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he was attracted to women. We would laugh about things like that. We would talk about the fact that his hotel rooms were being bugged.

He was fully aware of that?

Oh sure. Everybody was aware of that. In fact sometimes we just made fun of it.

Was he or you aware that some of the contents of those buggings were leaked to the press--and the broadcasters?

Sure, and the press would leak it to him. [laugher]

Did you ever have the sense that he sensed he might be assassinated?

Yes. In fact his last sermon before his assassination was practically that. In my introduction to him at the American Psychological Association meeting in Washington a number of years before, a number of my colleagues in the Association were disturbed at my introduction because it sort of indicated that you couldn't be a Martin Luther King without taking into account the possibility of assassination. I did say that, throughout history--at least Western--individuals who made attempts to deal with problems of justice and injustice by dealing with the conscience, the morality and the ethics of society almost invariably didn't get medals (although he did get a Nobel Prize), but would have to run the risk