<P> The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which viewed King and his allies for racial justice as subversive, also noticed the speech . This provoked the organization to expand their COINTELPRO operation against the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and to target King specifically as a major enemy of the United States . Two days after King delivered "I Have a Dream", Agent William C. Sullivan, the head of COINTELPRO, wrote a memo about King's growing influence: </P> <P> In the light of King's powerful demagogic speech yesterday he stands head and shoulders above all other Negro leaders put together when it comes to influencing great masses of Negroes . We must mark him now, if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation from the standpoint of communism, the Negro and national security . </P> <P> The speech was a success for the Kennedy administration and for the liberal civil rights coalition that had planned it . It was considered a "triumph of managed protest", and not one arrest relating to the demonstration occurred . Kennedy had watched King's speech on television and been very impressed . Afterwards, March leaders accepted an invitation to the White House to meet with President Kennedy . Kennedy felt the March bolstered the chances for his civil rights bill . </P> <P> Meanwhile, some of the more radical Black leaders who were present condemned the speech (along with the rest of the march) as too compromising . Malcolm X later wrote in his autobiography: "Who ever heard of angry revolutionaries swinging their bare feet together with their oppressor in lily pad pools, with gospels and guitars and' I have a dream' speeches?" </P>

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