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Bob Lloyd Schieffer (born February 25, 1937 in Austin, Texas) is an American journalist who has been with CBS News since 1969, serving 23 years as anchor on the Saturday edition of CBS Evening News from 1973-1996; chief Washington correspondent since 1982, moderator of the Sunday public affairs show Face the Nation since 1991, and, between March of 2005 and August 31, 2006, interim weekday anchor of the CBS Evening News. Katie Couric, formerly of NBC's Today show, succeeded Schieffer as anchor on September 5, 2006. Bob Schieffer source http://www. ...
February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Nickname: Location in the state of Texas Coordinates: , Country United States State Texas Counties Travis County Government - Mayor Will Wynn Area - City 296. ...
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CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963. ...
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Schieffer is one of the few journalists to have covered all four of the major Washington national assignments, the White House, The Pentagon, United States Department of State, and United States Congress. His career with CBS has almost exclusively dealt with national politics. For other uses, see White House (disambiguation). ...
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Type Bicameral Houses Senate House of Representatives United States Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D since January 4, 2007 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D since January 4, 2007 Members 535 plus 4 Delegates and 1 Resident Commissioner Political groups (as of November 7, 2006 elections) Democratic Party Republican...
Schieffer is a survivor of grade III bladder cancer; he was diagnosed in 2003 and is currently cancer-free.[1]
In 2004, he was the moderator of the third presidential debate between President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry. shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The 2004 United States Presidential Election Debates were sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) and concluded October 13, nearly three weeks before election scheduled for November 2, 2004. ...
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George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ...
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Schieffer is married to the former Patricia Penrose Bishop and has two daughters.
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Bob Schieffer grew up in Fort Worth, Texas and is a Texas Christian University alumnus, and an alumnus of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. The journalism school at TCU was later named after him. After graduating, he served in the U.S. Air Force as a captain and information officer. He was honorably discharged and joined the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as a reporter, with one of his key assignments a trip to Vietnam to profile soldiers from the Fort Worth area. At the Star Telegram he also covered the JFK Assassination. He then joined WBAP in Dallas before taking a job with CBS in 1969. Nickname: Motto: Where the West Begins Location in the state of Texas Coordinates: Country United States State Texas Counties Tarrant and Denton Government - Mayor Michael J. Moncrief Area - City 298. ...
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Phi Delta Theta (ΦΔΘ) is an international fraternity founded in 1848 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. ...
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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is a major U.S. daily newspaper serving Fort Worth and the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex. ...
John F. Kennedy The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 PM Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC). ...
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Rise to the anchor's desk He was anchor of the Sunday broadcast from 1973 to 1976 and of the Saturday broadcast until 1996. Between 1970 and 1974, he was assigned to the Pentagon, from 1974 to 1979 he was CBS's White House correspondent, and in 1982 he became chief Washington correspondent in addition to his anchor duties. Image File history File links BobSchieffer. ...
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Year 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the 1976 Gregorian calendar. ...
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In the wake of Dan Rather's controversial retirement, he was named interim anchor for the weekday CBS Evening News. He assumed that job on March 10, 2005, the day following Rather's last broadcast. Under Schieffer, the CBS Evening News reversed some of the decline in ratings during Rather's tenure, gaining about 200,000 viewers, although remaining in third place. Some of this was attributed to the Schieffer family's closeness with President George W. Bush; Bush had previously refused to grant an interview to Rather. Schieffer closed the gap with ABC's World News Tonight when co-anchor Bob Woodruff was injured in late January 2006. He made his last CBS Evening News broadcast on August 31, 2006, and was replaced in the anchor chair by Katie Couric. On Couric's second broadcast, he returned to provide segments for the evening news as Chief Washington Correspondent. Daniel Irvin Rather, Jr. ...
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George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ...
World News with Charles Gibson (previously known as World News Tonight and often abbreviated as WNT) is an American television news program. ...
Bob Woodruff, with former World News Tonight co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas, prior to his injuries in Iraq. ...
CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963. ...
Katherine Anne Couric (born January 7, 1957) is an American media personality who became well-known as co-host of NBCs Today. ...
Schieffer has been praised by longtime CBS anchor Walter Cronkite and some others for his style. Schieffer has won six Emmy awards, won two Sigma Delta Chi awards, was named Broadcaster of the Year in 2002 by the National Press Foundation, and was named to the Broadcasting/Cable Hall of Fame. Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. ...
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Books Schieffer has written two books about his career in journalism: 'Face the Nation : My Favorite Stories from the First 50 Years of the Award-Winning News Broadcast, and This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV. Previously, he was a regular guest on the Don Imus morning radio show. John Donald Imus, Jr. ...
Other Interests Since leaving the anchor desk at CBS Evening News in 2006, Schieffer has entertained his longstanding interest in songwriting by collaborating with musicians in New York and Washington, D.C. His latest efforts have resulted in four songs with the Washington area band Honky Tonk Confidential, all of which appear on their latest CD, Road Kill Stew and Other News (with Special Guest Bob Schieffer). Schieffer sings “TV Anchorman,” and wrote the lyrics for the others. // Honky Tonk Confidential is a retro/alt country band from the Washington, D.C. area. ...
Family Schieffer is the older brother of Tom Schieffer, a friend and former business partner of President George W. Bush, who was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Australia 2001-2005 by President Bush and as of November, 2005 is currently the U.S. Ambassador to Japan. John Thomas Tom Schieffer (born October 4, 1947) is the current United States Ambassador to Japan, and served as U.S. Ambassador to Australia from 2001 to 2005. ...
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ...
Legacy Despite the trend of the last 30 years of news anchors being big media stars, Schieffer has bucked this trend by maintaining his focus on his roots as a reporter and writer. In his most recent memoir, Schieffer credits the fact he has been a beat reporter at CBS for his longevity at the network and his lack of involvements in the office politics of TV journalism. In This Just In, Schieffer noted a rare off-camera appearance in the comics. After fellow CBS newscaster and Texan Dan Rather was switched from the White House beat to hosting the documentary show CBS Reports in 1974, the Doonesbury comic strip featured a joking fantasy scene in which Schieffer, his successor, haltingly comments on the transition: Doonesbury is a comic strip by Garry Trudeau, popular in the United States and other parts of the world. ...
It was the affiliates --they just couldn't take him. I mean let's face it, Dan wasn't exactly MR. TACT!. I dunno...Maybe it's just as well in the long run, I mean, you know? Anyway, this is Robert Schieffer at the White House...
Schieffer's recollection of the comic strip for This Just In contains this postscript: "The strip was right on except for one thing. My real name is Bob, not Robert." And he noted wife Pat's reaction to the drawing: "Who would have thought you'd be the star of television and the funny papers?"
Announcements On Monday July 16, at 9p ET, CBS’s Bob Schieffer will be appearing on “Conversations with Michael Eisner” on CNBC.
References - ^ Interview with Larry King, CNN, February 22, 2004 [[1]]
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