Dan Rather, whose long and storied career in broadcast journalism transported him from Dealey Plaza just moments after the JFK assassination, to the killing fields of Vietnam in 1966, to the tumultuous floor of the 1968 Democratic Convention and the Press Room of Nixon’s White House during Watergate, before situating him as News Anchor for the CBS Evening News for twenty four years (1981-2005) - succeeding the legendary Walter Cronkite - has never shied from danger or controversy in persual of a story.
But even he is frightened by the rhetorical bombast and feral delivery of the Donald’s imperial pronouncements.