01:09:46,223 --> 01:09:51,729
[Farrow] Roger Ailes really was a canny
and talented inventor of that model,

1219
01:09:51,812 --> 01:09:54,190
certainly a popularizer of it.

1220
01:09:54,273 --> 01:09:56,984
Not only do today's liberals,
many of them,

1221
01:09:57,067 --> 01:09:58,736
hate our American traditions…

1222
01:09:58,819 --> 01:10:03,699
Nothing will get better in this country
until the culture changes.

1223
01:10:03,782 --> 01:10:06,911
Right now
it's really easy to monetize crap.

1224
01:10:07,953 --> 01:10:11,040
[Nelson] As we've learned of late,
you can make up your own truth

1225
01:10:11,123 --> 01:10:13,751
and enough people will believe it.

1226
01:10:13,834 --> 01:10:16,879
We have to tell the truth to our viewers,
that's a minimum.

1227
01:10:17,463 --> 01:10:21,634
We can all be confused from time to time
based on circumstances.

1228
01:10:21,717 --> 01:10:23,844
But the sky is blue, and the water is wet.

1229
01:10:24,428 --> 01:10:29,058
And anybody who begins with something
other than those kinds of truth

1230
01:10:29,141 --> 01:10:30,726
doesn't deserve our time.

1231
01:10:30,809 --> 01:10:34,146
And you watch Dan Rather for a while
and you know who he is.

1232
01:10:34,230 --> 01:10:36,607
He's a truth teller. He's a truth seeker.

1233
01:10:37,983 --> 01:10:39,735
Dan doesn't take sides.

1234
01:10:40,319 --> 01:10:45,491
He pulls every lever he can
to get every ounce of truth

1235
01:10:45,574 --> 01:10:47,743
out of every person he interviews.

1236
01:10:49,036 --> 01:10:53,707
Could you describe to me what you believe
to be the responsibilities of a husband

1237
01:10:53,791 --> 01:10:55,251
of a United States Senator?

1238
01:10:56,252 --> 01:10:57,253
[laughing]

1239
01:10:59,588 --> 01:11:01,465
I don't know,
but I'm willing to fulfill them.

1240
01:11:01,548 --> 01:11:03,801
[Smith] It didn't matter
if he was at the White House

1241
01:11:03,884 --> 01:11:06,762
or at a flood or at a hurricane.

1242
01:11:06,845 --> 01:11:10,224
The wind doesn't get much worse
than it is right here.

1243
01:11:10,307 --> 01:11:12,851
[Smith] When you want to know
what it feels like,

1244
01:11:12,935 --> 01:11:16,605
Dan Rather brings you there.

1245
01:11:17,856 --> 01:11:19,316
[Dan on TV] Showdown with Saddam.

1246
01:11:19,400 --> 01:11:21,026
The deadline for war.

1247
01:11:21,110 --> 01:11:23,612
Commando missions set up inside Iraq

1248
01:11:23,696 --> 01:11:27,574
as huge force prepares to invade
on a moment's notice.

1249
01:11:27,658 --> 01:11:28,659
[explosions]

1250
01:11:29,702 --> 01:11:34,123
[Dan] At the height of the Iraq War,
I was a frequent flyer to Baghdad.

1251
01:11:34,206 --> 01:11:36,875
Are you afraid
of being killed or captured?

1252
01:11:39,503 --> 01:11:42,631
[Roberson] I get a phone call,
and it was the press person, and he said,

1253
01:11:42,715 --> 01:11:44,758
"Boy, do I have
the mother of all stories for you."

1254
01:11:44,842 --> 01:11:46,927
And I said, "What?" and he goes,

1255
01:11:47,011 --> 01:11:51,974
"There are pictures of American soldiers

1256
01:11:52,057 --> 01:11:54,810
"treating prisoners disrespectfully,

1257
01:11:55,769 --> 01:11:57,771
"borderline torturing them,

1258
01:11:57,855 --> 01:11:59,940
"and no one's talking about it."

1259
01:12:00,024 --> 01:12:01,942
So we started tracking
and hunting that story.

1260
01:12:02,026 --> 01:12:03,027
[soldier over phone]

1261
01:12:09,366 --> 01:12:13,412
[Dan] You'll see some of the pictures
that led to the Army investigation.

1262
01:12:13,495 --> 01:12:16,915
We want to warn you,
the pictures are difficult to look at.

1263
01:12:18,083 --> 01:12:20,836
Americans did this to an Iraqi prisoner.

1264
01:12:21,420 --> 01:12:22,963
According to the US Army,

1265
01:12:23,047 --> 01:12:27,426
the man was told to stand on a box
with his head covered,

1266
01:12:27,509 --> 01:12:30,179
with wires attached to his hands.

1267
01:12:30,262 --> 01:12:34,183
He was told that if he fell off the box,
he would be electrocuted.

1268
01:12:34,975 --> 01:12:36,977
[Roberson] When it comes to people,

1269
01:12:37,061 --> 01:12:40,439
American soldiers
risking their lives for our country

1270
01:12:40,522 --> 01:12:44,401
versus a few bad eggs,
I guess you could say,

1271
01:12:44,485 --> 01:12:46,445
and how much weight you give that story,

1272
01:12:46,528 --> 01:12:49,907
it doesn't feel good to do that,
but it's still an important story.

1273
01:12:50,866 --> 01:12:54,620
There are bodies
that were eaten by dogs, tortured,

1274
01:12:55,454 --> 01:12:58,957
you know, electrodes coming out of walls,
scratches on the walls…

1275
01:12:59,041 --> 01:13:00,209
It was an awful place.

1276
01:13:00,292 --> 01:13:03,045
We went into Iraq
to stop things like this from happening.

1277
01:13:03,128 --> 01:13:05,881
And indeed, here they are happening
under our tutelage.

1278
01:13:07,966 --> 01:13:11,178
[Dan] When we got the story,
strange things began to happen.

1279
01:13:11,762 --> 01:13:13,555
"We're not gonna put it on the air
this week.

1280
01:13:13,639 --> 01:13:16,934
"We want another week to work on it.
We think you can improve it."

1281
01:13:17,017 --> 01:13:19,686
I said, "Wait a minute.
We've got the story."

1282
01:13:20,270 --> 01:13:23,982
So one week led to two weeks,
led to three weeks.

1283
01:13:25,859 --> 01:13:29,321
They held it off the air
until we came to them and said,

1284
01:13:29,405 --> 01:13:32,950
"Some of the sources on this story
who have helped us do it,

1285
01:13:33,033 --> 01:13:35,285
"have become convinced
you're not going to run it,

1286
01:13:35,369 --> 01:13:36,995
"and they're talking to Sy Hersh."

1287
01:13:37,079 --> 01:13:39,373
One of the great investigative reporters
of our time.

1288
01:13:39,456 --> 01:13:42,668
That got their attention,
because now they're in a box.

1289
01:13:44,211 --> 01:13:48,048
Very big business
is in bed with very big government.

1290
01:13:49,174 --> 01:13:52,970
They don't want reporters digging around
on stories that can embarrass them.

1291
01:13:53,053 --> 01:13:56,974
Two weeks ago, we received an appeal
to delay this broadcast,

1292
01:13:57,057 --> 01:13:59,852
given the danger and tension
on the ground in Iraq.

1293
01:13:59,935 --> 01:14:03,689
This week, with the photos
beginning to circulate elsewhere,

1294
01:14:03,772 --> 01:14:07,359
and with other journalists about to
publish their versions of the story,

1295
01:14:07,443 --> 01:14:10,362
the Defense Department agreed
to cooperate in our report.

1296
01:14:11,155 --> 01:14:12,948
[Nelson] 60 Minutes II was on a roll.

1297
01:14:14,074 --> 01:14:16,452
They had just reported
the Abu Ghraib story.

1298
01:14:16,535 --> 01:14:18,662
I mean, they were rocking.

1299
01:14:18,745 --> 01:14:23,625
Accepting the Peabody Award, Dan Rather,
correspondent for 60 Minutes.

1300
01:14:23,709 --> 01:14:27,421
[Dan] When it comes striving to meet
the responsibilities of the public trust,

1301
01:14:28,297 --> 01:14:30,799
that is the practice of journalism
in this country…

1302
01:14:30,883 --> 01:14:32,718
[Roberson] Everyone was flying high.

1303
01:14:32,801 --> 01:14:35,846
We've done an award-winning story
that everyone's talking about.

1304
01:14:35,929 --> 01:14:39,850
US officials are making changes
at Abu Ghraib prison.

1305
01:14:39,933 --> 01:14:43,437
[reporter] Today, the US military set free
more than 300 inmates.

1306
01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:49,902
What took place in that prison
does not represent America that I know.

1307
01:14:50,402 --> 01:14:53,071
There's a little bit of a Teflon
that goes up, you know,

1308
01:14:53,155 --> 01:14:56,617
"Okay, don't mess with them.
They are on a roll. Let them keep going."

1309
01:14:57,743 --> 01:15:02,789
The outcome of this election will set
the direction of the war against terror.

1310
01:15:02,873 --> 01:15:04,875
[cheers and applause]

1311
01:15:06,460 --> 01:15:08,295
[Dan] The prospect of doing a piece

1312
01:15:08,378 --> 01:15:12,299
on George W. Bush's
highly irregular military career

1313
01:15:12,382 --> 01:15:17,638
was something that producer Mary Mapes
had first mentioned to me in 2000.

1314
01:15:17,721 --> 01:15:19,598
385, 386.

1315
01:15:20,974 --> 01:15:25,395
[Dan] If you have a commander-in-chief
who is commanding two overseas wars,

1316
01:15:25,479 --> 01:15:30,025
what he did and didn't do
when it was his time to serve,

1317
01:15:30,108 --> 01:15:31,193
that's a story.

1318
01:15:31,860 --> 01:15:36,490
And if it turns out
that he avoided going to a combat area

1319
01:15:36,573 --> 01:15:39,159
through the influence of his father,

1320
01:15:39,243 --> 01:15:43,163
and then disappeared while he was
supposed to be on duty, for a year,

1321
01:15:43,247 --> 01:15:47,167
whether he was a Democrat or Republican,
that's a story.

1322
01:15:48,043 --> 01:15:52,548
Sometimes you can be blinded by a story

1323
01:15:52,631 --> 01:15:57,719
that you think points out an inequity
and a special treatment.

1324
01:15:57,803 --> 01:16:01,765
The bottom line is
you gotta have the goods.

1325
01:16:02,474 --> 01:16:06,603
Did then-Lieutenant Bush
fulfill all of his military commitments?

1326
01:16:06,687 --> 01:16:10,274
[reporter] CBS showed what it said
are exclusively obtained memos,

1327
01:16:10,357 --> 01:16:15,112
supposedly proving that three decades ago,
Bush did not follow orders.

1328
01:16:15,195 --> 01:16:17,531
The memos have come under
withering criticism

1329
01:16:17,614 --> 01:16:19,866
with several experts saying they're fake.

1330
01:16:20,909 --> 01:16:24,830
[Dan] We had a document which I believed
was what it purported to be.

1331
01:16:26,081 --> 01:16:29,626
[Zirinsky] Was the information
coming from a flawed source?

1332
01:16:29,710 --> 01:16:33,630
That was really the crux of the problem.

1333
01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:36,508
[Dan] The story was true.

1334
01:16:36,592 --> 01:16:40,429
Because it was true,
those who wanted to discredit the story

1335
01:16:40,512 --> 01:16:43,932
had to attack the process
by which we got to the truth.

1336
01:16:45,309 --> 01:16:48,270
The Republican party had become very adept

1337
01:16:48,353 --> 01:16:53,442
at going on the offensive
by coming up with schemes.

1338
01:16:54,067 --> 01:16:57,112
And Rather
was the bane of the Bush family.

1339
01:16:57,195 --> 01:16:58,655
They despised him.

1340
01:16:59,865 --> 01:17:01,158
Was it planned?

1341
01:17:01,241 --> 01:17:02,284
We'll never know.

1342
01:17:02,367 --> 01:17:07,080
Did the phone start ringing off the hook
30 seconds after it aired?

1343
01:17:07,164 --> 01:17:08,206
Yes.

1344
01:17:09,249 --> 01:17:10,250
Coincidence?

1345
01:17:10,834 --> 01:17:12,753
I don't know. Not likely.

1346
01:17:14,129 --> 01:17:15,839
Rather now became the story.

1347
01:17:15,922 --> 01:17:18,342
It was that
Rather had bought a bad bill of goods.

1348
01:17:18,425 --> 01:17:20,636
[reporter] A couple quick questions
about these memos?

1349
01:17:20,719 --> 01:17:22,929
-We're late here.
-No. Thank you.

1350
01:17:23,013 --> 01:17:24,348
Thank you, Jim.

1351
01:17:24,431 --> 01:17:27,309
Even my dog knew
these documents were forged.

1352
01:17:27,392 --> 01:17:31,104
Dan Rather's still telling
the Chicago Tribune they're not forged.

1353
01:17:31,188 --> 01:17:34,483
CBS News said today
it was misled about documents

1354
01:17:34,566 --> 01:17:37,527
that questioned
the President's National Guard service

1355
01:17:37,611 --> 01:17:40,614
and it was a mistake
to broadcast their contents.

1356
01:17:42,240 --> 01:17:46,370
CBS has taken steps
to hold people accountable,

1357
01:17:46,453 --> 01:17:48,622
and we appreciate those steps.

1358
01:17:48,705 --> 01:17:52,918
We also hope that CBS will take steps

1359
01:17:53,001 --> 01:17:56,630
to prevent something like this
from happening again.

1360
01:17:58,048 --> 01:18:00,509
[Zirinsky] That piece should never
have gone on the air,

1361
01:18:00,592 --> 01:18:02,719
and it cost a lot of people their careers.

1362
01:18:03,595 --> 01:18:04,429
He suffered.

1363
01:18:05,138 --> 01:18:06,223
So did CBS.

1364
01:18:06,306 --> 01:18:08,684
There was a substantial lawsuit
against them.

1365
01:18:16,149 --> 01:18:18,110
[Dan] I never thought it would happen.

1366
01:18:19,319 --> 01:18:23,490
I had convinced myself
that somehow, some way,

1367
01:18:23,573 --> 01:18:25,617
I would stay on at CBS.

1368
01:18:27,035 --> 01:18:31,832
It was my wife Jean who provided
the perspective that I needed to hear.

1369
01:18:32,916 --> 01:18:37,295
She said, "You got into a fight
with the President of the United States

1370
01:18:38,130 --> 01:18:40,006
"during a re-election campaign.

1371
01:18:41,466 --> 01:18:43,593
"What did you think was going to happen?"

1372
01:18:48,390 --> 01:18:51,810
[Dan on TV] It was a mistake.
CBS News deeply regrets it.

1373
01:18:51,893 --> 01:18:55,605
Also, I want to say
personally and directly, I'm sorry.

1374
01:18:59,860 --> 01:19:05,782
[Murphy] The saddest thing about the story
is that it's true.

1375
01:19:05,866 --> 01:19:10,495
George Bush had a checkered record
with some real problems in it,

1376
01:19:10,579 --> 01:19:13,123
all of which was covered in that report.

1377
01:19:14,791 --> 01:19:18,962
[Zirinsky] Dan is a really good human.

1378
01:19:19,045 --> 01:19:22,048
He appreciated the loyalty in people.

1379
01:19:22,132 --> 01:19:23,759
He appreciated the work.

1380
01:19:23,842 --> 01:19:30,098
I think the mistake was that
he so trusted the people around him

1381
01:19:30,182 --> 01:19:33,685
that they had done the deeper dive,

1382
01:19:33,769 --> 01:19:35,854
but that's Dan's responsibility also.

1383
01:19:37,856 --> 01:19:40,734
[Robin] When CBS said,
"Well, we'll let you keep your job,

1384
01:19:40,817 --> 01:19:45,489
"if you make it very clear that
it's Mary's fault that Memogate happened,"

1385
01:19:45,572 --> 01:19:46,615
he wasn't having that.

1386
01:19:46,698 --> 01:19:48,366
He said, "Absolutely not."

1387
01:19:48,450 --> 01:19:51,411
And some people have said,
"Wow, what a dumb thing to do.

1388
01:19:51,495 --> 01:19:53,121
"You had the greatest job in the world.

1389
01:19:53,205 --> 01:19:55,373
"All you had to do
was throw Mary under the bus."

1390
01:19:55,457 --> 01:19:56,958
And that's just not him.

1391
01:20:00,504 --> 01:20:04,216
[Roberson] When it was announced
Dan was leaving, I was really heartbroken.

1392
01:20:04,299 --> 01:20:06,885
He had this long, esteemed career.

1393
01:20:06,968 --> 01:20:08,512
It was a dream job.

1394
01:20:08,595 --> 01:20:11,932
To have that rug pulled out from under you
in the way that it was

1395
01:20:12,015 --> 01:20:14,684
was hard for him.
It was hard for all of us.

1396
01:20:21,817 --> 01:20:25,862
We've shared a lot in the 24 years
we've been meeting here each evening.

1397
01:20:25,946 --> 01:20:29,741
And before I say good night this night,
I need to say thank you.

1398
01:20:30,659 --> 01:20:34,579
Thank you to the thousands
of wonderful professionals at CBS News,

1399
01:20:34,663 --> 01:20:36,039
past and present,

1400
01:20:36,122 --> 01:20:38,792
with whom it's been my honor to work
over these years.

1401
01:20:41,628 --> 01:20:46,466
[Dan] The final sign off
of my time at the CBS Evening News

1402
01:20:47,342 --> 01:20:52,013
was going to be an emotional time
for me and for my family.

1403
01:20:53,557 --> 01:20:55,767
And my daughter, Robin,

1404
01:20:55,851 --> 01:21:02,482
who is almost mystically in tune
with my moods,

1405
01:21:02,566 --> 01:21:04,276
she knew I was having trouble.

1406
01:21:04,985 --> 01:21:06,903
That was a very emotional time for him.

1407
01:21:06,987 --> 01:21:09,030
He was going out
not the way he wanted to go out,

1408
01:21:09,114 --> 01:21:10,282
but because he really had to.

1409
01:21:10,365 --> 01:21:14,828
And he wanted to go out with strength
and he wanted to go out his way.

1410
01:21:17,122 --> 01:21:19,332
Not long after I first came
to the anchor chair,

1411
01:21:19,416 --> 01:21:22,335
I briefly signed off
using the word "courage."

1412
01:21:23,169 --> 01:21:26,131
I want to return to it now
in a different way.

1413
01:21:28,967 --> 01:21:33,680
To my fellow journalists in places where
reporting the truth means risking all,

1414
01:21:34,890 --> 01:21:36,474
and to each of you,

1415
01:21:37,684 --> 01:21:38,685
courage.

1416
01:21:40,645 --> 01:21:44,482
For the CBS Evening News,
Dan Rather reporting.

1417
01:21:45,609 --> 01:21:46,610
Good night.

1418
01:22:03,460 --> 01:22:06,421
[Brinkley] The truth is,
if you're on the air that much

1419
01:22:06,504 --> 01:22:08,048
doing cutting-edge journalism,

1420
01:22:08,131 --> 01:22:10,258
then you're going to have moments
that don't work.

1421
01:22:11,134 --> 01:22:13,595
And Rather fell into a sand trap

1422
01:22:13,678 --> 01:22:16,681
with this showdown
over the Texas Air Guard.

1423
01:22:16,765 --> 01:22:18,308
And so, from that point on,

1424
01:22:18,391 --> 01:22:22,771
when Dan Rather leaves CBS
in a fit of anger

1425
01:22:22,854 --> 01:22:24,689
and lawsuits that don't work,

1426
01:22:25,398 --> 01:22:29,861
it really is the start
of a different kind of journalistic world.

1427
01:22:31,237 --> 01:22:33,698
[Martin] I think a lot of people
in his position would have

1428
01:22:33,782 --> 01:22:37,535
just sort of packed it in at that point
and would've said, "I had a great career.

1429
01:22:37,619 --> 01:22:40,705
"I'm gonna rest on my laurels,"
in some ways.

1430
01:22:42,707 --> 01:22:43,875
I think he could have become

1431
01:22:43,959 --> 01:22:46,878
one of the world's great
octogenarian fly fishermen.

1432
01:22:46,962 --> 01:22:47,963
I really do.

1433
01:22:49,339 --> 01:22:51,841
But I just think
that's so antithetical to who he is.

1434
01:22:52,801 --> 01:22:55,845
Anybody who knows me knows that,
you know, I wanna work.

1435
01:22:56,888 --> 01:22:59,516
I'd much rather wear out than rust out.

1436
01:22:59,599 --> 01:23:05,063
♪ This little light of mine
I'm gonna let it shine… ♪

1437
01:23:05,146 --> 01:23:07,148
[Mark Cuban] America loves a second act.

1438
01:23:07,232 --> 01:23:09,359
I don't take any credit
because he's Dan Rather,

1439
01:23:09,442 --> 01:23:13,238
he would've come back one way or the other
just through the quality of his work.

1440
01:23:13,321 --> 01:23:18,201
Haiti is and will remain
a disaster seemingly without end.

1441
01:23:18,284 --> 01:23:19,703
Is it like this every day?

1442
01:23:19,786 --> 01:23:23,331
Yeah, every day that we have
this food give-out, it's always like this.

1443
01:23:24,082 --> 01:23:27,502
[Martin] The most devastating impact
to my grandfather

1444
01:23:27,585 --> 01:23:29,838
surrounding the Bush story

1445
01:23:29,921 --> 01:23:32,090
was that people thought
that he was retired.

1446
01:23:32,173 --> 01:23:33,466
People thought that he was done.

1447
01:23:33,550 --> 01:23:34,634
Bonjour, madame.

1448
01:23:35,510 --> 01:23:36,636
Salut.

1449
01:23:36,720 --> 01:23:40,140
[Cuban, in English] I looked at it as,
"Dan, what's interesting to you?

1450
01:23:40,223 --> 01:23:43,852
"What do you see is happening in the world
that you want to convey?"

1451
01:23:43,935 --> 01:23:45,854
And that's exactly what he did.

1452
01:23:45,937 --> 01:23:49,274
How does anybody living like this
have even a shred of dignity?

1453
01:23:50,817 --> 01:23:52,610
[Robin] Dad literally called Wayne

1454
01:23:52,694 --> 01:23:56,156
and said, "Let's put together
a crack production team and go get it."

1455
01:23:56,740 --> 01:23:58,658
[Nelson]
Probably the hardest time of my life.

1456
01:23:58,742 --> 01:24:01,745
It is unbelievable to put together

1457
01:24:01,828 --> 01:24:04,748
an hour of investigative journalism
every week.

1458
01:24:04,831 --> 01:24:07,125
And we were doing 40 episodes a year.

1459
01:24:07,208 --> 01:24:12,297
The floodwaters have long ago receded,
and so has the nation's attention.

1460
01:24:12,380 --> 01:24:16,926
But for the people down here,
time stands still.

1461
01:24:17,010 --> 01:24:19,763
For the first time in a long time,
he really enjoyed himself.

1462
01:24:19,846 --> 01:24:24,434
I mean, he was really sort of free
to do what he wants to do,

1463
01:24:24,517 --> 01:24:25,810
and that was report.

1464
01:24:25,894 --> 01:24:30,398
For HDNet, from New York,
Dan Rather reporting.

1465
01:24:31,149 --> 01:24:32,275
Good night.

1466
01:24:32,358 --> 01:24:38,031
I do sincerely believe that a career
in breaking tough investigative stories

1467
01:24:38,114 --> 01:24:42,368
and doing it thoroughly and meticulously
and in an impartial way

1468
01:24:42,452 --> 01:24:43,870
is a public service.

1469
01:24:43,953 --> 01:24:48,958
I think it constrains powerful interests
who might otherwise abuse that power.

1470
01:24:49,751 --> 01:24:51,002
[Cuban] When Dan started,

1471
01:24:51,086 --> 01:24:55,298
the level of power that journalists had
was insane.

1472
01:24:55,381 --> 01:24:59,969
You were one effectively of three networks
and what you reported had an impact.

1473
01:25:00,053 --> 01:25:02,555
The audience was in the tens of millions.

1474
01:25:03,556 --> 01:25:08,144
But as the media landscape changed,
the audience got smaller.

1475
01:25:08,228 --> 01:25:10,021
Because there were more options.

1476
01:25:11,356 --> 01:25:12,899
But Dan never changed.

1477
01:25:12,982 --> 01:25:16,361
Dan took the same responsibility,
to get it right.

1478
01:25:22,617 --> 01:25:24,536
[Dan] Life's filled with surprises.

1479
01:25:26,121 --> 01:25:28,706
I was slow to come to social media.

1480
01:25:28,790 --> 01:25:32,377
Frankly, I felt I was too old
to learn the new tricks.

1481
01:25:33,044 --> 01:25:35,922
But I finally agreed to try it.

1482
01:25:36,005 --> 01:25:37,215
And lo and behold,

1483
01:25:38,216 --> 01:25:43,847
I've reached an audience that has no idea
that I once anchored the CBS Evening News,

1484
01:25:43,930 --> 01:25:45,640
or care, for that matter.

1485
01:25:47,267 --> 01:25:50,770
[Robin] My dad really, really believes
in democracy.

1486
01:25:50,854 --> 01:25:55,358
And so he was watching Trump, worried sick

1487
01:25:55,441 --> 01:26:01,114
that the very fundamental institutions
that form our democracy

1488
01:26:01,197 --> 01:26:03,116
were intentionally being betrayed.

1489
01:26:03,199 --> 01:26:06,828
The political press is among the most
dishonest people that I've ever met.

1490
01:26:06,911 --> 01:26:08,496
I'll continue to attack the press.

1491
01:26:08,580 --> 01:26:10,039
These people are the worst.

1492
01:26:10,123 --> 01:26:11,249
Thank you all very much.

1493
01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:16,129
And his response to that
was to go to social media

1494
01:26:16,212 --> 01:26:18,339
and very calmly say, "That's not right."

1495
01:26:21,217 --> 01:26:26,556
[Sullivan] Dan has been a very important
voice of reason in the Trump era.

1496
01:26:26,639 --> 01:26:30,977
And the Trump era
has been a chaotic, crazy time

1497
01:26:31,060 --> 01:26:33,563
in which norms were being busted
right and left,

1498
01:26:33,646 --> 01:26:37,859
and the idea
that someone has a handle on it.

1499
01:26:37,942 --> 01:26:39,736
He's got a lot to say,

1500
01:26:39,819 --> 01:26:45,700
and he says it in a way that brings
history and immediate perspective

1501
01:26:45,783 --> 01:26:48,119
to each one of these news developments.

1502
01:26:48,203 --> 01:26:50,038
I think that's part of the appeal.

1503
01:26:51,331 --> 01:26:56,127
We're witnessing an incredible
second or third or fourth

1504
01:26:56,211 --> 01:26:59,589
or whatever you want to call this act
of Dan's right now on social media.

1505
01:27:01,049 --> 01:27:05,345
[Doyle] How could Dan Rather,
a 90-year-old gentleman,

1506
01:27:05,428 --> 01:27:10,850
be so highly regarded by people
like the millennials in my family?

1507
01:27:11,559 --> 01:27:12,435
You know why?

1508
01:27:13,144 --> 01:27:18,399
Because everything he does
is based on real knowledge and fact.

1509
01:27:19,400 --> 01:27:22,612
I'm thrilled that the young people
are impressed with Dan now

1510
01:27:22,695 --> 01:27:26,741
but they're seeing him at the present
and they're seeing what he stands for.

1511
01:27:27,659 --> 01:27:29,661
[O'Brien] My teenagers know him.

1512
01:27:29,744 --> 01:27:32,121
They have no idea

1513
01:27:32,205 --> 01:27:34,791
that he anchored the evening news
at CBS News for a long time.

1514
01:27:34,874 --> 01:27:38,086
I don't think
they even watch evening news at all.

1515
01:27:38,169 --> 01:27:39,420
But they know Dan Rather.

1516
01:27:40,964 --> 01:27:43,967
[Bee] It seems like
he's having fun on social media.

1517
01:27:44,050 --> 01:27:47,637
He has really introduced himself
to a whole new audience

1518
01:27:47,720 --> 01:27:52,016
of sassy young people who are like,
"Yeah, man, tell it like it is."

1519
01:27:52,100 --> 01:27:56,187
If anybody that sees this is on Twitter,
and you do not follow Dan Rather,

1520
01:27:56,271 --> 01:27:57,438
you need to right away.

1521
01:27:57,522 --> 01:27:59,399
[laughs] It is comedy.

1522
01:27:59,482 --> 01:28:02,860
I just wanted to point out
that Dan Rather is a national treasure.

1523
01:28:02,944 --> 01:28:06,197
The level of shade on this man… Whew!

1524
01:28:06,281 --> 01:28:09,993
[Martin] I've had
so many people who are my age

1525
01:28:10,076 --> 01:28:11,577
come up to me and say,

1526
01:28:11,661 --> 01:28:14,080
"I have no idea who your grandfather is.

1527
01:28:14,163 --> 01:28:16,582
"I've seen him on Twitter,
I've seen him on Facebook.

1528
01:28:16,666 --> 01:28:18,042
"I love what he's doing there."

1529
01:28:18,126 --> 01:28:20,712
Dan Rather gives no more fucks. Okay?

1530
01:28:20,795 --> 01:28:22,005
He's given enough.

1531
01:28:23,172 --> 01:28:25,675
He's having fun, and I love it.

1532
01:28:27,969 --> 01:28:31,055
[Martin] I think the media landscape
has changed around him,

1533
01:28:31,139 --> 01:28:36,394
but his brand of giving important,
essential, truthful information

1534
01:28:36,477 --> 01:28:39,772
has been true from the days
that he was a college reporter

1535
01:28:39,856 --> 01:28:41,941
to now, you know, having viral tweets.

1536
01:28:42,025 --> 01:28:44,235
And I think that's why
folks have trusted him

1537
01:28:44,319 --> 01:28:45,528
and will continue to do so.

1538
01:28:48,823 --> 01:28:50,658
[Dan] You know, it's not uncommon.

1539
01:28:50,742 --> 01:28:52,452
It's a function of age for people to say,

1540
01:28:52,535 --> 01:28:55,204
"Well, what have you learned?
What does it all mean?"

1541
01:28:56,539 --> 01:28:57,749
What old man do you know

1542
01:28:57,832 --> 01:29:01,252
that doesn't want to tell you
what he's learned out of life?

1543
01:29:03,087 --> 01:29:06,591
Working in television, social media…

1544
01:29:08,301 --> 01:29:10,261
Things like,
"Did he cover Tiananmen Square?

1545
01:29:10,345 --> 01:29:11,971
"Did he cover the Vietnam War?

1546
01:29:12,055 --> 01:29:13,931
"Did he cover Watergate?

1547
01:29:14,015 --> 01:29:16,142
"Did he cover the Kennedy assassination?"

1548
01:29:18,603 --> 01:29:22,732
As time goes along,
that's not gonna amount to very much.

1549
01:29:24,067 --> 01:29:27,904
In the end,
whatever remains of one's life,

1550
01:29:27,987 --> 01:29:30,114
family, friends,

1551
01:29:30,198 --> 01:29:34,285
those are gonna be the things
for which you're remembered.

1552
01:29:36,079 --> 01:29:39,165
[Robin] Dad and I have a sign-off,
which is LNF.

1553
01:29:39,248 --> 01:29:42,001
[Dan] LNF is "Love Never Fails."

1554
01:29:43,920 --> 01:29:45,963
[Robin] As a journalist,
he's all about courage.

1555
01:29:46,047 --> 01:29:49,092
As a father,
he's all about the love, all the time.

1556
01:29:49,175 --> 01:29:51,344
The absolute unconditional love.

1557
01:29:51,427 --> 01:29:54,388
I want my grandfather to be remembered

1558
01:29:54,472 --> 01:29:58,559
as someone who did his absolute best

1559
01:29:58,643 --> 01:30:01,979
to represent the ideals of this country.

1560
01:30:06,359 --> 01:30:11,322
There's just something sweet
about this cowboy

1561
01:30:11,405 --> 01:30:14,492
who is still at the rodeo.

1562
01:30:16,244 --> 01:30:18,121
Horse isn't riding as fast,

1563
01:30:20,248 --> 01:30:22,792
he's not at the top, but he's still there.

1564
01:30:25,253 --> 01:30:27,630
He's still exactly who he is.

1565
01:30:27,713 --> 01:30:31,384
And there's something poetic about that.

1566
01:30:35,263 --> 01:30:37,974
[Brinkley] Journalism is a higher calling.

1567
01:30:38,057 --> 01:30:39,600
It's not a career.

1568
01:30:39,684 --> 01:30:43,688
And when you're looking at
who were successful journalists

1569
01:30:43,771 --> 01:30:45,148
over the last 50 years,

1570
01:30:45,231 --> 01:30:47,650
Dan Rather would be
at the very top of that list.

1571
01:30:47,733 --> 01:30:48,651
This is Dan Rather.

1572
01:30:48,734 --> 01:30:50,194
-CBS News…
-…live…

1573
01:30:50,278 --> 01:30:51,487
From Afghanistan.

1574
01:30:51,571 --> 01:30:53,531
-Dan Rather reporting.
-Dan Rather reporting.

1575
01:30:54,407 --> 01:30:56,617
We've been through
very difficult times before.

1576
01:30:56,701 --> 01:30:59,412
We've been through
times of great division.

1577
01:31:01,247 --> 01:31:04,834
It's a time, I think,
to take a deep breath,

1578
01:31:06,294 --> 01:31:07,628
whisper to ourselves,

1579
01:31:08,796 --> 01:31:09,797
"Steady."

1580
01:31:10,298 --> 01:31:13,134
["Sangria Wine"
by Jerry Jeff Walker playing]

1581
01:31:21,934 --> 01:31:22,810
Stop it, stop it.

1582
01:31:22,894 --> 01:31:25,271
I can be dumb as a brick wall
about a lot of things.

1583
01:31:25,354 --> 01:31:26,355
Okay, let's redo it.

1584
01:31:26,439 --> 01:31:27,815
Sorry, my fault.

1585
01:31:27,899 --> 01:31:29,150
Start it over.

1586
01:31:29,233 --> 01:31:32,153
Part of my job
is to separate bullshine from brass tacks.

1587
01:31:32,236 --> 01:31:34,655
I can't carry a tune
in a bucket with a lid on it.

1588
01:31:34,739 --> 01:31:38,034
If bullshine were music,
he'd be a full symphony orchestra.

1589
01:31:38,117 --> 01:31:41,370
If you ain't got the yolk,
you can't emulsify the hollandaise.

1590
01:31:41,454 --> 01:31:42,955
[audience laughing]

1591
01:31:43,039 --> 01:31:46,334
Steve Bannon said
the press needs to shut up.

1592
01:31:46,417 --> 01:31:50,463
Well our answer to that has to be,
"With respect sir, no."

1593
01:31:50,546 --> 01:31:51,631
[audience cheering]

1594
01:31:51,714 --> 01:31:54,050
♪ My friends come for Saturday night ♪

1595
01:31:54,717 --> 01:31:58,596
♪ Man, it's nice to make up
Some sangria wine ♪

1596
01:31:59,347 --> 01:32:02,350
♪ It's organic
And it comes from the vine ♪

1597
01:32:02,975 --> 01:32:07,063
♪ It's also legal
And it gets you so high ♪

1598
01:32:07,146 --> 01:32:10,650
♪ Yeah, and I love that sangria wine ♪

1599
01:32:11,234 --> 01:32:14,445
♪ Love to drink it
With old friends of mine ♪

1600
01:32:15,321 --> 01:32:18,532
♪ Yeah, I love to get drunk
With friends of mine ♪

1601
01:32:19,450 --> 01:32:23,120
♪ When we're drinking
That old sangria wine ♪

1602
01:32:24,455 --> 01:32:31,087
♪ Whoa, I love sangria wine ♪

1603
01:32:32,630 --> 01:32:39,303
♪ Whoa, I love sangria wine ♪

1604
01:32:41,764 --> 01:32:43,766
♪ Start with some wine ♪

1605
01:32:43,849 --> 01:32:47,395
♪ Add some apples and brandy
And some sugar, some spice ♪

1606
01:32:48,521 --> 01:32:51,357
♪ Old friends always show up on time ♪

1607
01:32:52,066 --> 01:32:56,070
♪ That's why you add
Sparkling burgundy wine ♪

1608
01:32:56,153 --> 01:32:59,573
♪ And I love old sangria wine ♪

1609
01:33:00,199 --> 01:33:03,411
♪ When I drink it
With old friends of mine ♪

1610
01:33:04,287 --> 01:33:07,415
♪ Yeah, I love to drink
With old friends of mine ♪

1611
01:33:08,207 --> 01:33:11,919
♪ When we get drunk on that sangria wine ♪

1612
01:33:13,296 --> 01:33:19,927
♪ Whoa, I love sangria wine ♪

1613
01:33:21,512 --> 01:33:28,311
♪ Whoa, I love sangria wine ♪

1614
01:33:29,687 --> 01:33:36,235
♪ Whoa, I love sangria wine ♪

1615
01:33:37,361 --> 01:33:44,368
♪ Yeah, whoa, I love sangria wine ♪

1616
01:33:45,828 --> 01:33:52,126
♪ Whoa, I love sangria wine ♪

1617
01:33:53,419 --> 01:33:59,967
♪ Whoa, I love sangria wine ♪

1618
01:34:00,051 --> 01:34:01,052
[song fades out]