"Both my parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left."

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Source: Larry King Interviews Mike Wallace. Larry King Live, edition.cnn.com. March 22, 2006.

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Mike Wallace was a pioneering journalist known for his incisive interviews and commitment to uncovering the truth in broadcast journalism.

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