June 26 (UPI) -- Former journalist, presidential spokesman and longtime PBS host Bill Moyers died Thursday at a Manhattan, N.Y., cancer center at age 91.
Moyers died at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, his son, William Moyers, confirmed to The New York Times.
Moyers was a spokesman for former President Lyndon Johnson and was with Johnson when he took the oath of office on Air Force One after President John Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
Moyers was Johnson's top aide and press secretary when the president greatly increased the United States' military presence in Vietnam.
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