Word: houstons
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...hours he has logged on the air and on the road, Dan Rather made his most celebrated TV appearance so far in the space of some ten seconds. The date was March 19,1974, the place Houston, where Richard Nixon was holding a news conference at a convention of the National Association of Broadcasters. Those were the dying days of Watergate, and everyone in the hall anticipated excitement if Nixon's least favorite television reporter asked a question. Sure enough, up stood Rather-to an outbreak of applause and jeers from the onlooking broadcasters. When the noise died down...
...long afterward CBS yanked Rather from the White House, then occupied by Gerald Ford, and the speculation surrounding that move centered on the propriety of Rather's Houston response: Had he stood up to the President or had he sassed him? Yet Nixon's question was oddly on target. Rather was indeed running for something that night, had been running for it all of his adult life, and would continue to do so long after Nixon resigned. He made his goal perfectly clear to the network executives bidding for his services: "I'd like to lead...
...screen: a soft-spoken Texan in a Savile Row suit, easygoing in a down-home country way and clearly in a big hurry, an adopted Easterner who has polished his background instead of forgetting it. The son of a pipeline worker and a waitress, Rather grew up in Houston and played end on his high school football team, hoping to win an athletic scholarship when he graduated. The only place interested enough to take a look was Sam Houston State Teachers College. Rather's mother cashed in two $25 savings bonds, and he became the first member...
...Rather that was Houston, at least for a while. A part-time stint at the Houston Chronicle reminded him that he was a poor speller; when a better paying broadcasting job beckoned, he jumped. Once on the air, he managed to mispronounce words like heroin (her-oyne), variable (var'ble) and miniature (minichoor). Radio station KTRH gave him time to improve, and while there, he met his future wife, Jean Goebel, who also worked for the station, as a secretary. In 1960 Rather joined KHOU-TV, the CBS affiliate in Houston, and a short time later literally reaped...
...lawyers to discuss possible guidelines pertaining to enforcement rules. Many businessmen and some Government officials challenge the whole concept of exporting morality to parts of the world like the Middle East, where baksheesh, or greasing the palm, is an accepted fact of business life. Says the president of one Houston oil company: "Things might have gone on that are part of the art of doing business overseas...