[JohnHuang2]

" I think it was more that he was in pain having to say something nice about the man instead of any real heartfelt emotion"

Bingo.

[Lee'sGhost]

Sorry, John, I think for once you are wrong. I believe that Rather was tearing up because his career was largely connected to reporting on and denigrating Dutch. The tears appear because Reagan's passing forces him to consider his own mortality. The difference is that when he dies no one will give a sh!t.