Dan Rather

When Walter Cronkite retired in 1981, Rather was promoted the news anchor for the CBS Evening News, a role he occupied for 24 years. Along with Peter Jennings at ABC News and Tom Brokaw at NBC News, Rather was one of the "Big Three" nightly news anchors in the U.S. from the 1980s through the early 2000s. Within a year of Brokaw\'s retirement and Jennings\' death, Rather also left the anchor desk following a controversy in which he presented forged documents during a news report on President George W. Bush\'s Vietnam-era service in the National Guard; Rather left CBS Evening News in 2005. He continued to work with CBS until 2006, when he left the network after 44 years.\n', '

Rather currently anchors a newscast called The News with Dan Rather at The Young Turks and was previously managing editor and anchor of the television news magazine Dan Rather Reports on the cable channel AXS TV. He…