The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.

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.