Roger Clemens at the Show 60 minutes

Mike Wallace, a celebrated investigative journalist, who was one of the initial correspondents of CBS’ 60 Minutes died, when he was 93 years old. This reporter presented interesting interviews with world prominent individuals. The most recent stories were connected with the baseball star Roger Clemens and accusations related to administration of anabolic steroids and HGH by this person. Mike Wallace’s last appearance on TV was related to 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 trainer accused Roger Clemens in intake of anabolic steroids and HGH. He cooperated with Mitchell Report investigators, when they tried to define the widespread of steroid use in the Major League Baseball.
Wallace didn’t enforce Clemens to tell that he applied steroids. He just convinced him to prove to others that he had administered neither steroids, nor HGH. Clemens confirmed that he would be able to pull a tractor with his teeth, if he had used steroids.
The interview of Clemens was a black public relations ploy for the attorney Rusty Hardin. It was not a perceptive interview. But it renewed the interest after Wallace’s death.
In fact, Wallace hosted much more substantial interviews during his career. The steroid interview with Roger Clemens was not the most interesting. Why did it draw each 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 listed 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. The reporter called 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 acknowledged during the interview that executives of the company lied before the Congress about their knowledge about 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 cause federal struggle against steroids, the war on nicotine will never take place.