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- friendly relationship with
Dr. King's father.
I knew Dr. King personally, but I didn't have any
great intimate relationship there.
I was in the President's office the
night that Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated.
I was sitting there
with him
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- ; LBJ’s efforts in Vietnam; Martin Luther King’s assassination; working on the Commission for Federal-State Relations; LBJ inheriting JFK’s staff; being offered a federal appointment; LBJ deciding not to run in 1968; LBJ’s relationship with Robert Kennedy
- in the Cabinet Room. This was a meeting on the
morning after Dr. [Martin Luther] King's assassination, to which the President had
invited maybe ten or fifteen Negro leaders. The purpose of the meeting, I think, was to
discuss with them what they saw as the likely
- McGiffert's career from 1953 to 1965; how McGiffert got into government work and promotion opportunities under Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara; meetings with LBJ, including one after the assassination of Martin Luther King; McGiffert's contact
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None whatsoever.
In fact, I picketed only after I could not get any response
from a series of wires to the President asking for an audience with him.
He
had been giving audiences to Martin Luther King and other groups, other individuals, and I had