Dan Rather talks about politics and media
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The Washington Post
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2017
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone this is Jonathan Kapart and welcome to K-Up. |
| 0:10.5 | This week I bring you inside an event I did with the Politics and Pro's bookstore with Dan Rather about his new book, What Unites Us, Reflections on Patriotism. |
| 0:20.0 | The former CBS Newsman, an anchor of the CBS Evening News and I talk about patriotism, politics, |
| 0:26.2 | media, and why the 86-year-old is such a hit with millennials, and you can hear it all right now. Thank you. |
| 0:34.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:37.0 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:39.0 | So... |
| 0:41.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:42.0 | I mean, Dan, and I can call you Dan, right? |
| 0:46.0 | Please. |
| 0:47.0 | Your birthday was Halloween. |
| 0:51.0 | You turned 86, and I've got two questions. |
| 0:57.9 | Have you ever considered retiring? you've earned it. |
| 1:04.0 | No. |
| 1:05.0 | No. |
| 1:07.0 | No, Jonathan, it's a fair question. |
| 1:10.0 | But I like to work. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm the son of two very hard-working parents. I really like to work and I love this work, but just to say I've always had a passion of reporting news. So as long as I have my health, God's grace, and somebody will |
| 1:26.2 | listen or read or watch, then I really do like to work. |
| 1:30.8 | And speaking of people who like to listen and read and watch, the other thing that's |
| 1:35.6 | so fascinating is that you are wildly popular and wildly popular with millennials. |
| 1:44.2 | I mean, why do you think that is? |
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