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The description is particularly relevant to Lyndon Johnson's staff. "With this President," says Moyers, "you've got to be ready to catch the ball and run with it any time it's tossed to you. You've got to be a darned good generalist." To...
Because they fit into no neat bureaucratic pigeonhole and are constantly competing for the President's attention, Moyers and his White House confreres live in a state of perpetual uncertainty. "An adviser's status," says Koenig, "is not something that can be settled and defined by resonant titles...
"Mah Preacher." Ambition helps, of course-and so does a degree of ruthlessness. Though Moyers is a natural loner with the sort of drive that would probably propel him to the top in any milieu, even his closest rivals for the President's favor have never accused him of...
Others have noted Moyers' capacity for absorbing a blistering rebuke from Johnson with the clinical detachment of a volcanologist measuring an eruption. He can do so because he is uncommonly sure of himself. There is an easy communion between the two men. Johnson kiddingly refers to Moyers as "mah...
On another occasion, when one of Lyndon's secretaries started a zealous campaign to save the great man's artifacts for posterity, Moyers stolidly refused to cooperate, throwing away all L.B.J.-initialed memos, scrawled notes and other Johnsoniana. Finally, after the lady had become persistent, Moyers ceremoniously handed...