Some of the more significant communities, such as Jumbo, Moyers, Clayton and Albion, also established cultural leagues or institutions — poetry clubs, music groups, and literary societies – in a bid to be culturally couth.

Kingston also participated in the production of Bill Moyers ' PBS historical documentary, Becoming American: The Chinese Experience.

Moyers also sought information from the FBI on the sexual preferences of White House staff members, most notably Jack Valenti.

Recipient of the 2006 Lifetime Emmy Award, " 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 ," according to the official announcement, which also noted that " the scope of and quality of his broadcasts have been honored time and again.

Moyers also referred to what historian Clinton Rossiter called the period of " the great train robbery of American intellectual history ," when " conservatives — or better, pro-corporate apologists " began using terms such as " progress ", " opportunity ", and " individualism " in order to make " the plunder of America sound like divine right.

The Open Eye was also the venue for Campbell's lectures on comparative mythology, later captured in the PBS series with Bill Moyers, The Power of Myth.

This " guardian theory " has also been theorised by other writers such as Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers.

The book also contains reflections on Bill Moyers ( regarding the Cam Ne affair ), Barry Goldwater, and general William Westmoreland.

The project became best known for its opinion advertisements — or " op ads ," a term coined by Moyers — which ran almost weekly on the op-ed page of the New York Times, and also in the Weekly Standard, Roll Call, and other publications.

Moyers also had a sinister motive ; he transformed Faulkner into Rampage and had her sabotage the presidential campaign of Herbert Forrest.

He also co-produced Faces of the Enemy, an award-winning PBS documentary ; was the subject of a Bill Moyers television special in the early 1990s ; and for 20 years served as a contributing editor at Psychology Today magazine.

In late 1964 Johnson reviewed these initial Great Society proposals at his ranch with Moyers and Budget Director Kermit Gordon.

Campbell and Moyers do not consider these social pageants and trends as possible components in a new emerging set of myths and rituals.

Almost immediately after the Ann Arbor speech, 14 separate task forces began studying nearly all major aspects of United States society under the guidance of presidential assistants Bill Moyers and Richard N. Goodwin.

On June 4, 2003, Moyers gave a speech at the " Take Back America " conference.

When he 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.

* Bill Moyers January 2007 Address to the National Conference for Media, Memphis, Tennessee ' Life on the Plantation '

* Moyers Speech at 2008 National Conference for Media Reform ( video )

Her television and radio appearances have included a PBS special with Bill Moyers, the Today Show, CBS Radio, and National Public Radio.

Since 1990, Moyers has been President of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy.

Soon after, Moyers transferred to the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, where he wrote for The Daily Texan newspaper.

While in Austin, Moyers served as assistant news editor for KTBC radio and television stations – owned by Lady Bird Johnson, wife of then-Senator Johnson.

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.

During the Kennedy Administration, Moyers was first appointed as associate director of public affairs for the newly created Peace Corps in 1961.

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.

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.

Moyers served as publisher for the Long Island, New York daily newspaper Newsday from 1967 to 1970.

In 1971 he began working for the Public Broadcasting System ( PBS ), hosting a news program called Bill Moyers Journal, which ran until 1981 with a hiatus from 1976 to 1977.

Twelve years after the making of The Power of Myth, Moyers and Lucas met again for the 1999 interview, the Mythology of Star Wars with George Lucas & Bill Moyers, to further discuss the impact of Campbell's work on Lucas's films.

Moyers hosted the TV news journal NOW with Bill Moyers on PBS for three years, starting in January 2002.

Furthermore, Moyers indicated that Hanna gathered support for McKinley's presidential campaign from " the corporate interests of the day " and was responsible for Ohio and Washington coming under the rule of " bankers, railroads and public utility corporations.

On July 24, 2006, liberal political commentator Molly Ivins published an article entitled Run Bill Moyers for President, Seriously on the progressive website Truthdig.

Bush-appointee Corporation for Public Broadcasting chairman Kenneth Tomlinson was a regular critic of Moyers ; in 2003, he wrote to Pat Mitchell, the president of PBS, that " does not contain anything approaching the balance the law requires for public broadcasting.

Moyers, who left the show in 2004 before returning in 2007, replied to this by saying that his journalism showed " the actual experience of regular people is the missing link in a nation wired for everything but the truth.

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.

* NOW ( weekly series, for Moyers programs see Archive, 2002 – 2004 )

" In April 2001, Alternet. org named Mr. Moyers one of six " New Media Heroes .".

" A prisoner interviewed by Moyers explained his literal interpretation of the second verse: "' Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved " by saying that the fear became immediately real to him when he realized he may never get his life in order, compounded by the loneliness and restriction in prison.

Moyers was inspired to focus on the song's power after watching a performance at Lincoln Center, where the audience consisted of Christians and non-Christians, and he noticed that it had an equal impact on everybody in attendance, unifying them.

Moyers has had an extensive involvement with public television, producing documentaries and news journal programs.

Moyers said he had a different recollection of the telephone conversation.

Moyers approved ( but had nothing to do with the production ) of the infamous " Daisy Ad " against Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential campaign.

The conservative publication had been unsuccessful, but Moyers led the paper in a progressive direction, bringing in leading writers such as Pete Hamill, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Saul Bellow, and adding new features and more investigative reporting and analysis.

A 1979 account of the House Select Committee on Assassinations ( HSCA ), reported that on November 25, 1963, only 3 days after the John F. Kennedy assassination and before any formal federal investigation had been conducted, Nicholas Katzenbach, then deputy attorney general, had written a memo to presidential assistant Bill Moyers at the White House.

Johnson's attitude became more favorable after he received a report which his assistant Bill Moyers had prepared at his request, on Weaver's potential effectiveness as the new Secretary.

* Declaring Moynihan “ prophetic ,” Ken Auletta, in his 1982 The Underclass, proclaimed that “ one cannot talk about poverty in America, or about the underclass, without talking about the weakening family structure of the poor .” Both the Baltimore Sun and the New York Times ran series on the black family in 1983, followed by a 1985 Newsweek article called “ Moynihan: I Told You So ” and a 1986 CBS documentary, The Vanishing Black Family, produced by Bill Moyers, a onetime aide to Lyndon Johnson, who had supported the Moynihan report.

On his last NOW broadcast, Moyers had this to say about Brancaccio:

Several notable people began careers at The Marshall News Messenger: Bill Moyers began his journalism career at age sixteen as a cub reporter, and popular Texas radio talk show host, Mattie Dellinger, had her first job in journalism there in 1953.

Forrest and Moyers were former friends, but Moyers had come to resent the candidate's corrupt morality.