speeches by Bill Moyers

I remember journalists like Jimmy Breslin, David Brinkley, Margaret Bourke-White, Seymour Hersh and Bill Moyers, just to name a few. ... Without such “vehicles” for free speech and genuine opportunities for differences of opinion, and the chance to go in-depth on important issues and reporters with the ...

He most famously sat down with PBS' Bill Moyers in 1988 for a series called “The Power of Myth,” at George Lucas' Skywalker Studios. Lucas offered up ... In his native Canada, Peterson gained notoriety by challenging the imposition of speech codes, thereby becoming an erudite champion of free speech.

It was May 3, 1987, and I was blessed to have the opportunity to be on Ellis Island for a speech by Ronald Reagan, where Dr. Graham delivered a prayer in advance of the president taking the podium. It was a ... And then Bill Moyers likes to tell the story of one day at lunch with President Johnson. Bill was ...

Bill Moyers, newsman, TV filmmaker and respected commentator on American values, spoke at the Marin Center, telling audiences that the power of government has passed from ... A retired Novato doctor said Moyers” speech was the best he had heard in the multiyear history of the Marin Speaker Series.

Moyers spent most of his broadcast career on public television, whose audience is considerably smaller than that of the major networks. But his influence—through his documentaries, interviews, books, magazine articles, and speeches, with their ripple effects of his calls to conscience—has been great ...

The 82-year-old author accepted the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters with a noteworthy speech. By BillMoyers.com Staff ... Her acceptance speech can best be described as a hopeful lament; a literary salve for our fraught times. Proulx, 82, is the author of ...

The senator from Arizona gives this very histrionic speech about how Trump has introduced evasion and demagoguery and all these awful things into the Republican Party — and then announces he's quitting. He's really saying, “I'm not going to fight it. I'm going to surrender to it.” Remember, he's voted 90 ...

In one of the latest salvos in the battle to claim “freedom of speech” for the right, Scott Walker and his allies in Wisconsin are pushing a policy that would suspend or expel students for protesting in ways the university deems infringe on the free speech of another. Thomas ... BY Bill Moyers | October 18, 2017.

Bill Moyers and Joan Scott talk about the thorny issue of free speech on campus. By Bill Moyers ... Bill Moyers Professor Scott, connect these dots for us. What's the ... A large number of university teachers have been targeted for speeches that they've made, they've been harassed and threatened. Take the ...

The Boy Scouts' chief executive apologized to those offended by the speech, saying, “We sincerely regret that politics were inserted into the Scouting program.” But then, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Trump claimed, “I got a call from the head of the Boy Scouts saying it was the greatest ...