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Flip Schulke  King for a Day  Every schoolchild knows about
Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous dream--but that was only one
part of his revolutionary message  By Stephen Kessler   Yielding
to public and congressional pressure in the mid-'80s, President
Reagan--whose famously symbolic visit to the Nazi cemetery at
Bitburg, Germany, endeared him to racists everywhere--ironically
became the reluctant advocate of our official celebration of Dr.
King and his progressive legacy. This curious twist of history
testified to the moral power of King's humanistic vision of
tolerance and equality, however far humanity has yet to travel
to reach those goals.  King's eventual opposition to the Vietnam
War turned Lyndon Johnson and other liberals against him--a
black man campaigning for integration was one thing, but at the
time it seemed rather uppity for the Nobel Peace Prize recipient
to be lecturing the