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Everyone Wants a Piece of Martin Luther King Jr.
Left, right or center, leaders of all political persuasions have sought to profit from the storied legacy of the great civil rights leader.
LOS ANGELES--The scramble to snatch and grab a piece of Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy has not diminished one bit in the 20 years since the first King national holiday was celebrated.
Ronald Reagan was the first to grab at the King legacy -- after first attacking it. Reagan fought tooth and nail against passage of the King holiday bill. After insinuating that King was a Communist, Reagan signed the bill only after Congress passed it overwhelmingly and virtually insured it was veto-proof. But then Reagan reversed gears and apologized to a deeply hurt Coretta Scott King, King's widow, and effusively praised King as a champion of freedom and democracy. Reagan said that King's struggle for equality was his struggle too.
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Ronald Reagan was the first to grab at the King legacy -- after first attacking it. Reagan fought tooth and nail against passage of the King holiday bill. After insinuating that King was a Communist, Reagan signed the bill only after Congress passed it overwhelmingly and virtually insured it was veto-proof. But then Reagan reversed gears and apologized to a deeply hurt Coretta Scott King, King's widow, and effusively praised King as a champion of freedom and democracy. Reagan said that King's struggle for equality was his struggle too.
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