What We Call The President

Periodically, we get e-mails complaining about how we refer to the President in our copy. We asked White House correspondent Mark Knoller to respond. During my 18 years at CBS News, most of it covering the White House, there's no issue on which I get more listener and viewer mail and e-mail than on our references to the President as "Mister." It is CBS News practice to refer to the President and former Presidents on second reference with the honorific "Mister." Everyone else in the political …