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The New York Times characterized King’s words as both “facile” and “slander.” It said the moral issues in Vietnam “are less clear-cut than he suggests” and warned that “to divert the energies of the civil rights movement to the Vietnam issue is both wasteful and self-defeating,” given how the movement needed to confront what the paper called “the intractability of slum mores and habits.”

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Image: Lyndon Johnson, King, and other civil rights leaders White House Jan. 18, 1964.