My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.

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.