American - Journalist | May 9, 1918 - April 7, 2012
You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed.
Mike Wallace
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I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you feel bad. And I had skinny bow legs. I mean, as a kid growing up, I was an insecure fella.
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But I was never, you know, when I see some kids today who are close to their parents, close to their friends... I think it's simply wonderful. I was not a happy kid. Back in those days, I remember the sick, gray days were better. Because when it was sunny I'd feel worse.
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You want to put a man at ease.
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Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds.
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I never was the story. The story was the story. Period.
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When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.
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Can you imagine the most trusted man in America? Cronkite deserved it too.
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I was always nosy and can you imagine a better 60 years, 40 of which or 37 of which traveling any place in the world.
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My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.
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Yeah, I was a pretty good kid, you know, I was - I was- I was an overachiever and I worked very hard, played a hell of a fiddle.
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I read rip-and-read news, but I wasn't a reporter. I was reading the wire, and the other thing was, I was reading commercials - and I could do a hell of a commercial.
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