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Bill Moyers, Presidential Aide and Veteran of Public TV, Dies at 91

NYT > Business > Media · Janny Scott · last updated

Bill Moyers, who served as chief spokesman for President Lyndon B. Johnson during the American military buildup in Vietnam and then went on to a long and celebrated career as a broadcast journalist, returning repeatedly to the subject of the corruption of American democracy by money and power, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 91.

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