The Day Jack Kemp Helped Get MLK His Holiday -- Politics Daily

The Day Jack Kemp Helped Get MLK His Holiday -- Politics Daily: "And so, on that August day, Jack Kemp strode to the lectern in the well of the House and made a blunt and fiery statement. 'I have changed my position on this vote,' he told his colleagues and the world, 'because I really think that the American Revolution will not be complete until we commemorate the civil rights revolution and guarantee those basic declaration of human rights for all Americans and remove those barriers that stand in the way of people being what they were meant to be.'"