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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131101:04:38:00

About how this situation could be resolved. we now have the white house tapes from that era. so we have the recording of president johnson even after that three-hour meeting, getting on the phone with george wallace and telling him that if local police were going to be beating people and the state police were going to be beating people, then governor wallace ought to call up the national guard in his state to let the guardsmen protect the marchers. you call up your own guard into the service of the state and i would ask our best people to cooperate. but, of course, governor segregation forever would not do that. he would not call up the national guard to protect the marchers in his state. and so president johnson did. and when they did finally complete that march, not hundreds strong, but now thousands strong, and martin luther king jr. gave his how long, not long speech on the steps of the state capitol in montgomery, those marchers were protected by the national guard, by ord ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131101:08:38:00

To cooperate. but, of course, governor segregation forever would not do that. he would not call up the national guard to protect the marchers in his state. and so president johnson did. and when they did finally complete that march, not hundreds strong, but now thousands strong, and martin luther king jr. gave his how long, not long speech on the steps of the state capitol in montgomery, those marchers were protected by the national guard, by order of the president of the united states. yes, there were alabama national guardsmen there, but the national part of that is important. they were there on the president s orders. in every state, the governor is technically the commander in chief of his or her state s national guard. but the guard is part of the united states military. and so, yeah, governor wallace did have authority over the guard in his state, but not more authority than federal law and the u.s. department of defense ....

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