In 2004 Dan Rather tarnished his career forever with a much-criticized report on George W. Bush’s National Guard service. Eight years later, the story behind the story can finally be told: what CBS’s top-ranking newsman did, what the president of the United States didn’t do, and how some feuding Texas pols got the whole ball rolling.
The race pitting Democrat Steven E. Floss, the insider supported by the incumbent, against Republican-backed Richard A. Wainwright, the candidate from the business world, is a rematch of their June