Word: herskowitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rather finally got a weekend anchor assignment added to his duties as CBS man at the Nixon White House, but the feeling that he had arbitrarily been ruled out as ever being successor to Cronkite still rankled. His 1977 autobiography The Camera Never Blinks (written with Mickey Herskowitz) amounted to effective lobbying over the heads of the network brass and toward the public at large. The book was a bestseller in both hardback and paperback. Says Rather today: "I suddenly found myself in a very competitive race, not of my making. But if I am in this race, I intend...