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Dr. King and President Johnson
ResumeThe preacher or the president? Crazy question, say those who were there. But what an unlikely, high-voltage, interlocking duo this was.
Today we look and listen back on their astounding, high-wire relationship. It still sounds hot.
This hour, On Point: MLK, LBJ, and the civil rights revolution.Guests:
Nick Kotz, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of "Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America."
Roger Wilkins, professor of history and American culture at George Mason University, he served as assistant attorney general in the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. He shared the Pulitzer Prize for Watergate coverage in 1972 as a member of the Washington Post editorial page staff.
This program aired on January 21, 2008.