American - Journalist | May 9, 1918 - April 7, 2012
You're not a nutcase if you want to go see a psychiatrist.
Mike Wallace
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To go around the world, to talk to almost anybody you want to talk to, to have enough time on the air, so that you could really tell a full story. What a voyage of discovery it was.
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I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it.
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I went to work when I was a young fellow and I loved what I did. And I just kept working. And when I decided that maybe the time had come for me to quit, I got depressed. What could I do if I didn't work?
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When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.
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I did what I felt that I wanted to do. Fairly selfishly. I didn't know my kids as well as I should have.
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Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.
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Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away.
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Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.
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As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.
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Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.
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There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path.
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