Nine Days by Paul Kendrick

Author:Paul Kendrick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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That same day, John Calhoun finally heard back from the Nixon campaign. A Republican staffer relayed a simple, chilling message from Nixon: “He said he would lose some black votes, but he’d gain white votes, so he was going to sit it out, and he wouldn’t say anything.”

Nixon would later say he never got any warning about how the King situation could affect his standing with Black voters, but Calhoun remembered being told, “The Vice President got your message … yes, he understands.”

Nonetheless, Calhoun would keep asking for funds to make the case for Nixon to Black voters. Eventually, he secured three hundred dollars to print campaign literature in Atlanta, and he felt confident that he could reach the Black Republicans he knew best. But he would not have the kind of story that Louis Martin could tell his voters—not at all.

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