Veteran CBS Newscaster Bob Schieffer Announces Plan to Retire

Bob Schieffer, a television anchor who has worked at CBS for nearly half a century and interviewed every sitting president since Richard Nixon, announced that he was retiring in the summer of 2015. Schieffer, 78, made the announcement while giving an address at Texas Christian University, his alma mater. He joined the network in 1969, and has been the host of the Sunday morning program “Face The Nation” since 1991. He departs on a high note: The show was the top-rated Sunday morning public affairs program for total viewers for the first three months of 2015.