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With tears welling up in his eyes, Bob Schieffer finally concluded his 18-month tenure as anchor of the CBS Evening News with an emotional in-studio tribute. Incoming anchor Katie Couric joined Schieffer at the end of Thursday night's broadcast in studio for a retrospective of his career, featuring a one-one-one pre-taped interview with the former Today Show host herself (perhaps to give viewers a sneak peek of the Katie to come?). Schieffer's professionalism resuscitated the reputation of the CBS Evening News at a time when the legendary news organization was mired in scandal in the wake of a widely disputed...

(CBS) Before Bob Schieffer had the grand slam of Washington reporting jobs — working every beat inside the Beltway — before he started covering presidential conventions in 1972 and every one since, before he walked the White House grounds with the most powerful leader in the world, he covered a par two, 18th hole. "Bob Schieffer, CBS News, at the National Put-Put Championship," he signed off that evening. Back then, management didn't see Schieffer as anchor material. But he became the one CBS turned to in one of its darkest hours. "Good evening, I'm Bob Schieffer. And tonight, we turn...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - CBS News veteran Bob Schieffer wraps his 15-month run in the "CBS Evening News" anchor chair on Thursday, paving the way for Katie Couric's debut Tuesday. Schieffer recently spoke about Couric's prospects, his delayed retirement, a big regret, and his budding career as a songwriter. THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: HOW DO YOU THINK KATIE'S GOING TO DO WHEN SHE TAKES OVER THE ANCHOR CHAIR NEXT WEEK? Bob Schieffer: Katie's got all the tools. I think she's going to do a terrific job. She clearly has an enormous following. She's going to bring some people into the...

Allen Pizzey reported that Hezbollah agents are on the streets of Southern Lebanon handing out U.S. dollars to people whose homes were bombed out. One year after Katrina and we can't figure out how to get money to people who lost their homes in New Orleans, we're still not sure if it can survive another hurricane but a terrorist group has figured out how to get American money to the homeless in Lebanon? Talk about threats to national security – how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it can't get out of its own way? That's what...

On this morning's Face The Nation, Bob Schieffer asked Illinois Democrat Senator Barack Obama about ethics reform, which the anchor said "looks like it's just almost about to slide right off the table." Senator Obama responded: "Well, I'm not going to let it slide off the table." He went on to say that "We're going to try to see if we can ban some of the corporate jets that are being used and perks." Mr. Schieffer could have followed up with a question concerning the senator's own practices in that area. Last month in "The Hill," reporter Lynn Sweet wrote:...

SCHIEFFER: ...my friend Mark Shields, who is an ex-Marine, pointed out on "The Lehrer NewsHour" the other night, he pointed out that the US Marines can take people from all over this country, from all walks of life, and turn them into Marines in 16 weeks. Why can't the Iraqis get these people trained up? Mr. HADLEY: Well, the Iraqis can train the soldiers to be in the units. But of course, the ability of the unit to work and fight alone without any support is a function of a lot more than just the young men and women in...

February 20, 2006 -- IT'S exactly 100 days until Katie Couric's contract on the "Today" show expires — and NBC seems to be preparing for bad news. Two news leaks over the weekend indicate that Katie is ready to leave the show to take over the anchor desk at "CBS Evening News." First, TV Guide reports that Nat alie Morales has moved to the top of the replace ment list if Katie bolts to CBS. Morales is close to signing a long-term deal with the network, which would move her out of MSNBC, where she's been a daytime anchor since...

Andy Rooney: Schieffer 'Embarrassing' CBS News CBS’s ‘60 Minutes’ curmudgeon Andy Rooney says Bob Schieffer is "embarrassing the hell out of CBS.” In a televised appearance with CNN’s Larry King, Rooney said Schieffer should keep the job he was assigned on an interim basis after the departure of former ‘CBS Evening News’ anchor Dan Rather. CBS has been in hot pursuit of NBC ‘Today Show’ co-host Katie Couric as a possible "news celebrity” replacement for Schieffer on the Evening News program. The Tiffany network has reportedly offered Couric $20 million to leave NBC and take the job. Rooney suggested CBS...

Bob Schieffer: Osama bin Laden Used John Kerry's Talking Points 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden may have borrowed some of Sen. John Kerry's talking points for the audiotaped message he released on Thursday - veteran CBS newsman Bob Schieffer said Saturday. Asked whether bin Laden had expressed "almost the same" sentiments that Kerry did during an appearance on Schieffer's "Face the Nation" broadcast in December, the CBS anchorman told WABC Radio's Mark Simone: "Well, he did. That's exactly right." Back then, Kerry complained to Schieffer: "There is no reason that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes...

In today's installment of "As Katie Couric Turns," Bob Schieffer says he's wild about the Today star. Schieffer, "interim" anchor of CBS Evening News since March, would do a happy dance if the network signed Couric as his successor when her NBC contract expires in May. Couric "is a big-time journalist. I'm hoping we can get her," says Schieffer, scheduled to anchor Evening News from the National Constitution Center tomorrow, eve of the world premiere there of the traveling Ben Franklin exhibition. (CBS's KYW is a sponsor.) Like his new boss, Sean McManus, and his boss, Les Moonves, Schieffer waxes...

Executives at ABC and CBS News can be relieved this week that, unlike with Hurricane Katrina, their Rita coverage didn't appear seriously affected by voids at the chief anchor position left by the late Peter Jennings and Dan Rather. It's been more than five months since both men last anchored the evening news. ABC is conducting its search for a successor very privately. CBS has struggled, although it gave itself the bigger challenge. NBC's ratings spiked high in the wake of Katrina and the very visible work of its anchorman, Brian Williams. Even though its anchor decision hasn't been made,...

Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, arrived at CBS' Washington studios Sunday with one unusual talking point for his ''Face the Nation'' interview clearly in mind. He claimed Iraqi women were better off under Saddam Hussein's barbarous regime than they are likely to be under the nascent democracy. In fact, he said it three times. ''That's a terrible thing to say,'' one old-line Democratic loyalist told me. ''But what are we going to do about him? We're stuck with him.'' The answer by this Democrat and many others is to ignore him, which is not easy when he...

Deanocrats exposed: A party of no ideas Tuesday, August 16, 2005 Give CBS's Bob Schieffer credit for asking a simple question to expose Howard Dean as the beefless polemicist he is. The Democratic National Committee chairman sat for Mr. Schieffer's "Face the Nation" on Sunday. The topic: Iraq. The question: What do Democrats propose to do about the public perception that the war has left us more vulnerable to terrorists? "Well, I think first of all, we need a plan," Dean said; President Bush "had no plan when we got there and has no plan to get us out. (The)...

CBS Evening News interim anchor Bob Schieffer gives the network a bonus - the White House likes him, says CBS chairman Les Moonves. "That's not the end-all, be-all, but obviously the White House doesn't hate CBS anymore with Schieffer in the chair," Moonves said in an interview Wednesday at the TV critics' summer meetings here. Did the White House hate CBS with Dan Rather in the chair? "Post-Memogate, I'm sure they did," Moonves says, quickly adding, "I'm very fond of Dan. Dan's terrific. He had a long, illustrious career at CBS, and let's not forget that." Moonves says Schieffer is...

If you thought CBS' talking heads would at least make an effort at a little political balance, you'd be wrong. And if you thought CBS would lighten up on the Bush administration -- and the GOP in general -- you'd be wrong. Dead wrong. Here are a few sounds bites from CBS anchor Bob Schieffer's appearance on the Don Imus show this morning: WMD. Iraq. Things getting worse, not better. Vietnam. Bodybags. That's the gist. Put simply, phrases pitched straight from the Kerry talking points memo distributed in, what, October? Can't someone change Schieffer's teleprompter? Of course, Schieffer neglected any...

Dan Rather's replacement hasn't fallen far from the tree. Seems to me that when he replaced Rather, Schieffer tried to pretend he was more politically even-handed. That mask is off.On Imus this morning, Schieffer was certain that President Bush's plan for personal retirement accounts will never be passed, because it will cause a 9 trillion dollar deficit in social security. But his most liberal remarks were saved for Iraq.Schieffer said Iraq is "exploding in violence." and he directly compared Iraq with Vietnam. He said public support for the Iraq war will plummet as it did for the Vietnam war "as...

CBS Bob Schieffer doesn't have much of a sense of humor anymore, judging by his reaction to a quip from House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.All of the Sunday interview shows devoted segments to DeLays ethical problems, but only Schieffer was appalled by how DeLay had told the NRA convention in Houston on Saturday night that 'when a man is in trouble or is in a good fight, you want to have your friends around, preferably armed.' On Face the Nation, Schieffer read the quote to Republican congressman David Drier and demanded: 'Well, don't you find that rather inflamatory?'Schieffer then pressed...

CBS's Bob Schieffer on Tuesday night noted how "members of Congress deny" their actions on the Schiavo case represented "a political move on their part but," Schieffer charged, "some of their comments caught on tape suggest otherwise." Wyatt Andrews insisted that "there is evidence some Republicans saw a political opening in Schiavo by framing her plight in the context of pro-life or anti-abortion politics." His evidence? One memo with a political point and some comments by Tom DeLay to "a leading Christian group," which Andrews treated as scandalous and characterized as DeLay saying "the Schiavo case was sent by heaven...

Just 48 hours before Dan Rather steps down under a cloud as anchor of the CBS newscast he's helmed for 24 years, the guy he squeezed out said Rather should've been replaced years ago. After nearly a quarter of a century, Walter Cronkite landed the final punch. While Cronkite has always dismissed the speculation that rising star Rather speeded up his departure from the anchor chair, yesterday afternoon he sure did sound like someone trying to take a few whacks at a guy who had KO'd him. Appearing on CNN, Cronkite, who anchored the CBS Evening News from 1962 to...

NEW YORK (AP) - Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather's predecessor at the "CBS Evening News," said Monday that Rather's replacement by Bob Schieffer was overdue. Rather, 73, ends his run as evening news anchor Wednesday, exactly 24 years after replacing Cronkite. Schieffer, the "Face the Nation" host, will be a temporary fill-in until CBS decides on a permanent replacement. Cronkite called Schieffer "one of the great television journalists of our time." "Although Dan did a fine job, I would have liked to have seen (Schieffer) there a long time ago," Cronkite said during an interview on CNN. "He would have given...