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An Icy Piety. That toughness stood Moyers in good stead when he took over the press job last July. One of the first things he did was ask Ike's press secretary for his advice. Said Hagerty, now an ABC vice president: "Speak only when the President can'...
Moyers rises at 6:15 a.m. in his five-bedroom brick home in McLean, Va., tries to squeeze in at least an hour with the children. Sometimes he frolics with them, and on special occasions performs his "magic" stunt of pulling a nickel out of an ear or a nose...
Around 8, Moyers steps into a waiting limousine for the drive across the Potomac, scans four or five morning papers and the Congressional Record en route. At the circular desk in his office, furnished in the phone-booth-functional L.B.J. style that staffers call "Pedernales Renaissance," he phones the other...
"Serviceable Wisdom." No athlete, Moyers relaxes at the movies. He dislikes cocktail parties, and as Press Secretary has set some sort of record for that traditionally bibulous post by attending only two since he got the job-and both were for friends. His favorite pastime is reading, which he selects...
Moyers' own philosophy is expressed in a slightly truncated quote from Thomas Jefferson that hangs on his office wall: "The care of human life and happiness is the first and only legitimate object of good government." As he sees it, that observation is "the charter" of the Johnson Administration...