Dan Rather, An Unlikely Essayist, On 'What Unites Us'
Equally optimistic and concerned, the longtime television news anchor — now a Facebook phenomenon — has written a book that doesn't hide his love of country.
by Ari Shapiro
Nov 03, 2017
4 minutes
Dan Rather's career has entered a new phase. At age 86, he's again speaking to millions of people every day.
It's not at CBS, where he anchored the Evening News for decades — instead, Facebook has given him a new audience. That's where he writes essays about the news of the day.
Here's an excerpt of what he posted this past Monday, when members of the Trump campaign were indicted.
We are a nation of laws. President Donald Trump and all those around him who have not yet been named in an indictment have the presumption of innocence. As do
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