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Bush, appearing on ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley," offered to "totally apologize" to Dole's wife, Elizabeth, if a Bush campaign statement offended her, but declined to extend an apology to Dole...
...sometimes seemed inexplicable. In an interview during last summer's Iran-contra hearings, he peppered former CIA Chief William Colby with questions about the rumor -- taken seriously by almost no one else -- that the late CIA director William Casey was not really dead. In August, when former ABC Newsman Charles Glass escaped from terrorists holding him hostage in Lebanon, Rather sounded a jarring note of skepticism, referring to Glass as a "young American who says he was a hostage." ABC Nightline Anchor Ted Koppel called the characterization "beneath contempt...
...shock waves set off by the interview seemed magnified simply because Rather was involved. "Dan leaps out like a tiger, and some people don't like that," says ABC Correspondent Ann Compton. "He is a lightning rod for the American people who believe the press is rude." CBS stations around the country were besieged by phone callers criticizing Rather (though pro and con opinions became more evenly divided as the week went on). A Times-Mirror Gallup poll conducted Wednesday showed that Rather's favorable rating among viewers -- already lower than that of either of his two network rivals -- dropped...
Nevertheless, Rather beat out Mudd for the anchor job, rankling some TV traditionalists in the process. In an effort to keep him from jumping to ABC, CBS gave Rather a record $22 million ten-year contract, a quantum leap in the pay for network journalists. The network also had to ask Cronkite politely to move up his retirement date to accommodate Rather's new contract. Cronkite agreed, but some insiders claim he was never happy about...
Some might say that the final score of Super Bowl XXII was 42-10. But in reality, at $650,000 for a half-minute ad, ABC was the winner--raking in at least $33 million dollars from ads and attracting countless more million of viewers to the advertised shows...