Dan Rather Tells Alec Baldwin the ‘Truth’

Dan Rather Tells Alec Baldwin the ‘Truth’

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Dan Rather was the host and anchor of CBS Evening News for more than twenty years. He resigned the post in the wake of an investigation into then-President George W. Bush’s Vietnam-era military service. A new film starring Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett, ‘Truth,’ explores that period and the outstanding questions raised by Rather’s journalistic inquiry. Host Alec Baldwin spoke with Rather at a recent screening of the film at the Hamptons International Film Festival, where they discussed Rather’s days as a White House correspondent, recent attempts to re-assess Nixon, and the state of news today.