Tickets Available for Fourth Estate Dinner Honoring Schieffer; $125 for Members

Oct. 15 will be one of the Club's most exciting nights of the year, as it honors Bob Schieffer of CBS News with the Club's highest honor, the Fourth Estate Award.

Member ticket prices are $125, and every member can buy one guest ticket at the member price. Non-member tickets are $175 each.

Reserve at [email protected] or (202) 662-7501.

The dinner will be a Texas-themed party honoring the Texas-born Schieffer, a longtime Club member and the host of "Face the Nation."

The annual Fourth Estate Award Dinner honors a distinguished journalist for career achievement. Previous winners include Tom Brokaw, Christiane Amanpour and David Broder.

The dinner also serves as a fundraiser for the Eric Friedheim National Journalism Library, the Club's 501 (c) (3) organization, which puts together its journalism training programs. A portion of the ticket price will be tax deductible.

-- Jerry Zremski, [email protected]