There are many different kinds of presidential press secretary. Some deal only with the press; others become close advisers to the chief executive. Billy Don Moyers, 32, is certainly among the latter. To a degree unmatched by any press secretary before him, Moyers became perhaps the top policy adviser to the President of the U.S. He not only worked directly on many of the legislative matters of the Great Society, but took on the most disparate tasks—from foreign-policy trips to speechwriting to image-building campaigns—at which Lyndon Johnson needed help. Because of a...
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