Nation: The New Team

A whirlwind President may be fine, but who provides the whirls that create the wind? At the present time their names are Moyers, Valenti, Jenkins and Reedy. Three of them are from Texas, and all have known and served Lyndon Johnson for a number of years—and right now they are very busy.

> Bill Moyers, 29, a scholarly journalism graduate whom Johnson calls "my Baptist preacher" (he was never a preacher but was ordained to teach in Baptist schools), has become the intellectual commander of the Johnson troops. He assigns the speeches, writes some himself, checks them for tone and accuracy....

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