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Billy Don "Bill" Moyers (born June 5, 1934) is an American journalist and political commentator. He served as White House Press Secretary in the Johnson administration from 1965 to 1967. He also worked as a network TV news commentator for ten years. Moyers has been extensively involved with public broadcasting, producing documentaries and news journal programs. He has won numerous awards and honorary degrees for his investigative journalism and civic activities. He has become well known as a trenchant critic of the corporately structured U.S. news media.
Born Billy Don Moyers in Hugo in Choctaw County in southeastern Oklahoma, he was the son of John Henry Moyers, a laborer, and Ruby Johnson Moyers. Moyers was reared in Marshall, Texas.
He began his journalism career at 16 as a cub reporter at the Marshall News Messenger in Marshall in East Texas. In college, he studied journalism at the North Texas State College in Denton, Texas. In 1954, then-US Senator Lyndon B. Johnson employed him as a summer intern and eventually promoted him to manage Johnson's personal mail. Soon after, Moyers transferred to the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, where he wrote for The Daily Texan newspaper. In 1956, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism. While in Austin, Moyers served as assistant news editor for KTBC radio and television stations, owned by Lady Bird Johnson, wife of then-Senator Johnson. During the academic year 1956–1957, he studied issues of church and state at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland as a Rotary International Fellow. In 1959, he completed a Master of Divinity degree at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Moyers served as Director of Information while attending SWBTS. He was also a Baptist pastor in Weir in Williamson County, near Austin.
Bill Moyers Journal was an American television current affairs program that covered an array of current affairs and human issues, including but not limited to economics, history, literature, religion, philosophy, science, and most frequently politics. Originally, Bill Moyers executive produced, wrote and hosted the Journal. WNET in New York produced it and PBS aired it from 1972 to 1976.
In 1979, following a nearly three-year hiatus, PBS announced that Bill Moyers Journal would return for a second series, which would cover a broader range of issues in depth. This included election coverage and documentary footage from several U.S. states, among them Florida, Texas, Illinois, DC and Nevada. In addition, among its pop-culture coverage, the Journal reported on the 25th anniversary of the premiere of the long-running NBC talk program The Tonight Show. Like the first installment, the second one was produced by WNET in New York City, and was aired on PBS. The second installment ended in 1981.
Actors: J.K. Simmons (actor), Gary Sinise (actor), David Schroeder (actor), Philip Baker Hall (actor), Bruce McGill (actor), Madison Mason (actor), Alec Baldwin (actor), Cliff De Young (actor), James Frain (actor), Frederic Forrest (actor), Michael Gambon (actor), Kevin Cooney (actor), Walter Cronkite (actor), Donald Sutherland (actor), Tom Skerritt (actor),
Plot: A portrayal of the Johnson presidency and its spiraling descent into the Vietnam War. Acting on often conflicting advice from his Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara and other advisers, President Johnson finds his domestic policy agenda for the Great Society overtaken by an ever demanding commitment to ending the war. It also depicts his political skills as he crosses swords with political foes such as Bobby Kennedy and Governor George Wallace. Despite support and encouragement from stalwart friends such as Clark Clifford, Johnson realizes his management of the war no longer has the confidence of the American people and announces that he will not seek the nomination of the Democratic party for the the 1968 election.
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oh darling I can`t help it
Im walking on the moon
Never ended story
woman meet a man
and loosing concentration
what`s happening to me?
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in every way
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right away
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Why do I remember?
memories bring me down
high and low emotions
are moving me around
Never ended story
A woman meet a man
oh darling I can help it
together you and I
Hey! you pull the wires... of my love
in every way
Hey! my desire is your love
right away
youuuu pull the wires
they`re moving me babe
ooooh love`s desire...
you`re turning me all around
Ohhhh I desire
you`re even more than I can say
you`re all for me
when I`m down and all alone
you`re my soul and inspiration
are you on my side out in the sea Oh!
you guide me every day
and the love will lead the way
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youuuu pull the wires you`re moving me babe
ooooh love`s desire... loving you ohhh
pull the wires
I will surrender right away
you`ve got to me