Moyers, who served as Johnson’s press secretary for two years, became one of television’s most revered journalists

Bill Moyers, who served as chief White House spokesman for President Lyndon B. Johnson and then, for more than 40 years, as a broadcast journalist known for bringing ideas — both timely and timeless — to television,

Before he came to public television in 1971, he was Lyndon Johnson's press secretary and the publisher of Newsday.