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Line 43: [[Image:MoyersPress-small.jpg\|270px\|thumbnail\|right\|Moyers giving a press conference at the [[White House]] in 1965]] Journalist [[Morley Safer]] in his 1990 book "Flashbacks" wrote that Moyers and President Johnson met with and "harangued" Safer's boss, [[CBS]] president [[Frank Stanton (executive)\|Frank Stanton]], about Safer's coverage of the Marines torching [[Cam Ne]] village in the [[Vietnam War]].<ref name="safer1">{{cite book\|title=The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W3fy6AABBXsC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69\|last=Gibbons\|first=William Conrad\|year=1995\|pages=69pp\|publisher=Princeton University Press\|isbn=0-691-00635-0}}</ref> During the meeting, Safer alleges, Johnson threatened to expose Safer's "communist ties". This was a bluff, according to Safer. Safer says that Moyers was "if not a key player, certainly a key bystander" in the incident.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/12151-1/Morley+Safer.aspx\|title=Booknotes: Flashbacks On Returning to Vietnam\|publisher=booknotes.org\|accessdate=February 28, 2009\|quote=And Moyers was present during some of this showdown stuff about me being a Communist, clearly knew it was a bluff. As I say, there are limits, I think, even to being a good soldier. And even if one does, I think there is a time to come clean.\|deadurl=yes\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116231600/http://booknotes.org/Watch/12151-1/Morley+Safer.aspx\|archivedate=November 16, 2010\|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Moyers stated that his hard-hitting coverage of conservative presidents [[Ronald Reagan\|Reagan]] and [[George H. W. Bush\|Bush]] were behind Safer's 1990 allegations.<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/113557171.html?dids=113557171:113557171&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT\|title=Is ill will behind piece `60 Minutes' plans to do on PBS' Bill Moyers?\|website=The Baltimore Sun\|accessdate=February 28, 2009\|quote=Mr. Moyers wonders aloud whether his hard-hitting coverage of presidents Reagan and Bush has vexed Mr. Wallace and Mr. Safer, who, friends say, have become more politically conservative as they've grown older and wealthier.\|first=Marc\|last=Gunther\|date=May 29, 1992 }}</ref> In ''[[The New York Times]]'' on April 3, 1966, Moyers offered this insight on his stint as press secretary to President Johnson: "I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies."<ref name="numbertwotexan">{{cite news\|last=Anderson\|first=Patrick \|title=No. 2 Texan in the White House\|pages=SM1\|newspaper=The New York Times \|date=April 3, 1966 \|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E05E7DF1130E430A25750C0A9629C946791D6CF&nytmobile=0&legacy=true \|subscription=yes}}</ref><ref name="simpsonsquotations">{{cite book\|last=Simpson \|first=James B. \|title=Simpson's Contemporary Quotations, No. 848 \|publisher=Houghton Mifflin \|year=1988 \|url=http://www.bartleby.com/63/48/848.html \|isbn=0-395-43085-2 \|deadurl=yes \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205105522/http://www.bartleby.com/63/48/848.html \|archivedate=December 5, 2008 }}</ref> On October 17, 1967, he told an audience in Cambridge that Johnson saw the war in Vietnam as his major legacy and, as a result, was insisting on victory at all costs, even in the face of public opposition. Moyers felt such a continuation of the conflict would tear the country apart. "I never thought the situation could arise when I would wish for the defeat of LBJ, and that makes my current state of mind all the more painful to me," he told them. "I would have to say now: It would depend on who his opponent is."<ref>[[Daniel Ellsberg]], ''Secrets'', 197f</ref>