he got to be friends with martin luther king when barr and with the king was a graduate student at the. law he asked dr. king, what you come and speak? dr. king feeling friendship from reverent dr. set, yes, i will. in february 1963, just a few months before the march on washington speech, i have a dream speech, dr. king spoke, and i went out and sat in a library anti room with a whole bunch of other students and listened to a speech and what she kind of pre-figured i have a dream speech. there was a student who illegally taped it and kept the tape for years and years. it was just discovered a few years ago, and it s a speech that is quite remarkable. it talks about america being a dream, and how we realized the dream of america. i got to listen to these inspirational words that also challenged us and said, you
see a speaker one day, who is reverent martin luther king junior, in your high school, you get to hear him, what is that like? first of all, it was like i get treated susie as a girl with intellectual aspirations for the first time. really, really. but we were invited to go to the school for speech that more in the king would give, and i think he was at the school because they had at the brown school was a man named jon proctor, who was a devoted advocate of civil rights way back in the 1950s before white northerners paid much attention to these matters. he got to be friends with martin luther king when he was a graduate student at the. law he asked dr. king, what you come and speak? dr. king feeling friendship from reverent dr. set, yes, i will. in february 1963, just a few months before the march on washington speech, i have a dream speech, dr. king spoke, and i went out and sat in a library anti room with a whole
bolderly teenage king of iraq, he assumed his position as the rural of his country. it didn t last. he was only 23 years old when a coup was launched against him in july 1958. in that coup, he was murdered along with much of his family. july 1958. the monarchy was deposed. nationalists took over, they overthrew the iraqi monarchy. that didn t last either. act favors after they killed the king and the military took over, the military was overthrown as well or at least the faction of them that had been in charge. by then it was 1963, february 1963. disproportionate group that took over iraq then and ruled it for 40 years thereafter, that was the bath party. we think of saddam hussein is the patternification of the bath
the monarchy was deposed. nationalists took over. they overthrew the iraqi monarchy. that didn t last, either. about five years after they killed the king and the military took over, the military was overthrown, as well, or at least the faction of them that had been in charge. by then it was 1963, february 1963 and the group that took over iraq then and ruled it for 40 years thereafter, that was the bath party. we think of saddam hussein as the personification of the bath party. he, in fact, took over iraq in 1979. he ruled iraq in the name of the party for more than two decades but the party took over iraq all the way back in 1963 which was basically the exact same time that the party took over next door in syria. the party mounted the coup in baghdad on the 8th of february
council in february 1963, he said the same as president kennedy. different than american president. he defend his country, i defend my country. we have one in common. we want to preserve the peace. and we can work together. was very much the case, though, to both of you, ambassador, in those first meetings we were watching in vienna that khruschev nikita khruschev really took the measure of jack kennedy when he was first elected. and thought that he could really run circles around him. he took the measure of a young president who had had the failure of the bay of pigs and was not otherwise tested. and the major issue was what the future of berlin was going to be. when the soviets helped east germans build the wall in berlin, that i think we do