For 20 years, Bob Schieffer has sat atop CBS?s Sunday talk show ?Face the Nation,? and he celebrated the occasion with friends and colleagues Wednesday night at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington.
Schieffer, 74, joined CBS in 1969 and, before taking over ?Face? in 1991, he covered Congress, the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department. It?s been such a distinguished career that Schieffer?s alma mater, Texas Christian University, named its journalism school after him.
Continue ReadingOn the occasion of his 20th anniversary with ?Face,? Schieffer joins POLITICO as its latest ?Answer This? feature:
Tell us your favorite joke.
My 80-year-old friend George married a 25-year-old girl and they were walking down the street, hugging, kissing and making a general spectacle of themselves when they ran into George?s doctor. ?What in the world are you doing?? he asked them. To which George replied, ?I?m just following doctor?s orders, Doctor. You told me to find a hot mama and be cheerful.? ?No, George,? the doctor said, ?I told you that you had a heart murmur and to be careful.?
When?s the last time you used profanity?
Hell, I don?t know. ?
How many hours of sleep do you get on average?
Six.
Describe your level of ambition.
I?ve always been ambitious, but what I aspire to has changed over the years. Currently, my main goal is to rise each morning, scan the obits and discover I?m not listed there.
You?re president of the United States for enough time to make only one executive decision. What is it?
Abolish the BCS [Bowl Championship Series] rankings, which determine which football teams get invited to the big bowl games and install a playoff system to determine the national champion in college football.
What?s a common and accepted practice for Americans nowadays that you think we?ll look back on with regret?
I?m a romantic. I think today?s guys would do well to revive the habit of dating instead of hanging out in sports bars. You?ll never know what you?re missing guys.
What is your favorite body part (on yourself) and why?
Who in the world would answer that question?
What would you attempt to do if you knew that you could not fail?
Gwyneth Paltrow.
What type of products do you never go cheap on?
Purple socks. I wear only purple socks to show my loyalty to the TCU Horned Frogs. And I want only the best! People often ask me if I have more than one pair. And I do.
Describe a few pet peeves.
People in journalism who find a way not to enjoy what they do.
How often do you Google yourself?
I don?t have to since learning about Google Alerts.
What do you know now that you wish someone had told you 10 years ago?
The greatest lesson in life is knowing that there is life after mistakes.
What childhood event shaped or scarred you the most?
The first time I saw my byline ? It looked so fine sitting atop a story I had written for our junior high school newspaper. I decided right then that I wanted to be a reporter.
Would you rather ?
? live without music or live without TV?
Without TV. Writing country music songs is a big part of my life. I can?t imagine a life without music.
? be gossiped about or never talked about at all?
I?ll take the gossip.
Think of one of your least favorite people in Washington and, without naming him or her, describe what makes that person so unappealing.
The idea that he somehow thinks I?m so stupid that I believe what he is saying.
Let your mother know how much she means to you, in the form of a haiku.
I?m not much at haiku, but here?s the last verse from a poem I once wrote about my mom: Who told you you were just as good / As any rich man?s son?/ And not to look for some excuse/ To do what needed done / You?ve known movers and shakers / Some may even know you / But in the final accounting / Who taught you most that?s true? / If you?re like me it was Mom.
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