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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 rambled together over Johnson's Texas ranch for several hours; when they returned to the house at dusk, the President told Moyers that he should take the job. Moyers still brooded about his departure; just a day or so before he announced his decision, he offered to stay...
...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 teacher, he has been with Johnson ever since he joined his Senate staff in 1959 after graduating from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Moyers won the trust and liking of the hypercritical Washington press corps after he took over from the ailing George Reedy in 1965. Like everyone else, he did not find...
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 himself, took over financial support of the family, along with that of his mother and father and several of his wife's relatives. On his $30,000-a-year White House salary, he was strapped...
Died. Alice Higinbotham Patterson, 87, first wife of New York Daily News Founder Joseph Medill Patterson and mother of the late Alicia Patterson Guggenheim (editor and publisher of Long Island's Newsday until her death in 1963), a Chicago patrician who did her best to lead her husband's life, hunting big game, flying with the Wright Brothers, finally divorced Captain Joe in 1938 and returned to a secluded life of gardening and charities; of congestive heart failure; in Chicago...
...clearly intends to be much more folksy and homespun than its prosperous competitor Newsday, which is based in adjoining Nassau County and serves the entire Island with a thorough blend of both national and local news...