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  • CRONKITE: DAN SHOULD HAVE STEPPED DOWN LONG TIME AGO

    03/07/2005 8:19:59 PM PST · by blogblogginaway · 34 replies · 1,069+ views
    MyWay via Drudge ^ | march 8, 2004 | via drudge
    NEW YORK (AP) - Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather's predecessor at the "CBS Evening News," said Monday that Rather's replacement by Bob Schieffer was overdue. Rather, 73, ends his run as evening news anchor Wednesday, exactly 24 years after replacing Cronkite. Schieffer, the "Face the Nation" host, will be a temporary fill-in until CBS decides on a permanent replacement. Cronkite called Schieffer "one of the great television journalists of our time." "Although Dan did a fine job, I would have liked to have seen (Schieffer) there a long time ago," Cronkite said during an interview on CNN. "He would have given...