Henniart derived the following theorem from his numerical local Langlands correspondence: If $F$ is a non-archimedean local field and if $\pi$ is an irreducible representation of $GL(n,F)$, then, after a finite series of cyclic base changes, the image of $\pi$ contains a fixed vector under an Iwahori subgroup. This result was indispensable in all demonstrations of the local correspondence. Scholze gave a different proof, based on the analysis of nearby cycles in the cohomology of the Lubin-Tate tower (and this result also appears, in a somewhat different form, in proofs based on the global correspondence for function fields). An analogous theorem should be valid for every reductive group, but the known proofs only work for GL(n). I will sketch a different proof, based on properties of L-functions and assuming the existence of cyclic base change, that also applies to classical groups; I will also explain how the analogous result for a general reductive group is related to the local parametrization of Genestier-Lafforgue.