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Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers (born Billy Don Moyers; June 5, 1934) is an American journalist and political commentator. Under the Johnson administration he served from 1965 to 1967 as the eleventh White House Press Secretary. He was a director of the Council on Foreign Relations, from 1967 to 1974. He also worked as a network TV news commentator for ten years. Moyers has been extensively involved with public broadcasting, producing documentaries and news journal programs, and has won numerous awards and honorary degrees for his investigative journalism and civic activities. He has become well known as a trenchant critic of the corporately structured U.S. news media.

Bill Moyers
11th White House Press Secretary
In office
July 8, 1965 – February 1, 1967
PresidentLyndon B. Johnson
Preceded byGeorge Reedy
Succeeded byGeorge Christian
White House Chief of Staff
De facto
In office
October 14, 1964 – July 8, 1965
PresidentLyndon B. Johnson
Preceded byWalter Jenkins (de facto)
Succeeded byJack Valenti (de facto)
Personal details
Born
Billy Don Moyers

(1934-06-05) June 5, 1934 (age 89)
Hugo, Oklahoma, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Judith Suzanne Davidson
(m. 1954)
Children3
Education

Early years and education edit

 
President Johnson (right) meets with special assistant Moyers in the White House Oval Office, 1963

Born Billy Don Moyers[1] in Hugo in Choctaw County in southeastern Oklahoma, he is the son of John Henry Moyers, a laborer, and Ruby Johnson Moyers. Moyers was reared in Marshall, Texas.[2]

Moyers began his journalism career at 16 as a cub reporter at the Marshall News Messenger. In college, he studied journalism at the North Texas State College in Denton, Texas. In 1954, US Senator Lyndon B. Johnson employed him as a summer intern and eventually promoted him to manage Johnson's personal mail. Soon after, Moyers transferred to the University of Texas at Austin, where he wrote for The Daily Texan newspaper. In 1956, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism. While in Austin, Moyers served as assistant news editor for KTBC radio and television stations, owned by Lady Bird Johnson, wife of Senator Johnson. During the academic year 1956–1957, he studied issues of church and state at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland as a Rotary International Fellow. In 1959, he completed a Master of Divinity degree at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.[2] Moyers served as Director of Information while attending SWBTS. He was also a Baptist pastor in Weir in Williamson County, near Austin.

Moyers was ordained in 1954. Moyers planned to enter a Doctor of Philosophy program in American Studies at the University of Texas. During Senator Johnson's unsuccessful bid for the 1960 Democratic U.S. presidential nomination, Moyers served as a top aide, and in the general campaign he acted as liaison between Democratic vice-presidential candidate Johnson and the Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy.[3]

Kennedy and Johnson administrations edit

The Peace Corps edit

The Peace Corps was established by President Kennedy by Executive Order in March 1961, but it was up to top aide Sargent Shriver and Bill Moyers[4] to find the funding to actually establish the organization. The Peace Corp Act was signed by President Kennedy on September 22, 1961. In Sarge, Scott Stossel reports that "Peace Corps legend has it that between them Moyers and Shriver personally called on every single member of Congress."

Reflecting 25 years later on the creation of the program Moyers said: ”We knew from the beginning that the Peace Corps was not an agency, program, or mission. Now we know—from those who lived and died for it—that it is a way of being in the world."[5] At the 50th Anniversary “Salute to Peace Corps Giants,” hosted by the National Archives, Moyers said, "The years we spent at the Peace Corps were the best years of our lives.”[6] Moyers gave the same answer in the famed Vanity Fair Proust questionnaire in 2011.[7]

Moyers served first as associate director of public affairs and then as Sargent Shriver's deputy director before becoming special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson in November 1963.[8]

Corporation for Public Broadcasting edit

Bill Moyers was a key player in the creation of the public broadcasting system.[9]  When, in 1961, FCC Chairman Newton Minnow labeled television a  “vast wasteland” and called for programming in the public interest, the Johnson Administration instituted a study of the issue. The Carnegie Corporation of New York established a commission to study the value of and need for noncommercial educational television. Bill Moyers served on this committee, which released its report 'Public Television: A Program for Action,' in 1967. Moyers said of the endeavor: “We became a central part of the American consciousness and a valuable institution within our culture."

Moyers was influential in creating the legislation that would fulfill the committee's recommendations. In 1967, President Johnson[10] signed Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. (1) it is in the public interest to encourage the growth and development of public radio and television broadcasting, including the use of such media for instructional, educational, and cultural purposes;

On the 50th anniversary of the Public Broadcasting Act, Moyers and Joseph A. Califano, Jr. spoke about their experience with WNET.[11]

Johnson Administration edit

When Lyndon B. Johnson took office after the Kennedy assassination, Moyers became a special assistant to Johnson, serving from 1963 to 1967. Moyers is the last surviving person identifiable in the photograph taken of Johnson's swearing in.[12] He played a key role in organizing and supervising the 1964 Great Society legislative task forces and was a principal architect of Johnson's 1964 presidential campaign. Moyers acted as the President's informal chief of staff from October 1964 until 1966. From July 1965 to February 1967, he also served as White House press secretary.[3]

After the resignation of White House Chief of Staff Walter Jenkins because of a sexual misdemeanor in the run up to the 1964 election, President Lyndon B. Johnson, alarmed that the opposition was framing the issue as a security breach,[13] ordered Moyers to request FBI name checks on 15 members of Goldwater's staff to find "derogatory" material on their personal lives.[14][15] Goldwater himself only referred to the Jenkins incident off the record.[16] The Church Committee stated in 1975 that "Moyers has publicly recounted his role in the incident, and his account is confirmed by FBI documents."[17] In 2005, Laurence Silberman wrote that Moyers denied writing the memo in a 1975 phone call, telling him the FBI had fabricated it.[18] Moyers said he had a different recollection of the telephone conversation.[19]

Moyers also sought information from the FBI on the sexual preferences of White House staff members, most notably Jack Valenti.[20] Moyers indicated his memory was unclear on why Johnson directed him to request such information, "but that he may have been simply looking for details of allegations first brought to the president by Hoover."[21]

Under the direction of President Johnson, Moyers gave J Edgar Hoover the go-ahead to discredit Martin Luther King, played a part in the wiretapping of King, discouraged the American embassy in Oslo from assisting King on his Nobel Peace Prize trip, and worked to prevent King from challenging the all-white Mississippi delegation to the 1964 Democratic National Convention.[22]

Moyers approved (but had nothing to do with the production) of the infamous "Daisy Ad" against Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential campaign.[23] Goldwater blamed him for it, and once said of Moyers, "Every time I see him, I get sick to my stomach and want to throw up."[24] The ad is considered the starting point of the modern-day harshly negative campaign ad.[25]

 
Moyers giving a press conference at the White House in 1965

Journalist Morley Safer in his 1990 book "Flashbacks" wrote that Moyers and President Johnson met with and "harangued" Safer's boss, CBS president Frank Stanton, about Safer's coverage of the Marines torching Cam Ne village in the Vietnam War.[26] During the meeting, Safer alleges, Johnson threatened to expose Safer's "communist ties". This was a bluff, according to Safer. Safer says that Moyers was "if not a key player, certainly a key bystander" in the incident.[27] Moyers stated that his hard-hitting coverage of conservative presidents Reagan and Bush was behind Safer's 1990 allegations.[28]

In The New York Times on April 3, 1966, Moyers offered this insight on his stint as press secretary to President Johnson: "I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies."[29][30] On October 17, 1967, he told an audience in Cambridge that Johnson saw the war in Vietnam as his major legacy and, as a result, was insisting on victory at all costs, even in the face of public opposition. Moyers felt such a continuation of the conflict would tear the country apart. "I never thought the situation could arise when I would wish for the defeat of LBJ, and that makes my current state of mind all the more painful to me," he told them. "I would have to say now: It would depend on who his opponent is."[31]

The full details of his rift with Johnson were not made public.[32] However, an Oval Office tape which was recorded following Johnson's public announcement that he would not seek re-election on March 31, 1968, suggested that Moyers and Johnson were still in contact after Moyers left the White House, with Moyers even encouraging the President to change his mind about running.[33]

Journalism edit

Newsday edit

Moyers served as publisher for the Long Island, New York, daily newspaper Newsday from 1967 to 1970. The conservative publication had been unsuccessful,[34] but Moyers led the paper in a progressive direction,[35] bringing in leading writers such as Pete Hamill, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Saul Bellow, and adding new features and more investigative reporting and analysis. Circulation increased and the publication won 33 major journalism awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes.[34][36][37] But the owner of the paper, Harry Guggenheim, a conservative, was disappointed by the liberal drift of the newspaper under Moyers, criticizing the "left-wing" coverage of Vietnam War protests.[38][39] The two split over the 1968 presidential election, with Guggenheim signing an editorial supporting Richard Nixon, when Moyers supported Hubert Humphrey.[40] Guggenheim sold his majority share to the then-conservative Times-Mirror Company over the attempt of newspaper employees to block the sale, even though Moyers offered $10 million more than the Times-Mirror purchase price; Moyers resigned a few days later.[32][38][41][42]

CBS News edit

In 1976 Moyers joined CBS News, where he worked as editor and chief correspondent for CBS Reports until 1981, then as senior news analyst and commentator for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather from 1981 to 1986. He was the last regular commentator for the network broadcast.[43] During his last year at CBS, Moyers made public statements about declining news standards at the network[44] and declined to renew his contract with CBS, citing commitments with PBS.[45]

NBC News edit

Moyers briefly joined NBC News in 1995 as a senior analyst and commentator, and the following year he became the first host of sister cable network MSNBC's Insight program. He was the last regular commentator on the NBC Nightly News.[43]

PBS edit

Bill Moyers Journal (1972–1981) edit

In 1971 Moyers began working for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). His first PBS series, titled This Week with Bill Moyers, aired in 1971 and 1972.

Bill Moyers Journal ran on PBS from 1972 until 1981 with a hiatus from 1976 to 1977. He later hosted a show with this title from 2007 to 2010.[46]

In 1975, Bill Moyers Journal aired Rosedale: The Way It Is,[47] documenting the furor after the first Black family moved into Rosedale, Queens — including a rash of fire bombings. Forty-five years later a graduate student drew attention to a short segment recording the reactions of a group of black girls trying to make sense of the virulent racist attack they'd just experienced. The New York Times picked up on the story and found the children and others featured in the documentary and produced its own reported feature: " A Racist Attack on Children Was Taped in 1975. We Found Them."[48]

Individual programs (1982–2006) edit

From 1982 through 2006, 70 different documentaries, interviews or limited series produced and hosted by Moyers ran on PBS stations.[49]

Individuals interviewed and profiled included:

Moyers also hosted a 6-part interview series called Creativity in 1982 and a 42-part interview series A World of Ideas from 1988–1990 which featured a companion book.[50]

Topics of Moyers broadcasts included:

  • History – A Walk Through the 20th Century (1982–1984), From D-Day to the Rhine (1990), The Power of the Past: Florence (1990), The Arab World (1991), Presenting Mr. Frederick Douglass (1994)
  • Religion – Heritage Conversations (1986), God and Politics (1987), Amazing Grace (1990), The New Holy War (1993), Genesis: A Living Conversation (1996),[51] Faith and Reason (2006)
  • Morality – Facing Evil (1988), Beyond Hate (1991), Hate on Trial (1992), Facing the Truth (1999)
  • Politics – In Search of the Constitution (1987), The Home Front (1991), Money Talks (1994), Trading Democracy (2002), Capitol Crimes (2006)
  • The media – The Public Mind (1989), Project Censored (1991), Free Speech for Sale (1999), The Net at Risk (2006)
  • Contemporary events such as the Iran–Contra affair (The Secret Government, 1987), 1988 presidential election (Election '88), 1992 presidential election (Listening to America) and the 9/11 attacks (Moyers in Conversation)
  • Healthcare – Circle of Recovery (1991), Healing and the Mind (1993), The Great Healthcare debate (1994), Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home (1998),[52] On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying (2000)[53]
  • Poetry[54]The Power of the Word (1989), The Language of Life (1995), Fooling with Words (1999), Sounds of Poetry (1999)
  • The environment – Spirit and Nature (1991), Trade Secrets (2001), Earth on Edge (2001), America's First River (2003), Is God Green? (2006)
  • Money – Sports for sale (1991), Minimum Wages: The New Economy (1992), Bullish on America (1993), Surviving the Good Times (2000)[55]
  • Youth issues – All Our Children (1991), Families First (1992), Solutions to Violence (1995), Children in America's Schools (1996)
  • Immigration – Becoming American (2003)

These were often produced by Moyers and his wife, Judith Suzanne Davidson Moyers, through Public Affairs Television, a company they formed in 1986. Other collaborators included filmmaker David Grubin and producer Madeline Amgott[56]

Frontline (1990–1999) edit

Between 1990 and 1999, Moyers produced and hosted 7 episodes of the PBS journalism program Frontline:

  • Global Dumping Ground (1990) on toxic waste
  • Springfield Goes to War (1990) on the debate around the Gulf War
  • High Crimes and Misdemeanors (1990) on the Iran–Contra affair
  • In Our Children's Food (1993) on pesticides
  • Living on the Edge (1995) on the economy
  • Washington's Other Scandal (1998) on campaign finance
  • Justice for Sale (1999) on judicial elections

NOW with Bill Moyers and Wide Angle (2002–2005) edit

Moyers hosted the TV news journal NOW with Bill Moyers on PBS for three years, starting in January 2002. He retired from the program on December 17, 2004, but returned to PBS soon after to host Wide Angle in 2005. When he left NOW, he announced that he wished to finish writing a biography of Lyndon B. Johnson.[57]

Bill Moyers Journal (2007–2010) edit

On April 25, 2007, Moyers returned to PBS with Bill Moyers Journal. In the first episode, "Buying the War", Moyers investigated what he called the general media's shortcomings in the runup to the War in Iraq.[58] "Buying the War" won an Emmy at the 29th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards (2008) for Best Report in a News Magazine.[59]

On November 20, 2009, Moyers announced that he would be retiring from his weekly show on April 30, 2010.[60]

Moyers & Company (2012–2015) edit

In August 2011 Moyers announced a new hour-long weekly interview show, Moyers & Company, which premiered in January 2012.[61] In that same month, Moyers also launched BillMoyers.com. Later reduced to a half hour, Moyers & Company was produced by Public Affairs Television and distributed by American Public Television.[62] The show has been heralded as a renewed fulfillment of public media's stated mission to air news and views unrepresented or underrepresented in commercial media.[63]

The program concluded on January 2, 2015.[64]

Moyers on Democracy podcast edit

In 2020, Moyers started a series of podcasts named Moyers on Democracy. Conversations included Lisa Graves on the Post Office conflict; Heather Cox Richardson on How the South Won the Civil War; Heather McGhee on racism's pernicious effect on American society and Bill T. Jones on his newest project — a retelling of Moby Dick from the viewpoint of a Black cabin boy. The series ended in early 2021.[65]

Awards edit

In 1995, Bill Moyers was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.[66] The same year, he also won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.[67] When he became a recipient of the 2006 Lifetime Emmy Award, the official announcement noted that “Bill Moyers has devoted his lifetime to the exploration of the major issues and ideas of our time and our country, giving television viewers an informed perspective on political and societal concerns," and that "The scope of and quality of his broadcasts have been honored time and again. It is fitting that the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honor him with our highest honor—the Lifetime Achievement Award."[68] He has received well over thirty Emmys and virtually every other major television journalism prize, including a gold baton from the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, a lifetime Peabody Award,[69] and a George Polk Career Award (his third George Polk Award) for contributions to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Philosophical Society,[70] and has been the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, including a doctorate from the American Film Institute.[2] In 2011, Moyers received the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) from Whittier College.[71]

Media criticism edit

In a 2003 interview with BuzzFlash.com,[72] Moyers said, "The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won." He noted, "The rich are getting richer, which arguably wouldn't matter if the rising tide lifted all boats." Instead, however, "[t]he inequality gap is the widest it's been since 1929; the middle class is besieged and the working poor are barely keeping their heads above water." He added that as "the corporate and governing elites are helping themselves to the spoils of victory," access to political power has become "who gets what and who pays for it."

Meanwhile, the public has failed to react because it is, in his words, "distracted by the media circus and news has been neutered or politicized for partisan purposes." In support of this, he referred to "the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero. ... As Eric Alterman reports in his recent book—a book that I'm proud to have helped make happen—part of the red-meat strategy is to attack mainstream media relentlessly, knowing that if the press is effectively intimidated, either by the accusation of liberal bias or by a reporter's own mistaken belief in the charge's validity, the institutions that conservatives revere—corporate America, the military, organized religion, and their own ideological bastions of influence—will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence over American public life with relatively no challenge."[72]

When he briefly retired in December 2004, the AP News Service quoted Moyers as saying, "I'm going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story of our time: how the right-wing media has become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee. We have an ideological press that's interested in the election of Republicans, and a mainstream press that's interested in the bottom line. Therefore, we don't have a vigilant, independent press whose interest is the American people."[73]

Presidential draft initiative edit

On July 24, 2006, liberal political commentator Molly Ivins published an article entitled Run Bill Moyers for President, Seriously, urging a symbolic candidacy, on the progressive website Truthdig.[74][75][76] The call was taken up in October 2006 by Ralph Nader.[77] Moyers did not run.

Conflict with CPB over content edit

In 2003, Corporation for Public Broadcasting chairman Kenneth Tomlinson wrote to Pat Mitchell, the president of PBS, that NOW with Bill Moyers "does not contain anything approaching the balance the law requires for public broadcasting."[78] In 2005, Tomlinson commissioned a study of the show, without informing or getting authorization from the CPB board.[79] The study was conducted by Fred Mann, Tomlinson's choice, a 20-year veteran of the American Conservative Union and a conservative columnist. Like the study itself, Mann's appointment was not disclosed to the CPB.[80]

Tomlinson said that the study supported what he characterized as "the image of the left-wing bias of NOW".[81] George Neumayr, the executive editor of The American Spectator, a conservative magazine, told the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer that "PBS looks like a liberal monopoly to me, and Bill Moyers is Exhibit A of that very strident, left-wing bias... [Moyers] uses his show as a platform from which to attack conservatives and Republicans."[78]

The Reporters Committee on the Freedom of the Press was vocal about the danger of the CPB chairman interfering with programming independence.[82] The PBS Ombudsman and the Free Press noted that a poll taken in 2003 by the CPB itself found that 80 percent of Americans believe PBS to be "fair and balanced."[83] In a speech given to The National Conference for Media Reform, Moyers said that he had repeatedly invited Tomlinson to have a televised conversation with him on the subject but had been ignored.[84]

On November 3, 2005, Tomlinson resigned from the board, prompted by a report of his tenure by the CPB Inspector General Kenneth Konz, requested by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives. The report, which found that Tomlinson violated the Director's Code of Ethics and the statutory provisions of the CPB and PBS, was made public on November 15. It states:

We found evidence that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) former Chairman violated statutory provisions and the Director's Code of Ethics by dealing directly with one of the creators of a new public affairs program during negotiations with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the CPB over creating the show. Our review also found evidence that suggests "political tests" were a major criteria [sic] used by the former Chairman in recruiting a President/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for CPB, which violated statutory prohibitions against such practices.

In 2006, the PBS Ombudsman, whose role was reinvigorated by the controversy published a column entitled "He's Back: Moyers, not Tomlinson." Reflecting on the conflict, Moyers told The Boston Globe: "It's a place where if you fight you can survive, but it's not easy. The fact of the matter is that Kenneth Tomlinson had a chilling effect down the line."[85]

Organizations edit

Moyers is a former director of the Council on Foreign Relations[86] (1967–1974), and a member of the Bilderberg Group[87] and since 1990 has been president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy.

Personal life edit

 
Moyers at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2018

Moyers married Judith Suzanne Davidson (a producer) on December 18, 1954. They have three children and five grandchildren. His son William Cope Moyers (CNN producer, Hazelden Foundation spokesman) struggled to overcome alcoholism and crack addiction as detailed in the book Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption. He includes letters from Bill Moyers in his book, which he says are "a testament to a father's love for his son, a father's confusion with his son, and ultimately, a father's satisfaction with his son."[88] His other son, John Moyers, assisted in the foundation of TomPaine.com, "an online public affairs journal of progressive analysis and commentary."[89] His daughter, Suzanne Moyers, a former teacher and editor, is the author of the historical novel, ‘Til All These Things Be Done (She Writes Press; September 13, 2022).

Published works edit

  • Listening to America: A Traveler Rediscovers His Country (1971), Harper's Magazine Press, ISBN 0-06-126400-8
  • The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis : With Excerpts from an Essay on Watergate (1988), coauthor Henry Steele Commager, Seven Locks Press, hardcover: ISBN 0-932020-61-5, 1990 reprint: ISBN 0-932020-85-2, 2000 paperback: ISBN 0-932020-60-7; examines the Iran-Contra affair
  • The Power of Myth (1988), host: Bill Moyers, author: Joseph Campbell, Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-24773-7
  • A World of Ideas : Conversations With Thoughtful Men and Women About American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Future (1989), Doubleday, hardcover: ISBN 0-385-26278-7, paperback: ISBN 0-385-26346-5
  • A World of Ideas II: Public Opinions from Private Citizens (1990), Doubleday, hardcover: ISBN 0-385-41664-4, paperback: ISBN 0-385-41665-2, 1994 Random House values edition: ISBN 0-517-11470-4
  • Healing and the Mind (1993), Doubleday hardcover: ISBN 0-385-46870-9, 1995 paperback: ISBN 0-385-47687-6
  • The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets (1995), Doubleday hardcover: ISBN 0-385-47917-4, 1996 paperback: ISBN 0-385-48410-0, conversations with 34 poets
  • Genesis: A Living Conversation (1996), Doubleday hardcover: ISBN 0-385-48345-7, 1997 paperback: ISBN 0-385-49043-7
  • Sister Wendy in Conversation with Bill Moyers: The Complete Conversation (1997), WGBH Educational Foundation, ISBN 1-57807-077-5
  • Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft (1999), William Morrow, hardcover: ISBN 0-688-17346-2, 2000 Harper paperback: ISBN 0-688-17792-1
  • Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times (2004), New Press, ISBN 1-56584-892-6, 2005 Anchor paperback: ISBN 1-4000-9536-0; twenty selected speeches and commentaries, Interview with Terri Gross on Fresh Air.[90]
  • Moyers on Democracy (2008), Doubleday, ISBN 978-0-385-52380-6
  • Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues (2011), New Press

See also edit

References edit

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For the co founder of the Movement for a New Society see William Moyer This article contains paid contributions It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia s content policies particularly neutral point of view Please discuss further on the talk page Bill Moyers born Billy Don Moyers June 5 1934 is an American journalist and political commentator Under the Johnson administration he served from 1965 to 1967 as the eleventh White House Press Secretary He was a director of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1967 to 1974 He also worked as a network TV news commentator for ten years Moyers has been extensively involved with public broadcasting producing documentaries and news journal programs and has won numerous awards and honorary degrees for his investigative journalism and civic activities He has become well known as a trenchant critic of the corporately structured U S news media Bill Moyers11th White House Press SecretaryIn office July 8 1965 February 1 1967PresidentLyndon B JohnsonPreceded byGeorge ReedySucceeded byGeorge ChristianWhite House Chief of StaffDe factoIn office October 14 1964 July 8 1965PresidentLyndon B JohnsonPreceded byWalter Jenkins de facto Succeeded byJack Valenti de facto Personal detailsBornBilly Don Moyers 1934 06 05 June 5 1934 age 89 Hugo Oklahoma U S Political partyDemocraticSpouseJudith Suzanne Davidson m 1954 wbr Children3EducationUniversity of North TexasUniversity of Texas Austin BA University of EdinburghSouthwestern Baptist Theological Seminary MDiv Contents 1 Early years and education 2 Kennedy and Johnson administrations 2 1 The Peace Corps 2 2 Corporation for Public Broadcasting 2 3 Johnson Administration 3 Journalism 3 1 Newsday 3 2 CBS News 3 3 NBC News 3 4 PBS 3 4 1 Bill Moyers Journal 1972 1981 3 4 2 Individual programs 1982 2006 3 4 3 Frontline 1990 1999 3 4 4 NOW with Bill Moyers and Wide Angle 2002 2005 3 4 5 Bill Moyers Journal 2007 2010 3 4 6 Moyers amp Company 2012 2015 3 5 Moyers on Democracy podcast 3 6 Awards 4 Media criticism 5 Presidential draft initiative 6 Conflict with CPB over content 7 Organizations 8 Personal life 9 Published works 10 See also 11 References 12 External linksEarly years and education edit nbsp President Johnson right meets with special assistant Moyers in the White House Oval Office 1963Born Billy Don Moyers 1 in Hugo in Choctaw County in southeastern Oklahoma he is the son of John Henry Moyers a laborer and Ruby Johnson Moyers Moyers was reared in Marshall Texas 2 Moyers began his journalism career at 16 as a cub reporter at the Marshall News Messenger In college he studied journalism at the North Texas State College in Denton Texas In 1954 US Senator Lyndon B Johnson employed him as a summer intern and eventually promoted him to manage Johnson s personal mail Soon after Moyers transferred to the University of Texas at Austin where he wrote for The Daily Texan newspaper In 1956 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism While in Austin Moyers served as assistant news editor for KTBC radio and television stations owned by Lady Bird Johnson wife of Senator Johnson During the academic year 1956 1957 he studied issues of church and state at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland as a Rotary International Fellow In 1959 he completed a Master of Divinity degree at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth Texas 2 Moyers served as Director of Information while attending SWBTS He was also a Baptist pastor in Weir in Williamson County near Austin Moyers was ordained in 1954 Moyers planned to enter a Doctor of Philosophy program in American Studies at the University of Texas During Senator Johnson s unsuccessful bid for the 1960 Democratic U S presidential nomination Moyers served as a top aide and in the general campaign he acted as liaison between Democratic vice presidential candidate Johnson and the Democratic presidential nominee U S Senator John F Kennedy 3 Kennedy and Johnson administrations editThe Peace Corps edit The Peace Corps was established by President Kennedy by Executive Order in March 1961 but it was up to top aide Sargent Shriver and Bill Moyers 4 to find the funding to actually establish the organization The Peace Corp Act was signed by President Kennedy on September 22 1961 In Sarge Scott Stossel reports that Peace Corps legend has it that between them Moyers and Shriver personally called on every single member of Congress Reflecting 25 years later on the creation of the program Moyers said We knew from the beginning that the Peace Corps was not an agency program or mission Now we know from those who lived and died for it that it is a way of being in the world 5 At the 50th Anniversary Salute to Peace Corps Giants hosted by the National Archives Moyers said The years we spent at the Peace Corps were the best years of our lives 6 Moyers gave the same answer in the famed Vanity Fair Proust questionnaire in 2011 7 Moyers served first as associate director of public affairs and then as Sargent Shriver s deputy director before becoming special assistant to President Lyndon B Johnson in November 1963 8 Corporation for Public Broadcasting edit Bill Moyers was a key player in the creation of the public broadcasting system 9 When in 1961 FCC Chairman Newton Minnow labeled television a vast wasteland and called for programming in the public interest the Johnson Administration instituted a study of the issue The Carnegie Corporation of New York established a commission to study the value of and need for noncommercial educational television Bill Moyers served on this committee which released its report Public Television A Program for Action in 1967 Moyers said of the endeavor We became a central part of the American consciousness and a valuable institution within our culture Moyers was influential in creating the legislation that would fulfill the committee s recommendations In 1967 President Johnson 10 signed Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 1 it is in the public interest to encourage the growth and development of public radio and television broadcasting including the use of such media for instructional educational and cultural purposes On the 50th anniversary of the Public Broadcasting Act Moyers and Joseph A Califano Jr spoke about their experience with WNET 11 Johnson Administration edit When Lyndon B Johnson took office after the Kennedy assassination Moyers became a special assistant to Johnson serving from 1963 to 1967 Moyers is the last surviving person identifiable in the photograph taken of Johnson s swearing in 12 He played a key role in organizing and supervising the 1964 Great Society legislative task forces and was a principal architect of Johnson s 1964 presidential campaign Moyers acted as the President s informal chief of staff from October 1964 until 1966 From July 1965 to February 1967 he also served as White House press secretary 3 After the resignation of White House Chief of Staff Walter Jenkins because of a sexual misdemeanor in the run up to the 1964 election President Lyndon B Johnson alarmed that the opposition was framing the issue as a security breach 13 ordered Moyers to request FBI name checks on 15 members of Goldwater s staff to find derogatory material on their personal lives 14 15 Goldwater himself only referred to the Jenkins incident off the record 16 The Church Committee stated in 1975 that Moyers has publicly recounted his role in the incident and his account is confirmed by FBI documents 17 In 2005 Laurence Silberman wrote that Moyers denied writing the memo in a 1975 phone call telling him the FBI had fabricated it 18 Moyers said he had a different recollection of the telephone conversation 19 Moyers also sought information from the FBI on the sexual preferences of White House staff members most notably Jack Valenti 20 Moyers indicated his memory was unclear on why Johnson directed him to request such information but that he may have been simply looking for details of allegations first brought to the president by Hoover 21 Under the direction of President Johnson Moyers gave J Edgar Hoover the go ahead to discredit Martin Luther King played a part in the wiretapping of King discouraged the American embassy in Oslo from assisting King on his Nobel Peace Prize trip and worked to prevent King from challenging the all white Mississippi delegation to the 1964 Democratic National Convention 22 Moyers approved but had nothing to do with the production of the infamous Daisy Ad against Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential campaign 23 Goldwater blamed him for it and once said of Moyers Every time I see him I get sick to my stomach and want to throw up 24 The ad is considered the starting point of the modern day harshly negative campaign ad 25 nbsp Moyers giving a press conference at the White House in 1965Journalist Morley Safer in his 1990 book Flashbacks wrote that Moyers and President Johnson met with and harangued Safer s boss CBS president Frank Stanton about Safer s coverage of the Marines torching Cam Ne village in the Vietnam War 26 During the meeting Safer alleges Johnson threatened to expose Safer s communist ties This was a bluff according to Safer Safer says that Moyers was if not a key player certainly a key bystander in the incident 27 Moyers stated that his hard hitting coverage of conservative presidents Reagan and Bush was behind Safer s 1990 allegations 28 In The New York Times on April 3 1966 Moyers offered this insight on his stint as press secretary to President Johnson I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies 29 30 On October 17 1967 he told an audience in Cambridge that Johnson saw the war in Vietnam as his major legacy and as a result was insisting on victory at all costs even in the face of public opposition Moyers felt such a continuation of the conflict would tear the country apart I never thought the situation could arise when I would wish for the defeat of LBJ and that makes my current state of mind all the more painful to me he told them I would have to say now It would depend on who his opponent is 31 The full details of his rift with Johnson were not made public 32 However an Oval Office tape which was recorded following Johnson s public announcement that he would not seek re election on March 31 1968 suggested that Moyers and Johnson were still in contact after Moyers left the White House with Moyers even encouraging the President to change his mind about running 33 Journalism editNewsday edit Moyers served as publisher for the Long Island New York daily newspaper Newsday from 1967 to 1970 The conservative publication had been unsuccessful 34 but Moyers led the paper in a progressive direction 35 bringing in leading writers such as Pete Hamill Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Saul Bellow and adding new features and more investigative reporting and analysis Circulation increased and the publication won 33 major journalism awards including two Pulitzer Prizes 34 36 37 But the owner of the paper Harry Guggenheim a conservative was disappointed by the liberal drift of the newspaper under Moyers criticizing the left wing coverage of Vietnam War protests 38 39 The two split over the 1968 presidential election with Guggenheim signing an editorial supporting Richard Nixon when Moyers supported Hubert Humphrey 40 Guggenheim sold his majority share to the then conservative Times Mirror Company over the attempt of newspaper employees to block the sale even though Moyers offered 10 million more than the Times Mirror purchase price Moyers resigned a few days later 32 38 41 42 CBS News edit In 1976 Moyers joined CBS News where he worked as editor and chief correspondent for CBS Reports until 1981 then as senior news analyst and commentator for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather from 1981 to 1986 He was the last regular commentator for the network broadcast 43 During his last year at CBS Moyers made public statements about declining news standards at the network 44 and declined to renew his contract with CBS citing commitments with PBS 45 NBC News edit Moyers briefly joined NBC News in 1995 as a senior analyst and commentator and the following year he became the first host of sister cable network MSNBC s Insight program He was the last regular commentator on the NBC Nightly News 43 PBS edit Bill Moyers Journal 1972 1981 edit In 1971 Moyers began working for the Public Broadcasting Service PBS His first PBS series titled This Week with Bill Moyers aired in 1971 and 1972 Bill Moyers Journal ran on PBS from 1972 until 1981 with a hiatus from 1976 to 1977 He later hosted a show with this title from 2007 to 2010 46 In 1975 Bill Moyers Journal aired Rosedale The Way It Is 47 documenting the furor after the first Black family moved into Rosedale Queens including a rash of fire bombings Forty five years later a graduate student drew attention to a short segment recording the reactions of a group of black girls trying to make sense of the virulent racist attack they d just experienced The New York Times picked up on the story and found the children and others featured in the documentary and produced its own reported feature A Racist Attack on Children Was Taped in 1975 We Found Them 48 Individual programs 1982 2006 edit From 1982 through 2006 70 different documentaries interviews or limited series produced and hosted by Moyers ran on PBS stations 49 Individuals interviewed and profiled included Mortimer J Adler Six Great Ideas 1982 Joseph Campbell Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth 1988 Robert Bly A Gathering of Men 1990 John Henry Faulk The Man who Beat the Blacklist 1990 Bernice Johnson Reagon The Songs are Free 1991 Sam Keen Your Mythic Journey 1991 Oren Lyons The Faithkeeper 1991 Elie Wiesel Facing Hate 1991 Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon A Life Together 1993 Janet Reno Attorney General Janet Reno 1993 Rita Dove Poet Laureate Rita Dove 1994 Pete Seeger Pure Pete Seeger 1994 Huston Smith The Wisdom of Faith 1996 Bill T Jones Still Here 1997 Desmond Tutu Archbishop Tutu 1999 George Lucas The Mythology of Star Wars 1999 Ursula K Le Guin About the Lathe of Heaven 2000 Moyers also hosted a 6 part interview series called Creativity in 1982 and a 42 part interview series A World of Ideas from 1988 1990 which featured a companion book 50 Topics of Moyers broadcasts included History A Walk Through the 20th Century 1982 1984 From D Day to the Rhine 1990 The Power of the Past Florence 1990 The Arab World 1991 Presenting Mr Frederick Douglass 1994 Religion Heritage Conversations 1986 God and Politics 1987 Amazing Grace 1990 The New Holy War 1993 Genesis A Living Conversation 1996 51 Faith and Reason 2006 Morality Facing Evil 1988 Beyond Hate 1991 Hate on Trial 1992 Facing the Truth 1999 Politics In Search of the Constitution 1987 The Home Front 1991 Money Talks 1994 Trading Democracy 2002 Capitol Crimes 2006 The media The Public Mind 1989 Project Censored 1991 Free Speech for Sale 1999 The Net at Risk 2006 Contemporary events such as the Iran Contra affair The Secret Government 1987 1988 presidential election Election 88 1992 presidential election Listening to America and the 9 11 attacks Moyers in Conversation Healthcare Circle of Recovery 1991 Healing and the Mind 1993 The Great Healthcare debate 1994 Moyers on Addiction Close to Home 1998 52 On Our Own Terms Moyers on Dying 2000 53 Poetry 54 The Power of the Word 1989 The Language of Life 1995 Fooling with Words 1999 Sounds of Poetry 1999 The environment Spirit and Nature 1991 Trade Secrets 2001 Earth on Edge 2001 America s First River 2003 Is God Green 2006 Money Sports for sale 1991 Minimum Wages The New Economy 1992 Bullish on America 1993 Surviving the Good Times 2000 55 Youth issues All Our Children 1991 Families First 1992 Solutions to Violence 1995 Children in America s Schools 1996 Immigration Becoming American 2003 These were often produced by Moyers and his wife Judith Suzanne Davidson Moyers through Public Affairs Television a company they formed in 1986 Other collaborators included filmmaker David Grubin and producer Madeline Amgott 56 Frontline 1990 1999 edit Between 1990 and 1999 Moyers produced and hosted 7 episodes of the PBS journalism program Frontline Global Dumping Ground 1990 on toxic waste Springfield Goes to War 1990 on the debate around the Gulf War High Crimes and Misdemeanors 1990 on the Iran Contra affair In Our Children s Food 1993 on pesticides Living on the Edge 1995 on the economy Washington s Other Scandal 1998 on campaign finance Justice for Sale 1999 on judicial electionsNOW with Bill Moyers and Wide Angle 2002 2005 edit Moyers hosted the TV news journal NOW with Bill Moyers on PBS for three years starting in January 2002 He retired from the program on December 17 2004 but returned to PBS soon after to host Wide Angle in 2005 When he left NOW he announced that he wished to finish writing a biography of Lyndon B Johnson 57 Bill Moyers Journal 2007 2010 edit On April 25 2007 Moyers returned to PBS with Bill Moyers Journal In the first episode Buying the War Moyers investigated what he called the general media s shortcomings in the runup to the War in Iraq 58 Buying the War won an Emmy at the 29th Annual News amp Documentary Emmy Awards 2008 for Best Report in a News Magazine 59 On November 20 2009 Moyers announced that he would be retiring from his weekly show on April 30 2010 60 Moyers amp Company 2012 2015 edit In August 2011 Moyers announced a new hour long weekly interview show Moyers amp Company which premiered in January 2012 61 In that same month Moyers also launched BillMoyers com Later reduced to a half hour Moyers amp Company was produced by Public Affairs Television and distributed by American Public Television 62 The show has been heralded as a renewed fulfillment of public media s stated mission to air news and views unrepresented or underrepresented in commercial media 63 The program concluded on January 2 2015 64 Moyers on Democracy podcast edit In 2020 Moyers started a series of podcasts named Moyers on Democracy Conversations included Lisa Graves on the Post Office conflict Heather Cox Richardson on How the South Won the Civil War Heather McGhee on racism s pernicious effect on American society and Bill T Jones on his newest project a retelling of Moby Dick from the viewpoint of a Black cabin boy The series ended in early 2021 65 Awards edit In 1995 Bill Moyers was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame 66 The same year he also won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism 67 When he became a recipient of the 2006 Lifetime Emmy Award the official announcement noted that Bill Moyers has devoted his lifetime to the exploration of the major issues and ideas of our time and our country giving television viewers an informed perspective on political and societal concerns and that The scope of and quality of his broadcasts have been honored time and again It is fitting that the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honor him with our highest honor the Lifetime Achievement Award 68 He has received well over thirty Emmys and virtually every other major television journalism prize including a gold baton from the Alfred I duPont Columbia University Awards a lifetime Peabody Award 69 and a George Polk Career Award his third George Polk Award for contributions to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters the American Philosophical Society 70 and has been the recipient of numerous honorary degrees including a doctorate from the American Film Institute 2 In 2011 Moyers received the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters L H D from Whittier College 71 Media criticism editIn a 2003 interview with BuzzFlash com 72 Moyers said The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they ve won He noted The rich are getting richer which arguably wouldn t matter if the rising tide lifted all boats Instead however t he inequality gap is the widest it s been since 1929 the middle class is besieged and the working poor are barely keeping their heads above water He added that as the corporate and governing elites are helping themselves to the spoils of victory access to political power has become who gets what and who pays for it Meanwhile the public has failed to react because it is in his words distracted by the media circus and news has been neutered or politicized for partisan purposes In support of this he referred to the paradox of Rush Limbaugh ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white knuckled wage earners who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero As Eric Alterman reports in his recent book a book that I m proud to have helped make happen part of the red meat strategy is to attack mainstream media relentlessly knowing that if the press is effectively intimidated either by the accusation of liberal bias or by a reporter s own mistaken belief in the charge s validity the institutions that conservatives revere corporate America the military organized religion and their own ideological bastions of influence will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence over American public life with relatively no challenge 72 When he briefly retired in December 2004 the AP News Service quoted Moyers as saying I m going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story of our time how the right wing media has become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee We have an ideological press that s interested in the election of Republicans and a mainstream press that s interested in the bottom line Therefore we don t have a vigilant independent press whose interest is the American people 73 Presidential draft initiative editOn July 24 2006 liberal political commentator Molly Ivins published an article entitled Run Bill Moyers for President Seriously urging a symbolic candidacy on the progressive website Truthdig 74 75 76 The call was taken up in October 2006 by Ralph Nader 77 Moyers did not run Conflict with CPB over content editIn 2003 Corporation for Public Broadcasting chairman Kenneth Tomlinson wrote to Pat Mitchell the president of PBS that NOW with Bill Moyers does not contain anything approaching the balance the law requires for public broadcasting 78 In 2005 Tomlinson commissioned a study of the show without informing or getting authorization from the CPB board 79 The study was conducted by Fred Mann Tomlinson s choice a 20 year veteran of the American Conservative Union and a conservative columnist Like the study itself Mann s appointment was not disclosed to the CPB 80 Tomlinson said that the study supported what he characterized as the image of the left wing bias of NOW 81 George Neumayr the executive editor of The American Spectator a conservative magazine told the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer that PBS looks like a liberal monopoly to me and Bill Moyers is Exhibit A of that very strident left wing bias Moyers uses his show as a platform from which to attack conservatives and Republicans 78 The Reporters Committee on the Freedom of the Press was vocal about the danger of the CPB chairman interfering with programming independence 82 The PBS Ombudsman and the Free Press noted that a poll taken in 2003 by the CPB itself found that 80 percent of Americans believe PBS to be fair and balanced 83 In a speech given to The National Conference for Media Reform Moyers said that he had repeatedly invited Tomlinson to have a televised conversation with him on the subject but had been ignored 84 On November 3 2005 Tomlinson resigned from the board prompted by a report of his tenure by the CPB Inspector General Kenneth Konz requested by Democrats in the U S House of Representatives The report which found that Tomlinson violated the Director s Code of Ethics and the statutory provisions of the CPB and PBS was made public on November 15 It states We found evidence that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting CPB former Chairman violated statutory provisions and the Director s Code of Ethics by dealing directly with one of the creators of a new public affairs program during negotiations with the Public Broadcasting Service PBS and the CPB over creating the show Our review also found evidence that suggests political tests were a major criteria sic used by the former Chairman in recruiting a President Chief Executive Officer CEO for CPB which violated statutory prohibitions against such practices In 2006 the PBS Ombudsman whose role was reinvigorated by the controversy published a column entitled He s Back Moyers not Tomlinson Reflecting on the conflict Moyers told The Boston Globe It s a place where if you fight you can survive but it s not easy The fact of the matter is that Kenneth Tomlinson had a chilling effect down the line 85 Organizations editMoyers is a former director of the Council on Foreign Relations 86 1967 1974 and a member of the Bilderberg Group 87 and since 1990 has been president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy Personal life edit nbsp Moyers at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2018Moyers married Judith Suzanne Davidson a producer on December 18 1954 They have three children and five grandchildren His son William Cope Moyers CNN producer Hazelden Foundation spokesman struggled to overcome alcoholism and crack addiction as detailed in the book Broken My Story of Addiction and Redemption He includes letters from Bill Moyers in his book which he says are a testament to a father s love for his son a father s confusion with his son and ultimately a father s satisfaction with his son 88 His other son John Moyers assisted in the foundation of TomPaine com an online public affairs journal of progressive analysis and commentary 89 His daughter Suzanne Moyers a former teacher and editor is the author of the historical novel Til All These Things Be Done She Writes Press September 13 2022 Published works editListening to America A Traveler Rediscovers His Country 1971 Harper s Magazine Press ISBN 0 06 126400 8 The Secret Government The Constitution in Crisis With Excerpts from an Essay on Watergate 1988 coauthor Henry Steele Commager Seven Locks Press hardcover ISBN 0 932020 61 5 1990 reprint ISBN 0 932020 85 2 2000 paperback ISBN 0 932020 60 7 examines the Iran Contra affair The Power of Myth 1988 host Bill Moyers author Joseph Campbell Doubleday ISBN 0 385 24773 7 A World of Ideas Conversations With Thoughtful Men and Women About American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Future 1989 Doubleday hardcover ISBN 0 385 26278 7 paperback ISBN 0 385 26346 5 A World of Ideas II Public Opinions from Private Citizens 1990 Doubleday hardcover ISBN 0 385 41664 4 paperback ISBN 0 385 41665 2 1994 Random House values edition ISBN 0 517 11470 4 Healing and the Mind 1993 Doubleday hardcover ISBN 0 385 46870 9 1995 paperback ISBN 0 385 47687 6 The Language of Life A Festival of Poets 1995 Doubleday hardcover ISBN 0 385 47917 4 1996 paperback ISBN 0 385 48410 0 conversations with 34 poets Genesis A Living Conversation 1996 Doubleday hardcover ISBN 0 385 48345 7 1997 paperback ISBN 0 385 49043 7 Sister Wendy in Conversation with Bill Moyers The Complete Conversation 1997 WGBH Educational Foundation ISBN 1 57807 077 5 Fooling with Words A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft 1999 William Morrow hardcover ISBN 0 688 17346 2 2000 Harper paperback ISBN 0 688 17792 1 Moyers on America A Journalist and His Times 2004 New Press ISBN 1 56584 892 6 2005 Anchor paperback ISBN 1 4000 9536 0 twenty selected speeches and commentaries Interview with Terri Gross on Fresh Air 90 Moyers on Democracy 2008 Doubleday ISBN 978 0 385 52380 6 Bill Moyers Journal The Conversation Continues 2011 New PressSee also editPath to WarReferences edit Mimi Swartz The Mythic Rise of Billy Don Moyers From Marshall Texas he set off on a heroic journey to become LBJ s protege the conscience of TV news and the prophet of a brand new faith November 1989 Texas Monthly Retrieved March 7 2014 a b c Bill Moyers The Museum of Broadcast Communications Archived from the original on May 17 2008 Retrieved May 15 2008 a b Bill Moyers Biographical Note LBJ Library and Museum Archived from the original on July 13 2007 Retrieved June 7 2007 Mark the Moment Peace Corps anniversary discussion marking the 60th anniversary down to the minute September 22 2021 retrieved January 8 2022 Bill Moyers Says It All At The 25th Anniversary Conference Peace Corps Worldwide peacecorpsworldwide org Retrieved January 8 2022 Salute to Peace Corps Giants C SPAN org www c span org Retrieved January 8 2022 Proust Questionnaire Bill Moyers Vanity Fair June 1 2011 Retrieved January 8 2022 Coverdell Paul D June 2003 Voices From the Field PDF Archived PDF from the original on December 31 2015 York Carnegie Corporation of New Public Broadcasting Turns 50 Carnegie Corporation of New York Retrieved February 3 2022 President Johnson s Remarks www cpb org January 14 2015 Retrieved February 3 2022 Preserving Public Broadcasting at 50 Years Library of Congress Retrieved February 3 2022 terHorst Jerald Albertazzie Col Ralph 1979 The Flying White House New York Coward McCann amp Geoghegan p 225 ISBN 0 698 10930 9 Johnson David K 2004 The Lavender Scare Chicago University of Chicago Press p 197 ISBN 0 226 40481 1 US Dept Justice FBI Investigation 1975 USDOJ 1975 Retrieved May 10 2008 Hoover s men ran name checks on 15 of them producing derogatory information on two a traffic violation on one and a love affair on another Hoover s Political Spying for Presidents TIME 1975 Archived August 11 2013 at the Wayback Machine Dallek Robert 2005 Lyndon B Johnson Portrait of a President UK Oxford University Press p 188 ISBN 0 19 515921 7 When reporters on his campaign plane pressed him for a comment he would only speak off the record What a way to win an election he said Communists and cocksuckers US Senate Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect To Intelligence Activities PDF Archived PDF from the original on May 28 2008 Retrieved May 14 2008 Silberman Acting Deputy Attorney General in 1975 says Moyers called his office and said the document was a phony CIA memo but declined Silberman s offer to conduct an investigation to clear his name Hoover s Institution The Wall Street Journal 2005 Archived February 27 2009 at the Wayback Machine Moyers responded that Silberman s account of the conversation was at odds with his Removing J Edgar s name Robert Novak CNN 2005 Archived March 3 2016 at the Wayback Machine Robert Novak December 1 2005 Removing J Edgar s name CNN Retrieved February 23 2009 Letter to Bill Moyers from FBI December 2 1964 PDF The Washington Post Archived from the original PDF on March 26 2009 Retrieved February 23 2009 Stephens Joe February 19 2009 Valenti s Sexuality Was Topic For FBI Under Pressure LBJ Let Hoover s Agents Investigate Top Aide The Washington Post pp A01 Retrieved February 20 2009 Kotz Nikc 2005 Judgment days Lyndon Baines Johnson Martin Luther King Jr and the laws that changed America New York Houghton Mifflin Harcourt p 1 Barnes Bart May 30 1998 Barry Goldwater GOP Hero Dies The Washington Post Retrieved January 17 2010 The Power of Myth The New Republic August 19 1991 Fox Margalit June 17 2008 Tony Schwartz Father of Daisy Ad for the Johnson Campaign Dies at 84 The New York Times Retrieved January 17 2010 Gibbons William Conrad 1995 The U S Government and the Vietnam War Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships Princeton University Press pp 69pp ISBN 0 691 00635 0 Booknotes Flashbacks On Returning to Vietnam booknotes org Archived from the original on November 16 2010 Retrieved February 28 2009 And Moyers was present during some of this showdown stuff about me being a Communist clearly knew it was a bluff As I say there are limits I think even to being a good soldier And even if one does I think there is a time to come clean Gunther Marc May 29 1992 Is ill will behind piece 60 Minutes plans to do on PBS Bill Moyers The Baltimore Sun Retrieved February 28 2009 Mr Moyers wonders aloud whether his hard hitting coverage of presidents Reagan and Bush has vexed Mr Wallace and Mr Safer who friends say have become more politically conservative as they ve grown older and wealthier Anderson Patrick April 3 1966 No 2 Texan in the White House The New York Times pp SM1 Simpson James B 1988 Simpson s Contemporary Quotations No 848 Houghton Mifflin ISBN 0 395 43085 2 Archived from the original on December 5 2008 Daniel Ellsberg Secrets 197f a b Carr David December 17 2004 Moyers Leaves a Public Affairs Pulpit With Sermons to Spare The New York Times Retrieved June 4 2007 Moyers to LBJ Hope You Change Mind about Running Miller Center American President YouTube Accessed October 29 2020 a b Bill Moyers Contemporary Heroes and Heroines Book IV Gale Group 2000 Reproduced in Biography Resource Center Farmington Hills Mich Gale 2010 Gale Research 1998 Encyclopedia of World Biography University of Michigan Gale Research p 215 ISBN 0 7876 2551 5 Bill Moyers Newsmakers 1991 Issue Cumulation Gale Research 1991 Reproduced in Biography Resource Center Farmington Hills Mich Gale 2010 Contemporary Authors Online Gale 2010 Reproduced in Biography Resource Center Farmington Hills Mich Gale 2010 a b The Press How Much Independence Time April 27 1970 Archived from the original on October 30 2010 Retrieved February 15 2010 Keeler Robert F 1990 Newsday a candid history of the respectable tabloid Morrow pp 460 61 ISBN 1 55710 053 5 Newsday Goes For Nixon But Moyers Balks Chicago Tribune October 17 1968 Retrieved February 15 2010 Moyers Resigns Post at Newsday The New York Times May 13 1970 Retrieved February 15 2010 Raymont Henry March 13 1970 Newsday Employes Seek to Block Sale of the Paper The New York Times Retrieved February 15 2010 a b Shister Gail April 18 2006 Opinions Differ on CBS News Commentary Plan The Philadelphia Inquirer Archived from the original on September 27 2007 Retrieved June 7 2007 via Free Press Boyer Peter J November 7 1986 Bill Moyers Is Expected to Keep Tie to CBS News The New York Times Archived from the original on February 3 2018 Retrieved March 1 2022 Boyer Peter J November 21 1986 Moyers Will Sever CBS Tie The New York Times Archived from the original on August 12 2017 Retrieved March 1 2022 Moyers Bill U S Broadcast Journalist Museum of Broadcast Communications Archived from the original on June 8 2007 Retrieved June 7 2007 Rosedale The Way It Is Archived from the original on January 9 2016 Nir Sarah Maslin June 21 2020 A Racist Attack on Children Was Taped in 1975 We Found Them The New York Times Retrieved December 8 2020 Series Archive O Connor John J September 12 1988 Reviews Television Bill Moyers Examines Public Issues NYTimes com The New York Times Retrieved February 13 2015 Kemenetz Rodger October 20 1996 In the Beginning There Was a Bible Discussion Group And Then PBS Came Calling The New York Times Retrieved December 8 2021 Brennan Patricia March 28 1998 From the Moyers Family to Yours Washington Post Retrieved December 8 2021 Rosenfeld Megan September 9 2000 Moyers on Dying Potent Medicine Washington Post Retrieved December 8 2021 Barber David What Makes Poetry Poetic The Atlantic Retrieved December 8 2021 Goodman Walter March 28 2000 Tracking the Toll After 2 Breadwinners Lose Jobs The New York Times Retrieved December 7 2021 Madeline Amgott Dead Pioneering Female TV News Producer Dies at 92 Variety July 22 2014 Retrieved August 14 2014 Bill Moyers to leave PBS USA Today AP February 19 2004 Retrieved June 7 2007 Lowry Brian April 20 2007 Bill Moyers Journal Buying the War Variety Archived from the original on May 9 2010 Retrieved May 20 2010 Buying the War How Big Media Failed Us in Iraq Moyers amp Company Retrieved November 23 2021 Jensen Elizabeth November 20 2009 Bill Moyers to Leave Weekly Television The New York Times Archived from the original on November 23 2009 Retrieved November 21 2009 Elizabeth Jensen August 22 2011 Bill Moyers Returns to Public Television but Not PBS The New York Times Retrieved February 13 2015 08 25 2011 Bill Moyers Host of New Public Television Series Moyers amp Company Keynote Speaker at APT Fall Marketplace 2011 permanent dead link Bill Moyers Is Back FAIR Retrieved February 13 2015 Jensen Elizabeth September 18 2014 Moyers Says Show Really Is Ending This Time The New York Times Retrieved September 18 2014 Moyers on Democracy Podcast Moyers amp Company Archived from the original on April 15 2020 Retrieved December 10 2021 Television Hall of Fame Honorees Complete List Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication Retrieved November 23 2016 Bill Moyers to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at News amp Documentary Emmy Awards Press release National Television Academy August 1 2006 Archived from the original on September 27 2007 Retrieved June 7 2007 63rd Annual Peabody Awards Archived August 20 2016 at the Wayback Machine May 2004 APS Member History search amphilsoc org Retrieved December 21 2021 Honorary Degrees Whittier College www whittier edu Retrieved December 6 2019 a b Bill Moyers is Insightful Erudite Impassioned Brilliant and the Host of PBS NOW interview BuzzFlash com October 28 2003 Archived from the original on December 6 2006 Retrieved December 18 2006 Frazier Moore 2004 Bill Moyers Retiring From TV Journalism Associated Press Archived from the original on June 12 2007 Retrieved July 25 2007 Ivins Reality based candidate Jul 25 2006 CNN Retrieved February 16 2010 Ivins Molly July 24 2006 Run Bill Moyers for President Seriously truthdig com Retrieved June 9 2007 Nichols John July 28 2006 Bill Moyers For President Absolutely cbsnews com Archived from the original on July 29 2020 Retrieved November 24 2021 Nader Ralph October 28 2006 Bill Moyers For President CommonDreams Archived from the original on June 13 2007 Retrieved June 9 2007 a b Public Broadcasting Under Fire NewsHour with Jim Lehrer PBS June 21 2005 Retrieved February 14 2010 Labaton Stephen November 16 2005 Ex Chairman of Public Broadcasting Violated Laws Inquiry Suggests Archived January 13 2015 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times Labaton Stephen June 21 2005 Public Broadcasting Monitor Had Worked at Center Founded by Conservatives The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved February 22 2022 Bode Ken A September 1 2005 CPB Ombudsmen Reports The Question Of Balance Retrieved June 17 2010 Screening for bias The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Retrieved February 22 2022 Bill Moyers to Address PBS Controversy at National Conference for Media Reform in St Louis Free Press Press release May 12 2005 Retrieved February 22 2022 Bill Moyers speech to the National Conference for Media Reform Free Press May 15 2005 Archived from the original on July 4 2007 Retrieved February 22 2022 Moyers Tomlinson had a chilling effect Current publication of American University School of Communication October 16 2006 Retrieved February 22 2022 History of CFR Council on Foreign Relations Archived from the original on July 22 2012 Retrieved March 1 2022 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint unfit URL link Former steering Committee Members Bilderberg Group Archived from the original on February 2 2014 Retrieved November 19 2013 Moyers s memoir serves as a voice for recovery Retrieved May 15 2008 TomPaine common sense About Us Archived from the original on July 10 2010 Retrieved July 15 2010 Journalist Bill Moyers NPR org Retrieved January 8 2022 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bill Moyers nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Bill Moyers Bill Moyers website and video 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