S1 Ep 5 LBJ's War - The Preacher and the President

“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.

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S1 Ep 5 LBJ's War - The Preacher and the President is an episode from LBJ's War by PRX.

This episode is 21:04 long.

This episode was published on Sep 19, 2017.

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