Mike Wallace announced on Tuesday that he is stepping down as a 60 Minutes regular and moving to the position of correspondent emeritus (which, if I correctly recall from my Latin classes, means "reporter carrying a nail file." OK, I was a lousy student.) Wallace has been with 60 Minutes since its 1968 premiere and with CBS since 1951.
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Question: I remember the whole 60 Minutes controversy that became The Insider, but if I recall, that wasn't the first time the show had a fight on its hands. Wasn't there a lawsuit with Gen. William Westmoreland, too? What was that about?Answer: It wasn't actually 60 Minutes that was involved in the Westmoreland lawsuit, Lee. It was Mike Wallace, a correspondent for that show, who worked on a 1982 CBS News report titled The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception. The main thrust of the report was that Westmoreland, the former commander of U.S. military forces in Vietnam, oversaw a military-intelligence effort to trick President Lyn
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