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...list of potential speakers also included Democratic Presidential aspirant Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo), Coretta Scott King. Walter Cronkite, and consumer advocate Ralph Nader...
Although her historical accounts of key events in the civil rights movment and accompanying evaluations of their consequences are intelligent and thoughtful. Walker is at her best when she weaves her own experience into the narration. In a 1971 essay about Coretta Scott King, the author remembers having met her as a freshman at Atlanta's Spelman College, when she and some classmates met with Mrs. King at her home. Having idolized Dr. King, she remembers hoping that Coretta was good enough for him Years later, after his assassination, she glimpses Coretta King once again, and has very different thoughts...
Among the USIA 84 was Gary Hart, the only presidential contender to make the list. Also singled out were Ralph Nader, Coretta Scott King and Betty Friedan, who cheerfully remarked that "it certainly is a distinguished blacklist to be on." TV news was represented by CBS's Walter Cronkite, whose only apparent threat to Reagan is in surpassing him in on-the-air avuncularity, and ABC's David Brinkley, who pronounced himself "delighted." Print journalists included the Washington Post's Ben Bradlee, New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, the Atlantic's James Fallows and TIME International...
...White House last week greeted one another boisterously. But the mood was much more restrained and solemn when President Reagan appeared to sign a bill making the third Monday in January a national holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Among those present were King's widow Coretta, 56, and their four children: Yolanda, 27, a New York City actress; Martin III, 25, a lobbyist in Washington who worked for passage of the King holiday; Dexter, 22, a corrections officer in Atlanta, and Bemice, 20, a junior at Atlanta's Spelman College. Said their mother, after...
Reagan later telephoned King's widow Coretta to apologize for remarks that he said had been a "mistake." At the same time, however, the White House confirmed an exchange of letters between Reagan and former Republican Governor Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire. Thomson said a holiday for King would honor a man "of immoral character whose frequent associations with leading agents of Communism is well established." Reagan wrote back that "I have the same reservations you have, but here the perception of too many people is based on image, not reality...