Bill Moyers on President Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 "Daisy" political ad

Bill Moyers, news correspondent and appointee of both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, discusses the "Daisy" political ad, a controversial commercial that linked Lyndon B. Johnson’s opponent, Barry Goldwater, to the threat of nuclear war. Though Moyers was not responsible for the ad, he says:

“Right up until the end of [Barry Goldwater’s] life, a reporter would go out and interview him and he would spend a long time, you know, excoriating Bill Moyers for that scurrilous ad campaign.”

Watch Bill Moyers’ full interview where he details his political career and his move into journalism and beyond.

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