Bob Schieffer
Bob Schieffer
Bob Lloyd Schiefferis an American television journalist. Schieffer married Patricia Penrose Schieffer in 1967. They have two daughters and three granddaughters...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth25 February 1937
CityAustin, TX
CountryUnited States of America
hurt thinking people
Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it'll hurt the guy on the other side.
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I also think it's not just good for the American people to have independent observers along, I think it's also good for the military.
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I think we've come a tremendous distance here. We had been beaten about the heads and shoulders so badly for so long there that people were pretty quiet about the office. People are talking again. They're having more fun, and they're smiling more.
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But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.
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The most challenging aspect of it is not interviewing the people, but getting the right people at the right time to be interviewed.
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It does not seem to me like I've been doing this for a year. It seems like I've been doing it for two weeks.
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But I'm not too old to continue moderating Face the Nation . I'll continue that indefinitely after the anchor duties are concluded.
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I couldn't be happier. She's going to be a terrific addition to CBS News.
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It does not help in any way for me to get into some kind of a fight with the secretary of defense, since he is there,
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God knows where there is a safe place in Iraq.
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I'd covered the campaign in 1988, and I'd managed to gain an even 20 pounds, which is one of the dangers you have covering those campaigns.
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Prior to 9/11, everybody was talking about at least one of the evening news programs going away, that their future was very limited.
katie
I'm a big Katie fan, I've always been a big Katie fan.
glamour star
It was the glamour beat; that's where you put your star reporter.