Tom Johnson

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"I had some incredible experiences. I handed him (LBJ) a note that said that Dr. Martin Luther King had been shot in Memphis, sitting in the room with him was the former governor of Georgia, Carl Sanders and the then chairman of Coca Cola, Mr. Robert Woodruff. Mr. Woodruff went over to a phone.... and he called Ivan Allen here in Atlanta and he said," Ivan, do whatever it takes today to keep Atlanta from burning."

Close aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson, journalist and media executive

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