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At the Fountainhead. Moyers has been long enough at the fountainhead of power to feel almost certain that he will remain in public life. Few Texans see a bright future for him as an elected representative of their state; his views on civil rights and economics are too liberal. Lately...
It was another President Johnson-Andrew-who, nearly a century ago, described the relationship between a President and an adviser as "a plant of slow growth." Where Bill Moyers and Lyndon Johnson are concerned, the plant has been maturing for eleven years now. Moyers needs Johnson and knows it. But...
Perhaps the greatest measure of the President's faith in his judgment was the role he played when Lyndon Johnson underwent surgery. During the hours when Johnson's mind was dulled by anesthesia, somebody had to be empowered to decide whether to transfer the office of the presidency...
Operating out of an office in the West Wing of the White House, Moyers has access to virtually every secret document in the national archives, is a regular at the exclusive Tuesday luncheons with Lyndon and his "Big Three" on foreign affairs-Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert...
Spectral Figures. Moyers is one of the men whom Political Scientist Louis W. Koenig describes in The Invisible Presidency as "the toilers in the shadows." "American History," contends Koenig, "is customarily written as a saga of great men, especially great Presidents. It needs also to be written-or rewritten-in...