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dr. martin luther king junior. john and i differed on everything, except that i knew he was a great man. and we recognized the importance of our christian faith to both of us. i ll never forget when i was leading the house republican conference, john lewis called my office and asked if karen and i would cool lead the annual civil rights pilgrimage to walk across the edmund pettus bridge with him, the very bridge were years and years earlier, he had been beaten with an inch of his life by his suffering and a struggle, he advanced a more perfect union in america. that s one of the great privileges of my life that karen and i, and our three children, walked across that bridge with john lewis. and i m more and it is passing, his sense of personal loss, when he left us. but john and i, again, never

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