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ET: And JFK, yeah, yeah, it was, sent to a not nice penitentiary in Georgia, and the Kennedys were smart enough and savvy enough to call Mrs. King and say we’re for you, we want to help you. And Bobby Kennedy, who liked to play behind the scenes, managed to get King sprung from jail. Meanwhile, Nixon, who had been the Kings’ true friend, is trying to do it officially through official channels through the Justice Department. And they weren’t doing it. Eisenhower would not do it. And so all of a sudden, it looks like the Kennedys are King’s friends, and not Nixon. And there was a lot of, the word went out to black ministers along with some walking around money, and sure enough, the black vote in November of 1960 went for Kennedy, not Nixon. That probably was the difference. People think of the debates. Actually, it was probably the black vote.
But the horses didn’t want it—they swerved apart; the earth didn’t want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temples, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they issued from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn’t want, they said in their hundred voices, “No, not yet,” and the sky said, “No, not there.” —E.M.
