Bob Schieffer
Bob Schieffer was born in Austin, Texas, United States on February 25th, 1937 and is the TV Show Host. At the age of 87, Bob Schieffer biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Bob Lloyd Schieffer (born February 25, 1937) is an American television journalist.
He is known for his moderating presidential debates, in which he has been lauded for his ability.
Schieffer is one of the few journalists to have covered all four of Washington's most notable foreign missions: the White House, the Pentagon, the US Department of State, and the United States Congress.
His time with CBS has almost exclusively dealt with national politics.
Schieffer has worked with CBS Evening News from 1976 to 2015, as the host, chief Washington Correspondent, from 1992 to 2015, and moderator of the Sunday public affairs show, Face the Country, from 1991 to 2015.
Schieffer, an interim weekday anchor of CBS Evening News, was one of the primary substitutes for Katie Couric and Scott Pelley from March 10, 2005 to August 31, 2006. Schieffer, who resigned from Face the Country, has continued to work for CBS as a reporter, making numerous appearances on air giving political commentary on the 2016 presidential election.
Schieffer is currently podcasting episodes of "Bob Schieffer's 'About the News,' with H. Andrew Schwartz. Schieffer has written three books about his work in journalism: This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV, and Bob Schieffer's America.
Ronald Reagan, The Acting President, was co-authored by Gary Paul Gates and co-authored a book about him that was released in 1989.
Schieffer's book This Just In, Schieffer emphasizes the fact that he was a CBS beat reporter for his network's long tenure. Schieffer has received virtually every award in broadcast journalism, including eight Emmys, the Paul White Award from the TV News Association, and the Edward R. Murrow Award from Murrow's alma mater, Washington State University.
In 2008, he was named a living legend by the Library of Congress, and at Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center, where he is currently serving as the Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow.
Early life
Schieffer was born in Austin, Texas, to John Emmitt Schieffer and Gladys Payne Schieffer, and grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, on February 25, 1937. He is alumnus of North Side High School and graduated with a B.A. 1959 from Texas Christian University (TCU). He was a member of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps and Phi Delta Theta fraternity in university. In 2013, the College of Communication at TCU was renamed in honor of Bob Schieffer.
Personal life
In 1967, Schieffer married Patricia Penrose; they have two daughters and three grandchildren.
Schieffer, the younger brother of President George W. Bush, a mentor and former business associate, who was named U.S. president George W. Bush, is the older brother of Tom Schieffer. Ambassador to Australia from 2001 to 2005 by President Bush, who also served as the United States ambassador. Ambassador to Japan from 2005 to 2009. Tom Schieffer declared on March 2, 2009 that he was establishing an exploratory committee that would enable him to run for governor of Texas.
Sharon Schieffer Mayes, a retired science teacher and school administrator who taught science for 17 years before becoming the Vice Principal of Dunbar High School in Fort Worth, Texas, has a sister. Sharon Mayes later became the high school principal at Keller High School in Texas, when just 2 percent of the principals in Texas's top high schools were women.
Schieffer is a survivor of grade III bladder cancer. He was diagnosed in 2003 and has been cancer-free since 2004. He has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and insulin therapy.
Early career
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, graduating from TCU. He was honorably discharged and joined the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as a reporter, with one of his main duties being a trip to Vietnam to interview soldiers from the Fort Worth area. Schieffer was the first reporter from a Texas newspaper to cover Vietnam.
When John Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963, he received his first major journalistic award, according to the Star Telegram. Schieffer was in the Star-Telegram office shortly after President Kennedy was fired in Dallas, Texas, when a woman in search of a ride to Dallas called. The woman was Marguerite Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald's mother, who followed him to the Dallas police station, where he spent the next several hours. He was able to dial dispatches from other Star-Telegram reporters in the company of Marguerite's mother and his wife, Marina, using the telephone in the police station. On the day of the assassination, the Star-Telegram was able to produce four "Extra" editions. Schieffer worked with CBS in Fort Worth before starting on the Star-Telegram's television station WBAP-TV.
CBS Broadcasting career
Schieffer was anchor of CBS Sunday Night News from 1973 to 1974, the CBS Evening News in 1976, and the Saturday Evening News broadcast from 1976 to 1996. At the time, he anchored the CBS morning show "Morning," which was branded in accordance with the day of the week (Monday Morning, Tuesday Morning, etc.) From 1979 to 1980, there has been a change in the world. Face the Country's moderator, one of his finest roles, appeared on Sunday public affairs television, from 1991 to May 31, 2015.
Schieffer was also known for his reporting duties. He served in the Pentagon from 1970 to 1974. He served as the White House's correspondent from 1974 to 1979, and in 1982 he became Chief Washington Correspondent in addition to his anchoring duties.
In the aftermath of Dan Rather's unpopular retirement, he was named interim anchor for CBS Evening News this week. On March 10, 2005, the day after Rather's last broadcast, he took over the job.
The CBS Evening News gained nearly 200,000 viewers to average 7.7 million viewers, halting some of the decline in ratings that occurred under Schieffer's tenure; while NBC Nightly News lost 800,000. When co-anchor Bob Woodruff was wounded in late January 2006, Schieffer bridged the gap with ABC's World News Tonight.
On August 31, 2006, Schieffer appeared on CBS Evening News radio, but Katie Couric took over. On Couric's second broadcast, he reprised his duties as the chief Washington reporter. When he became the evening news anchor in June 2011, Schieffer became a substitute anchor for Couric and Scott Pelley.
In Tempe, Arizona, Schieffer, the moderator of President George W. Bush's third presidential debate with Senator John Kerry, was held on October 13, 2004. Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain debated at Hofstra University in Uniondale, New York, on October 15, 2008. Schieffer moderated the third presidential debate between Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain. On October 22, in Boca Raton, Florida, Schieffer moderated the third debate of the presidential candidates in 2012, between President Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
Schieffer received the National Association of Broadcasters Distinguished Service Award and the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2013.
Singing career
Schieffer's latest ventures have ignited his long-serving interest in songwriting by collaborating with musicians in Washington, D.C., including their CD, Road Kill Stew and Other News (with Special Guest Bob Schieffer). Schieffer performs "TV Anchorman" and wrote the lyrics for the other songs.