FBI wiretaps picked up Stanley Levison’s pragmatic assessment of infighting between and within civil rights groups. He observed that King’s peers were delighted to see him “sticking his neck out” on Vietnam. “Roy [Wilkins] and Whitney [Young] have snuggled up to Johnson,” he told Clarence Jones. “Martin is now in a different relationship to the White House than he used to be. They are on the inside, and I think they love it.”
