page_title: Dan Rather
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caption_attribution_description: Dan Rather, anchor and editor of Dan Rather Reports on the cable network HDNet, speaks before a group of North Atlantic Treaty Organization Training Mission Afghanistan commanders in the Leadership Conference Room on Camp Eggers, Kabul, Afghanistan, July 27, 2011, about his experiences in his 61 years of journalism. He spoke in depth about the historical and tumultuous relationship between the media and military, and the role each has played in American opinion. Dan Rather and his HDNet production team toured various training, recruiting, and educational centers around Afghanistan collecting footage for a segment set to air in early September this year on the coalition to Afghan security forces transition. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Kat Lynn Justen)
context_page_description: Dan Irvin Rather Jr. is an American journalist and former national evening news anchor. Rather began his career in Texas, becoming a national name after his reporting saved thousands of lives during Hurricane Carla in September 1961. Rather spontaneously created the first radar weather report by overlaying a transparent map over a radar image of Hurricane Carla. In his first national broadcast, he helped initiate the successful evacuation of 350,000 people.
  Rather reported from Dallas in November 1963 at the time of the President Kennedy assassination. Based on his reporting, he was promoted at CBS News, where he served as White House correspondent beginning in 1964. He served as foreign correspondent in London and Vietnam over the next two years before returning to the White House correspondent position. He covered the presidency of Richard Nixon, including Nixon's trip to China, the Watergate scandal, and the president's resignation.
  In 1981, Rather was promoted to news anchor for the CBS Evening News, a role he occupied for 24 years.
caption: Rather speaking about his experiences in his 61 years of journalism before a group of NATO commanders at Camp Eggers in Kabul, Afghanistan in July 2011.
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