another life might have been a proctologist which i suppose not television language but at any rate, that s how he thought about mike. and they were very close friends. mike would go walk into a room or a dinner party, even a casual meeting and light up the place. because he was never out of form. if you had done something well the week before, he would give you a quick pass on that, but if something had gone slightly wrong he was right there in his charming roguish way giving you a bad time about it. tom brokaw remembering mike wallace, thank you so much for joining us. my pleasure, andrea. up next the political briefing. the republican strategy 0 try to keep the house and, of course, take the senate. this is and degree na mitchell reports. surf s up everybody get your boards and your wetsuits
ayatollah khomeini. this is the way the interview went. president sadat of egypt, a devoutly religious man, a muslim, says that what you are doing now is a disgrace to islam. and he calls you, i manual, forgive me, his words not mine. a lunatic. sadat states he is a muslim and we are not. he is not for he compromises with the enemies of islam. so that has united with our enemies. you know, tom, only mike wallace could get away with that and business of forgive me, his words, not mine. that s classic mike wallace he did that a lot. i thauls thought that mike made a very successful for being an actor into a serious journalist. he wanted to pay tribute to his son peter who died on a hiking
trip in greece and he came back from trying to find his body to make a more serious turn in his life. i think the early training, the theatrical training served him very well in interviews on television because he could pull it off. that was one of his techniques was to say forgive me, these are the words of someone else. but he never stopped coming after you. part of the reason for that is that mike knew that the audience was making an investment in what he was doing. and he didn t want to waste their time and the terms of what he was trying to get out of the interview. he always saw the interview as having a beginning, middle and an end. and that we should leave that interview with a sense of as well will he cannule nourishment. tell me a story, of course, what don hewitt always advised his correspondents. you know, he was human. and frail and he acknowledged his depression. three episodes i believe of depression. he was a vigorous, wonderful,