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...summer recess of Congress would deprive them of "Pharaoh" rulers to plague. Young proposed to make constructive use of delay, and questioned the enormous effort to assemble and maintain a novel protest army of polyglot poor people in Washington. He doubted King's white attorney and closest confidant Stanley Levison's analogy with the Bonus Marchers of 1932-34, whose suffering and rejection had kindled delayed support for New Deal initiatives, and King aide James Bevel renewed his attack on the entire calculation. "Aw, that's just a bunch of bulls___," he declared. "We don't need to be hanging...
This time King stood seething. "Ralph, give me my car keys," he said quietly. Abernathy surrendered them with a stricken, quizzical look as King said they could go on without him. "He did something I've never heard him do before," Levison confided afterward on his wiretapped phone. "He criticized three members of the staff with his eloquence. And believe me, that's murder. And was very negative." King said Young had given in to doubt, Bevel to brains, and Jackson to ambition. He said they had forgotten the simple truths of witness. He said the movement had made them...
...TIME: I was interested in how King continued to turn to [attorney] Stanley Levison. What was it about that relationship that seemed to make him so comfortable? What was the role that Levison filled...
...fortune" Scott Barnes and his charges of political intrigue by the Republican Party? Barnes has been lying to the public for years with his cloak-and-dagger make-believe charges about pow rescues, cia assassinations and finally Republican smear campaigns. Ross Perot and Scott Barnes deserve each other. WILL LEVISON Arlington, Virginia...
When King kept indirect contacts with Levison despite this advice, Robert Kennedy "reluctantly" acceded to Hoover's plea to bug King's hotel rooms. That failed to prove that King was under the influence of Communists but provided a lode of scandalous data about King's philandering. The FBI wasted no time in circulating gamy samples of the recordings to Government officials, friendly journalists and even King's wife in an attempt to persuade King to withdraw from an active role in the movement...