Word: interviewing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kissinger affirms that I have consistently refused to make the tape available to other journalists. Though I don't travel the world with his tape in my pocket as if it were my passport, some one has listened to it. When Mike Wallace came to interview me in Italy for 60 Minutes and asked me to hear Kissinger's voice telling his own cowboy epic, I played the tape in front of the whole CBS group. Wallace heard what he wanted and he got very excited, even amused...
...Kissinger insinuates that I was "on to" something. True. I was "on to ' hoping to find a man less arrogant and more coherent than the one portrayed in those days by the American press. I failed, and my interview with him thus remains the worst I have ever done, the most boring, in every sense...
Wallace doesn't remember it quite that way. He recalls hearing parts of a scratchy tape with the voice of Henry Kissinger saying something that was not as simple and dramatic as it appeared in the printed Fallaci interview...
That is the concern of former Secretary of Defense (and more recently, of Energy) James Schlesinger. In an interview last week with TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, Schlesinger described the fall of the Shah last January and the rise of Khomeini as "a cataclysm for American foreign policy?the first serious revolution since 1917 in terms of world impact." Said Schlesinger: "It is plain that respect for the U.S. would be higher if we didn't just fumble around continuously and weren't half-apologetic about whatever we do. An image of weakness is going to elicit this kind...
...September, Bazargan told a television audience, "The government has been a knife with no blade." In an interview with Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, he said: "Khomeini has never been a real politician. He's never had the training needed to face the administrative responsibilities that he now finds on his shoulders. In fact, he doesn't understand government, he doesn't know the techniques for administering a country." On Tuesday, realizing that Khomeini and his advisers were supporting the embassy siege, Bazargan at last resigned. He had been particularly stung when the students charged him with "treason" for having talked...