Wallace has been a correspondent for CBS's 60 Minutes since its debut in 1968. During his career at 60 Minutes, he has interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers, including Deng Xiaoping, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Kurt Waldheim, Yasser Arafat, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Manuel Noriega, Jeffrey Wigand, John F. Nash, Vladimir Putin, Salvador Dalí, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Wallace retired as a regular correspondent in 2006.(less)