ILIAD AFTER ILIAD

You don’t see Wills genuflect all that often, except perhaps to St. Augustine or Abe. But I spent the vacation pouring through At Canaan’s Edge by Taylor Branch, and it’s to drool for. There’s an intriguing unanswered question left dangling at the end: LBJ suddenly announces his withdrawal from the Democratic race, and two days later MLK is dead. What was King’s response to this political powderkeg? RFK sat with his nemesis at the White House stuttering for words to convey his gratitude, the selflessness of the act… what kind of phone calls went down in those two days between political operatives, EJH, Nixon, Humphrey, and especially the Viet Cong…?