Remembering Peter: Rather’s Reflections

I love how Dan Rather tiptoes around Memogate in this excerpt from his Peter Jennings appreciation in New York:

“Or to take another, more recent example of Peter’s grace, one to which this writer feels a substantial debt: a discussion panel in which the participants were Peter, Tom Brokaw, and myself. The moderator’s questions had turned to a topic I was not at liberty to discuss. Answers came to mind but could not be voiced, a frustrating situation, to say the least. Peter, with no need to touch the subject with a ten-foot pole, spoke up in my defense, offering some of the answers I would have liked to have given but could not. Through the years, whenever I got into something controversial — from just plain bad press to times when I made an outright dumb-ass mistake (there have been so many) — Peter was among the first to call.”