“Possibly The Man Who Saved CBS News”

“At a Manhattan party that night, CBS President Les Moonves drew cheers when he called [Bob] Schieffer ‘possibly the man who saved CBS News,'” Howard Kurtz reports.

“There were no expectations for me,” Schieffer says. “Nobody thought I was going to be here for very long. But with [Katie Couric], the expectations are so great that she’s got to jump over the moon or somebody’s going to write that they’re very disappointed. That’s unfair…”