^ But King would more likely work with somebody who openly epoused his same views. Bobby Kennedy is the best bet for this, Democrat or not. King probably knows that Kennedy got himself in crap for a 1966 trip to South Africa where he more than once called out apartheid and said:
"At the University of Natal in Durban, I was told the church to which most of the white population belongs teaches apartheid as a moral necessity. A questioner declared that few churches allow black Africans to pray with the white because the Bible says that is the way it should be, because God created Negroes to serve. 'But suppose God is black', I replied. 'What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?' There was no answer. Only silence."
Suppose Bobby Kennedy isn't killed. His chances of taking the 1968 Democratic Nomination are very good, especially if Kennedy gets Martin Luther King as his VP. He'd lock to youth vote so tight that nobody else could get at it, and it would leave him free to punch it out with Nixon.