Dan Rather married his wife, Jean, in 1957, and they raised two children, daughter Robin and son Danjack, as Rather became an overseas correspondent and eventually a news anchor, replacing Walter Cronkite at CBS in 1981. Rather told Closer Weekly how he met Jean and how she was the family's rock while he was working.
"I was working at KTRH radio in Houston and she came to work in a secretarial position. In my case, it was love at first sight. Not only was she so intelligent, she was smoking hot, and it took me a while to convince her to marry me," Rather said. "I don't think there's any secret about it. You have to work at it, and having two wonderful children has helped. Mostly thanks to Jean, they have grown into very good adults. When I was covering the Civil Rights Movement, there was a year when I was only home for 31 days, and I was in Vietnam for the better part of 1965–'66. But I never take it for granted. I'm still working at it. Because if for any reason Jean left me, I wouldn't be worth a damn."
Those two children who are now adults have given Rather and Jean two grandsons, Martin and Andrew.
