Public interest to the steroid case of Roger Clemens was renewed after the death of the reporter Mike Wallace

Mike Wallace, a brilliant investigative reporter, who was one of the original correspondents of CBS’ 60 Minutes died, when he was 93 years old. This journalist made fascinating interviews with world celebrated individuals. The latest stories were linked 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 linked 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 baseball star in the Show 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 collaborated with investigators of Mitchell Report, when they investigated the extent 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. Roger Clemens stated that he would pull a tractor with his teeth, if he had used 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.
In fact, Wallace presented much more significant 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 interesting. Wallace made an interview with the lawyer of the president Richard Nixon and the assistant to the president for Domestic Affairs John Ehrlichman during the Watergate scandal. Wallace determined the Watergate scandal as “perjury”. He named such methods of Richard Nixon, as thefts, spying, obstruction of justice, etc. The scandal led to resignation of the president.
Wallace arranged also an interview with the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini. The reporter named him 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 cheated before the Congress about their knowledge linked with nature of nicotine.
However these interviews were significant, a lot of 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 struggle against steroids, the war on nicotine will never exist.