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    The power of a President’s words

    by Jon Meacham Aug 19, 2019 3 minutes

    It had been the grimmest of seasons. First, on Sept. 15, 1963, Ku Klux Klansmen had bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., killing four young girls. Then, on Nov. 22, John F. Kennedy was shot to death in Dallas. As Kennedy’s body was lying in the Capitol Rotunda before the burial, the new President, Lyndon B. Johnson, received a piece of advice from Whitney Young of the National Urban League. “I think you’ve just got to ... point out that ...

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