A recently erected memorial to civil rights activist Martin Luther King in Washington needs to be touched up, due to a mistake in the inscription, US media reported.
US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar ordered that an ambiguous inscription - a heavily abbreviated quote from a speech by King - be reworded, the Washington Post newspaper reported on Saturday.
The wording had prompted criticism when the nine-metre-high granite monument was unveiled by US President Barack Obama in October.
"I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness," reads the current quote on the monument.
However, King's original words were spoken in the conditional tense: "If you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness."