For seven months the President had saddled Bill Moyers, his No. 1 assistant and man Friday, with the added job of White House press secretary. Last week he lightened Moyers' load by appoint ing a deputy to take over the bulk of the day-to-day news tasks. The $28,500 job went to Robert H. Fleming, 54, Washington bureau chief for the American Broadcasting Co.
A 1934 journalism graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Fleming, who has a reputation as an abrasive straight shooter, was a newspaper and magazine correspondent before joining ABC in 1957....
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