Bob Schieffer

Schieffer was born on February 25, 1937, in Austin, Texas, to John Emmitt Schieffer and Gladys Payne Schieffer, and grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. He is an alumnus of North Side High School, and received a B.A. in journalism and English in 1959 from Texas Christian University (TCU). In university he was a member of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps and the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.{{cite news|url=https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/131267/cbs-news-anchor-proud-of-air-force-past/|title=CBS News Anchor Bob Schieffer Proud of Air Force Past|first=Matthew|last=Bates|work=Air Force Print News|date=19 April 2006|access-date=28 June 2016}} The College of Communication at TCU was renamed in Bob Schieffer's honor in 2013.{{cite news|url=https://www.tcu360.com/2016/04/schieffer-family-establishes-lucrative-tcu-scholarship/|title=Schieffer Family Establishes Full Ride TCU Scholarship|work=TCU Department of Journalism|first=Clayton|last=Youngman|date=19 April 2016|access-date=28 June 2016}}

After graduating from TCU, Schieffer served in the United States Air Force for three years as a public information officer stationed at Travis Air Force Base and later McChord Air Force Base.This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV by Bob Schieffer He was honorably discharged and joined the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as a reporter, with one of his key assignments being a trip to Vietnam to profile soldiers from the Fort Worth area. Schieffer was the first reporter from a Texas newspaper who reported from Vietnam.

It was at the Star Telegram that he received his first major journalistic recognition when John Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963.{{cite web|url=http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/details.asp?aID=10278& |title=So What Do You Do, Bob Schieffer, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News? |publisher=Mediabistro |date=August 25, 2008 |first=Alissa |last=Krinsky |access-date=December 25, 2014}} Shortly after President Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas, Schieffer was in the Star-Telegram office and received a telephone call from a woman in search of a ride to Dallas. The woman was Marguerite Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald's mother, whom he accompanied to the Dallas police station, where he spent the next several hours. In the company of Oswald's mother, Marguerite, and his wife, Marina, he was able to use the phone in the police station to call in dispatches from other Star-Telegram reporters in the building. This enabled the Star-Telegram to create four "Extra" editions on the day of the assassination.{{citation needed|date=June 2015}} Schieffer later joined the Star-Telegram's television station, WBAP-TV in Fort Worth, before taking a job with CBS in 1969.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bob-schieffer-08-07-1998/|title=Bob Schieffer|date=8 July 1998|first=Mary-Jayne|last=McKay |website=CBS News|language=en|access-date=2020-01-27}}

Schieffer was anchor of the CBS Sunday Night News from 1973 to 1974, the CBS Sunday Evening News in 1976, and of the Saturday Evening News broadcast for twenty years from 1976 until 1996. He also anchored the weekday CBS morning show at the time called "Morning", which was titled in accordance to the day of the week (Monday Morning, Tuesday Morning, etc.) from 1979 to 1980. One of his best known roles was as moderator of the Sunday public affairs show, Face the Nation, from 1991 until May 31, 2015.

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Schieffer was also known for his reporting duties. Between 1970 and 1974, he was assigned to the Pentagon. From 1974 to 1979, he was the White House correspondent for CBS, and in 1982 he became Chief Washington Correspondent, in addition to his anchor duties.{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/journalist-bob-schieffer_b_7479988|title=Journalist Bob Schieffer Retires|last=Peyronnin|first=Joe |author-link=Joe Peyronnin |date=2015-05-31|website=HuffPost|language=en|access-date=2020-01-27}}

In the wake of Dan Rather's controversial retirement,[https://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2004-11-23-tv-rather_x.htm Rather: 'Time for me to move on'] USAToday.com, November 23, 2004[http://www.slate.com/id/2110113/ Telling It Slant] Slate, November 24, 2004 he was named interim anchor for the weekday CBS Evening News.[https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/mar/13/business.theobserver Dan Rather given a bite by Cronkite] The Observer, March 13, 2005 He assumed that job on March 10, 2005, the day following Rather's last broadcast.{{Cite web|url=https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/schieffer-named-interim-evening-anchor-105807|title=Schieffer Named Interim Evening Anchor|date=21 June 2023 }}

Under Schieffer, the CBS Evening News gained about 200,000 viewers, to average 7.7 million viewers, reversing some of the decline in ratings that occurred during Rather's tenure; while NBC Nightly News was down by 700,000 viewers, and ABC's World News Tonight lost 900,000.[http://www.poynter.org/uncategorized/74602/couric-confirms-shes-headed-for-cbs/ Couric Confirms: She’s Headed for CBS] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604123103/http://www.poynter.org/uncategorized/74602/couric-confirms-shes-headed-for-cbs/ |date=2011-06-04 }} Poynter, April 4, 2006 Schieffer closed the gap with ABC's World News Tonight when co-anchor Bob Woodruff was injured in late January 2006.{{cite news |last1=Steinberg |first1=Jacques |title=Ratings Give CBS News a Sign of Hope |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/17/arts/television/ratings-give-cbs-news-a-sign-of-hope.html |website=The New York Times |date=17 May 2006 |access-date=27 November 2019}}

Schieffer made his last CBS Evening News broadcast on August 31, 2006,[http://www.poynter.org/uncategorized/76384/katie-couric-cbs-timeline-1975-2010/ Katie Couric / CBS Timeline (1975–2010)] Poynter, July 19, 2006 and was replaced by Katie Couric.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120928091044/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/12137229/ns/today-entertainment/ Katie Couric says she's leaving ‘Today’] MSNBC, July 4, 2006 On Couric's second broadcast, he returned to provide segments for the evening news as chief Washington correspondent. Schieffer was also a substitute anchor for Couric and Scott Pelley when he became anchor of the evening news in June 2011.

On October 13, 2004, Schieffer was the moderator of the third presidential debate between President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry in Tempe, Arizona.{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2004/10/14/4108648/bush-kerry-spar-over-domestic-policy-issues|title=Bush, Kerry Spar in 3rd Debate|website=NPR|language=en|access-date=2020-01-28}} On October 15, 2008, Schieffer moderated the third presidential debate between Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain at Hofstra University in Uniondale, New York.{{Cite book|title=The 2008 Presidential Campaign: A Communication Perspective|url=https://archive.org/details/studiesidentityp00dent|url-access=limited|last=Denton|first=Robert E.|year=2009|pages=[https://archive.org/details/studiesidentityp00dent/page/n109 93]}} Schieffer also moderated the third debate of the presidential candidates in 2012, between President Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, on October 22, in Boca Raton, Florida.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/22/bob-schieffer-boca-raton-debate-moderator|title=Bob Schieffer: CBS veteran in the chair for crucial Boca Raton debate|last=Gabbatt|first=Adam|date=2012-10-22|work=The Guardian|access-date=2020-01-28|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}

In 2013, Schieffer won the National Association of Broadcasters Distinguished Service Award and the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.{{cite web|publisher=Arizona State University|title=Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication|url=https://cronkite.asu.edu/about/walter-cronkite-and-asu/walter-cronkite-award|access-date=November 23, 2016}}{{Cite web|title=NAB Awards {{!}} Past Award Recipients|url=https://www.nab.org/events/awards/pastAwardWinners.asp|access-date=2021-06-22|website=National Association of Broadcasters|language=en-US}}

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On April 8, 2015, Schieffer announced his intention to retire as host of Face the Nation while speaking at his alma mater, Texas Christian University. Schieffer departed after working in journalism for 52 years, 46 of those years with CBS.{{cite web|title="Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer to retire this summer|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-host-bob-schieffer-retire-this-summer/|periodical=Face the Nation|publisher=CBS News|date=April 8, 2015}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/business/veteran-cbs-newscaster-bob-schieffer-announces-plan-to-retire.html|title=Veteran CBS Newscaster Bob Schieffer Announces Plan to Retire|first=John|last=Koblin|date=8 April 2015|work=The New York Times}} On the April 12 broadcast of the program, he announced that John Dickerson, the political director for CBS, would succeed him, beginning in June 2015.John Dickerson Will Succeed Bob Schieffer on 'Face the Nation' [http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/334881/john-dickerson-will-succeed-bob-schieffer-on-face-the-nation/ Poynter.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150412181240/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/334881/john-dickerson-will-succeed-bob-schieffer-on-face-the-nation/ |date=2015-04-12 }} Retrieved April 12, 2015.

As he prepared to retire from Face The Nation, Schieffer reflected on the acclaim that came his way during the latter stages of his career. "The interesting thing about my life — a lot of the recognition I got was after most people retired," he told The New York Times, going on to add, "I think that people just became familiar with me just because I had been there and others had come and gone."{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/30/business/media/bob-schieffer-of-face-the-nation-prepares-to-sign-off.html|title=Bob Schieffer of 'Face the Nation' Prepares to Sign Off|first=John|last=Koblin|newspaper=The New York Times |date=29 May 2015}}

Schieffer's final broadcast as moderator of Face the Nation was on May 31, 2015.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-transcripts-may-31-2015-jeb-bush-john-brennan/|title=Face the Nation Transcripts May 31, 2015: Jeb Bush, John Brennan|work=CBS News|date=31 May 2015 |language=en|access-date=2020-01-28}}

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 CD, Road Kill Stew and Other News (with Special Guest Bob Schieffer). Schieffer sings "TV Anchorman", and wrote the lyrics for the other songs.{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/slideshow/Bob-Schieffer-and-Honky-Tonk-Confidential-29457.php|title=Bob Schieffer and Honky Tonk Confidential|date=2007-05-18|website=Times Union|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-28}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/five-things-you-may-not-know-about-bob-schieffer/|title=Five Things You May Not Know About Bob Schieffer|last1=Campbell|first1=Elizabeth|first2=Richard|last2=Escobedo|website=CBS News|language=en|access-date=2020-01-28|date=April 19, 2019}}

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Schieffer married Patricia Penrose in 1967; they have two daughters and three granddaughters.

Schieffer is the older brother of Tom Schieffer, a long time Texas state legislator and friend and former business partner of President George W. Bush, who was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Australia from 2001 to 2005 by President Bush,{{Cite web|url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/outofdate/bios/s/7583.htm|title=Schieffer, John Thomas (Tom)|publisher=Department Of State, Office of Electronic Information, Bureau of Public Affairs|website=2001-2009.state.gov|language=en|access-date=2020-01-28}} and served as U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 2005 through 2009.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ussc.edu.au/people/thomas-schieffer|title=Ambassador J. Thomas Schieffer — United States Studies Centre|website=www.ussc.edu.au|access-date=2020-01-28}} In 2009, Tom Schieffer campaigned for the Democratic nomination for governor but withdrew from the race on November 23, 2009, citing an inability to raise enough cash to fund an effective campaign.{{Cite web|url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/burka-blog/lets-talk-about-this-gap-on-your-resume/|title=Let's talk about this gap on your resume…|date=2009-03-02|website=Texas Monthly|language=en|access-date=2020-01-28}}

Schieffer has a sister, Sharon Schieffer Mayes, who is a retired teacher and school administrator who taught science for 17 years before becoming the Vice Principal of Dunbar High School in Fort Worth, Texas. Sharon Mayes eventually became the high school principal at Keller High School at a time when only 2 percent of the principals in the largest high schools in Texas were women.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/schieffer-brothers-tom-bob-made-their-ways-via-fort-worth/248144/|title=Schieffer Brothers, Tom, Bob, Made Their Ways Via Fort Worth|website=NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth|date=31 May 2019 |language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-28}}

Schieffer is a survivor of grade III bladder cancer. He was diagnosed in 2003 and has been cancer-free since 2004.[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/22/lkl.00.html Transcript – Bob Schieffer interview with Larry King] CNN LARRY KING LIVE, February 22, 2004 He has been diagnosed as having type 2 diabetes, and is on insulin therapy.[http://www.dlife.com/dlifetv/video/bob-schieffer-faces-diabetes Video Interview – Bob Schieffer Faces Diabetes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130722224717/http://www.dlife.com/dlifetv/video/bob-schieffer-faces-diabetes |date=2013-07-22 }} dLife,

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 October 13, 1974, edition of the Doonesbury comic strip featured a joking fantasy scene in which Schieffer, his successor, haltingly comments on the transition: "It was the affiliates{{spaced ndash}}they just couldn't take him.{{cite web|others=Doonesbury comic strip|title=Doonesbury by G.B. Trudeau|url=http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1974/10/13|work=gocomics.com|access-date=25 October 2011}} 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 notes that "The strip was right on except for one thing. My real name is Bob, not Robert").

Schieffer had a cameo appearance beside Harrison Ford in the 2010 film, Morning Glory, along with his CBS News colleague Morley Safer as well as MSNBC's Chris Matthews.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/morning-glory-97503/|title=Morning Glory|last=Travers|first=Peter|date=2010-11-10|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-28}}

He also had a cameo appearance on television series Madam Secretary in the episode named "Face of Nation".{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4396898/characters/nm1336705|title=Face of Nation|website =IMDb|language=en-US}}

• 1973–1974: CBS Sunday Night News anchor{{cite news| url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/20/ftn/bios/main530179.shtml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060215152225/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/20/ftn/bios/main530179.shtml | url-status=dead | archive-date=February 15, 2006 | work=CBS News | title=Bob Schieffer | date=June 17, 2010}}
• 1973–1996: 60 Minutes contributor{{Cite web|url=https://www.yardbarker.com/entertainment/articles/60_at_turns_50_every_60_minutes_host_and_correspondent_throughout_the_years/s1__27303455|title='60' at turns 50: Every '60 Minutes' host and correspondent throughout the years|date=2018-12-14|website=Yardbarker|language=en|access-date=2020-01-28}}
• 1973–2005: CBS Evening News anchor (summer and weekend editions)
• 1982–2015: CBS News Chief Washington correspondent
• May 1991 – May 31, 2015: Face the Nation moderator
• March 10, 2005 – August 31, 2006: CBS Evening News anchor
• 2016–present: CBS News contributor

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• Good Show, President Reagan: The Acting President (1989) with Gary Paul Gates{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/30/books/did-the-white-house-run-itself.html |title=Did the White House run itself? |last=Judis |first=John B. |date=1989-07-30 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2017-10-05}}
• This Just In: What I Couldn’t Tell You on TV (2003){{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/this-just-in-by-bob-schieffer/ |title='This Just In' By Bob Schieffer |last=Morales |first=Tatiana |date=2003-01-30 |work=CBS News |access-date=2017-10-05 }}
• Face the Nation: My Favorite Stories from the First 50 Years of the Award-Winning News Broadcast (2004){{cite magazine |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7432-6585-0 |title=Face the Nation: My Favorite Stories from the First 50 Years of the Award-Winning News Broadcast |date=2004-08-16 |magazine=Publishers Weekly |access-date=2017-10-05}}
• Bob Schieffer's America (2008){{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bob-schieffers-takes-on-america/ |title=Bob Schieffer's Takes On America |date=2008-09-09 |work=CBS News |access-date=2017-10-05 }}
• Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News (2017){{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sunday-bob-schieffer/ |title=Sunday: Bob Schieffer |last=Hinson |first=Elizabeth |date=2017-09-28 |work=CBS News |access-date=2017-10-05 }} with H. Andrew Schwartz{{cite magazine |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/reviews/single/9781538107218?permamore |title=Overload: Finding Truth in Today's Deluge of News |date=2017-10-01 |magazine=Publishers Weekly |access-date=2017-10-05}}

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