“When Barnum’s American Museum burned down in July of 1865—a spectacular blaze, which left a dead whale in the street for two days—Bennett decided to erect a showpiece building on its Broadway and Ann Street site.” — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
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. — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“Residents grimly spoke of the crisis as “O Grab Me”—“embargo” spelled backward.” — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“The key to success in the Gold Room was information. Knowledge of a battle’s outcome obtained an hour before one’s competitors could be parlayed… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“When the popular actor John Hodgkinson appeared in the red coat of a British officer, hecklers wouldn’t allow him to continue until he had… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News. — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“Warner took to writing in hopes of making money and submitted a pious and sentimental novel to Harpers, which rebuffed it with the single… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“Horace Greeley cautioned one upstate hopeful: “You do not realize how little the mere talent of writing well has to do with success or… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“Political editors were a truculent breed. Leggett’s boss, William Cullen Bryant, took a cowskin whip to William Leete Stone of the Commercial Advertiser in… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
But I was never, you know, when I see some kids today who are close to their parents, close to their friends... I think… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“And among the prissiest. Gilder’s method of raising public standards of taste and morality required the production of bloodless pages. As custodian of genteel… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
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… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
