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Who are our leaders today?  Do we recognize them?  Who represents the poor, the hungry, the disenfranchised in America today?

We celebrate the approximate birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on a long weekend in January.  It would be more appropriate I think to mark April 4 as our day of remembrance.  It was on that day in 1968 that he was assassinated.  Two months later in June 1968 Bobby Kennedy was assassinated.  Then in November, a mere seven months after the King assassination, to our great shame, Richard M. Nixon - a man who confidently asserted that he was not a crook - was elected president of the United States of America, and Spiro Agnew was his his Vice President.  (Agnew, you will recall,  resigned
after pleading  no contest to a criminal

charge of tax evasion and was later barred from practicing law in the State of Maryland.  Agnew asserted this was smokescreen politics trying to draw attention away from Nixon’s misdeeds).

Nixon governed for almost six years before he was forced to resign in disgrace.

How have things changed?