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  • File unit description: Documents center on the demonstrations and the controversy over the voting rights of Negroes in Selma, Alabama; the march led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; Gov. George Wallace's meeting with President Johnson; and the decision
  • File unit description: Documents center on the demonstrations and the controversy over the voting rights of Negroes in Selma, Alabama; the march led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; Gov. George Wallace's meeting with President Johnson; and the decision
  • File unit description: Documents center on the demonstrations and the controversy over the voting rights of Negroes in Selma, Alabama; the march led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; Gov. George Wallace's meeting with President Johnson; and the decision
  • File unit description: Documents center on the demonstrations and the controversy over the voting rights of Negroes in Selma, Alabama; the march led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; Gov. George Wallace's meeting with President Johnson; and the decision
  • File unit description: Documents center on the demonstrations and the controversy over the voting rights of Negroes in Selma, Alabama; the march led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; Gov. George Wallace's meeting with President Johnson; and the decision
  • File unit description: Documents center on the demonstrations and the controversy over the voting rights of Negroes in Selma, Alabama; the march led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; Gov. George Wallace's meeting with President Johnson; and the decision
  • File unit description: Documents center on the demonstrations and the controversy over the voting rights of Negroes in Selma, Alabama; the march led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; Gov. George Wallace's meeting with President Johnson; and the decision
  • File unit description: Documents center on the demonstrations and the controversy over the voting rights of Negroes in Selma, Alabama; the march led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; Gov. George Wallace's meeting with President Johnson; and the decision
  • File unit description: Documents center on the demonstrations and the controversy over the voting rights of Negroes in Selma, Alabama; the march led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; Gov. George Wallace's meeting with President Johnson; and the decision
  • File unit description: Documents center on the demonstrations and the controversy over the voting rights of Negroes in Selma, Alabama; the march led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; Gov. George Wallace's meeting with President Johnson; and the decision
  • File unit description: Documents center on the demonstrations and the controversy over the voting rights of Negroes in Selma, Alabama; the march led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; Gov. George Wallace's meeting with President Johnson; and the decision
  • File unit description: Documents center on the demonstrations and the controversy over the voting rights of Negroes in Selma, Alabama; the march led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; Gov. George Wallace's meeting with President Johnson; and the decision
  • File unit description: Documents center on the demonstrations and the controversy over the voting rights of Negroes in Selma, Alabama; the march led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; Gov. George Wallace's meeting with President Johnson; and the decision
  • File unit description: Documents center on the demonstrations and the controversy over the voting rights of Negroes in Selma, Alabama; the march led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; Gov. George Wallace's meeting with President Johnson; and the decision
  • File unit description: Documents center on the demonstrations and the controversy over the voting rights of Negroes in Selma, Alabama; the march led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; Gov. George Wallace's meeting with President Johnson; and the decision
  • , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: In the time of the riots in Washington for [Martin Luther] King [Jr
  • know, we couldn't get passed until Dr. [Martin Luther] King was assassinated. And even if you look at that--I remember proposing it. It's the only time--and I think if you look at the New York Times or something--I was mentioned in the twenty-fourth
  • that if we went the executive order route, well, it was tenuous legally. He thought that the Warren Court would find a way to support us and uphold a reasonable executive order. G: Did the demonstrations in Chicago that Martin Luther King was organizing
  • --[Martin Luther] King, Whitney Young, [Roy] Wilkins--to try and get them to issue statements condemning the violence, to tell them also they should all remember his Howard University speech and that we'd move, LBJ Presidential Library http
  • that. F: Shifting again, let's talk a little bit about the circumstances surrounding two major funerals in the Johnson Administration. One is the death of Martin Luther King and the other one, of course, is the death of Bobby Kennedy, both of which I'm
  • . The President was starting to get beat up in the press on credibility, and he was--as you can even see there, with all we're doing for blacks, there was no way to do enough fast enough. You had Martin Luther King wondering whether the message is strong enough
  • of the army when we had the March on Washington with [Martin Luther] King and I don't have a sense of planting FBI agents, planting army intelligence people, getting nuns and priests to get into the march to keep it peaceful. My real sense, which we talked
  • . C: He did, which is a great idea. Classic Johnson move. Have you got it? Fogarty had just died. He had just died and he was very big in our health programs. Martin Luther King reacted, and made some public statement or something on the wire in which
  • it was sort of like wiretapping. He was dead against wiretapping on the one hand. On the other hand, he didn't mind reading or hearing whatever they got from [Martin Luther] King. And I think part of it also was not unrelated to Bobby Kennedy. Bobby Kennedy's
  • bugged [Martin Luther] King extensively. G: You had mentioned before this senator from New Hampshire who LBJ managed to arrange a quid pro quo so that the Senator wouldn't have to testify on a milk subsidy. This guy would support him on--was it [Thomas
  • , Chicago. My personal experience vis-à-vis Resurrection City was probably gathered mostly out of the August 1963 march-(Interruption) --when [Martin Luther] King made that speech about, "I have a dream." Resurrection City was handled largely through
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  • Chiefs of Staff. So even at 6:30 at night we were still worried about power failure and preparedness. Governor [John] Reed of Maine, Governor [John] Dempsey of Connecticut, Governor [Phillip] Hoff of Vermont, Governor [John] King--I guess the President