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Bill Moyers, late of the White House, was installed last week as publisher of the prosperous Long Island daily, Newsday (circ. 413,000), and heir presumptive to the owner and editor-in-chief, Captain Harry F. Guggenheim, 76. As befits such an occasion, the Captain threw a luncheon for 900 in Garden City that was a must for every New York politician from Governor Rockefeller and Senators Javits and Kennedy down to 20 of Nassau and Suffolk counties' senators and assemblymen...
...Moyers phoned Guggenheim, who was lounging in his trunks on a Savannah beach, to give him a message from L.B.J. On the spur of the moment the Captain said, "Bill, everybody leaves the Government sooner or later. When you are ready to go, how about coming to work for Newsday?" To Guggenheim's surprise Moyers was willing, replying that he might quit "sooner rather than later." Thus, at 32, Moyers was on his way to becoming the Captain's principal aide at Newsday...
...been Bill Moyers. Last week Moyers, 32, was in Uruguay on one of his last assignments, scouting the resort city of Punta del Este as a possible site for April's hemispheric summit meeting. Next week he departs to become publisher of Long Island's daily Newsday. Though Lyndon Johnson has peevishly taken to telling visitors that the capital fairly teems with equally bright young men, he would have to admit that his protege's departure will leave a ragged hole in his inner circle...
...past, it has also been traditional for a President to leak some significant elements of his State of the Union address so that incoming Congressmen might have some notice of what to expect. Presidential Press Secretary Bill Moyers, who leaves to be come publisher of Newsday in February, has already completed several drafts of the address, and flew down to the ranch last week to talk it over with Johnson. Yet there have been no meaningful hints about what Johnson intends to concentrate on, and the silence has led, in fact, to speculation that the State of the Union address...
President Johnson, in his fourth State of the Union message, insists that civilians "are not the sole target for our bombs." The Long Island newspaper Newsday hails Johnson's address as "a magnificent testament...