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Posted on 09/15/2004 12:00:31 PM PDT by IncPen
... the unmistakable voice of Mike Wallace returns the party to rapt attention. “Thirty-six years ago,” Wallace says, casting his eyes over the crowd of young assistants and producers, many of them barely born when 60 Minutes began. “Out of a job. In a room about a quarter the size of this room. With a good-looking assistant—what was her name?”
“Suzanne Davis,” Hewitt says.
“That’s right. Suzanne Davis. He effectively had been fired. Told, ‘Hey, come up with an idea.’ They’d already gotten rid of him because of some of his ideas. And on a Sunday he said, ‘Can I come over?’ And he came over to 74th Street. And we went upstairs. . . . He said, ‘Listen. I’ve got an idea. I’ve got an idea for a show.’
“I wanted to go to the White House,” Wallace goes on. “I hadn’t the slightest desire . . . but I figured, What the hell. I felt sorry for him.”
“Who was president then?” Stahl interjects. “Coolidge?”
Wallace continues, unamused. “Nixon,” he says. “Nixon. In any case, this man . . . somebody said it before. He put our kids through school. He made some of us much richer than we should be. But mainly, we had such a ball. For the first ten or fifteen years. We worked seven days a week, twelve hours a day. Everybody saw everybody else’s piece in the screening room. It was . . . Jesus, it was . . . ”
Wallace stops, his reverie finished in midthought. He has remembered enough. Hewitt doesn’t mind; he’s dying to repeat for the millionth time his own memory of the early days, when the two men who still call each other “kid” really were just kids, playing with the power of television.<.i>
(Excerpt) Read more at newyorkmetro.com ...
It offers an insight, perhaps, into the eagerness behind the Rather scandal.
They believe they were endowed to do as they wished, always above the great unwashed masses.
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I forgot to ping you to this earlier.
It's a must read, if only for the glimpse you get of the swooping arrogance that is CBS
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