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When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.

~Mike Wallace

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Can you imagine the most trusted man in America? Cronkite deserved it too.

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I was always nosy and can you imagine a better 60 years, 40 of which or 37 of which traveling any place in the world.

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My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

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Yeah, 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.

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I 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.

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I'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.

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The problem became this: We became a caricature of ourselves. We were after light, and it began to look as though we were after heat, not to reveal some information or not to find out the story.

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I feel fulfilled when we've revealed a person.

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We were the first people who did investigative stuff, who asked occasionally abrasive, occasionally confrontational questions.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: May 9th, 1918

Died: April 7th, 2012

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