The transformative power of the song was investigated by journalist Bill Moyers in a documentary released in 1990.

: Bill Moyers: But what happened along the way to this reverence that in primitive societies was directed to the Goddess figure, the Great Goddess, the mother earth-what happened to that?

ALEC was the subject of the September 29, 2012 edition of Moyers & Company hosted by Bill Moyers.

During World War II the Moyers area was the site of two lethal air crashes.

At one time, the hotel was operated by Zilphia Moyers Een, the county ’ s first woman hotel keeper.

" The series was endowed in 1996, and has since brought a diverse selection of speakers to Midland, including Ken Burns, Richard Leakey, Bill Moyers, Mark Russell, Sandra Day O ' Connor, Richard Rodriguez, Shelby Foote, Anna Deavere Smith, John Updike and Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Born in Hugo, Oklahoma, to father John Henry Moyers, a laborer, and mother Ruby Moyers ( née Johnson ), he was raised in Texas.

Moyers was ordained in 1954.

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

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.

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.

Safer says that Moyers was " if not a key player, certainly a key bystander " in the incident.

But the owner of the paper, Harry Guggenheim, a conservative, was disappointed by the liberal drift of the newspaper under Moyers, criticizing the " left-wing " coverage of Vietnam War protests.

Among their first productions was the popular PBS 1988 documentary series Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, consisting of six one-hour interviews between Moyers and mythologist Joseph Campbell.

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.

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.

In 1992 she was featured in the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary The Songs Are Free: Bernice Johnson Reagon with Bill Moyers.

ALEC was the subject of the September 29, 2012 edition of Moyers & Company hosted by Bill Moyers.

Years later, Moyers returned to the Ranch to interview Lucas for a documentary titled The Mythology of Star Wars around the time Star Wars: Episode I was in production.

In 1988, when Chomsky was interviewed by Bill Moyers there were 1, 000 letters in response, one the biggest written reactions in the show's history.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

His break came in 1974, after Bill Moyers hired Rose as managing editor for the PBS series Bill Moyers ' International Report.

In the Introduction to the book, Moyers recalls Campbell's description of the solemn state funeral after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, as an " illustration of the high service of ritual to a society ," and where Campbell identifies the ritualized occasion as fulfilling a great social necessity.

Moyers and Lucas filmed an interview 12 years later in 1999, modeled after The Power of Myth.

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.

Moyers subsequently announced that he would leave the show after the 2004 U. S. elections and appeared for the last time on December 17, 2004.

Baskin came to CPI after directing consumer investigations for ABC News's 20 / 20 and serving as Washington correspondent for PBS's NOW with Bill Moyers.

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.