Mike Wallace convinced Roger Clemens to defend himself against accusations linked with steroid use in the Show 60 Minutes

Mike Wallace, an excellent investigative journalist, who was one of the original correspondents of CBS’ 60 Minutes died, when he was 93 years old. This reporter hosted brilliant interviews with world prominent figures. The latest stories were linked with the baseball star Roger Clemens and accusations related to intake of anabolic steroids and HGH by this athlete. Mike Wallace’s last appearance on TV was connected with this case.
The interview with Roger Clemens about steroids was broadcast in January, 2008. Rusty Hardin, the defense attorney for Roger Clemens, arranged the appearing of this baseball star in the program 60 Minutes. Roger Clemens had to defense himself against accusations of Brian McNamee, his former personal coach. This coach accused Roger Clemens in intake of anabolic steroids and HGH. He cooperated with Mitchell Report investigators, 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 took steroids. He just encouraged him to prove to others that he had administered neither steroids, nor HGH. Clemens claimed that he would be able to pull a tractor with his teeth, if he had utilized steroids.
The interview of Clemens was a black public relations maneuver for the attorney Rusty Hardin. It was not the best interview. But it renewed the interest after Wallace’s death.
In fact, Wallace presented much more significant 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 interviewed 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 named such methods of Richard Nixon, as thefts, spying, obstruction of justice, etc. The scandal caused resignation of the president.
Wallace arranged also an interview with the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini. Wallace identified him as a “lunatic”. But he was quoting the president Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt.
Another individual 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 connected with nature of nicotine.
Although these interviews were significant, numerous persons directed their attention to insignificant interview with the former baseball player Roger Clemens. It may be because while lying of Roger Clemens before the Congress can lead to federal war on steroids, the war on nicotine will never exist.