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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)
3 - The Carrot and the Stick: By the spring of 1965, pressure is building on President Johnson to make his case for the war to the American electorate. He resists, preferring to manage the conflict without public scrutiny, but finally agrees to go public,... by Nixon at War