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Seen in chicago. >> keep moving. >> shaken but undeterred, king returned south. he arrived in memphis, tennessee in march 1968 to show support for striking sanitation workers. >> a lot of king's advisors told him, don't go to memphis. it's going to take away from your message, it's going to take away from your planning, but king insists. we're here to help garbage workers. these are the exact types of people we're supposed to be helping. >> april 4th, 1968, martin luther king, jr., stepped out of room 306 onto the balcony of the lorraine motel. he told his young aide jesse jackson to put on a ...

President. the campaign was not going well. march 1968 gave address to the nation about vietnam and he tacked something unexpected on the very end of that speech. >> i shall not seek and i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. thank you for listening. good night and god bless all of you. >> that revelation in the middle of the democratic primary and the speech about the war had "the new york times" the next daybreaking out not one but two giant semicolons. look. johnson says he won't run; halts north vietnam raids; bids hanoi join peace moves. i think t...

President. the campaign was not going well. march 1968 gave address to the nation about vietnam and he tacked something unexpected on the very end of that speech. >> i shall not seek and i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. thank you for listening. good night and god bless all of you. >> that revelation in the middle of the democratic primary and the speech about the war had "the new york times" the next daybreaking out not one but two giant semicolons. look. johnson says he won't run; halts north vietnam raids; bids hanoi join peace moves. i think t...

Often the last day of march 1968, president lyndon johnson gave a speech about vietnam. while he was in the middle of waging that war, lbj was running for re-election as president. on march 31st, 1968, he gave the address to the nation about vietnam and he tacked something unexpected on to the very end of that speech. >> i shall not seek and i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. you this for listening. good night and god bless all of you. >> that revelation in the middle of the democratic primary and the speech about the war had e

One suspects that that experience makes hagel recognize that these problems are horrific and also that they're not new, that they have been going back for decades, the idea of the va sometimes seeming to be at odds with the very rhett rans they're charged with protecting. >> it's clear the secretary has done a lot of deep thinking on veterans issues. jake, let me say thank you to you for all the work you've done with service members and veterans. some of the people you've gotten to know over the years, they have good friends who have died in combat. the secretary served in vietnam. he had frie...