Mike Wallace

As many of you saw last night, 60 Minutes devoted an entire program to a retrospective of Mike Wallace's remarkable body of work. It reminded me of a conversation I had with Wallace back in 2006, just after his retirement from 60 Minutes, and upon the publication of the second volume of his memoirs. At the time Wallace was 87 years old, yet still personified and profoundly understood the role of broadcast journalism. This seemed like a good time to post that interview with Mike Wallace