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Moyers wrote a long, no-nonsense letter telling the President of his money problems, his personal ambitions to do something on his own and the attractive offer from Newsday (reportedly $100,000 a year, no stock, but full editorial control of the paper when Guggenheim dies). One weekend, the two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: White House Farewell | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

At that point began what a member of the Kennedy family describes as "a long era of negotiations." Through its agents, the family took a closer look at Manchester's first manuscript and realized that much more was wrong than a few factual errors. Pamela Turnure Timmins, Jackie'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Battle of the Book | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

There are many different kinds of presidential press secretary. Some deal only with the press; others become close advisers to the chief executive. Billy Don Moyers, 32, is certainly among the latter. To a degree unmatched by any press secretary before him, Moyers became perhaps the top policy adviser to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: White House Farewell | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

It was thus somewhat of a surprise when Moyers announced last week that he will leave the White House, after 17 grueling months as the President's public voice and private confidant, to become publisher of Long Island's prosperous newspaper Newsday (circ. 415,000). Ordained a Baptist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: White House Farewell | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

Financially Strapped. Moyers' first offer from Newsday President Harry F. Guggenheim, who is 76 and has no heirs, came last August. Moyers said no, but Guggenheim tried twice more. By the third time (in mid-October), Moyers' older brother James had committed suicide. Bill, a father of three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: White House Farewell | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

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