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...Schieffer also moderated the third debate between George W. Bush and John Kerry...
...current credit crisis gripping Wall Street and the nation, Schieffer says: "This is not the work of those who broke the law. It is the work of those operating within the law, those who pushed the law to the limit making loans the law allowed but, common sense dictated, should not have been made. ... deregulation has become all the rage ... if we somehow get past this, we must get serious about laws that ensure it never happens again...
...Plays in a country band called Honky Tonk Confidential, which made its Grand Ole Opry debut on Oct. 5. "I may be moderating the third presidential debate, but I'm not feeling near the pressure," Schieffer told the Washington Post of his Opry debut...
...After three years in the Air Force, Schieffer returned to his college job as a reporter for a radio station, later joining the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as a police reporter...
...Schieffer was in the Star-Telegram newsroom when JFK was shot in Dallas. A little while later, a call came in from Marguerite Oswald, mother of Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspected assassin in the JFK shooting. At her request, Schieffer and another reporter drove Mrs. Oswald to Dallas where her son was being held, and took statements from her on the way there of which Schieffer says: "She was making these outrageous statements, statements that were so outrageous that I didn't include some of them ... And I learned a great lesson ... that you have to be very careful about...