i'd also like to mention a sermon that vernon jordan did on we have been here before and have if you have not published it, it may not make a book but it's one of the most inspirational things that i have heard and it was delivered at howe university at rankin chapel. for me as a double graduate and asalso an african-american woman will understand his sermon on we have been here before. it really inspired me and lifted my spirits and i think we need more of that to go elsewhere and even into schools. we mention about writing and i would like to know if you wanted to do, publish something or do a memoir. can you walk us through, what do we do? there are many authors here and people who are already published but many of us here are not. we've never publish anything. we just buy and read what you promote and what other people publish. >> you just talk about getting started with writing. >> i don't have the statue of most people don't of a vernon jordan so how do we get to even get through the door or anybody's door for that matter. >> first you find an agent but you also write a book pr

vernon jordan, i'm going to start with you. let's start with the assassination itself.calculation, you were 32 years old at the timof his death, and you were heavily involved in the civil rights movement working with the voter education projects. you were not in memphis when he died, but how did the news of his death affect you and the people around you? >> i was on my way that evening to speak at the naacp memrship campaign. i was a keynote speaker. when was tying my tie to get ready to go, the news came on m thrtin had been shot in ofmphis. insteaoing directly to the ywca, i went to my office and got a poem by clae mckay of baltimore which said if we must die, let it not be like hogs. i put it in my pocket and went to the dinner and, at te dinner, it was announced that martin was dad. i read that poem, and we all went hom>>e. oodruff: it's just an impossible thing for all of us to remember. i was incollege at the time, a senior in college, and i remember it was as if time had stopped. connie schultz, you were a young girl. >> i was. >> woodruff: lving in oho. mm-hmm.

what vernon jordan was remembering there when he said we all knew he was going to be great, they were together in atlanta. they were in the same neighborhood growing up. think back to those days. >> well, we might have thought we were young people but this man, this preacher, was barely older than we were. barely olde we were. we were college students when he was assassinated, and yet his extraordinary leadership, his grav us to made him seem an elder. an elder in the civil rights movement, but as we look back on his life, his vision of social justice was so broad that even after he led in accomplishing the civil rights act, his vision stretched to poverty, to the vietnam war early when most people thought it was all right. his vision was so broad that in a real sense, we are simply remembering today the highlight of it. we're not remembering his entire vision and some of the sadness that he was not able to accomplish that whole vision. >> in fact, as congresswoman norton just alluded to this those years of '67, he was so controversial. he was going up against lyndon johnson and the v

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vernon jordan, the prom nont washington wall street lawyer grew up in the same neighborhood. >> thereabout him that made us know that he was headed to great places. >> after college, king joined his father at the baptist church as a minister. >> when i was a young reporter in atlanta i came here to hear dr. king preach one sunday morning and as he began to soar, his father leaned forward and said, make it plain, son. make it plain. >> the reverend is king's current successor in the pulpit here. >> his model was to redeem the soul of america. >> when king left atlanta for his own church in alabama, he was the right man in the right place at the right time. rosa parks refused to give up her bus seat so a white man and a revolution began. king was just 26 years old, but quickly became the dynamic leader of the city bus boycott. >> when the u.s. supreme court ruled the montgomery segregation was illegal king became a national figure before he was 30. he formed a student nonviolent coordinating committee and took his crusade across the south. king and his followers stayed true to nonviolen

vernon tonight, george washington's old home, a rare private dinner there. then there's a lavish state dinner at the white house tomorrow. abc's jordan phelps with more. >> reporter: the white-knuckle handshake at their first meeting last year. an early sign of the diplomatic bromance in the making. french president emmanuel macron pulling out all the stops for president trump's visit to paris for bastille day last summer. dinner in the eiffel tower. and that unforgettable military parade. >> it's one of the greatest parades i've ever seen. it was two hours on the button. and it was military might. and i think a tremendous thing for france and to the spirit of france. >> reporter: the visit made such an impression on the president that he returned home with orders for the pentagon to look into organizing a similar parade in the u.s. set for later this year. now trump will fete the french leader in trump style. the trumps had previously hosted lavish affairs for world leaders at their mar-a-lago club, but the state visit for macron is their first big bash at the white house. there will be honor guards, marching bands, and a decked-out