The interest to the steroid case of Roger Clemens was renewed after the death of the journalist Mike Wallace

Mike Wallace, a prominent investigative reporter, who was one of the initial correspondents of CBS’ 60 Minutes died, when he was 93 years old. This reporter presented interesting interviews with world celebrated figures. The latest stories were related to the baseball star Roger Clemens and accusations linked with intake of anabolic steroids and HGH by this person. Mike Wallace’s last appearance on TV was connected with this case.
The interview with Roger Clemens about steroids was presented in January, 2008. Rusty Hardin, the defense attorney for Roger Clemens, arranged the appearing of this former baseball player in the Show 60 Minutes. Roger Clemens had to defense himself against accusations of his former personal coach Brian McNamee. This coach accused Roger Clemens in intake of anabolic steroids and HGH. He cooperated with Mitchell Report investigators, when they investigated the extent of steroid use in the Major League Baseball.
Wallace didn’t enforce Clemens to tell that he used steroids. He just convinced him to prove to others that he had used neither steroids, nor HGH. Roger Clemens affirmed that he would be able to pull a tractor with his teeth, if he had used steroids.
The interview of Clemens was a black public relations maneuver for Rusty Hardin. It was not the best interview. But it renewed the interest after death of Wallace.
Actually, Wallace hosted much more substantial interviews during his career. The steroid interview with Roger Clemens was not the most interesting. Why did it draw all people’s attention?
Other interviews of Wallace are quite significant. 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 defined the Watergate scandal as “perjury”. He enumerated such methods of Richard Nixon, as thefts, spying, obstruction of justice, etc. The scandal caused resignation of the president Richard Nixon.
Wallace arranged also an interview with the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini. Wallace called him a “lunatic”. But he was quoting the president Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt.
Another individual who was interviewed by Wallace was the Vice President of Research and Development at a tobacco company. Jeffrey Wigand admitted that executives of the company lied before the Congress about their knowledge linked with nature of nicotine.
Although 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 result in federal war on steroids, the war on nicotine will never take place.