The death of Mike Wallace led to renewal of public interest to the case of Roger Clemens

Mike Wallace, a famous investigative journalist, who was one of the original correspondents of CBS’ 60 Minutes died, when he was 93 years old. This reporter made capturing interviews with world prominent persons. The latest stories were related to the former professional baseball player Roger Clemens and accusations linked with intake of anabolic steroids and HGH by this sportsperson. Mike Wallace’s last appearance on TV was connected with this case.
The interview with Roger Clemens about steroids was presented 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 his former personal coach Brian McNamee. This person accused Roger Clemens in administration of anabolic steroids and HGH. He collaborated with investigators of Mitchell Report, when they tried to find out the extent 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 used neither steroids, nor HGH. Roger Clemens stated that he would be able to pull a tractor with his teeth, if he had utilized steroids.
The interview of Clemens was a calamitous public relations maneuver for Rusty Hardin. It was not a perceptive interview. But it renewed the interest after death of Wallace.
Actually, Wallace presented much more significant interviews during his career. The steroid interview with Roger Clemens was not the most significant. Why did it draw each person’s attention?
Other interviews of Wallace are quite interesting. 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 called 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 reporter identified him as a “lunatic”. However, he was quoting the president Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt.
Another person who was interviewed by Wallace was the Vice President of Research and Development at a tobacco company. Jeffrey Wigand admitted that executives of the company cheated before the Congress about their knowledge about nature of nicotine.
However these interviews were significant, many persons directed their attention to insignificant interview with Roger Clemens. It may be because while lying of Roger Clemens before the Congress may cause federal struggle against steroids, the war on nicotine will never take place.