“Good evening. President Reagan, still training his spotlight on the economy, today signed a package of budget cuts that he will send to Congress tomorrow. Lesley Stahl has the story.”

—  Dan Rather

Rather's first lines in his debut as anchor of The CBS Evening News, Monday, March 9, 1981.

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