# Andrew Heyward: it's been weeks AND months!

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 22, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-heyward-its-been-weeks-and-months/276159 "2004-11-22T19:46:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-heyward-its-been-weeks-and-months/276159/1 "2004-11-22T19:46:53Z")

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CBS News President Andrew Heyward promised an independent investigation which would report in “weeks, not months” on the shocking fact that CBS News relied on laser-printed, MS-Word formatted documents purporting to be 30-ish years old.

I cannot imagine why the investigation has yet to be concluded.

Perhaps it’s proving to be much more complex than was originally thought?

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**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-heyward-its-been-weeks-and-months/276159/2 "2004-11-22T19:53:13Z")

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He said he “hoped” it would take weeks, he didn’t promise it would. Watch your quotes. 🙂

Besides, I’m sure it will take weeks. Maybe several dozen weeks. 😉

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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-heyward-its-been-weeks-and-months/276159/3 "2004-11-22T19:56:33Z")

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> [@Gaudere](#):
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> He said he “hoped” it would take weeks, he didn’t promise it would. Watch your quotes. 🙂
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> Besides, I’m sure it will take weeks. Maybe several dozen weeks. 😉

Of course. What was I thinking?

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2004, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-heyward-its-been-weeks-and-months/276159/4 "2004-11-22T20:11:33Z")

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My high regard for Louis Boccardi and especially for Dick Thornburgh lead me to believe, at this time, that your relatively innocuous proffered reason for the delay is indeed the correct one.

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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-heyward-its-been-weeks-and-months/276159/5 "2004-11-23T17:29:50Z")

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[Rather is resigning](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20041123/ts_nm/media_rather_dc), so maybe things are broiling in the background…