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- that Martin Luther King had
been assassinated. You know, it struck a terrible note. The dinner was immediately
adjourned. The President, of course, never came.
I rushed back to the White House and there were four or five of us with the
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LBJ Presidential
- ; negotiations with Israel over Phanton jets; Russian relations; rioting and the aftermath of Martin Luther King’s assassination; the possibility of a presidential draft; Chicago Mayor Richard Daley; neutrality among LBJ’s staff members; Humphrey’s campaign
- ] and the fact that he was doing more than the prior
administration had done, and he stressed that he was proud of it. I think he was meeting
with Martin Luther King the day before or the day after this weekend.
G:
Did LBJ regard voting rights as a special
- on the ballot, and he stayed away from it. He had a surrogate in
that situation who worked with the Governor [John King]. I should remember his name,
but I don't. He was an important man politically in New Hampshire who had been in the
administration [Bernard