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Two other terrific team owners areJerry Jones, owner of the Dallas

Cowboys, andBob Tisch, owner of the New York Giants. Tisch has done so
well in every capacity, whether it’s business or sports. He’s in his
seventies, but he’s got the attitude of someone in his twenties, thirties, or
forties.
Larry Silverstein,the developer of the new World Trade Center
complex, is a good friend of mine, but I really hate what’s being designed

for the site. It resembles a skeleton, and I can’t believe Larry really
wanted to evoke that image. In actuality, Larry is being forced to do
certain things that he would not do under normal circumstances, but he has
to go with the flow. Nevertheless, I’m sure he’ll do a terrific job.
Finally, since Page Six often takes a few digs at people, here are mine:
Dan Ratheris not one of my favorite people. A few years ago, he
wanted to profile me for60 Minutes. As we toured Mar-a-Lago and Trump

International Golf Club in Florida, he couldn’t have been nicer or more
respectful. I was sure the interview would be a total home run.
When the interview aired, it couldn’t have been nastier. He showed me
giving a speech to an empty room at a poorly planned event, when the day
before I’d given the same speech to a standing-room-only crowd. But60

Minutes didn’t air that speech. They just wanted me to look as bad as
possible.
Dan Rather is an enigma to me. He’s got absolutely no talent or
charisma or personality, yet year after year, CBS apologizes for his terrible
ratings. I could take the average guy on the street and have him read the
news on CBS and that guy would draw bigger ratings than Dan Rather
does. When I see Rather at Yankee games, I stay away from him. However,
I will say one nice thing about him: Recently, he was the emcee at a Police

Athletic League dinner for District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, one of
the great men in the history of New York City. Dan called me and told me
he felt very uncomfortable being the emcee of a dinner for which I was the
chairman. I told him I appreciated the call and that it would be fine with
me if he was the emcee. He did a nice job, but I’ll never forget what he did

to me on60 Minutes. People don’t change their stripes.