On a sunny November afternoon in 1963, a slender, bespectacled young man hurried up the stairs of Air Force One at Love Field, in Dallas, and handed a scribbled note to a harried Secret Service agent who had failed to recognize him. “I’m here if you need me,” the note read. Minutes later, the door to the front section of the plane opened, and the young man joined Vice President Lyndon Johnson minutes before he was sworn in as the nation’s thirty-sixth president.Johnson already knew then what Washington and the world would soon come to know. Young Bill Moyers, the pride of Marshall, Texas, was the indispensable man.Moyers, who died on June 26 at 91, was like a son to the man who had two…
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