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Feb 19, 2021

To all who have expressed concern for my well being in Austin, thank you. But I’m coping and okay. 1/7

We were told yesterday to evacuate our home due to no power, heat, water, and fears even sewage pipes were freezing up and on the verge of bursting. After 4 days of hunkering down and determined to tough it out, we got the order to find a new place to go to immediately. 2/7

We’re now huddled up with relatives who have power -improvising, trying to make the best of it with a “this too shall pass” spirit. But we have the privilege of resources and help from family and friends. We know how lucky we are. 3/7

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Dan Rather

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Nov 8, 2020

What happens now?

The tumult continues with rapid news cycles reckoning about the future. We see recriminations and outrage, second-guessing and breathless prognosticating. What will the final vote totals be in the popular vote and in the uncalled states? 1/

Are the portents for Democrats ominous in the long term? Is the party split? What will Donald Trump do? What will the Senate Republicans do? What do we make from parsing the demographics, and the electorate, and the statements from the politicians on both sides? 2/

My hope is that there are a few things we can all agree on. One is that we never know what will happen. Think back over the last 40 years, or 4 years, or 4 months, or even 4 days. How much did we really see coming? The present changes the future. It always has. Always will. 3/

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Dan Rather

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Nov 1, 2020

A long thought for today:

We are on the precipice, of that we are sure. Of what exactly, there are hints and whispers and clues, but the haze of the future is unknowable. 1/

We never really know what lies before us, but the cone of uncertainty at this moment is so wide that it seems to stretch in almost every conceivable direction. There are plausible scenarios that auger for a fundamental redefinition of this nation and this world. 2/

I have felt this before, during World War II and the Cuban Missile Crisis, to name two particularly precarious chapters in American and global history. In both cases there was a chance that outside forces would exterminate, quite literally, our nation and its ideals. 3/

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Dan Rather

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Sep 30, 2020

America is hurting, really hurting. Thousands of people are dying every week. Jobs lost. Lives thrown asunder. The West on fire. Our international standing at the lowest point I can remember. We need leadership. We need empathy. We need unity. We need justice. We need hope.

Who won and lost tonight in a horse race sense, I don't even want to address. Frankly, I don't give a damn. This was a sad, sad, sad night for this nation that I love with all my heart. This is a moment to mourn what we have lost, and are in danger of losing.

I don't want to hear from the pundits, I want to hear from the people. I want to hug all of you in a warm embrace and say, we can, we must be a helluva lot better than this.

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Dan Rather

@DanRather

Sep 4, 2020

Thinking today of how presidents in the past have spoken about those who gave their lives in service to country. And the pinnacle of that sentiment comes to mind: Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. I re-read it last night and felt it was worth sharing here.

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war.

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Dan Rather

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Aug 18, 2020

TOP TEN QUESTIONS FOR THE DNC

1) Will anyone watch? It's virtual, but also, there's nothing much new on anyway.

2) Will there be any surprises? These conventions have become about as scripted as the safety announcements on airplanes (remember those?). But just when you think there will be nothing of interest, fate often intervenes. Will it here?

3) What will Donald Trump be doing? The norm has been that candidates stay quiet during the conventions of their opponents. Yeah right. Tell that to the ALL CAPS key in the president's Twitter App.

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