The President's Speech After Charlottesville...
In 1968, America was in a moment of terrible disunity. In April, Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated by a racist at a motel in Tennessee, leaving a chasm in the heart of the civil rights movement and the march toward equality. And while this terrible act of racial hatred was still vivid in the minds of America, Robert Kennedy was killed in June, deepening the fractures in our civic body and pulling the bowstring on our patience close to snapping.
