Seven Generational Ruminations

I just listened to this via the iTunes podcast system, and you can listen to it here: In the Kingdom of the Half-Blind (By Bill Moyers, AlterNet. Posted December 16, 2005.) It is a speech given by Bill Moyers about the Freedom of Information Act, the work of the National Archives, and about official secrecy that he's witnessed both working inside the White House (he was Lyndon Johnson's Press Secretary) and as a Journalist. Bill Moyers is a great man who has been doing wonderful work for decades.

Reprinted from

This is Your Story - The Progressive Story of America. Pass It On.
by Bill Moyers

Text of speech to the Take Back America conference sponsored by the Campaign for America’s Future

June 4, 2003

Washington, DC

Thank you for this award and for this occasion. I don't deserve either, but as George Burns said, I have arthritis and I don't deserve that, either.

Tomorrow is my 69th birthday and I cannot imagine a better present than this award or a better party than your company.