This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.

" In 2005 Laurence Silberman claimed that Moyers denied writing the memo in a 1975 phone call. Johnson alarmed that the opposition was framing the issue as a security breach ordered Moyers to request FBI name checks on 15 members of Goldwater's staff to find "derogatory" material on their personal lives. Moyers has had an extensive involvement with public television producing documentaries and news journal programs.

Since 1990 Moyers has been President of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy. Moyers has had an extensive involvement with public television producing documentaries and news journal programs.