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Bill Moyers, Presidential Aide and Veteran of Public TV, Dies at 91
NYT ^ | 6/26/25 | Janny Scott

Posted on 06/26/2025 1:21:31 PM PDT by Borges

Bill Moyers, who served as chief spokesman for President Lyndon B. Johnson during the American military buildup in Vietnam and then went on to a long and celebrated career as a broadcast journalist, returning repeatedly to the subject of the corruption of American democracy by money and power, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 91.

His son William Cope Moyers confirmed the death, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He lived in Manhattan.

To Americans who grew up after the 1960s, Mr. Moyers was known above all as an unusual breed of television correspondent and commentator. He was once described by Peter J. Boyer, the journalist and author, as “a rare and powerful voice, a kind of secular evangelist.”

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To: Borges

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.


21 posted on 06/26/2025 2:31:13 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

Soon, I hope.


22 posted on 06/26/2025 2:33:52 PM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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To: Borges

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


23 posted on 06/26/2025 2:35:27 PM PDT by Ditto
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To: Borges

Wasn’t he behind the daisy ad against Goldwater?


24 posted on 06/26/2025 3:04:48 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Skooz

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


25 posted on 06/26/2025 3:08:15 PM PDT by ohioman
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To: Borges

Great news, made my day.


26 posted on 06/26/2025 3:54:19 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Oklahoma

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.


27 posted on 06/26/2025 4:31:07 PM PDT by laconic
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To: Borges

Only the good die young, 91


28 posted on 06/26/2025 5:05:28 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Borges
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.

29 posted on 06/26/2025 5:11:40 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: Borges

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


30 posted on 06/26/2025 5:14:21 PM PDT by Trump_Triumphant (“They recognized Him in the breaking of the Bread”)
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To: alternatives?

I don’t think so.


31 posted on 06/26/2025 5:22:45 PM PDT by lasereye
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To: Borges



32 posted on 06/26/2025 5:28:05 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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To: Borges
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.
33 posted on 06/26/2025 5:33:11 PM PDT by lasereye
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To: lasereye

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


34 posted on 06/26/2025 6:11:42 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Red Badger

He spent his adult life purveying leftist propaganda.


35 posted on 06/26/2025 6:13:14 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Borges

POS. Good riddance.


36 posted on 06/26/2025 6:25:12 PM PDT by ChuckHam
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To: lasereye

Correction the documentary was in 1986.


37 posted on 06/26/2025 6:34:01 PM PDT by lasereye
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To: 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.

That's absurd.

38 posted on 06/26/2025 6:35:47 PM PDT by lasereye
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To: lasereye

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?


39 posted on 06/26/2025 7:13:14 PM PDT by laconic
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To: laconic

What? You have a link?


40 posted on 06/26/2025 7:48:10 PM PDT by lasereye
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