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" Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school. "
Mike Wallace
School
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Neighborhood
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" What's an ambush interview? You walk up to a fellow who you want to talk to, and he hasn't been - he hadn't been willing to talk to you before. You've sent him letters, and you've tried to talk to him on the phone. So you walk up to him on the street and ask him a question - that's an ambush? "
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" Can you imagine the most trusted man in America? Cronkite deserved it too. "
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" I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.' "
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Good Luck
" 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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Eyes
Birthday
Search
" I met all these important people and did all these stories, but I always had such excellent producers and assistants. I could show up to interview a world leader or a criminal and they would have things so well prepared anyone could have done it. It wasn't about 'me,' it was about 'us.' "
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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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Young
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" All I'm armed with is research. "
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Armed
" Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether. "
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Else
One Thing
Thing
" I cared enough to read and look at and worry about the questions. "
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Worry
Questions
" 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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Today
Think
" Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that. "
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Friends
Country
Fox
" The problem became this: We became a caricature of ourselves. We were after light, and it began to look as though we were after heat, not to reveal some information or not to find out the story. "
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Problem
Information
Light
" I have no doubt that what we started has become a plague. Because - and that's a million years ago but we got caught up in the drama more than we caught up in going after the facts. "
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More
Going
Become
" It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy. "
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Joy
You
Learn
" 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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Up
Boston
Sun
" 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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You
Hard
Hell
" You want to put a man at ease. "
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Ease
Man
Put
" 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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Year
September
Job
" I'm nearing the end of the road and still learning. "
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Still
End
Learning
" I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago. "
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Years
Acting
Game
" I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting. "
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Battles
Urgency
Place
" I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don't use that word. "
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Hopeless
Ashamed
Working
" In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and I were determined to maintain the candid, sometimes combative style we'd introduced on 'Night Beat.' But that proved easier said than done. "
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Style
Candid
Done
" I never was the story. The story was the story. Period. "
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Never
Period
" 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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Did
Kids
Should
" I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it. "
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Face
Anchor
Defied
" If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility. "
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Integrity
Credibility
Important
" I had my hearing aid fixed today so that I could properly hear you. I can't see as well. I now have - this has stopped me from smoking - a pacemaker, have for about the last 15 years. No, I don't like getting old. "
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You
Today
Smoking
" I feel fulfilled when we've revealed a person. "
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I Feel
Person
Feel