Mike Wallace convinced Roger Clemens to appear in the Show 60 Minutes

Mike Wallace, a famous investigative reporter, who was one of the original correspondents of CBS’ 60 Minutes died, when he was 93 years old. This journalist made brilliant interviews with world prominent persons. The most recent stories were connected with the former professional baseball player Roger Clemens and accusations related to intake of anabolic steroids and HGH by this sportsperson. Mike Wallace’s last appearance on TV was linked with this case.
The interview with Roger Clemens about steroids was hosted in January, 2008. Rusty Hardin, the defense attorney for Roger Clemens, arranged the appearing of this former baseball player in the Show 60 Minutes. Roger Clemens had to defense himself against accusations of Brian McNamee, his former personal coach. This trainer accused Roger Clemens in usage of anabolic steroids and HGH. He collaborated with investigators of Mitchell Report, when they tried to find out the widespread of steroid use in the Major League Baseball.
Wallace didn’t enforce Clemens to tell that he applied steroids. He just encouraged him to prove to others that he had taken neither steroids, nor HGH. Roger Clemens affirmed that he would pull a tractor with his teeth, if he had taken steroids.
The interview of Clemens was an unsuccessful public relations maneuver for Rusty Hardin. It was not a perceptive interview. But it renewed the interest after Wallace’s death.
Actually, Wallace hosted much more interesting interviews during his career. The steroid interview with Roger Clemens was not the most significant. Why did it draw every person’s attention?
Other interviews of Wallace are quite significant. Wallace made an interview with the lawyer of the president Richard Nixon and the assistant to the president for Domestic Affairs John Ehrlichman during the Watergate scandal. Wallace named the Watergate scandal “perjury”. He noted about such methods of Richard Nixon, as thefts, spying, obstruction of justice, etc. The scandal resulted in resignation of the president Richard Nixon.
Wallace arranged also an interview with the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini. The journalist named him a “lunatic”. However, he was quoting the president Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt.
Another person that was interviewed by Wallace was the Vice President of Research and Development at a tobacco company. Jeffrey Wigand admitted that executives of the company lied before the Congress about their knowledge linked with nature of nicotine.
Although these interviews were significant, numerous persons directed their attention to insignificant interview with Roger Clemens. It may be because while lying of Roger Clemens before the Congress may lead to federal war on steroids, the war on nicotine will never exist.