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==Other career highlights==

==Other career highlights==

He also contributed to the show "60 Minutes".  Rather covered many important events during his twenty-four years, and was known for his coverage of [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]] in the [[Watergate Affair]] and of the [[Soviet]] invasion of [[Afghanistan]].  He has been accused of having a [[liberal]] bias, and retired suddenly under a cloud after the scandal known as "[[Rathergate]]" was exposed. One of his first reports back when he was working at Dallas, Texas, which occurred around the time John F. Kennedy was assassinated, falsely claimed that the schoolchildren at University Park Elementary School cheered at the news of JFK's assassination, and proceeded with the story even after Eddie Barker dismissed the story as being false. Rather ultimately ended up fired from the Dallas news station shortly thereafter, only to be hired back in the next day.<ref>http://www.jfkmurder.com/rather.html</ref><ref>http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/wrong-from-the-beginning/article/6533</ref> On January 25, 1988, Rather proceeded to do ambush journalism on then-Republican Presidential Candidate [[George H.W. Bush]] where he, under the pretense of a campaign profile interview, screamed at him about the [[Iran-Contra affair]] (of which Bush had been the Vice President at the time it occurred) and that it made America look like a hypocrite to the world in an attempt at publicly embarrass the candidate. However, Bush did not flinch and instead calmly retorted "It’s not fair to judge my whole career by a rehash on Iran. How would you like it if I judged your whole career by those seven minutes when you walked off the set in New York?", referring to an incident Rather was involved in several months beforehand where Rather, irritated at having his newscast held up by a tennis match in Miami, Florida, walked off the set to complain to his bosses about the assignment while the news segment was still ongoing, resulting in six full minutes of a blank screen. It resulted in several journalists, themselves of the left such as ''60 Minutes'' co-host Mike Wallace, ABC's Sam Donaldson, and then ''Time'' editor and later Obama official Richard Stengel, condemned Rather for his behavior, with their conceding by a significant margin of 42 percent to 27 percent that Bush won that encounter, and that Rather was considered rude in a similar poll, which stated that 51% considering him rude, and only 38 percent thought otherwise.<ref>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2018/01/25/flashback-30-years-ago-tonight-dan-rathers-failed-fake-news</ref> He also claimed frequently that he formerly served in the Marine Corps. However, on April 2017, evidence came to light that his "service record" was questionable, as he left boot camp well before he actually served in the Corps.<ref>http://www.aim.org/aim-column/another-dan-rather-scandal/</ref>

He also contributed to the show "60 Minutes".  Rather covered many important events during his twenty-four years, and was known for his coverage of [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]] in the [[Watergate Affair]] and of the [[Soviet]] invasion of [[Afghanistan]].  He has been accused of having a [[liberal]] bias, and retired suddenly under a cloud after the scandal known as "[[Rathergate]]" was exposed. One of his first reports back when he was working at Dallas, Texas, which occurred around the time John F. Kennedy was assassinated, falsely claimed that the schoolchildren at University Park Elementary School cheered at the news of JFK's assassination, and proceeded with the story even after Eddie Barker dismissed the story as being false. Rather ultimately ended up fired from the Dallas news station shortly thereafter, only to be hired back in the next day.<ref>http://www.jfkmurder.com/rather.html</ref><ref>http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/wrong-from-the-beginning/article/6533</ref> On January 25, 1988, Rather proceeded to do ambush journalism on then-Republican Presidential Candidate [[George H.W. Bush]] where he, under the pretense of a campaign profile interview, screamed at him about the [[Iran-Contra affair]] (of which Bush had been the Vice President at the time it occurred) and that it made America look like a hypocrite to the world in an attempt at publicly embarrassing the candidate. However, Bush did not flinch and instead calmly retorted "It’s not fair to judge my whole career by a rehash on Iran. How would you like it if I judged your whole career by those seven minutes when you walked off the set in New York?", referring to an incident Rather was involved in several months beforehand where Rather, irritated at having his newscast held up by a tennis match in Miami, Florida, walked off the set to complain to his bosses about the assignment while the news segment was still ongoing, resulting in six full minutes of a blank screen. It resulted in several journalists, themselves of the left such as ''60 Minutes'' co-host Mike Wallace, ABC's Sam Donaldson, and then ''Time'' editor and later Obama official Richard Stengel, condemned Rather for his behavior, with their conceding by a significant margin of 42 percent to 27 percent that Bush won that encounter, and that Rather was considered rude in a similar poll, which stated that 51% considering him rude, and only 38 percent thought otherwise.<ref>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2018/01/25/flashback-30-years-ago-tonight-dan-rathers-failed-fake-news</ref> He also claimed frequently that he formerly served in the Marine Corps. However, on April 2017, evidence came to light that his "service record" was questionable, as he left boot camp well before he actually served in the Corps.<ref>http://www.aim.org/aim-column/another-dan-rather-scandal/</ref>

==Rathergate==

==Rathergate==