**FILE** Dan Rather talks to a cameraman before a news conference at the CBS Broadcast Center on Oct. 18, 2001 in New York. Dan Rather, the hard-charging anchorman who dominated CBS News for more than two decades but whose final months were clouded by a discredited story on the president's military service, is leaving CBS after 44 years, the network announced Tuesday, June 22, 2006.(AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)