Mike Wallace's Profile
Brief about Mike Wallace: By info that we know Mike Wallace was born at 1918-05-09. And also Mike Wallace is American Journalist.
Some Mike Wallace's quotes. Goto "Mike Wallace's quotation" section for more.Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.
Tags: Altogether, Else, RetiredThere's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job.
Tags: Job, Journalism, SeriouslyWhen I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.
Tags: Mean, Mother, WorkWhen I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.
Tags: Radio, University, WantedYeah, I was a pretty good kid, you know, I was - I was- I was an overachiever and I worked very hard, played a hell of a fiddle.
Tags: Good, Hard, PrettyCovering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.
Tags: Best, Job, LastEven though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away.
Tags: Age, School, TimeI had my hearing aid fixed today so that I could properly hear you. I can't see as well. I now have - this has stopped me from smoking - a pacemaker, have for about the last 15 years. No, I don't like getting old.
Tags: Old, Smoking, TodayI met all these important people and did all these stories, but I always had such excellent producers and assistants. I could show up to interview a world leader or a criminal and they would have things so well prepared anyone could have done it. It wasn't about 'me,' it was about 'us.'
Tags: Done, Leader, ShowI read rip-and-read news, but I wasn't a reporter. I was reading the wire, and the other thing was, I was reading commercials - and I could do a hell of a commercial.
Tags: Hell, Read, ReadingI used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you feel bad. And I had skinny bow legs. I mean, as a kid growing up, I was an insecure fella.
Tags: Bad, Insecure, MeanI was so low that I wanted to exit. And I took a bunch of pills, and they were sleeping pills. And at least they would put me to sleep, and maybe I wouldn't wake up, and that was fine.
Tags: Put, Sleep, WantedI went to work when I was a young fellow and I loved what I did. And I just kept working. And when I decided that maybe the time had come for me to quit, I got depressed. What could I do if I didn't work?
Tags: Time, Work, WorkingI'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on the phone and they don't answer or so forth, then take them unawares.
Tags: Talk, Try, WriteIn making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and I were determined to maintain the candid, sometimes combative style we'd introduced on 'Night Beat.' But that proved easier said than done.
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