And don't forget, it was Rather who snagged an interview with Saddam Hussein in 2003.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/26/60II/main542151.shtml
44 years down the tubes.
If he'd just pulled out a gun and shot him then and there he would have gone out a freakin' hero. I'll let you guess which one would have been the shooter.