This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV

by Bob Schieffer

Bob Schieffer started his reporting career in Texas when he was barely old enough to buy a beer, joined CBS News in 1969, and became one of the few correspondents ever to have covered all four major Washington beats: the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, and Capitol Hill. Over the past four decades, he's seen it all-and now he's sharing the after-hours tales only his colleagues know.

Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, Journalism, History, Memoir, Politics, Audiobook

464 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 2002

About the author

Bob Lloyd Schieffer is an American television journalist. He is known for his moderation of presidential debates, where he has been praised for his capability. Schieffer is one of the few journalists to have covered all four of the major Washington national assignments: the White House, the Pentagon, United States Department of State, and United States Congress. His career with CBS has almost exclusively dealt with national politics. He has interviewed every United States President since Richard M. Nixon, as well as most of those who sought the office.
Schieffer has been with CBS News since 1969, serving as the anchor on the Saturday edition of CBS Evening News for 20 years, from 1976 to 1996, as well as the Chief Washington Correspondent from 1982 until 2015, and moderator of the Sunday public affairs show, Face the Nation, from 1991 until May 31, 2015. From March 10, 2005, to August 31, 2006, Schieffer was interim weekday anchor of CBS Evening News, and was one of the primary substitutes for Katie Couric and Scott Pelley.
Following his retirement from Face the Nation, Schieffer has continued to work for CBS as a contributor, making many appearances on air giving political commentary covering the 2016 presidential election. Schieffer is currently releasing episodes of a new podcast, "Bob Schieffer's 'About the News' with H. Andrew Schwartz".
Schieffer has written three books about his career in journalism: Face the Nation: My Favorite Stories from the First 50 Years of the Award-Winning News Broadcast, This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV, and Bob Schieffer's America. He co-authored a book about Ronald Reagan, The Acting President, with Gary Paul Gates, that was published in 1989. In his memoir, This Just In, Schieffer credits the fact he was a beat reporter at CBS for his longevity at the network.
Schieffer has won virtually every award in broadcast journalism, including eight Emmys, the overseas Press Club Award, the Paul White Award presented by the TV News Directors Association, and the Edward R. Murrow Award given by Murrow's alma mater, Washington State University.
Schieffer was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame in 2002, and inducted into the National Academy of Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in 2013. He was named a living legend by the Library of Congress in 2008.
Schieffer is currently serving as the Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center.

Reviews

[Ensiform · Rating 4 out of 5]

A memoir of the CBS newsman’s life, from his early days as a police beat reporter, through Nixon and Watergate, the bloodshed at home and at Vietnam in the ‘60s, up to 9/11. I had never heard of Schieffer before, even though he was originally a Texas newsman. In any case, this is a very pleasant autobiography which also serves as a sort of informal history of America’s last half-century. (The subtitle is somewhat misleading, as the book does not provide us with juicy tidbits which were too classified or secret to be revealed at the time. This is simply a series of pieces on episodes of American history: Watergate, the Ford pardon, the Clinton years, etc.) At times, too, it gets a bit too bogged down in CBS’ internecine struggles and budget cuts for the average layman to get worked up about, but otherwise, Schieffer elegantly balances personal anecdotes and commentary about American history in simple, unfussy, modest prose.

I did enjoy the first part of the book more than the second, if only because Schieffer paints such an interesting picture of what American life was like in those pre-Watergate days (cops mistaking him for a detective because he wore a certain cap! no security at the Pentagon door!). I found this memoir very engaging and hard to put down. Oh, and a final word about bias: Schieffer demonstrates that he's an ethical journalist, and his biases are admitted but not apparent from his writing. I found his disapproving account of the Clinton years very fair, although I'm a big Clinton fan, and could find no fault with his assessments of Nixon, Ford or Carter (indeed, Schieffer opened my eyes to the accomplishments of these latter two). So I don't think Schieffer is wielding any kind of political axe here, though it is odd that the Reagan years are largely absent from the book.

[Judy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really like books that take a look at the inside world of journalism and network news. This was an easy to read account of Bob Shieffer's career beginning in radio in Fort Worth, Texas, moving to the print media, and finally to television news. The book brought home how random events can make the difference in a national career or a noncareer--that pesky being at the right place at the right time. The section on the infighting at CBS over who would replace Walter Cronkite was particularly interesting. Loved the account of Roger Mudd storming out of the building when he didn't get the call and starting a career with another network. Two stories stood out for me. The first was that Senator Sam Nunn (D-Georgia), the head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was Bob Shieffer's best friend in Washington and he refused to give Shieffer any inside information. In fact, it was only while researching the book, and after Nunn had been out of office for years, that Shieffer found out that Nunn had been offered the job of Secretary of Defense before it was offered to Senator John Tower (and we all know how that turned out). The other story dealt with the Long family of Louisiana with whom I have been fascinated for years. While working for the leading newspaper in Ft. Worth, Texas, Shieffer got a first-hand look at Governor Earl Long getting off an airplane in Ft. Worth with a paper bag over his head with eye holes cut in it. He wanted to slip into town unnoticed. Good try, Earl. No wonder Long had to eventually be placed in a mental institution in Texas for a short period. (He couldn't be put into a mental institution in Louisiana because as governor he could sign himself out.) And, of course, Shieffer touched on the Blaze Starr stories about Earl Long--the old governor and the stripper trick. (I've already told you my stories about Blaze Starr up close and personal in Baltimore in the late 1960s.)

[Colleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a really interesting behind-the-scenes look at Bob Schieffer's career as a broadcast journalist. I'm not a big fan of CBS News, but I always did like Bob...he's the sort of old school reporter (along with Dan Rather, who is mentioned frequently in this book, and Tom Brokaw) that we don't see much of anymore. The things he's seen, the people he's known and the stories he's covered are just fascinating, and the audiobook was particularly good, probably because he read it. Recommended if you're interested in historical accounts of the 1960s and 1970s (about which he spends a lot of time talking) as well as finding out what exactly goes on at a network news station.

[Ray · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you're a Network TV news junkie, or a member of the Bob Schieffer fan club, you'll thoroughly enjoy this book. If you stayed high during the 60's, and don't remember the Cuba Missle Crisis, the '68 Democratic convention in Chicago, or subsequent events like Watergate, Spiro Agnew, or Whitewater, you'll enjoy the nostalgia of the review of those events. Schieffer is a good writer and story teller, but the book is pretty much a walk-through of events from his broadcast life, without much or any unknown behind the scenes details of the news as it was broadcast.

[Gail · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed reading this book - it was like taking a walk through the memory lane of my childhood, as it was tied to the events of the day. As certain songs remind me of moments in my life when i first heard them, so this book does the same with important political events of Bob Schieffer's career. He is also one of my favorite news correspondents and I am an avid watcher of "Face the Nation", so it was a perfect fit for me. An easy to read book on the work and life of a major network correspondent, with no beefs or scores to settle.
How refreshing.

[Peter William Warn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Summary: Bob Schieffer's book is easy to read but does not reward even that little effort. This Just In is like a stack of losing lottery tickets: hoped-for rewards repeatedly fail to materialize.


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As Walter Cronkite reports that President Kennedy has been shot, he takes off his glasses and looks at the clock. The scene is replayed when documentaries look back on the recent history of the United States, the history of television news or the history of Cronkite, long revered as the country's most respected reporter. It feels official, as though it is the moment that the news that would transform the nation became real.

But at the time, it wasn't. People had not yet accepted television news as authoritative. That would happen over the next week as Americans gathered around their TV sets to see for themselves the funeral of a beloved leader and the assassination of his accused killer. Before those dramatic days, people looked to newspapers, as they did at The Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Texas, where Bob Schieffer worked before he became a familiar correspondent on CBS.

"But when Kennedy was shot, people still really didn't believe the news unless they saw it written down in black and white, so hundreds waited outside the Star-Telegram for the special editions that rolled off the presses," Schieffer writes. "They were the last of the great newspaper Extras and they would come to symbolize the end of the newspaper era."

Circumstances gave Schieffer exclusive access to Lee Harvey Oswald's mother for several hours when every reporter in the country wanted to interview her, so he should be able to add some interesting insight, if not into some of the events surrounding the assassination then into the way it was reported. Or into the way that news coverage changed journalism.

He does not. That trite observation quoted above is as far as he goes. This early failure to add to what is well-known characterizes Schieffer's uninformative This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV.

Schieffer's observations about journalism are familiar to anyone who is interested. He tells us that news broadcasts on the three major networks replaced newspapers and radio as the nation's major news sources, and now those networks face vigorous competition from CNN and other cable outlets. Corporate pressures to reduce costs have led news organizations to cut staff. These cuts helped create the conditions that led to television's chaotic coverage of Election Night 2000. Schieffer has worked in journalism for more than four decades but the insights he shares are obvious to anyone who's watched TV newscasts for more than about four weeks.

He is similarly unenlightening about the the history he has covered. Lyndon Johnson's handling of the war in Vietnam and Richard Nixon's direction of the Watergate coverup eroded public trust in government. Gerald Ford was hurt by his pardon of Nixon and Bill Clinton was hurt by his adultery and deceit. The terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001 had a profound effect on the nation. It is not clear why Shieffer and his publisher thought we needed his 423-page volume to tell us any of this.

Schieffer's one revelation is about former senator Sam Nunn's motivations during the bitterly partisan confirmation hearings that killed John Tower's nomination to be secretary of defense. Only those readers who must know absolutely every detail of Nunn's career will care.

When Schieffer is not being obvious, he is maddeningly vague. "Covering Henry Kissinger was one of the great delights of covering the White House," he writes, although he does nothing to explain why except to note that Kissinger was a good source of information. Schieffer calls The Defense of the United States "some of my best work," but he says absolutely nothing else about it except that it is a five-part documentary series. He presents Cronkite and others he has worked with in such general terms that the words could come from almost anyone who'd ever watched them on TV.

Dan Rather, in a promotional blurb on the book's back cover, describes This Just In as a "pull-no-punches book." It is not. Schieffer is too nice to write such a book. Every page gives the sense that he is holding back his interesting material.

Early in his career, Schieffer reported on a murder. The sheriff offered an assessment of the killer's motive: "He killed him because he thought the old son of a bitch ought to be dead." That is the most memorable bit of Schieffer's book, but it is not enough to warrant reading the thing.

Reading the long but limp narrative in This Just In is like what can happen when you're waiting at an airport to take a flight that's been delayed for several hours. You've brought along a good book but instead of reading it, you find yourself engaged in conversation with the friendly stranger sitting next to you. It's not an unpleasant way to spend some time and you might even learn a thing or two that you'll remember for a week or two. But it can leave you wishing you'd read a good book instead.

[Elizabeth Good · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well written, great insight, and a wonderful peek into the intricacies of reporting. Would recommend 💯

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had always respected Bob Schieffer as a newsman but only decided to read this book after he agreed to be keynote speaker at the National College Media Convention, which I coordinated. A student lent me a copy of his book, and I'm glad he did.

I took for granted just how much Bob is a part of the background of American life. He's been at the scene of virtually every big story for the past half-century from Vietnam to Sept. 11. Throughout all that time and all those stories, his journalistic integrity has never once been challenged. And unfortunately, many, many others in broadcast and print can't say the same.

This book takes the reader to the inside of CBS as well as to all of those news scenes, and he doesn't disappoint. It's not a juicy book as far as details although there are a number of terrific and hilarious anecdotes, but like his reporting, it sticks to important issues. He even went back and interviewed important figures (everyone from George McGovern to George W. Bush) and people close to him to double-check his own memories and allow for the perspective of time, something you don't see even in memoirs of journalists.

After finishing This Just In, I have a much deeper appreciation of him and his work. Anyone interested in pursuing journalism should read this book.

[Jon]

The subtitle of this book is "What I Couldn't Tell You on TV", and you'd think there would be some really juicy tidbits in here about public and political figures, but the book is surprisingly tame and tactful, even so. Ah well.

Schieffer fills the book mostly with anecdotes about some of the big stories from his time in print and television journalism. As a Texas reporter, he was on the scene when JFK was shot in Dallas, and also covered the civil rights movement in the deep South, when the federal government forced integration.

He was sent to Vietnam to report on the war there, with the express purpose of finding out how the local Texas military enlistees were doing. The Star-Telegram ran ads saying, "He won't be talking to many generals, He'll be looking for your sons and daughters." Bob took care of his primary assignment, but he also managed to sneak out where the action was whenever possible.

"The best quote I ever got and could not find a place to use resulted from a conversation I had with a black Marine. When I asked if he ever felt discrimination, he replied, 'Nah, the Marines treat ever'body like niggers.'"

"Walter Clerihew, an Air Force pilot from Jacksboro, Texas...flew low over the rice paddies and canals south of Saigon on the lookout for Viet Cong. 'I figured out the best way to find them is just to fly in low and see if anybody shoots.'"

After returning from Vietnam, he returned to the political beat, where he would remain, with one company or another for the rest of his career. There's a great quote from Gene McCarthy about JFK:

"He recalled one day when both had served in the House of Representatives and he came upon Kennedy in a cloakroom, with his feet up. 'You know,' Kennedy told him, 'if you don't want to work, this is as good a place as any to have a job.'"

I'm afraid it's probably still true of our congresspersons today.

While working at the Pentagon, he ran into snags with security classified documents:

"The government ihas legitimate reasons to keep many things secret and the list is obvious: war plans, troop movements, the identities of undercover agents, details on how our sophisticated weapons and our defenses are constructed, and the list goes on and on. But I soon learned there was another reason to put a security classification on information; to cover up mistakes and avoid embarassment."

Really makes you trust our government, doesn't it?

Another good example of government's total irrationality:

"Once the (Supreme) Court ruled that the New York Times and the Washington Post could print the papers, those of us covering the story began hounding the Defense Department to release the entire set. Defense officials refused, saying they were 'classified.' Some days later, I wandered into the Pentagon's undergound shopping mall bookstore and discovered that a commercial publisher had printed the entire four volumes of the Pentagon Papers and had put them on sale. There they were, on sale to the public in the basement of the building where government copies were being kept upstairs in a safe, classified top secret!"

I remember the Watergate scandal, which resulted in President Nixon's resignation, but I never had any inkling that there were some in Washington who thought he'd attempt a military coup. But Schieffer relates that James Schlesinger, Defense Secretary, had "ordered the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to notify him immediately if Nixon tried to give direct military orders to any of the military's theater commanders around the world."

Something that may be relevant to upcoming elections:

"There was just one problem for (Jimmy) Carter. He was exactly what he had advertised himself to be, an outsider with no Washington experience, and he got off to a rough start. Being president, as every president learns, is a lot harder than it looks. It never ceases to amaze me when I hear people who have made a success in business say a good businessman could straighten out the government in no time, an opinion that is totally wrong. No business executive has to work with a board of directors that has 535 members...There is really no training ground for becoming president, and for all his good ideas, by the time Carter's team figure out how to make the government work, it was too late."

A bit of humor from the Carter era, on a European trip:

"...the new president said he was anxious to get to know the Polish people, only to have his speech mangled by a State Department translator who told the crowd the president wished to know them in the biblical sense."

Carter once mentioned that he'd looked with lust on Playboy photos, but he never mentioned his predilection for Poles.

About what constitutes news, Schieffer relates:

"I believed that you also had to cover the stories that didn't lend themselves to pictures. I didn't believe a story had to be entertaining to earn a place on the Evening News."

Would that more reporters today, and more networks, felt that way.

And a cynical bit about political lobbying:

"...one reason that Congres continues to debate and vote on so many of the same issues over and over - like gun control and abortion - is that such issues bring in money to both sides. Liberals who favor gun control rail at the antics of the well-financed gun lobby, but in truth they welcome the endless debate over guns because it is a proven way to raise money from their supporters, just as the pro-gun lobby is a ready source of campaign cash for pro-gun forces. The debates over the perennials, as insiders call them, have little impact on the country, since they usually bring little or no change in the laws. But they are not really about the country's business; they are about the business of the members themselves and their own survival."

There's a lot of stuff about the behind the scenes jockeying for position in the newsroom, and the various mergers and acquisitions of the networks, which I found a bit tedious. The really good stuff, for me, was getting a little different view on the news I lived through from the sixties until today. Easy to read, and full of a wry sense of humor, this one was worth perusing.

[Patricia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just when you think all I read is fluff....

I listened to this audio book. This was narrated by Bob Schieffer himself and he did a great job--it was like an extended conversation or like listening to a presentation.

I am a very a-political person but I really liked this book. I realized as I listened to Schieffer's retrospective that just like music creates a background sound track for any particular decade, events of a decade create a kind of sound track of the era--people, places, events all playing up in the news (radio, TV, newspapers, and now Internet) while we are living our lives. The big events discussed in this book brought back a lot of memories separate from the events of the time but also recalled the major events of the decades of my life.

All of us have two kinds of memory, passive and active. Although I could not have pulled all the details out of my active memory, as Schieffer said the names, places, and events, it triggered my passive memory and it was all immediately familiar.

I enjoyed Schieffer's comments and insights, as well as his behind-the-scenes perspective.

[Carol Jones-Campbell · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a rather long book, but oh so fascinating. Never read a bio like this before. Bob Schieffer is a very talented individual whose career started in the early 60's around the time of Kennedy, and this book went through September 11, 2001. He has worked for newspapers, starting out in Fort Worth, Texas, and graduating to television and blooming in many areas. Got to serve in VietNam, and covered many political elections, Nixon, Clinton, McGovern, Capital Hill, and those were some of his favorite beats. It definitely was not all a walk in the park. We have no idea the sacrifice of hours and hours and hours that are put forth to get the news out to us. He has work with the best of the best of the many reporters of his time. Awesome to me. Being my age, I remember most if not all the stories he reported on. His career is fascinating, and commend him on a long and fruitful success. His meeting and marriage of his wife, birth of his children and their growing up and the difficulties of living with a TV guy had to have a lot of stresses for his family. I guess they got it all worked it out. Very interesting read. Recommend.

[Sam Sisk · Rating 4 out of 5]

If any book will make you fall in love with reporting and journalism, this one will. Bob Schieffer's stories are written with all the skill that made him one of America's top newsmen. They are funny and engaging, not to mention an excellent lesson in the history of America's politics from JFK to George W. Bush, and an insider's account of the evolution of the news industry. Schieffer's tales include personal encounters with everyone who was anyone, and his lively recollections make people like Walter Kronkite and Dan Rather seem less like distant legends and more like the real and amazing people they were. He also captures the spirit of America in the same way, from his days in Vietnam onward.

[Brian Sweany · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you're expecting one of those polarizing, didactic tell-alls from Mr. Schieffer, you will be disappointed. In a world in which the microphone is generally ceded to the loudest guy in the room as opposed to the smartest, THIS JUST IN is an earnest, level-headed, refreshingly centrist look at 40 years of American history through the eyes of one of the elder statesmen of the news media.

Unfortunately the book's centrism is also its flaw. Sometimes I felt like Mr. Schieffer is too far above the fray and not emotionally invested. The subtitle would have us believe he's talking out of class, when all he's really doing is telling us stuff that we already know.

[Cat. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've always liked Bob Schieffer; he always seemed very calm with a faint trace of humor. The book strengthens that sense. He got his start around the time of the Kennedy assassination in 1963, which is also where this book begins. Shieffer is justifiably proud of the history of CBS News from the 50s through the 70s, and very unhappy with the corporate changes of the 80s. However, his career survived Vietnam, Watergate, years at the Pentagon, the presidencies of Carter, Reagan, Bush I and Clinton, and ends just after September 11, 2001.

Good book.

[Erica Hollinger · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was really interesting. I enjoyed it a lot. I feel like I learned a lot since most of the events took place "before my time" It was good to hear about it from someone who was there. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in history, politics or broadcasting.
The only downside was I felt like it took me forever to read. It's not too long but I guess it takes me longer to read non fiction. I was really enjoying it so I didn't want to quit reading it. I just felt like it took me longer to read than I'm used to

[Lindsay Luke · Rating 4 out of 5]

I saw Bob Scheiffer on one of the late night talk shows pushing his latest book. Unfortunately, he didn't read that one, but he did read this and it was truly a pleasure to listen to him relate some of the stories behind the stories he covered in his long career in journalism. There aren't really any stunning revelations in here, but it's interesting and told well. There aren't that many people he hasn't crossed paths with in the last 60 years. He's a throwback to the days when journalists were thoughtful and wanted to be the voice of reason instead of stirring people up. I enjoyed this.

[Christian Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a really neat book by Bob Schieffer. It's a collection of personal reactions to different interviews and stories that he covered for the radio, newspaper, and TV industries. It talks about his own feelings that sometimes goes against the grain of what he was told to believe. His style is quite conversational, and it's a really good book to read to get a first person account of some of the biggest people to influence modern history.

[Carolyn Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great personal story of where this nationally known journalist came from - and it was humble beginnings in case you are wondering. He talks about what it's like to be a national anchor, the challenges he faced balancing a demanding profession and his desire to be a good family man, and his personal reactions to some of the people that he interviewed and worked with. These behind the scenes anecdotes made for a much fuller picture of the news and the men and women who gather and televise it.

[Clark Hallman · Rating 5 out of 5]

In This Just In, Schieffer relates details about some of the most interesting, important, famous, and infamous news stories he has covered during his long career. He also covers his personal life and the network news business. It was a very interesting and enjoyable book. Schieffer, although a very distinguished news reporter comes across as a very down-to-earth and likable guy. He has had, and continues to have, a remarkable career with CBS news.

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

An easy-to-read, breezy memoir about Bob Schieffer's career as a reporter. The book covers the period from Kennedy's assassination thru the attack on September 11th. I could appreciate the experiences that he recounted as they tracked my own political awareness which began the day I heard that President Kennedy had been shot. Schieffer's many anecdotes and behind-the-scenes-scene political gossip kept this book interesting right to the end.

[Katie Harder-schauer · Rating 4 out of 5]

After reading this book, I feel like I know just a little bit more about recent history, but I also feel like I have a slightly better understanding of how our political system works. I realize that the analysis of it in this book is the opinion of Mr. Schieffer, but considering what is currently taking place, it makes a whole lot of sense, and this book was published almost 10 years ago. For someone that has never been particularly fond of non-fiction, this was a pretty interesting book.

[Debi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some interesting behind the scene things of some of our more memorable moments over the past 50 years. Can be slow at times if you don't have an interest in history, especially from a journalistic view. More interesting at this time of our current presidential election. Mr Schieffer worked all the major elections since Kenedy's shooting.

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

I particularly enjoyed the firsthand accounts of "newsworthy" events that happened in the last half of the 20th century. It is one thing to read about these events in textbooks quite another to read a firsthand account.

[Ken]

If your interest in political news coverage began in the mid-20th century, this book is wonderful. I listened to Bob read the unabridged version while on a long road trip. A rich pleasure for about 15 hours or so.

[Gayle]

Very enjoyable read. A timeline of many of the memorable and influential historic (war & politics) events that have taken place during my lifetime. Bob Schieffer seems a humane and humorous man with a passion for his work. Highly recommend.

[Phillip · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was just a quick read. I remembering watching "Face the Nation" during and just after college. I always liked Bob, and this book was enjoyable about his life and the political highlights of the 20th C. There was some repetition (but I blame the editors there), but it's a nice read.

[Charlotte · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book could definitely have used another round (or two!) of editing. I listened to it in the car, and found myself thinking "Have I already listened to this tape?"

For a career journalist, I expect a little more than rambling circuitous stories.

[Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful read! Greatly enjoyed reading the backstory behind the major news events that happened in my lifetime. I'd assign this book as a test if I were teaching history or journalism. It was also his memoir - funny, honest, moving.

[Marilyn Mansfield · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am a fan of Bob Schaefer--one of a small number of journalists I trust and admire. I watch his show every Sunday morning because it is a real news show unlike so much fluff in the news today. Interesting insights into history and the news.

[Mike Maughan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great memoir. Especially his honest take on Clinton's disgracing the office of president and his take on Clinton only getting the nomination due to a very week Democratic field. Great look at news behind the scenes as well as behind the scenes in politics.

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