The Wapo took down Nixon? This was in my email:
Dan Rather brought down Nixon after tricky Dick tried
to take him on. Remember that and you'll see why the
WH is so worried. CBS is a corporation that doesn't
take those kind of risks with it's money...none of
them do. So keep that in mind with all the Karl Rove
backlash.
I found this re: Rather
Nixon's lawyers tried, as Clinton's later did, to keep some material from being brought before the House Judiciary Committee:
"Since the Constitution clearly assigns to the House of Representatives any impeachment investigation, how can the House meet its constitutional responsibilities while you, the person under investigation, are allowed to limit its access to potential evidence?
--Dan Rather to Richard Nixon during a press conference, March 19, 1974.
"[P]ink slips were spilling out of my box at the desk" after the press conference.
"At the peak of Watergate I would guess there were two or three...threats a week, most of them by mail. They rose in proportion to how much I was on the air, and the importance of the story."
--Dan Rather in his 1977 book, The Camera Never Blinks.
"Nixon clashed again with CBS News with millions watching the exchange. It occurred at a Nixon news conference during the election campaign. When Dan Rather, the White House correspondent, arose to question him, boos and cheers rang through the hall. The boos came from Nixon acolytes spread through the room, the cheers from fellow correspondents expressing their support for Dan. As the noise erupted, Nixon, on the stage, looked down at Rather and asked with heavy sarcasm, 'Are you running for something?' Dan, always impulsive, snapped right back, 'No, sir, are you?' More boos, more cheers! Not the most dignified scene at a presidential news conference.
"Dan was in trouble. It is one thing, perfectly legitimate, to challenge a president with tough questions. It is something quite different for a reporter to engage in a sassing contest with the nation's chief executive, no matter how obnoxious and wrong the president may be."
--David Schoenbrun, famed CBS reporter, in his 1989 book, On and Off the Air: An Informal History of CBS News.
ratherbiased.com
The WH has NOT refuted the authenticity of the documents. You never let the truth stand in the way of your non-stop fiction. |
