The official name of today’s day off for the federal bureaucracy is “Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.” His academic title, “Dr.,” is not included. Did the sponsors of the legislation know something we didn’t know? The holiday was proclaimed by Congress in 1983, after raucous debate (which I attended as a member of the Senate staff). Only eight years later was it publicly revealed that, as a graduate student, Mr. King (at the time) had plagiarized about a third to a half of his doctoral dissertation, lifting lengthy passages verbatim from the work of one Jack Boozer, a … Continue reading  Some Background On Today’s Federal Holiday