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.

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.

" Moyers also responded to these accusations in a speech given to The National Conference for Media Reform, saying that he had repeatedly invited Tomlinson to debate him on the subject but had repeatedly been ignored.

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.

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.

Kenneth Tomlinson, chair of the CPB board from September 2003 until September 2005, angered PBS and NPR supporters by unilaterally commissioning a conservative colleague to conduct a study of alleged bias in the PBS show NOW with Bill Moyers, and by appointing two conservatives as CPB Ombudsmen.

When Lyndon B. Johnson took office after the Kennedy assassination, Moyers became a special assistant to Johnson, serving from 1963 to 1967.

Moyers acted as the President's informal chief of staff from October 1964 until 1966.

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.

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

Moyers asserted that, from his reading of Rove, the mid-to-late 19th century were to Rove a " cherished period of American history.

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.

There was no effect from the op-eds, and Moyers did not run.

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 ... uses his show as a platform from which to attack conservatives and Republicans.

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.

* America Responds: Moyers in Conversation In the wake of September 11, Moyers interviews with experts from various fields ( Sept. 12 – 20, 2001 )

* NOW on PBS, formerly NOW with Bill Moyers, a TV newsmagazine which aired from 2002 to 2010

John Moyers was the recipient of significant funds from the-then Schumann Foundation to found TomPaine. com, which he headed for several years.

Guests such as Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Bernie Sanders, Juan Gonzalez, Andrew Bacevich, the late Chalmers Johnson, Tim Robbins, Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, Michael Moore, Matt Taibbi, Barbara Ehrenreich, Naomi Klein, Robert Reich, Bill Moyers, Sherrod Brown, Janine Jackson, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Matt Rothschild, Michael Copps, Seymour Hersh, Norman Solomon, Amy Goodman, the late Howard Zinn, and the late Gore Vidal discuss the relationship between US media and politics and answer questions from callers.

< P >-- Louis O. Kelso in Bill Moyers: A World of Ideas II, Public Opinions from Private Citizens, ( 1990, both book and video ) page 214, ISBN 0385416644

Bonus Interview with George Lucas on Mythology from The Mythology of Star Wars, conversation with Campbell from 1981 Bill Moyers ' Journal.

Guggenheim, who died a year later, disinherited Moyers from his will.

* Coverage from PBS's NOW with Bill Moyers

The Moyers ' two youngest daughters were adopted from Guatemala.

After several attacks Superman helped free Rampage from Moyers ' control and sent him to jail.

Replacing Bill Moyers, Christian held the post of White House press secretary during the turbulent period from 1966 to 1969.

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, ordered Moyers to request FBI name checks on 15 members of Goldwater's staff to find " derogatory " material on their personal lives.

The Church Committee stated in 1975 that " Moyers has publicly recounted his role in the incident, and his account is confirmed by FBI documents.

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.

In a special report on ALEC, Bill Moyers summarized it as " an organization hiding in plain sight, yet one of the most influential and powerful in American politics.

Moyers reported on the Common Cause effort to change ALEC's status.

In " Buying the War " on PBS, Bill Moyers noted 27 editorials supporting George W. Bush's ambitions to invade Iraq.

* Moyers Corners – A hamlet on NY-31 near the west town line, east of Belgium.

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.

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.

In 1987 Moyers produced and hosted a scathing documentary, The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis, covering the infringement on the limitations on government and the executive branch provided by the Constitution.

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

The series, Moyers on America, analyzed in depth the ramifications of three important issues: the Jack Abramoff scandal, evangelical religion and environmentalism ( Evangelical environmentalism ), and threats to open public access of the Internet.

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.

In it, Moyers defined what he considered to be Karl Rove's influence on George W. Bush's administration.

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

" Moyers characterized Tomlinson as " an ally of Karl Rove and the right-wing monopoly's point man to keep tabs on public broadcasting.