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:: 1.18.2010 ::

:: Obama: King's work is 'living history' ::
USA Today
President Obama sought to transmit Martin Luther King's message across generations today, speaking with a group of senior citizens and their grandchildren at the White House.
The older people discussed their own actions during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, including encounters with King himself, Obama said. It was a good way to remind the other guests that young people played a major role in "one of the great moments in United States history."
The younger people asked many question as they realized how King's work is "living history," Obama said after the meeting in the Roosevelt Room, just steps from the Oval Office itself.
The group also heard from author Taylor Branch, whose three-volume history of the King years is the standard work.
Obama made special note of two guests.
"Mr. Joseph Harvey is 105, and Ms. Mabel Harvey here is the spry young one at 102," Obama said. "And Ms. Harvey just now was whispering in my ear, as you guys were walking in, that this must be the Lord's doing, because we've come a mighty long way."
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