Legendary reporter Morley Safer died in Manhattan on Thursday just one week after retiring from CBS' 60 Minutes, where he spent a whopping 46 seasons.

According to the New York Post, the 84-year-old Safer had already been in declining health when he announced his retirement. 

Safer came to prominence with his reporting from the Vietnam War where, on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, he showed Marines torching thatched huts in the hamlet of Came Ne in August 1965. That earned him a George Polk Award and the anger of President Lyndon Johnson, who screamed at Frank Stanton, CBS president at the time, “Your boys sh– on the American flag yesterday!”

Safer then replaced Harry Reasoner at 60 Minutes in 1970, and went on to a career there that included famous segments of him shooting pool with comedian Jackie Gleason, talking about marijuana and teenage sex with first lady Betty Ford, and grilling Ruth Madoff, wife of Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, as the Post notes.

Just one week ago he announced appropriately on 60 Minutes upon his retirement, “It’s been a wonderful run, but the time has come to say goodbye to all my friends at CBS and the dozens of people who kept me on the air.”