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About how this situation could be resolved. we now have the white house tapes from that era. so we have the recording of president johnson even after that three-hour meeting, getting on the phone with george wallace and telling him that if local police were going to be beating people and the state police were going to be beating people, then governor wallace ought to call up the national guard in his state to let the guardsmen protect the marchers. >> you call up your own guard into the service ...

To cooperate. >> but, of course, governor "segregation forever" would not do that. he would not call up the national guard to protect the marchers in his state. and so president johnson did. and when they did finally complete that march, not hundreds strong, but now thousands strong, and martin luther king jr. gave his "how long, not long" speech on the steps of the state capitol in montgomery, those marchers were protected by the national guard, by order of the president of the united states. y...

Rick: those who scored a pair of the 180-dollar shoes says the madness was well worth it. >> its ridiculous out here. the line is crazy, that way, this way. jordans 11, they came out not since 1996. everybody is trying to get them. everybody needs to scoot back so i can get my jordans. rick: rick leventhal joining us more with more on this. >> reporter: it seems appropriate that the latest item to spur fighting inside and outside stores is a pair of basketball shoes, and this is way beyond pushi...