B ill Moyers, the press secretary for former President Lyndon B. Johnson and a long-time television journalist who grew up in Texas, died Thursday at the age of 91.

Born Billy Don Moyers in Hugo, Oklahoma, on June 5, 1934, the son of a dirt farmer and truck driver, Moyers dropped the "y" from his first name when he took his first journalism job as a cub reporter at 16 in Marshall, Texas.

He was a renowned television correspondent and commentator who also had long ties with Lyndon B. Johnson, including as his press secretary.