Bill Moyers, Presidential Aide and Veteran of Public TV, Dies at 91

NYT ^ | 6/26/25 | Janny Scott

[Jim Noble]

A “secular evangelist”. That’s perfect.

Moyers was ordained in 1954. 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.

Full disclosure: He went to my family’s church. The church that gave me my first Bible. The church that buried my grandparents and my parents. I’ve heard him speak.

But there are no secular evangelists because there is no secular evangelion, no secular gospel.

And my family’s church like so many other “mainline” churches, is vanishing because secularism and the gospel of our Lord are opposed to each other, are in fact in a life or death struggle.

RIP Billy Don Moyers.

[Bigg Red]

Soon, I hope.

[Ditto]

They say you shouldn’t speak I’ll of the dead… so I won’t.

[alternatives?]

Wasn’t he behind the daisy ad against Goldwater?

[ohioman]

Rot in hell Bill! Why give an RIP to a despicable person.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Great news, made my day.

[laconic]

There is evidence that Bill Moyers, when he worked for LBJ in 1963, argued with the Secret Service that the protective bullet top for the JFK limo had to be removed before the Dallas motorcade.

[faucetman]

Only the good die young, 91

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

Growing up in the 70's, I didn't have an understanding of the way news reporters were more interested in manipulating public than simply reporting the news. When Reagan became president, it became obvious, and it has been pretty consistent over the past 45 years.

People like Moyers, who had a calm, folksy manner and delivery were not any less manipulative, but probably moreso, and more effective.

[Trump_Triumphant]

I don’t want to sound mean, but I thought he was dead already.

[lasereye]

I don’t think so.

[Albion Wilde]

[lasereye]

He did a 1999 documentary, CBS REPORTS: THE VANISHING FAMILY: CRISIS IN BLACK AMERICA about how so many single black women were having children. It portrayed it as a problem from what I can gather. I don't see any of the obituaries mentioning it.

[alternatives?]

He was Johnson’s press secretary when the ad ran.

[NorthMountain]

He spent his adult life purveying leftist propaganda.

[ChuckHam]

POS. Good riddance.

[lasereye]

Correction the documentary was in 1986.

[lasereye]

There is evidence that Bill Moyers, when he worked for LBJ in 1963, argued with the Secret Service that the protective bullet top for the JFK limo had to be removed before the Dallas motorcade.

That's absurd.

[laconic]

Is it “absurd” that Moyers testified under oath that he gave the order to the Secret Service at Love Field to remove the protective plastic bubble from the JFK limousine?

[lasereye]

What? You have a link?