Tom Brokaw gushes: ‘I wanted to be the Dan Rather of NBC’

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As competitors in the Nixon-era White House press corps, NBC’s Tom Brokaw and CBS’s Dan Rather were often in a fighting stance with each other. But now, in their golden years, they have locked in a friendly embrace.

So much so, that Brokaw told Rather this week that after he joined the White House press corps, “I wanted to be the Dan Rather of NBC.”

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