Bob Schieffer Retiring, At 78, Bob Schieffer is qualified for think back about "past times worth remembering" of reporting. He accepts youngsters coming into the business can likewise gain from them.
Schieffer will have CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday for the last time following 24 years. He's resigning from a news-casting profession that started at 20 at a Fort Worth, Texas, radio station and landed him at CBS News in Washington when he strolled in on another person's meeting.
He's one of the remainder of an era of correspondents working at such an abnormal state; he secured the death of President John F. Kennedy, a story that gave him one of the greatest scoops of his profession.
"I assume each era feels that the children more youthful than them aren't in the same class as they were and tightened it up somehow," he said. "I make an effort not to sound like an old goat, but rather the truth of the matter is there will dependably be a requirement for correspondents, whether they are doing it on TV or a site or for a daily paper that is not on paper any longer."
He took in the specialty of reporting, and the significance of looking at certainties, from hard-nibbled daily paper editors. He's worried that numerous youthful writers now work in employments without editors to guide them.
His Kennedy scoop was an astounding sample of the significance of essentially noting the telephone. As a daily paper columnist in Fort Worth in November 1963, he grabbed a ringing telephone to discover Lee Harvey Oswald's mom hanging in the balance. She was searching for a ride to Dallas to see her child, the suspected shooter in the Kennedy death. Schieffer snatched a scratch pad and drove directly over to her.
As of late, a yearning correspondent in Texas sent Schieffer a note looking for counsel on a school venture. Schieffer sent his telephone number and the understudy answered that he'd rather talk through email. Schieffer Rule No. 1: get the telephone or drop by.
"How would you ask a subsequent inquiry?" he said. "How would you listen to a man and the tone of his voice to know whether he's putting you on? The most ideal approach to meeting somebody is eye to eye and I think we should get to that at whatever point we can."
Schieffer went to Vietnam on task for his daily paper and after he showed up on a nearby television show upon his arrival, a TV slot offered him a vocation. "It was $20 a week more than I made at the paper, and I required that $20," he said.
He advanced toward a neighborhood Washington station and, in April 1969, summoned the nerve to stroll in on the CBS News department boss without an arrangement. He was let into the official's office by a secretary who confused Schieffer for another Bob — long-term NBC News correspondent Robert Hager — who really had a meeting planned that day. Schieffer talked his way into the occupation and never left.
Schieffer never lost his Texas twang. No need. It fortifies his mark of asking direct, to-the-point questions without losing all sense of direction in the weeds of political gibberish.
"You never felt like he went Washington, which I generally felt was his best trait," said Chuck Todd, Schieffer's rival on NBC's "Meet the Press." ''You never fondled he got in mindless compliance, or became involved with Washington elitism."
Nothing irritates Schieffer more than when he doesn't pose a question on the grounds that he reasons for alarm its excessively basic, or that he knows the answer, just to locate an opponent created features by asking the one he disregarded.
Schieffer is irritated by the progressions he's seen in Washington. It's a meaner spot, he said, in part powered by Internet secrecy additionally by an absence of collegiality. Legislators of all stripes and their families used to know one another better yet now invest more energy in their areas and less time in the capital. A few families never move.
It has prompted a powerlessness to accomplish things that Schieffer says is a more serious risk to the nation's future than terrorism.
"It has changed the individuals who keep running for office now," he said. "I don't mean they're terrible individuals, however they're distinctive. They need to raise so much cash, they need to close down with such a variety of vested parties to arrive that once they're here they can't bargain their positions. Their positions are situated in stone."
Seeing the country's pioneers very close leads him to finish up, "Some of 'em I like superior to anything others, some of 'em I regard and some of 'em I don't. Regardless I think most about the individuals in government are great individuals, however there are a few special cases."
Retirement or not, he's not eager to uncover those special cases.
Before long Schieffer will pack up an office loaded down with memorabilia, quite a bit of it reflecting has energy for blue grass music. One photo demonstrates to him remaining by a bar with Walter Cronkite, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather. After his last show, he'll walk a couple squares to an eatery where old companions and partners will toast his residency.
Odds are he won't totally vanish from CBS News, with some senior statesman part lik
Schieffer will have CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday for the last time following 24 years. He's resigning from a news-casting profession that started at 20 at a Fort Worth, Texas, radio station and landed him at CBS News in Washington when he strolled in on another person's meeting.He's one of the remainder of an era of correspondents working at such an abnormal state; he secured the death of President John F. Kennedy, a story that gave him one of the greatest scoops of his profession.
"I assume each era feels that the children more youthful than them aren't in the same class as they were and tightened it up somehow," he said. "I make an effort not to sound like an old goat, but rather the truth of the matter is there will dependably be a requirement for correspondents, whether they are doing it on TV or a site or for a daily paper that is not on paper any longer."
He took in the specialty of reporting, and the significance of looking at certainties, from hard-nibbled daily paper editors. He's worried that numerous youthful writers now work in employments without editors to guide them.
His Kennedy scoop was an astounding sample of the significance of essentially noting the telephone. As a daily paper columnist in Fort Worth in November 1963, he grabbed a ringing telephone to discover Lee Harvey Oswald's mom hanging in the balance. She was searching for a ride to Dallas to see her child, the suspected shooter in the Kennedy death. Schieffer snatched a scratch pad and drove directly over to her.
As of late, a yearning correspondent in Texas sent Schieffer a note looking for counsel on a school venture. Schieffer sent his telephone number and the understudy answered that he'd rather talk through email. Schieffer Rule No. 1: get the telephone or drop by.
"How would you ask a subsequent inquiry?" he said. "How would you listen to a man and the tone of his voice to know whether he's putting you on? The most ideal approach to meeting somebody is eye to eye and I think we should get to that at whatever point we can."
Schieffer went to Vietnam on task for his daily paper and after he showed up on a nearby television show upon his arrival, a TV slot offered him a vocation. "It was $20 a week more than I made at the paper, and I required that $20," he said.
He advanced toward a neighborhood Washington station and, in April 1969, summoned the nerve to stroll in on the CBS News department boss without an arrangement. He was let into the official's office by a secretary who confused Schieffer for another Bob — long-term NBC News correspondent Robert Hager — who really had a meeting planned that day. Schieffer talked his way into the occupation and never left.
Schieffer never lost his Texas twang. No need. It fortifies his mark of asking direct, to-the-point questions without losing all sense of direction in the weeds of political gibberish.
"You never felt like he went Washington, which I generally felt was his best trait," said Chuck Todd, Schieffer's rival on NBC's "Meet the Press." ''You never fondled he got in mindless compliance, or became involved with Washington elitism."
Nothing irritates Schieffer more than when he doesn't pose a question on the grounds that he reasons for alarm its excessively basic, or that he knows the answer, just to locate an opponent created features by asking the one he disregarded.
Schieffer is irritated by the progressions he's seen in Washington. It's a meaner spot, he said, in part powered by Internet secrecy additionally by an absence of collegiality. Legislators of all stripes and their families used to know one another better yet now invest more energy in their areas and less time in the capital. A few families never move.
It has prompted a powerlessness to accomplish things that Schieffer says is a more serious risk to the nation's future than terrorism.
"It has changed the individuals who keep running for office now," he said. "I don't mean they're terrible individuals, however they're distinctive. They need to raise so much cash, they need to close down with such a variety of vested parties to arrive that once they're here they can't bargain their positions. Their positions are situated in stone."
Seeing the country's pioneers very close leads him to finish up, "Some of 'em I like superior to anything others, some of 'em I regard and some of 'em I don't. Regardless I think most about the individuals in government are great individuals, however there are a few special cases."
Retirement or not, he's not eager to uncover those special cases.
Before long Schieffer will pack up an office loaded down with memorabilia, quite a bit of it reflecting has energy for blue grass music. One photo demonstrates to him remaining by a bar with Walter Cronkite, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather. After his last show, he'll walk a couple squares to an eatery where old companions and partners will toast his residency.
Odds are he won't totally vanish from CBS News, with some senior statesman part lik
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