The steroid interview with Roger Clemens was not the most significant interview presented by Mike Wallace but it renewed public interest to this case

Mike Wallace, a brilliant investigative journalist, who was one of the initial correspondents of CBS’ 60 Minutes died, when he was 93 years old. This journalist hosted interesting interviews with world well-known individuals. The most recent stories were about the former professional baseball player Roger Clemens and accusations connected with administration of anabolic steroids and HGH by this athlete. 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 former baseball player in the program 60 Minutes. Roger Clemens had to defense himself against accusations of Brian McNamee, his former personal coach. This person accused Roger Clemens in intake of anabolic steroids and HGH. He collaborated with investigators of Mitchell Report, when they tried to determine the widespread of steroid use in the Major League Baseball.
Wallace didn’t enforce Clemens to say that he took steroids. He just encouraged him to prove to others that he had administered neither steroids, nor HGH. Roger Clemens stated that he would be able to pull a tractor with his teeth, if he had applied steroids.
The interview of Clemens was a calamitous public relations maneuver for the attorney Rusty Hardin. It was not the best interview. But it renewed the interest after death of Wallace.
In fact, Wallace hosted much more interesting 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 interviewed 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 Richard Nixon.
The Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini was also interviewed by Wallace. The journalist identified him as a “lunatic”. But he was quoting the president Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt.
Another person who 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 connected with nature of nicotine.
However these interviews were significant, many persons directed their attention to insignificant interview with Roger Clemens. It may be because while lying of Roger Clemens before the Congress can lead to federal war on steroids, the war on nicotine will never take place.