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Bill Moyers

Billy Don Moyers (June 5, 1934 – June 26, 2025) was an American journalist and political commentator who served as the eleventh White House Press Secretary from 1965 to 1967 during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. He also served as the de facto White House Chief of Staff for a brief period from 1964 until 1965. Moyers was a director of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1967 to 1974. He was also a onetime steering committee member of the annual Bilderberg Meeting. Moyers also worked as a network TV news commentator for ten years. Moyers was extensively involved with public broadcasting, producing documentaries and news journal programs, and won many awards and honorary degrees for his investigative journalism and civic activities. He was well known as a trenchant critic of the corporately structured U.S. news media.

Infobox

President
Lyndon B. Johnson
Preceded by
Walter Jenkins (de facto)
Succeeded by
Jack Valenti (de facto)
Born
Billy Don Moyers(1934-06-05)June 5, 1934Hugo, Oklahoma, U.S.
Died
June 26, 2025(2025-06-26) (aged 91)New York City, U.S.
Political party
Democratic
Spouse
mw- Judith Davidson (m. 1954)
Children
3
Education
mw- University of North TexasUniversity of Texas, Austin (BA)University of EdinburghSouthwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (MDiv)
Party
Democratic

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Preceded byWalter JenkinsDe facto
Preceded byWalter JenkinsDe facto
Political offices
Preceded byWalter JenkinsDe facto
Political offices
White House Chief of StaffDe facto 1964–1965
Political offices
Succeeded byJack ValentiDe facto
Preceded byGeorge Reedy
Preceded byGeorge Reedy
Political offices
Preceded byGeorge Reedy
Political offices
White House Press Secretary 1965–1967
Political offices
Succeeded byGeorge Christian
Media offices
Media offices
Political offices
Media offices
New office
New office
Political offices
New office
Political offices
Host of Now 2002–2005
Political offices
Succeeded byDavid Brancaccio
Political offices
Preceded byWalter JenkinsDe facto
White House Chief of StaffDe facto 1964–1965
Succeeded byJack ValentiDe facto
Preceded byGeorge Reedy
White House Press Secretary 1965–1967
Succeeded byGeorge Christian
Media offices
New office
Host of Now 2002–2005
Succeeded byDavid Brancaccio

References

  1. Texas Monthly
    http://www.texasmonthly.com/content/mythic-rise-billy-don-moyers
  2. The New York Times
    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/business/media/bill-moyers-dead.html
  3. "Bill Moyers"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20080517085456/http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/moyesrbill/moyersbill.htm
  4. "The Mythic Rise of Billy Don Moyers"
    https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/the-mythic-rise-of-billy-don-moyers/
  5. "Bill Moyers, Elder Statesman of PBS Journalists, Dies at 91"
    https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/bill-moyers-dead-pbs-journalist-1236442118/
  6. "Bill Moyers Biographical Note"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20070713202932/http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/holdings/Findingaids/Aides/Moyers/MoyersBio.asp
  7. Mark the Moment! Peace Corps anniversary discussion, marking the 60th anniversary down to the minute
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  9. World View
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  10. peacecorpsworldwide.org
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  11. www.c-span.org
    https://www.c-span.org/video/?170805-1/salute-peace-corps-giants
  12. Vanity Fair
    https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2011/07/proust-bill-moyers-201107
  13. "Voices From the Field"
    https://files.peacecorps.gov/wws/pdf/VoicesFromtheField.pdf
  14. Carnegie Corporation of New York
    https://www.carnegie.org/news/articles/public-broadcasting-turns-50/
  15. cpb.org
    https://cpb.org/AboutCPB/History-Timeline
  16. Carnegie Corporation of New York
    https://www.carnegie.org/news/articles/public-broadcasting-turns-50/
  17. www.cpb.org
    https://www.cpb.org/aboutpb/act/remarks
  18. Library of Congress
    https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-8208/
  19. YouTube
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rBybSYosNQ
  20. The Flying White House
    https://archive.org/details/flyingwhitehouse00ter_evv/page/225
  21. The Lavender Scare
    https://books.google.com/books?id=gbfOrkS5ziAC&pg=PA19
  22. "US Dept Justice FBI Investigation 1975"
    http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/vol6/html/ChurchV6_0275a.htm
  23. Hoover's men ran name checks on 15 of them, producing derogatory information on two (a traffic violation on one and a lo
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  24. Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President
    https://books.google.com/books?id=JIGcq0RXspMC&pg=PA188
  25. "US Senate Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations, With Respect To Intelligence Activities"
    http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/vol6/pdf/ChurchV6_5_Elliff.pdf
  26. Silberman, Acting Deputy Attorney General in 1975, says Moyers called his office and said the document was a "phony CIA
    http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006987
  27. "Removing J. Edgar's name"
    http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/01/novak.hoover/index.html
  28. The Washington Post
    https://web.archive.org/web/20090326034737/http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/investigations/documents/Moyers.pdf
  29. The Washington Post
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/18/AR2009021803819.html?hpid=topnews
  30. Judgment days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the laws that changed America
    https://books.google.com/books?id=FgvF5_nPPH8C&pg=PA234
  31. The Washington Post
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/may98/goldwater30.htm
  32. The New Republic
    https://newrepublic.com/article/62651/the-power-myth
  33. The New York Times
    https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/business/media/17schwartz-tony.html
  34. The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships
    https://books.google.com/books?id=W3fy6AABBXsC&pg=PA69
  35. "Booknotes: Flashbacks On Returning to Vietnam"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20101116231600/http://booknotes.org/Watch/12151-1/Morley+Safer.aspx
  36. The Baltimore Sun
    https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1992-05-29-1992150017-story.html
  37. The New York Times
    https://www.nytimes.com/1966/04/03/archives/no-2-texan-in-the-white-house-no-2-texan-in-the-white-house.html?nytmobile=0
  38. Simpson's Contemporary Quotations, No. 848
    https://web.archive.org/web/20081205105522/http://www.bartleby.com/63/48/848.html
  39. Halberstam 1972, p. 250.
  40. McNamara 1966.
  41. Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets, 197f
  42. The New York Times
    https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/2004/12/17/arts/television/17moye.html
  43. Moyers to LBJ: Hope You Change Mind about Running Miller Center: American President, YouTube, Accessed October 29, 2020
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH6LZj3veJU
  44. "Bill Moyers." Contemporary Heroes and Heroines, Book IV. Gale Group, 2000. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Far
  45. Encyclopedia of World Biography
    https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofwo11gale/page/215
  46. "Bill Moyers." Newsmakers 1991, Issue Cumulation. Gale Research, 1991. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmingt
  47. Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2010. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2010.
  48. Time
    https://web.archive.org/web/20101030152452/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,909136,00.html
  49. Newsday: a candid history of the respectable tabloid
    https://archive.org/details/newsdaycandidhis00keel_0/page/460
  50. Chicago Tribune
    https://www.newspapers.com/search/#query=Newsday+Goes+For+Nixon+But+Moyers+Balks&t=4351
  51. The New York Times
    https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/13/archives/moyers-resigns-post-at-newsday.html
  52. The New York Times
    https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/13/archives/newsday-employes-seek-to-block-sale-of-the-paper.html
  53. The Philadelphia Inquirer
    https://web.archive.org/web/20070927190512/http://www.freepress.net/news/15028
  54. The New York Times
    https://web.archive.org/web/20180203051719/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/07/movies/bill-moyers-is-expected-to-keep-tie-to-cbs-news.html
  55. The New York Times
    https://web.archive.org/web/20170812141017/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/07/movies/bill-moyers-is-expected-to-keep-tie-to-cbs-news.html
  56. "Moyers, Bill: U.S. Broadcast Journalist"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20070608195913/http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/moyesrbill/moyersbill.htm
  57. "Rosedale: The Way It Is"
    https://vimeo.com/moyersandcompany
  58. The New York Times
    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/nyregion/racist-video-rosedale-queens.html
  59. "Series Archive"
    https://billmoyers.com/series/?date=asc
  60. Variety
    https://variety.com/2014/tv/people-news/madeline-amgott-dead-pioneering-female-tv-news-producer-dies-at-92-1201266910/
  61. USA Today
    https://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2004-02-19-bill-moyer_x.htm
  62. Variety
    https://variety.com/2007/tv/reviews/bill-moyers-journal-buying-the-war-1200560009/
  63. Moyers & Company
    https://billmoyers.com/content/buying-the-war/
  64. YouTube
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeEjq-I74ME
  65. The New York Times
    https://web.archive.org/web/20091127204106/http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/bill-moyers-to-leave-weekly-television/
  66. The New York Times
    https://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/bill-moyers-returns-to-public-television-but-not-pbs/
  67. "08-25-2011 Bill Moyers, Host of New Public Television Series Moyers & Company, Keynote Speaker at APT Fall Marketplace 2011"
    http://www.aptonline.org/aptweb.nsf/vCorporateNews/Bill+Moyers+Host+of+New+Public+Television+Series+Moyers+Company+Keynote+Speaker+at+APT+Fall+Marketplace+2011
  68. FAIR
    http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4381
  69. The New York Times
    https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/moyers-show-really-ending-this-time/
  70. Moyers & Company
    https://billmoyers.com/spotlight/bill-moyers-on-democracy-podcast/
  71. Television Academy
    http://www.emmys.com/awards/hall-of-fame-honorees
  72. "Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication"
    https://cronkite.asu.edu/about/walter-cronkite-and-asu/walter-cronkite-award
  73. "Bill Moyers to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at News & Documentary Emmy Awards"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20070927021916/http://www.emmyonline.org/emmy/27_news_moyers.html
  74. "Personal Award: Bill Moyers"
    https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/personal-award-bill-moyers/
  75. search.amphilsoc.org
    https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Bill+D.+Moyers&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced
  76. www.whittier.edu
    https://www.whittier.edu/alumni/poetnation/honorary
  77. interview
    https://web.archive.org/web/20061206125054/http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/03/10/int03281.html
  78. "Bill Moyers Retiring From TV Journalism"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20070612003856/http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=%2Fheadlines04%2F1210-11.htm
  79. "Ivins: Reality-based candidate – Jul 25, 2006"
    http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/25/ivins.candidates/
  80. Truthdig
    http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060724_molly_ivins_bill_moyers/
  81. "Bill Moyers For President? Absolutely"
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-moyers-for-president-absolutely/
  82. CommonDreams
    https://web.archive.org/web/20070613013458/http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1028-24.htm
  83. NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
    https://web.archive.org/web/20050624005846/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june05/cpb_6-21.html
  84. Labaton, Stephen (November 16, 2005). "Ex-Chairman of Public Broadcasting Violated Laws, Inquiry Suggests" Archived Janu
    https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/politics/16broadcast.html
  85. The New York Times
    https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/21/politics/public-broadcasting-monitor-had-worked-at-center-founded-by.html
  86. "CPB Ombudsmen Reports: The Question Of "Balance""
    http://www.cpb.org/ombudsmen/display.php?id=6
  87. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
    https://www.rcfp.org/journals/the-news-media-and-the-law-summer-2005/screening-bias/
  88. Free Press
    https://www.freepress.net/news/press-releases/bill-moyers-address-pbs-controversy-national-conference-media-reform-st-louis
  89. Free Press
    https://web.archive.org/web/20070704160613/http://www.freepress.net/news/8120
  90. Current (publication of American University School of Communication)
    https://current.org/2006/10/moyers-tomlinson-had-a-chilling-effect/
  91. Council on Foreign Relations
    https://archive.today/20120722132932/http://www.cfr.org/about/history/cfr/appendix.html
  92. "Former steering Committee Members – Bilderberg Group"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20140202095633/http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/former-steering-committee-members.html
  93. GBH
    https://www.wgbh.org/forum-network/lectures/bill-moyers-on-democracy
  94. The Washington Post
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/06/26/bill-moyers-lbj-pbs-broadcasting-dead/
  95. "Moyers's memoir serves as a voice for recovery"
    http://www.hazelden.org/web/public/ade60904.page
  96. The New York Times
    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/07/health/addiction-opiates-moyers.html
  97. "TomPaine.common sense: About Us"
    https://web.archive.org/web/20100710130118/http://www.tompaine.com/about/
  98. NJ.com
    https://www.nj.com/entertainment/celebrities/2016/04/bill_moyers_pbs_bernardsville.html
  99. Common Dreams
    https://www.commondreams.org/news/bill-moyers-death
  100. Fresh Air
    https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1895389
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