Rather says hard work is key to success

How did Dan Rather go from being a college student manning a rural Texas radio station – characterized as no more than an outhouse with an antenna on the top – to the long-running evening news anchor for CBS?

"I think the single-most important thing is be determined to work hard," he told University of Illinois students Wednesday evening.

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