"Dole opened up a new, more aggressive line of attack against affirmative action programs designed to fight discrimination against women and minorities."
--Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News, October 28, 1996.

"Some of your staff members, not by name, have been saying 'Yes, the President thinks Bob Dole is a nice person and has been a pretty good leader in some ways, but, they say, he's been captured by extremists in the Republican Party, the radical part of the Republican Party, including Newt Gingrich. Is that what you think?"
--Dan Rather interviewing President Clinton on 60 Minutes, August 18, 1996.

RATHER: Now for his part, Bob Dole reopened one of his favorite lines of attack today about President Clinton's health records.
JONES: Dan, this campaign is headed exactly where everybody expected it to go: personal.
--Dan Rather and Phil Jones on the CBS Evening News, September 12, 1996.

"Even some Republicans describe the current platform as quote, 'harsh, extreme,' even 'radical.' Do you see it that way?"
--Dan Rather to Jack Kemp on the CBS Evening News, August 1996.

Bob Dole had just given his acceptance speech:
And while this was not your basic attack speech, not by any stretch of the imagination, this was a speech trying to be inspiring and uplifting. Senator Dole showed that he can, as every candidate must, when required, he can punch.
--Dan Rather during live coverage of the Republican National Convention, August 15, 1996.

"The 15 percent tax cut is the heart of their [Bob Dole's campaign] strategy to win, but it is very closely welded to one of their other major themes, and this is basically the way they put it, 'It's his character, stupid.'"
--Dan Rather to Bill Clinton on 60 Minutes, August 18, 1996."

Bob Dole was losing to Bill Clinton in the polls a few weeks before the election:
"Rita, true or untrue that they're preparing for a kind of carpet bombing on character?"
--Dan Rather to Rita Braver on the CBS Evening News, October 16, 1996. print_file('footer'); ?>