Bob Schieffer
Bob Schieffer (born
February 25,
1937) has been a journalist with
CBS News since 1969, serving as a principal anchor since 1973, chief Washington correspondent since 1982, moderator of the Sunday public affairs show Face the Nation since 1991, and, beginning in March of 2005, anchor of the
CBS Evening News.
He is one of the few journalists to have covered all four of the major Washington national assignments, the White House, Pentagon, United States Department of State, and United States Congress. His career with CBS has almost exclusively dealt with national politics.
On October 13, 2004, he moderated the third presidential debate between George W. Bush and John Kerry.
Before joining CBS News, he was a reporter for The Fort Worth Star-Telegram and for WBAP in Dallas.
Schieffer is the brother of Tom Schieffer, a former business partner of Bush's whom Bush appointed U.S. Ambassador to Australia.
Bob Schieffer is a Texas Christian University alumnus.
Schieffer is an outspoken opponent of the Electoral College system.
He was anchor of the Sunday version of the CBS Evening News from 1973 to 1976 and of the Saturday version from then until 1996.
In the wake of Dan Rather's resignation due to Rathergate, he was named as interim replacement anchor for the weekday CBS Evening News. He assumed that job on March 10 2005, the day following Rather's retirement, with no announced date for naming a permanent replacement.
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