With all the talk of Martin Luther King and Lyndon Johnson, listen to a rare piece of historical audio of a phone call in which the two of them planning the Voting Rights Act. Also, Governor Eliot Spitzer – how will he handle the economic downturn?
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MLK and LBJ
unofficial TRANSCRIPTION of <a href=" http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/johnson/mlkvra.wav">Conversation: MLK & LBJ, January 15, 1965
King: And it is very interesting that Mr. President noted that the only state that you didn't carry (in the South) have less than 40% of the Negroes registered to vote. Very interesting to note it. I think ...
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