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Dan Rather
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 31
Journalist
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Television Producer
Wharton
Texas
Daniel Irvin Dan Rather
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These guys [the Catholic church] make Enron look like altar boys.
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I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.
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I'm all news, all the time. Full power, tall tower. I want to break in when news breaks out. That's my agenda. Now, respectfully, when you start talking about a liberal agenda and all the, quote, 'liberal bias' in the media, I quite frankly, and I say this respectfully but candidly to you, I don't know what you're talking about.
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I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.
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