Dan Rather spent the hour with Larry King on CNN last night. Here’s the transcript. Excerpt:
| KING: What happened? Why so abrupt? What happened, Dan? RATHER: Larry, I don’t know everything that happened. What I do know is that there was a contract which went unfulfilled and there were promises not kept. I was surprised by that. I never heard the other side of the story, which is to say that I never heard from the top of the corporation or the top of the news division. KING: Didn’t call you? RATHER: No. |
He said he was “disappointed and puzzled.” More:
| RATHER: …I had 44 years there. But in the end what I was told, what was relayed to me, was we just don’t have a place for you. KING: And how is that said? Were you at your desk? What happened? Did you get a phone call? RATHER: I got a phone call from the lawyers. It was relayed by the lawyers. A little earlier than that the executive producer of ’60 Minutes’ had said that he expected me to be gone by the end of June, or the end of May. And that came as a surprise to me. But perhaps I should have known, you know, going along that there was a point in the middle of last year in which what I thought had been a warm, good relationship with the very top management turned marble slab cold. |
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