Bob Schieffer

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Bob Schieffer is broadcast journalism's most experienced Washington reporter. He is the network's chief Washington correspondent and also serves as anchor and moderator of "Face The Nation", CBS News' Sunday public affairs broadcast.

Schieffer served as interim anchor of "The CBS Evening News" from March 10, 2005, until Aug. 31, 2006. He is a regular contributor to "The CBS Evening News ."

Schieffer has covered Washington for CBS News for more than 30 years and is one of the few broadcast or print journalists to have covered all four major beats in the nation's capital - the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department and Capitol Hill. He has been Chief Washington correspondent since 1982 and congressional correspondent since 1989 and has covered every presidential campaign and been a floor reporter at all of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions since 1972. He began anchoring "Face The Nation" in May 1991.

Schieffer is a member of the Broadcasting/Cable Hall of Fame and is the recipient of the 2003 Paul White Award, presented by the Radio-Television News Directors Association. The award recognizes an individual's lifetime contribution to electronic journalism. Past CBS recipients include Edward R. Murrow ('64); Morley Safer ('66); Walter Cronkite ('70, '81); Don Hewitt ('87); Mike Wallace ('91); Charles Kuralt ('94); Dan Rather ('97); Ed Bradley (2000); Charles Osgood (2005) and Steve Kroft (2010).

He has won many other broadcast journalism awards, including seven Emmy Awards, one of which was for Lifetime Achievement, and two Sigma Delta Chi Awards. In 2002, he was chosen as Broadcaster of the Year by the National Press Foundation. Schieffer was also the 2004 recipient of the International Radio and Television Society Foundation Award and the American News Women's Club Helen Thomas Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 2005, his alma mater, Texas Christian University, created the Schieffer School of Journalism in his honor. In 2008, Schieffer won the Leonard Zeidenberg First Amendment award from the Radio Television News Directors Association and was named a "Living Legend" by the Library of Congress.

Schieffer has been a principal anchor for CBS News since 1973, when he was named anchor of the "CBS Sunday Night News." In August 1996, he stepped down as anchor of the Saturday edition of the "CBS Evening News", a post he held for 20 years. He and his colleague, Dan Rather, stand as the only two 20-year anchors of a regularly scheduled network news broadcast.

Schieffer joined CBS News in 1969 and, after a brief stint as a general assignment reporter, was named Pentagon correspondent, a post he held for four years.

Before joining CBS News, he was a reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and, in 1965, became the first reporter from a Texas newspaper to report from Vietnam. Schieffer later became news anchor at WBAP-TV Dallas/Fort Worth, a post that eventually led to his joining CBS News.

He is the author of "Bob Schieffer's America," "Face The Nation: My Favorite Stories from the First 50 Years of the Award-winning News Broadcast," as well as the 2003 New York Times bestseller, "This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You On TV" and "The Acting President," published in 1989.

Schieffer was born in Austin, Texas. He and his wife reside in Washington, D.C.

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by farrellnc October 9, 2011 11:13 AM EDT: Mr.Bob Sheiffer for President!; Reply to this comment


by usms October 9, 2011 10:42 AM EDT: Bob, I would suggest in the future, before you get in an argument about the constitution with an expert, you study up much more than you did today with Newt.; Reply to this comment


by southpaw99 October 2, 2011 12:11 PM EDT: I have always respected Bob's reporting very much.
I think he is the best news source out there.
I rank him similiar to Walter C.
Thank you CBS.; Reply to this comment


by FloridaJim September 26, 2011 10:16 AM EDT: Debbie Wasssermann-Ditz is disgusting she is so unfair she might as well be Chuck Schumer. Why didn't Schiefer allow Priebus to speak after allowing Wassermann-Ditz to talk over him? CBS is biased I can't watch them.; Reply to this comment


by 0709781 September 8, 2011 8:15 PM EDT: I rarely watch political speeches because of the ridiculousness that is going on in the House and Congress, then I get to hear your commentaries which just add to the ridiculousness. Your bio is impressive, however, you clearly aren't "independent" commenting in a neutral way. Can't figure out if you anti Democrat or anti African American. You clearly ridicule the President and his party. Our country is sooooo screwed.; Reply to this comment


by jwellsmaslow August 20, 2011 11:06 PM EDT: Dear Mr. Schieffer,
I always enjoy re-telling the story about when you answered the phone in the Dallas police station and Mrs.Oswald had called.
Since you were long familiar with Texas politics, I am wondering why it has not come up that:
1. A Texas Democratic in past was like a Republican today, not a whole lot of union activity down here.
2. Bob Bullock orchestrated power for the LT.gov.position to the degree that our governor office is more a figurehead.
I enjoy your program and especially your commentary.; Reply to this comment

by REnninga August 7, 2011 12:24 PM EDT

Sundaydialog

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by REnninga August 7, 2011 12:48 PM EDT: Dear Mr. Schieffer (and CBS),

Please broaden the dialogue by broadening the list of guests on Face the Nation. Repeatedly inviting a small list of guests like Messrs. Graham, Dean and Axelrod is like throwing raw meat into a dogfight; enabling rather than intervening. Americans tired long ago of the partisan vitriol that we hear every day of the week ad nauseum from Washington. Do we have to hear still more of it on Sunday mornings?

You (and CBS) should use the weekly Face the Nation platform to reach out for more moderate voices in our country who offer solutions rather than just more vitriol. This morning's program was just another wasted 30-minutes of finger pointing and accusations and nasty partisan rhetoric.

When your guests are rude, fail to (or refuse to) answer your questions and talk over each other (which you should have stopped, but didn't), they should not be asked back as guests for a few months - and more moderate, civil and forthcoming voices take their places. The point will soon be made to those rude and strongly partisan voices, and CBS can begin to chip away at the divisive barrier to constructive dialog and solutions in America.

You (and CBS) can help the dust to settle a bit so that America can begin to see its way forward again. Please stop throwing raw meat into the dogfight and be a part of the solution, rather than adding to the problem.

Sincerely,
Robert Enninga
A viewer in Oregon


by JackofLB August 5, 2011 10:02 PM EDT: Thank you, I would like to know why we send money to other countries when we can not take care of our own country? Why not take the money sent to other countries and invest in our own country, Jobs, Training, companies that hire our out of work people and most of all, The Men and women to served to protect us 24/7 make sure the have what they need.
Thank you Jack Engstrom; Reply to this comment


by kurt4417 August 1, 2011 6:00 PM EDT: Mr. Schieffer:

I firmly believe that you are one of the best newscasters in the business;folksy when needed,dry humor coupled with gravitas and believability.
I tremendously looked forward to your nightly newscasts before and after Katie Couric. You are well deserving of your many awards and accolades!

Kurt J. Noack; Reply to this comment


by wadeepwater July 31, 2011 7:01 PM EDT: Mr. Shieffer,

As a long time listener and a person appreciative of your reporting, I cannot understand why you would allow your guests to get away with promulgating scare tactics aimed at the elderly and unfortunate.

You allowed NY Senator Charles Schumer to get away with just such shameful behavior on your show this morning. It is a cheap political ploy unbecoming a member of the Senate and certainly an insult to your listeners. Please let the Senator from NY know how disgusted I am and that I thought you were both better than to stoop to such despicable, unprincipled and harmful rhetoric. Unless of course he was lying about the lock box all along.

That Mr. Sheiffer should have been your teachable moment. And not the one that finds disfavor with people who have the courage to stand on principle. It is for Senator Schumer to also find a compromise path, not spout unfounded threats on national TV because he cannot have his way either.

Oh, and by the way, every credit rating agency seeks for real meaningful debt and spending reduction, Something the dems don't appear honestly able to achieve.; Reply to this comment

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