James Rosen & Dan Rather, BFF

Fox News Channel correspondent James Rosen talks with the National Review Online about his new book, The Strong Man, with an interesting fact that you may not have known:

Lopez: How does a Fox News reporter wind up a ‘friend’ of Dan Rather — who blurbed your book?

Rosen: The same way Bill Buckley wound up a ‘friend’ of John Kenneth Galbraith. In my case, I used to work for Rather — paid by him, not by CBS News — as a researcher, compiling data on subjects of interest to him outside of his daily duties as anchor and managing editor of The CBS Evening News. It was through Dan’s generosity — legendary to those who know him — that I was able to review the transcripts of every CBS News program that aired between 1972 and 1975, an invaluable resource. The Strong Man is thus one of the first books to make systematic use of the broadcast journalism of the Nixon era.

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