Word: dan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incumbent, Slade Gorton of Washington, probably wished Reagan had stayed home. When the President visited Washington in October, Gorton was already suffering from bad publicity resulting from his agreement to trade his vote for a favor from the Justice Department in the Dan Manion appointment hearings...
...Stringer was named executive producer of the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. During his tenure, the newscast was transformed with sprightly graphics, a faster pace and a de-emphasis on Washington news in favor of lighter stories and features from around the country. The change helped boost the ratings but was decried by some as violating CBS's "hard-news" traditions. Promoted to the division's No. 2 slot, Stringer championed West 57th, a magazine show that drew fire from traditionalists for its jazzy style and choice of stories...
...Stringer largely escaped the in-house criticism directed at Joyce and Sauter, partly because of his solid journalistic credentials and partly, some say, because of his skill at the corporate political game. In his campaign for the presidency, Stringer won the support of such key CBS News figures as Dan Rather, Bill Moyers and 60 Minutes Executive Producer Don Hewitt. He also sought the advice of two ex-CBS News presidents, Richard Salant and William Leonard, and Burton Benjamin, a longtime CBS News executive who retired last year. Benjamin, 69, had been offered the job of interim president but declined...
...Republicans can count their lucky Warren Burgers that the Chief Justice resigned when he did. Would a Judiciary Committee headed by Teddy Kennedy or Joe Biden have approved the nomination of William Rehnquist to the top spot on the top court? Maybe. Probably. But Dan Manion, for one, wouldn't have stood a prayer...
...interested in a sort of cultural approach as opposed to a simple tell-about approach," said Dan P. Buchanan '90 of Dunster, who works on the Harvard Homeless Committee...