. >> it also has killed that great jack benny routine of shopping at christmas at the counter because there's no mel blanc or frank johnson to exchange with. just gave away my age. >> i was just going to say, i thought you were younger than that. >> not that funny to buy online. you can't make it. all right. i have just one more question, madam chair, and it's a question that has to be asked, which is how would the ftc handle a 9.5% cut in 2013 if sequestration was to occur? >> well, and again -- this is speaking for myself, i hope we don't ceci -- see sequestration because -- i'll give the short answer -- we would have to make a lot of tough choices and it would involve personnel and i.t. where we're desperately trying to catch up with the marketplace, so it would be very, very difficult for us to do the things you want us to do. i think it would mean fewer cases and i think it would mean slower development of cases. again, having said that, you know, wherever we end up we'll do the best we can. wherever we end up with our appropriation. >> well, from my standpoint, we do away with c

even spoofed it with comedian jack benny. ns i'm not going! i don't have to answer anything. i don't. i don't. i don't. ( laughter ) >> reporter: it's hard to believe but when mike was born in 1918 there wasn't even a adio in most american homes, ieve less tv. >> i was a pretty good kid. you know, i was-- i was-- i was .n overachiever. i worked very hard. played a hell of a fiddle. >> reporter: at the university of michigan were his parents hoped he would become a doctor or a lawyer, he got hooked instead on radio. and by 1941 mike was the announcer on the green hornet. rikeide, another pulling, the green hornet strikes again. no my family didn't know what to make of it. an announcer? >> reporter: and soon the hardest working anouncer in oaoadcasting. >> hello. i'm mike wallace with real news. >> reporter: when television arrived in the 1950s, mike was everywhere. variety shows, game shows, dramas, commercials. >> it's procter & gamble's golden fluffo. >> good evening, i'm mike wallace. in show is "nightbeat." >> reporter: but it was an knorview show called "nightbeat" first

. >> his take no prisoners style became so famous he even spoofed it with comedian jack benny. >> i am not going! i am not answering anything! >> it is hard to believe, but when mike was born in 1918, there wasn't even a radio in most american homes, much less tv. >> i was a pretty good kid. i was an over achiever and i worked very hard, played a hell of a fiddle. >> the university of michigan where his parents hoped he would become a doctor or lawyer he got hooked instead of radio. and by 1941, mike was the announcer on the greenhorn net. >> ride with another thrilling adventure. the greenhorn net strikes again. >> the family didn't know what to make of it, and, an announcer? >> and soon the hardest working announcer in broadcasting. >> hello, i am mike wallace with real news. >> hello, everybody, hello. >> when television arrived in the 1950's, mike was everywhere. >> variety shows, game shows, dramas, commercials. >> it is procter & gamble's golden -- >> good evening, i am mike wallace, the show is night beat. >> there was an interview show called night beat, first broadcast in 1956

, and i thought -- and especially some of you here will remember, i felt like i was going into jack benny's vault. [laughter] finally, we get into the room, and there's a huge room, oh, about i would say a city block long. shelf after shelf of metal shelf, box after box, sort of dark in there. we went to one end of the room, and he said, well, look here and i'll look there. no, no. and all of a sudden he said, mm, let's try something. he walked clear across this huge room, and he got on all fours, and he pulled out a box, and he says i don't know, but -- and he gave me the box. i pulled it off the shelf, and i look in the box, and i'm pushing and looking and looking and looking, and at the very end of the box are 210 pages of all the state department records dealing with immigrants, these people i was interested in, coming to the united states. hyde farmlands. i turned to him, and i hugged him. he was a very shy guy. [laughter] and he looked at me, i could -- and it was dark. [laughter] and i said, i said, you did it, you did it! after two and a half years. and then he did something that i

i toured with jack benny in europe, md. maxwell, phil harris during those years. question is, when we get back to the united states, we went to pbs. we went to hollywood. one of my band members was an arranger for a hollywood production house in california. so he knew steven spielberg, to be able to speak to him about this thing. >> what is the question? >> the question is "60 minutes is one of my favorite programs. [laughter] and since you were here, i would like to know what you think can be done about that. >> don't worry about it. fox news will take care about you. [laughter] [applause] >> beauty evening. first of all, i -- good evening. first of all, i have to tell you how much i enjoy the repartee between father and son. it is absolutely delightful. both of you have a long history in the news reporting field. clearly, news today is very different than it was when you started in terms of the immediacy of the news to the public and the access of the public to information that they never had before at the rate that they get it today. i believe that it is creati

>> reporter: his take no prisoner style became so famous, he even spoofed it with comedian jack benny. >> i'm not going! i don't have to answer anything. i don't. i don't. i don't. >> reporter: it's hard to believe, but when mike was born in 1918, there wasn't even a radio in most american homes. much less tv. >> i was a pretty good kid. you know, i was -- i was an overachiever. i worked very hard, played a hell of a fiddle. >> reporter: at the university of michigan, where his parents hoped he become a daughter or lawyer, he got hooked, instead, on radio. and by 1941 mike was the announcer on "the green hornet." >> ride with rip green as he race for another thrilling adventure. >> hello, i'm mike wallace with real news. ♪ hello everybody hello >> reporter: when television arrived in the 1950s, mike was everywhere. >> it's procter & gamble's golden fluffle. >> good evening, i'm mike wallace. the show is "night beat". >> reporter: an interview show "night beat" first broadcast in 1956 that mike remembers fit him like custom made brass knuckles. >> what do you know about that? >> who in

i toured with jack benny in europe, md. maxwell, phil harris during those years. the question is, when we get back to the united states, we went to pbs. we went to hollywood. one of my band members was a ranger -- was an arranger for a hollywood production house in california. so he knew steven spielberg, to be able to speak to him about this thing. >> what is the question? >> the question is "60 minutes is one of my favorite programs. [laughter] and since you were here, i would like to know what you think can be done about that. >> don't worry about it. fox news will take care about you. [laughter] [applause] >> beauty evening. first of all, i -- good evening. first of all, i have to tell you how much i enjoy the repartee between father and son. it is absolutely delightful. both of you have a long history in the news reporting field. clearly, news today is very different than it was when you started in terms of the immediacy of the news to the public and the access of the public to information that they never had before at the rate that they get it today. i ebeli