Episode 444: Dan Rather
Dan Rather is a journalist, author, and the former anchor of\xa0CBS Evening News.\u201dI knew that being named to succeed Walter Cronkite would put me in a position of inhaling\u2014every day\u2014a kind of NASA-grade rocket fuel for the ego. And that could be dangerous\u2026. In the end, when the red light goes on, it's just you. You're by yourself.\u2026 And the longer you're in that role, the more difficult it is to stay true to yourself and to remember who you are and who you want to be.\u201d\n\nThanks to\xa0Mailchimp\xa0for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\nShow notes:\n@DanRather\n70 Over 70\xa0(Pineapple Street Studios \u2022 2021)\n01:00\xa0Steady\xa0Substack newsletter\n04:00\xa0Reporting on Hurricane Carla\xa0(Sep 1961)\n09:00\xa0First night as CBS Evening News anchor\xa0(CBS News \u2022 Mar 1981)\n21:00\xa0Covering the India-Pakistan war\xa0(Sep 1965)\n28:00 \u201cA Lie, Is a Lie, Is a Lie\u201d\xa0(Facebook \u2022 Jan 2017)\n28:00\xa0"Jim Crow Is Not Dead... And Why We Should Care"\xa0(Rather and Steady Team \u2022 Steady \u2022 Feb 2021)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices