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- ALLEN THANKS LBJ FOR HIS STATEMENT UPON DEATH OF MLK, REPORTS ON SITUATION IN ATLANTA; LBJ'S CALL TO CORETTA SCOTT KING; RIOTING IN WASHINGTON, DC; POSTPONEMENT OF LBJ'S TRIP TO HONOLULU; LBJ'S 3/31/68 SPEECH; LADY BIRD JOHNSON THANKS ALLEN FOR HIS
- & speeches; LBJ works hard with little rest; Johnsons to Democratic fundraiser that night; Lynda Robb relays news that Martin Luther King has been shot & died; LBJ calls Coretta Scott King & makes televised speech; evening plans cancelled & Hawaii trip
- paper, in the Post.
F:
They had this folk opera out there.
P:
Yes.
And two of the most prominent people in connection with it were
born in Texarkana.
F:
I was going to say this Scott Joplin came out of there.
P:
He was born there.
And this black
- civil rights vote.
precisely the details.
I've forgotten
But it was, I remember, Hugh Scott [of
Pennsyl vania that] brought it up.
The idea was to embarrass the new
Democratic leadership. Johnson was instrumental in quickly and efficiently
moving
