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[prasantrin]

I just saw a sgement on Face the Nation that Mike Wallace died yesterday.

I grew up watching 60 Minutes (no Wonderful World of Disney in this household) and it's still must-see-TV every Sunday. He retired awhile ago, but he is, and will continue to be, missed.

RIP

[prasantrin]

NYTimes

Washington Post

Wall Street Journal

And the transcription of the Face the Nation segment.

This section in the NYTimes obit touched me the most:

“He’s in a facility in Connecticut. Physically, he’s okay. Mentally, he’s not,” Chris Wallace said. “He still recognizes me and knows who I am, but he’s uneven. The interesting thing is, he never mentions ’60 Minutes.’ It’s as if it didn’t exist. It’s as if that part of his memory is completely gone. The only thing he really talks about is family — me, my kids, my grandkids, his great-grandchildren. There’s a lesson there. This is a man who had a fabulous career and for whom work always came first. Now he can’t even remember it.”

(And what the hell is the son of Mike Wallace doing on Fox New?)

[hollywood]

Hell of an interviewer. As for his memory, perhaps smoking all those Luckies got to him in the end.

[Lex]

One of the greats.

[ghostrider]

This section in the NYTimes obit touched me the most:

“He’s in a facility in Connecticut. Physically, he’s okay. Mentally, he’s not,” Chris Wallace said. “He still recognizes me and knows who I am, but he’s uneven. The interesting thing is, he never mentions ’60 Minutes.’ It’s as if it didn’t exist. It’s as if that part of his memory is completely gone. The only thing he really talks about is family — me, my kids, my grandkids, his great-grandchildren. There’s a lesson there. This is a man who had a fabulous career and for whom work always came first. Now he can’t even remember it.”

WHat a strange sad ending to a remarkable life.

[rozrapp]

NYTimes

Washington Post

Wall Street Journal

And the transcription of the Face the Nation segment.

This section in the NYTimes obit touched me the most:

“He’s in a facility in Connecticut. Physically, he’s okay. Mentally, he’s not,” Chris Wallace said. “He still recognizes me and knows who I am, but he’s uneven. The interesting thing is, he never mentions ’60 Minutes.’ It’s as if it didn’t exist. It’s as if that part of his memory is completely gone. The only thing he really talks about is family — me, my kids, my grandkids, his great-grandchildren. There’s a lesson there. This is a man who had a fabulous career and for whom work always came first. Now he can’t even remember it.”

(And what the hell is the son of Mike Wallace doing on Fox New?)

I was tooling around the t.v. dial last night and caught a few minutes of Charlie Rose in which he, Morley Safter, Steve Kroft, and Jeff Fager (current president of CBS News) were discussing Mike Wallace. One of them mentioned that Wallace nearly became Richard Nixon's press secretary. I had never heard that before. That might say something about his (and Chris's) political leanings.