page_title: Dan Rather
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caption_attribution_description: Lieutenant Gen. William B. Caldwell, IV, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Training Mission Afghanistan commander, left, speaks with Dan Rather, anchor and editor of Dan Rather Reports on the cable network HDNet, right, in General Caldwell’s office on Camp Eggers, Kabul, Afghanistan, July 27, 2011, about the Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police training mission and the tentative 2014 coalition to Afghan security transition. Dan Rather and his HDNet production team toured various training, recruiting, and educational centers around Afghanistan collecting footage for a segment set to air early September this year on the transition. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Kat Lynn Justen)
context_page_description: Dan Rather is an American journalist and reporter. He worked with the CBS network until 2006. Controversy over documents Rather reported on that he claimed indicated President George W. Bush avoided military service during Vietnam caused him to leave CBS Evening News in 2005, his last broadcast on that program was March 9, 2005 and the whole network altogether two years later. He is now reporting for HDNet.
context_section_description: Dan Rather (born October 31, 1931 in Wharton, Texas) is an American journalist and reporter. He worked with the CBS network until 2006. Controversy over documents Rather reported on that he claimed indicated President George W. Bush avoided military service during Vietnam caused him to leave CBS Evening News in 2005, his last broadcast on that program was March 9, 2005 and the whole network altogether two years later. He is now reporting for HDNet.
caption: Dan Rather at Kabul, Afghanistan, in July 2011
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