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WATCH: President, vice president pay respects to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife

It’s happened at 2:40 p.m.

Long-stemmed roses rest at the crypts of civil rights leader the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and his wife Coretta Scott King, in Atlanta on Monday Jan. 16, 2012. King would have been 83 years old on his actual birthday, Jan. 15. (AP Photo/David Tulis) (AP)

While in Atlanta, the president and vice president paid their respects at a wreath-laying at the crypt of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mrs. Coretta Scott King.