I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.

S. He also noted a rare off-camera appearance in the Sunday comics. TACT!.

On October 13 2004 he was the moderator of the third presidential debate between President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry in Tempe Arizona. 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.