Word: schieffer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being an anchorman "who may or may not have written his own stuff, reading from a TelePrompTer what others have gathered," is no big deal. How accomplished does one have to be to read switch cues like "President Carter today signed a bill creating the Department of Energy. Bob Schieffer has that story"? Yet the nation's celebrated top anchormen have held office, and popularity, for longer terms than Presidents. The fact is, their best qualities are only on stand-by reserve when they read the evening news. It is on other occasions-in knowledgeable ad-lib coverage...
...excellence of its news-gathering staff. This strength began with Edward R. Murrow (Charles Collingwood and Eric Sevareid remain from that era), continued with a middle generation of Roger Mudd and Dan Rather, and has now resulted in a set of people as good as Bob Schieffer, Ed Bradley, Richard Threlkeld and Lesley Stahl. CBS constantly comes up with better film and clear, informed reporting. ABC has yet to make a commitment to a first-rate reporting staff; without that, Walters and Reasoner are not competitive enough...
...others: Tom Brokaw, John Hart and Catherine Mackin. CBS will have Morton Dean, Roger Mudd, Dan Rather and Bob Schieffer on the floor, and ABC will field a team of Ann Compton, Sam Donaldson, Herbert Kaplow and Frank Reynolds...
...York Times Magazine last week was devoted to a minute-by-minute chronicle of the six days that Author John Hersey spent with him in the White House. He was interviewed live for an hour on television by CBS'S Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid and Bob Schieffer. He took a 20-hour whirlwind tour to New Orleans that included his landmark speech on Viet Nam at Tulane University of Louisiana, an address to the Navy League of the United States, a hard-hat groundbreaking ceremony for a library at Lake Pontchartrain and a trip 35 miles...
...Dean from the transcripts: "Just looking at the immediate problem, don't you think you have to handle [E. Howard] Hunt's financial situation damn soon?" Particularly helpful were readings from the transcripts by CBS newsmen taking the parts of the President (Barry Ser-afin), Dean (Bob Schieffer) and Haldeman (Nelson Benton). The trio stood behind 19th century lecterns like Chautauqua troupers and read tonelessly to avoid possibly inaccurate inflections. Nevertheless, they lent some human clarity to the welter of words...