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Election Watch '08: Hillary Clinton Under Fire for MLK Comment

M Smith · Monday, January 14th 2008 at 7:13AM · 890 views
Hillary Clinton stirred up a fury of debate last week when she implied that LBJ did more for civil rights than MLK. Her comments verbatim: "Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act," she said, adding that "it took a president to get it done," according to the Washington Post...

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