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DESCRIPTION: Various opinions on confrontation between George Bush and Dan Rather...
...other producers agreed. In early January Cohen sent a letter to the Bush campaign requesting a lengthy taped interview for a campaign profile. "Part of our early coverage of the 1988 presidential election has been a series of candidate profiles," he wrote. "We purposely saved your profile for last . . . Dan Rather is very interested in your profile and has decided to do it himself." Then, as well as later, CBS never came out and said they planned to focus exclusively on the Iran-contra affair...
...Dole, who had the most to lose by the Bush-Rather dustup, took the long view. Advisers counseled him to maintain a judicious silence, but he could not resist a barbed comment about Bush's born-again aggressiveness. "If you can't stand up to Dan Rather," he said sharply, "you've got to deal with Gorbachev and a few other people." Dole also noted that the affair was another indication that the Iran-contra issue will not go away...
...galvanize his campaign. "We're getting phone calls now from fence sitters we've been after for weeks," said Bill Cahill, a Bush staffer in New Hampshire. At a campaign stop in South Dakota, Bush found dozens of his listeners wearing lapel buttons with a diagonal slash across "Dan Rather." At Bush's national headquarters, an aide scurried through the lobby with a long memo draft titled "Reaping the Benefits of the Rather Interview...
DESCRIPTION: Opinion on who benefited most from confrontation between George Bush and Dan Rather...