Reply #2: Understand Nixon kept his jowls shut on the matter.

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From Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Global Freedom Struggle

(Interviewer): Dr. King, have you heard anything from Vice President Nixon or any of his supporters?

(King): No I haven’t. I’ve been confined for the last eight days and I haven’t talked with anybody actually from Washington or from the campaign.5

(Interviewer): Do you know whether any efforts were made on behalf of the Republican headquarters to help you?

(King): No I don’t. I haven’t heard of any efforts being made and I don’t know of any personally.

(Interviewer): Do you know of any efforts made on behalf of the Kennedy group?

(King): Well, I understand that the Kennedy group did make definite contacts and did a great deal to make my release possible. I don’t know all of the details of this just coming out of (prison?)

(Interviewer): (words inaudible) urge you to vote for Kennedy?

(King): Well, I would not like to make a public statement concerning the person for whom I will vote because I follow a non-partisan course and heading a non-partisan organization, namely the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (recording interrupted) (. . .)

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http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documentsentry/interview_after_release_from_georgia_state_prison_at_reidsville

IMFO, Dick wasn't the worst. His advisers were.