Editing Dan Rather (section)

=== Nixon ===
During [[Richard Nixon]]'s presidency, critics accused Rather of biased coverage against him. At a Houston news conference in March 1974, Nixon fielded a question from Rather, still CBS's White House correspondent, who said, "Thank you, Mr. President. Dan Rather, of CBS News." The room filled with jeers and applause, prompting Nixon to joke, "Are you running for something?" Rather replied, "No, sir, Mr. President. Are you?"<ref name="nixon">{{cite web |url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=4391 |title=Richard Nixon: Question-and-Answer Session at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Broadcasters, Houston, Texas
|date=March 19, 1974 |publisher=American Presidency Project}}</ref> He questioned whether Nixon was cooperating with the grand jury investigation and House Judiciary Committee in relation to the Watergate scandal.<ref name="nixon" />

[[NBC]]'s [[Tom Brokaw]] has said the network considered hiring him to replace Rather as its White House correspondent, but dropped it after word was leaked to the press. Rather was believed to have provided tough coverage of the [[Watergate scandal]], raising his profile.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Stanley |first1=Alessandra |title=Even Humbled by Error, Dan Rather Has His Thorns |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/21/politics/campaign/even-humbled-by-error-dan-rather-has-his-thorns.html |newspaper=The New York Times  |date=September 21, 2004 |access-date=September 1, 2019}}</ref>