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S1 Ep 5 LBJ's War - The Preacher and the President
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Length:
21 minutes
Released:
Sep 19, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
“I’ll try to be worthy of your hopes,” LBJ told Martin Luther King, just days into his presidency, and for the next two years, largely made good on that vow. Dr. King, for his part, recognized their common goal – racial and economic justice – and threw his own considerable weight behind it, until finally, the war in Vietnam made it impossible to do so any longer. A look back at the 1967 speech that broke their bond forever.
Released:
Sep 19, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (24)
4 - Parting the Curtains: For fifteen months, LBJ kept the country largely in the dark about the Vietnam War. Then, in February ’66, the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and its chairman William Fulbright, administered a strong dose of sunlight. by Nixon at War