“That is not going to have the slightest effect on what the government is doing in this field or any other,” Kennedy snapped. “The fact that they stay in jail is not going to have the slightest effect on me.” “Perhaps it would help if students came down here by the hundreds—by the hundreds of thousands,” said King. “The country belongs to you as much as to me,” said Kennedy. “You can determine what’s best just as well as I can, but don’t make statements that sound like a threat. That’s not the way to deal with us.”
