Levison did not say very much during the meeting, nor did King. To the Kennedy people, in fact, the most noticeable aspect of King’s private behavior was his quietness. He did not preach, bargain, or strike postures. When called upon for response, he heartily endorsed all the Administration’s plans in the field of voting rights, promised to step up the SCLC’s registration work in tandem with the lawsuits, and indicated his full understanding of the need to conceal the Administration’s facilitating role in the registration work itself.
