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He's gone.
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Lyndon.
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Lyndon.
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Wake up, honey.
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We're about to land
in Washington.
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Okay.
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Did you hear
from Bobby?
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Man: He'll be waiting
on the tarmac.
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There will be
reporters there, too.
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You'll be expected to make
a statement, something short.
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- Thank you.
- I wanna reach out to the leadership
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as soon as we hit
the ground.
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I wanna talk to each
and every one of them.
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You call Rose Kennedy?
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I did.
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My Lord, what that woman
has been through.
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Your lipstick.
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- What?
- Fix your lipstick.
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Oh.
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How did John Connally's
surgery go?
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Doctor said optimistic.
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Ah.
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Thank God for that.
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Jackie?
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She won't change
her clothes.
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Says she wants them to see
what they have done to Jack.
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You see the way
she stared at me
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before I took the oath?
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- She's upset, honey.
- We're all upset, Bird!
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We're all upset.
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Walter,
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a televised address
to both houses of Congress...
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as soon
as it seems decent.
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Where were you just now,
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Mr. President?
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Accidental President.
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That's what they'll say.
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Well,
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we'll have to change that
next November.
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Johnson:
I keep having this dream.
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I'm back in the Hill Country
in the old days,
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hiding down
in the root cellar
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while a Comanche
war party
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searches through the house
just over my head
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hunting for me.
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It's so dark down there,
like a grave.
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Man: The President of the United States!
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Johnson:
For this terrible moment,
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I wonder
if I'm dead already...
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or buried alive.
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Mr. President.
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Johnson: I pissed myself
like an idiot child
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crouching in the dirt,
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knowing it's only
a matter of time now
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before they find
the trapdoor,
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discover me...
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haul me screaming
up into the light...
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where their knives gleam.
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All I have
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I would have
given gladly
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not to be
standing here today.
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The greatest leader
of our time
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has been struck down
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by the foulest deed
of our time.
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John F. Kennedy
told his countrymen
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that our national work
would not be finished
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in the life
of this administration...
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nor even perhaps
in our own lifetime.
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"But," he said,
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"let us begin."
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Today,
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I'd say to all
my fellow Americans,
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"Let us continue."
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We have talked
long enough
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in this country
about civil rights.
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We have talked
for 100 years or more.
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It is time now to write the
next chapter in the books of law.
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I urge you to enact
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President Kennedy's
civil rights bill into law
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so that we can eliminate
from this nation
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every trace
of discrimination
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that is based upon race
or color.
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Man:
That's right!
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You hear what that Negro comedian
Dick Gregory said about me?
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"When Lyndon Johnson
finished his speech,
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20 million Negroes
unpacked."
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That was a fine speech,
Mr. President.
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Dear to my heart, but I know some people
are wondering, "Did he really mean it?"
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Johnson: Well, you could tell
that liberal crowd of yours
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that I'm gonna
out-Lincoln Lincoln.
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But you need
to get behind me
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because you know Dick
Russell and the Dixiecrats
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are gonna fight me
tooth and nail
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on this civil rights
stuff.
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Now, not too tight
in the bunghole, Manny.
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And give me some extra room
in my pockets there
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for my stuff-
my keys and my knife-
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and leave me some slack
for my nut sack.
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Johnson: Walter!
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Walter, you let me know the
minute Dick Russell gets here
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and get me Katharine Graham
from the "Post," will you?
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But timing is critical here,
Hubert, you understand me?
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With the election
only 11 months away...
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If the Republicans are foolish
enough to nominate Barry Goldwater,
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you'll beat him with both
hands tied behind your back.
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Well, Goldwater is tougher
than you think.
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But first, I gotta win
the Democratic nomination.
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Holy crap.
What happened here?
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You tell Lady Bird about this
and she'll starve me for a month.
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- Senator Russell.
- Oh, yep, yep.
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Give me one minute.
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George Wallace
is a nobody.
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Well, it wasn't Wallace
I'm thinking of.
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You don't have
to worry about Bobby.
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Bobby Kennedy would just soon
cut my throat as smile at me.
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You know
how strongly I feel
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about this
civil rights bill.
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If there's anything
I can do-
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Yeah, yeah, I'll keep that
in mind, Hubert.
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Mr. President.
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- Senator Russell.
- Johnson: Ah.
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Uncle Dick.
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Well, well, well.
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- Mr. President.
- Aw, Lyndon, Lyndon, please.
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No, sir.
No, not anymore.
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Wouldn't be
respectful.
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Well, in public, then,
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but nothing else
changes between us.
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Now, hell, I owe
everything I have
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to your good wisdom
and generosity,
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and don't you think for a
second I'll ever forget it.
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Well, you did throw me for
a bit of a loop last night.
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A civil rights bill with
your election coming up-
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for a hundred years, the Democratic
Party's had a lock on the South.
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It'd be a foolish thing
to throw that away.
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Oh, hell, Dick,
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you know I got
to throw Humphrey
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and the rest
of those liberals
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a little bit of red meat
now and again.
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- Yes, but- - Sir, Dr. Martin
Luther King is on three.
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Well, he can wait.
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So last night was just, uh,
election year politics or not?
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Absolutely.
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But I need you to hold the
South for me, Uncle Dick.
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Party unity, it is gonna be critical.
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Well, we can
talk more about it
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when Lady Bird and I have you over
for dinner on Thursday, as usual.
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Oh, there's no need
for that now.
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Oh.
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Our Thursday dinners
are sacred.
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- Well...
- Hey, why don't you bring your swimsuit
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and you could paddle
your milk-white ass
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around the White House pool
before dinner, huh?
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Congratulations,
Mr. President.
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Thank you, Senator.
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What the hell
was she thinking?
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Won't happen again, sir.
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J. Edgar Hoover on four.
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I mean no disrespect, but take
down that stuff over there.
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- Edgar.
- Mr. President.
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The FBI is here to assist
in any way we can.
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Johnson:
Oh, hell, Edgar,
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you're more than
the head of the Bureau.
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You're my brother.
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Now, if the Bureau needs anything
from me, you just let me know.
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Well, in light of your
announcement last night,
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I think we should have a
discussion regarding Dr. King.
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I recently acquired certain
information which is deeply troubling.
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Uh, Edgar- Edgar,
I hate to interrupt,
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- but they're pulling me six ways from Sunday.
- Staff: Mr. President!
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I'm interested in this and
we'll talk soon, I promise.
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Hoover:
If I can just-
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Did King screw
his sister or something?
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That man's obsessed.
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All right, Manny, let's
just get this over with.
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What?
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What is it?
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Katharine Graham of the
"Washington Post" is on two.
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- What?
- And Dr. King is still on three.
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Look, I don't need to be
reminded of what I already know.
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God damn it,
you know, you're fired.
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Go on, get the hell out of here.
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Walter, get me another secretary
who knows what she's doing.
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And one with a little meat on her bones,
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for Christ's sake.
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Not another one of these
scrawny, old Washington biddies.
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Oh, God damn it, Manny.
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Don't you have anything that doesn't
make me look like a dago undertaker?
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I wanna thank you,
Dr. King,
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for your public
expression of support.
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We were all very heartened by your
speech last night, Mr. President.
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Well, it ain't
gonna be easy.
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- It's a difficult time.
- Yes, it is.
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But as you suggested,
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the greatest tribute
we can pay to President Kennedy
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is to enact
his civil rights bill,
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especially voting rights.
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Yeah, well, you're preaching
to the choir there, Reverend.
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Voting rights is the meat
of the coconut,
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and we're gonna pass
that bill as is
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without changing a word.
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But, boy, I'm gonna
have to have your help.
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Well, you know
you have it, sir.
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Well, thank you, Martin.
Thank you.
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And listen, why don't you call
next time you're up here
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and any suggestions
you have,
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- bring them in.
- Well, actually-
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Just blowing smoke
up my ass.
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He called for a civil rights
bill in front of Congress, Martin.
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King: Kennedy made
promises, too, Stanley.
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- He just never delivered.
- He's no George Wallace.
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You sure? So deep in
Russell's back pocket,
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- you'd think
he was humping him.
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He passed the '57
Civil Rights Act.
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After he
gutted it first.
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That bill was like soup
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made from the bones
of an emaciated chicken.
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Levison: Martin, listen,
he's a Southern politician.
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He's spent his entire life
trying to be president.
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But he's there now.
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For the first time,
he can do whatever he wants.
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That's the question,
isn't it?
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What does Lyndon Johnson
really want?
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Well, whatever it is,
11 months from now,
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he has to run
for reelection.
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Like Kennedy, he damn sure is
gonna need the Negro vote to win.
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Amen.
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L.B.J. wants our support.
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Okay.
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But this president is gonna have
to deliver a real civil rights bill.
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And we're gonna hold his feet
to the fire until he does.
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- Levison: Damn right.
- Abernathy: That's right.
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...11 months from now,
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he has to run
for reelection.
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Like Kennedy, he damn sure is
gonna need the Negro vote to win.
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Abernathy:
Amen.
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Hoover:
Stanley Levison.
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Why is this so-called
"Reverend" Martin Luther King
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taking advice from a
well-known Communist agitator?
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That's a very good
question, sir.
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Let's see who else
King is meeting.
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I want all his travel
covered from now on.
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- Get started.
- Yes, sir.
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I will leave the goddamn
Democratic Party
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before I turn it over
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to a bunch
of Congolese savages.
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Now, hold on
a second, Strom.
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This bill is just
the thin edge of the wedge.
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You saw what King and his
bunch did in Birmingham.
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Why, integrated buses
are just the beginning.
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Now we gotta shop with them,
eat with them, work with them.
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We have been oppressed and
degraded by black, slimy,
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- unbearably stinking niggers.
- That's enough of that kind of talk.
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That's exactly
what they wanna hear
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so they can dismiss us all
as a bunch of redneck goons.
256
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Thank you, Joles.
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We have to be very careful
how we handle this.
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The issue
is not about race.
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It's about the gravest
possible assault
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on the United States
Constitution,
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which we are fighting
to defend.
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The president is actively
gathering signatures
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for a discharge petition
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to get the bill out of
my committee in the House.
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And what do you expect
him to do, Judge?
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He's got to at least look
lively on civil rights.
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When the time comes,
he's gonna do the right thing.
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- He'll gut the bill?
- Yes. He knows who his friends are.
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But if he gets the bill
out of my committee?
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It still has to go
through the House,
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then out
of Jim's committee
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before it even gets
to the Senate floor.
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And none of this can get
in the way of party unity.
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In this election, we can
have a lock on the Senate
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and a lock on the House and we can
elect a Southern Democrat president.
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It's about time the South
rejoined the rest of the country.
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My friends,
if we do our part,
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Lyndon is gonna know who
to thank on November 4th.
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And don't you worry
about the president.
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I know how to handle him.
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Well, the mainstream
of American politics
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has carried you and me down to
the road to statism and socialism
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and the destruction of the
Constitution of the United States.
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And I am, for one,
am already out
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of the mainstream
of American politics.
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Russell: He sure gets people stirred up,
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even in Milwaukee.
288
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Johnson: When we get to Atlantic City,
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I will be
the Democratic nominee.
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But how damaged
will you be?
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Be plenty strong enough
for Goldwater in November.
292
00:18:38,918 --> 00:18:40,985
What if Bobby
smells blood
293
00:18:41,087 --> 00:18:43,554
and decides to run
at the last minute?
294
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That little shit doesn't have
his brother's balls.
295
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Still has
his daddy's money.
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You might win
the nomination.
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- But if the party splits...
- Oh, come on now, Dick.
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All Wallace has
to beat you with
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is this damn
civil rights bill
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and I don't,
for the life of me,
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00:19:04,811 --> 00:19:07,044
understand why you are
giving him this issue.
302
00:19:07,147 --> 00:19:09,981
At this point, I'm more
worried about the liberals
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00:19:10,083 --> 00:19:12,283
than I am about
the Dixiecrats.
304
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We got to give them
something this time, Dick.
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00:19:14,921 --> 00:19:18,523
- You know that.
- You got to look like you're giving them something.
306
00:19:18,625 --> 00:19:20,491
All I'm saying is
don't work so hard
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to get this bill
out of the House.
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I do what I can.
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00:19:24,697 --> 00:19:26,264
Lady Bird:
Now, Lyndon,
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you're gonna talk
poor Uncle Dick to death
311
00:19:28,401 --> 00:19:30,301
and here Zephyr's made
his favorite dinner
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00:19:30,403 --> 00:19:32,937
- and it's getting cold.
- Saved by the belle.
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Bird, you look
beautiful as always.
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Oh, and you are
a terrible liar as always.
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Politician's curse.
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00:19:39,579 --> 00:19:43,681
Russell: So, do you like
being the First Lady?
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Lady Bird: Well, it's
been an adjustment.
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- Russell: I can imagine.
- But I am enjoying it.
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"Any jackass
can kick a barn down,
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but it takes a carpenter
to build one."
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00:20:00,967 --> 00:20:02,867
You remember
who told me that?
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00:20:02,969 --> 00:20:04,835
Sam Rayburn?
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00:20:04,938 --> 00:20:08,439
Sam Rayburn,
Speaker of the House.
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00:20:08,541 --> 00:20:11,609
Oh, I could've
kissed his bald head.
325
00:20:11,711 --> 00:20:14,845
Thank you.
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00:20:14,948 --> 00:20:17,415
God knows I've been
kissing his ass
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00:20:17,517 --> 00:20:20,084
since the day I moved
to Washington,
328
00:20:20,186 --> 00:20:22,820
trying to get him
to take notice of me.
329
00:20:22,922 --> 00:20:25,756
You know what
Mr. Sam wanted?
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00:20:25,858 --> 00:20:28,693
- His greatest regret?
- No, sir.
331
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A towheaded boy
to take fishing.
332
00:20:32,999 --> 00:20:37,301
Well, I heard that and I did
my damnedest to be that boy.
333
00:20:38,304 --> 00:20:40,104
Suck-up? Yeah.
334
00:20:40,206 --> 00:20:41,639
Brown-noser? Sure.
335
00:20:41,741 --> 00:20:44,141
Kiss-ass? You bet.
I heard them all.
336
00:20:44,244 --> 00:20:47,278
Fuck you!
337
00:20:47,380 --> 00:20:50,147
Everybody
wants power, Walter.
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Everybody.
339
00:20:52,285 --> 00:20:54,819
And if they say
they don't, they're lying.
340
00:20:54,921 --> 00:20:56,187
Yes, sir.
341
00:20:56,289 --> 00:20:59,090
But everybody thinks
it ought to be given out,
342
00:20:59,192 --> 00:21:02,727
free of charge
like Mardi Gras beads.
343
00:21:03,763 --> 00:21:05,229
Especially to them
because, of course,
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00:21:05,331 --> 00:21:08,065
they're gonna
do good with it.
345
00:21:09,769 --> 00:21:11,569
Nothing comes free.
346
00:21:12,905 --> 00:21:14,205
Nothing.
347
00:21:15,708 --> 00:21:17,908
Not even good.
348
00:21:21,147 --> 00:21:23,881
Especially not good.
349
00:21:26,152 --> 00:21:29,453
When the carpenter
picks up his saw,
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if wood could talk...
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00:21:33,893 --> 00:21:36,527
it would scream.
352
00:21:36,629 --> 00:21:40,064
Humphrey: You cannot cut voting rights
353
00:21:40,166 --> 00:21:41,832
out of the civil
rights bill.
354
00:21:41,934 --> 00:21:45,636
Well, you can't pass the civil
rights bill with it, not this year.
355
00:21:45,738 --> 00:21:49,340
You told Dr. King you wanted this
bill passed without one word changed.
356
00:21:49,442 --> 00:21:52,310
You don't go and sell a
horse by talking about it
357
00:21:52,412 --> 00:21:54,578
being blind in one eye
and got the heaves.
358
00:21:54,681 --> 00:21:58,215
- They're gonna think you're just gutting the bill, sir.
- Bullshit!
359
00:21:58,318 --> 00:22:00,184
It's still
a damn good bill.
360
00:22:00,286 --> 00:22:03,921
Public housing, access,
school desegregation.
361
00:22:04,023 --> 00:22:06,324
- Don't you tell me that ain't nothing, God damn it!
- The liberal wing of the party
362
00:22:06,426 --> 00:22:09,093
- will think you've betrayed them.
- Well, those are your people.
363
00:22:09,195 --> 00:22:11,128
- It's your job to bring them around.
- My job?!
364
00:22:11,230 --> 00:22:14,332
Hell, yes. You're the great
white hope of liberals everywhere.
365
00:22:14,434 --> 00:22:16,267
Well, if I'm anything
like what you say,
366
00:22:16,369 --> 00:22:18,636
it's because people know
I stand by my principles.
367
00:22:18,738 --> 00:22:20,204
Principles?
Shit.
368
00:22:20,306 --> 00:22:24,241
This ain't about principles,
it's about votes!
369
00:22:24,344 --> 00:22:26,677
You know, that's the problem
with you goddamn liberals-
370
00:22:26,779 --> 00:22:28,713
you don't know
how to fight.
371
00:22:28,815 --> 00:22:31,515
- Mr. President- - You say you're
the leader of the liberal wing
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00:22:31,617 --> 00:22:33,050
of the Democratic Party?
373
00:22:33,152 --> 00:22:35,419
- Then show me some goddamn leadership!
- Look out!
374
00:22:35,521 --> 00:22:37,221
- I got no brakes!
- Look out!
375
00:22:37,323 --> 00:22:39,056
- No brakes! Hold on!
- Oh, jeez!
376
00:22:39,158 --> 00:22:41,125
Hold on!
377
00:22:43,296 --> 00:22:44,995
Humphrey: What in-
378
00:22:45,098 --> 00:22:47,765
My- what?
379
00:22:47,867 --> 00:22:50,334
I thought
I was a goner.
380
00:22:50,436 --> 00:22:52,203
- This is watertight.
- Well, it's an amphibious car.
381
00:22:52,305 --> 00:22:55,940
- It's a car and a boat.
- I have never seen such a thing.
382
00:22:57,577 --> 00:22:59,810
I wish I had a photograph of your face.
383
00:22:59,912 --> 00:23:01,946
- Whew!
- Humphrey: I've never.
384
00:23:02,048 --> 00:23:04,081
Oh.
385
00:23:04,183 --> 00:23:08,786
Do you wanna know what the ugliest
sound in the world is, Hubert?
386
00:23:08,888 --> 00:23:12,323
It's the tick-tick-tick
of a clock.
387
00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:18,329
All the men in my family die young.
388
00:23:18,431 --> 00:23:21,365
I nearly died of that
heart attack 10 years ago.
389
00:23:22,769 --> 00:23:25,336
- A terrible time.
- Yeah.
390
00:23:25,438 --> 00:23:27,972
And I ain't got
much time left.
391
00:23:29,475 --> 00:23:33,577
You and me, we got till
the convention in August,
392
00:23:33,679 --> 00:23:36,180
while the people are still
grieving Kennedy's death,
393
00:23:36,282 --> 00:23:38,048
to get this bill passed.
394
00:23:38,151 --> 00:23:40,584
Now, if we don't act now,
this opportunity
395
00:23:40,686 --> 00:23:42,319
to do something
about civil rights
396
00:23:42,422 --> 00:23:45,456
will just
disappear forever.
397
00:23:46,926 --> 00:23:49,193
- Now, are you in or are
you out? - Well, that-
398
00:23:49,295 --> 00:23:52,129
can you get the bill out
of the House Rules Committee?
399
00:23:52,231 --> 00:23:53,431
Leave Judge Smith to me.
400
00:23:53,533 --> 00:23:55,299
- And voting rights.
- Next year.
401
00:23:55,401 --> 00:23:57,101
- No-
- No, no, you have my word.
402
00:23:57,203 --> 00:24:00,137
Gonna be a very, very
difficult sell, Mr. President.
403
00:24:00,239 --> 00:24:03,140
Oh, I know.
I know.
404
00:24:03,242 --> 00:24:06,877
That's why I want you to be
the floor manager of this bill.
405
00:24:06,979 --> 00:24:09,013
- Floor manager?
- Uh-huh.
406
00:24:09,115 --> 00:24:12,817
- I assumed that Majority
Leader Mansfield- - Oh, no, no!
407
00:24:12,919 --> 00:24:14,118
Mike is a good man,
408
00:24:14,220 --> 00:24:18,155
but, boy, I need
someone more personable.
409
00:24:18,257 --> 00:24:20,424
And people
like you, Hubert.
410
00:24:20,526 --> 00:24:22,126
Hell, even Dick Russell
likes you.
411
00:24:22,228 --> 00:24:24,795
- Well, I wouldn't go that far.
- No, he does!
412
00:24:24,897 --> 00:24:26,864
He does.
413
00:24:29,469 --> 00:24:31,202
You know I'm under
a lot of pressure
414
00:24:31,304 --> 00:24:34,071
to announce my running
mate for the election.
415
00:24:37,009 --> 00:24:39,376
Now, you show me
416
00:24:39,479 --> 00:24:43,013
that you got the guts
to push this thing through,
417
00:24:43,115 --> 00:24:46,917
and you make yourself
one very real candidate
418
00:24:47,019 --> 00:24:50,154
to become
my Vice President
419
00:24:50,256 --> 00:24:52,723
of the United States...
420
00:24:53,759 --> 00:24:55,759
of America.
421
00:24:58,097 --> 00:25:00,931
A step away
from the White House.
422
00:25:02,768 --> 00:25:04,802
As we've seen...
423
00:25:06,205 --> 00:25:09,306
anything can happen
from there.
424
00:25:27,493 --> 00:25:29,260
There's a barn owl
out there
425
00:25:29,362 --> 00:25:31,629
in the live oaks
hunting mice.
426
00:25:34,467 --> 00:25:36,734
Is Hubert on board?
427
00:25:36,836 --> 00:25:38,903
Yeah.
428
00:26:08,935 --> 00:26:11,969
One heart attack
in a lifetime is plenty,
429
00:26:12,071 --> 00:26:13,737
thank you very much.
430
00:26:13,839 --> 00:26:15,339
Why do I put up
with you?
431
00:26:15,441 --> 00:26:18,208
Oh, because you would
be lost without me.
432
00:26:21,013 --> 00:26:23,981
King won't be so easy.
433
00:26:24,083 --> 00:26:27,084
He won't trust me now and
I can't say I blame him.
434
00:26:27,186 --> 00:26:29,353
He doesn't
know you yet.
435
00:26:30,489 --> 00:26:32,523
If I keep
King's support,
436
00:26:32,625 --> 00:26:34,959
I risk losing
Uncle Dick's.
437
00:26:35,061 --> 00:26:37,294
I may have
in any case.
438
00:26:38,564 --> 00:26:41,632
I always thought it would
take a Southern president
439
00:26:41,734 --> 00:26:44,868
to drag the South
out of the past.
440
00:26:46,005 --> 00:26:49,540
Shit, they're not gonna
thank me for it.
441
00:26:51,344 --> 00:26:54,612
King: You promised this country a
civil rights bill, Mr. President.
442
00:26:54,714 --> 00:26:57,414
And the voting rights
component is critical.
443
00:26:57,516 --> 00:27:00,851
Absolutely critical,
and we're gonna fix that.
444
00:27:00,953 --> 00:27:02,987
Just not in this bill.
445
00:27:03,089 --> 00:27:04,688
Right now,
we're gonna take care
446
00:27:04,790 --> 00:27:07,558
of segregation in public
accommodations first.
447
00:27:07,660 --> 00:27:09,693
I got it.
I'll get that, Manny.
448
00:27:09,795 --> 00:27:11,195
Thank you.
449
00:27:12,465 --> 00:27:16,467
You know, every year,
my cook Zephyr Wright-
450
00:27:16,569 --> 00:27:19,236
oh, the best
damn chicken fried steak
451
00:27:19,338 --> 00:27:21,338
you ever put
in your mouth-
452
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:25,209
well, every year, she and
her husband drive my Packard
453
00:27:25,311 --> 00:27:28,746
from Washington back down
to the ranch for me.
454
00:27:28,848 --> 00:27:31,749
Well, now, Zephyr,
455
00:27:31,851 --> 00:27:35,586
she can't use any
restrooms on those highways
456
00:27:35,688 --> 00:27:37,788
'cause they're all
whites only.
457
00:27:37,890 --> 00:27:40,290
She got to squat
in a field
458
00:27:40,393 --> 00:27:43,394
by the side of the road
to pee like a dog.
459
00:27:43,496 --> 00:27:45,162
Now, that's
just not right
460
00:27:45,264 --> 00:27:47,665
and by God,
we're gonna fix that.
461
00:27:47,767 --> 00:27:51,468
Well, nothing in this country will
ever change until Negroes can vote.
462
00:27:51,570 --> 00:27:54,872
The next bill
will be voting rights.
463
00:27:54,974 --> 00:27:58,842
After President Kennedy's
election,
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00:27:58,944 --> 00:28:01,145
Eisenhower
had publicly declared
465
00:28:01,247 --> 00:28:04,481
that his party had taken
the Negro vote for granted.
466
00:28:04,583 --> 00:28:07,685
I would hate to see the Democratic
Party make the same mistake.
467
00:28:07,787 --> 00:28:10,421
If you think
Barry Goldwater's
468
00:28:10,523 --> 00:28:13,323
a legitimate heir
to Abraham Lincoln,
469
00:28:13,426 --> 00:28:15,426
you should vote for him.
470
00:28:17,963 --> 00:28:20,164
You know, civil rights
isn't the only thing
471
00:28:20,266 --> 00:28:22,700
I'm interested in,
Dr. King.
472
00:28:22,802 --> 00:28:24,902
We got people
in this country
473
00:28:25,004 --> 00:28:27,738
living in
unbelievable poverty.
474
00:28:29,041 --> 00:28:30,374
I know.
475
00:28:30,476 --> 00:28:33,343
I grew up like that
in the Hill Country.
476
00:28:35,381 --> 00:28:38,015
Picking cotton
on my hands and knees,
477
00:28:38,117 --> 00:28:41,151
harnessed like a mule
to a road plow,
478
00:28:41,253 --> 00:28:44,154
living off the bitter
charity of my neighbors.
479
00:28:44,256 --> 00:28:46,490
But we're gonna
change all that.
480
00:28:48,861 --> 00:28:51,795
We're gonna declare
a war on poverty.
481
00:28:51,897 --> 00:28:53,764
A war on poverty?
482
00:28:53,866 --> 00:28:55,065
That's right.
483
00:28:55,167 --> 00:28:57,634
Now, I got all kinds
of federal programs in mind
484
00:28:57,737 --> 00:29:01,271
on health, education,
literacy, jobs, you name it.
485
00:29:01,373 --> 00:29:04,308
We're gonna change
this country top to bottom.
486
00:29:04,410 --> 00:29:06,677
That sounds
extraordinary.
487
00:29:06,779 --> 00:29:08,312
There you go.
488
00:29:08,414 --> 00:29:10,681
And I would very
enthusiastically support
489
00:29:10,783 --> 00:29:12,683
legislation
to that effect.
490
00:29:12,785 --> 00:29:14,651
But right now,
491
00:29:14,754 --> 00:29:17,054
I need to be able
to go back to my people
492
00:29:17,156 --> 00:29:18,889
and tell them
that this president
493
00:29:18,991 --> 00:29:20,824
is committed
to civil rights
494
00:29:20,926 --> 00:29:24,328
and that this bill,
even without voting rights,
495
00:29:24,430 --> 00:29:28,398
will still be a strong bill
with no further changes.
496
00:29:28,501 --> 00:29:31,935
If I can't do that,
I'll lose their faith.
497
00:29:32,037 --> 00:29:34,905
And in their despair, I-
498
00:29:36,942 --> 00:29:38,909
I don't know
what'll happen.
499
00:29:39,912 --> 00:29:41,979
Is that a threat?
500
00:29:43,816 --> 00:29:46,784
I don't want riots
any more than you do.
501
00:29:46,886 --> 00:29:48,685
But...
502
00:29:48,788 --> 00:29:52,556
in order to avoid
that type of situation,
503
00:29:52,658 --> 00:29:56,927
I need to be able
to deliver meaningful reform.
504
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,200
Okay.
505
00:30:04,703 --> 00:30:05,969
Okay.
506
00:30:06,071 --> 00:30:07,504
Now here's
what I need-
507
00:30:07,606 --> 00:30:10,741
the bill is stuck in Judge
Smith's Rules Committee
508
00:30:10,843 --> 00:30:12,743
and I need at least
eight votes-
509
00:30:12,845 --> 00:30:15,179
Walter-
to pry it out.
510
00:30:15,281 --> 00:30:17,714
Five Republicans
and three Democrats.
511
00:30:17,817 --> 00:30:20,083
Walter! Oh, good.
All right, here.
512
00:30:20,186 --> 00:30:21,952
Now, you get your people
513
00:30:22,054 --> 00:30:24,922
in each one of these districts here
- your ministers,
514
00:30:25,024 --> 00:30:27,691
your clergy, your union
guys, and what have you-
515
00:30:27,793 --> 00:30:32,596
to lobby these House
members to release that bill.
516
00:30:32,698 --> 00:30:37,234
And lobbying is just like
propositioning women, you know?
517
00:30:39,071 --> 00:30:41,371
Oh, I knew
this fellow once, ooh!
518
00:30:41,473 --> 00:30:43,373
He was a real ladies' man.
519
00:30:43,475 --> 00:30:46,210
He got more pussy
than you ever saw.
520
00:30:46,312 --> 00:30:50,247
And I said to him,
"What is your secret?"
521
00:30:50,349 --> 00:30:53,684
And he said,
"Well, I go into a bar
522
00:30:53,786 --> 00:30:55,652
and I ask each woman
523
00:30:55,754 --> 00:30:58,055
if she'd like
to fool around."
524
00:30:58,157 --> 00:31:01,892
I said, "Boy, you must've
got slapped a lot."
525
00:31:01,994 --> 00:31:03,994
He said,
"Oh, hell yeah,
526
00:31:04,096 --> 00:31:07,598
but I also got me
a lot of yeses."
527
00:31:09,802 --> 00:31:12,870
Well, now,
528
00:31:12,972 --> 00:31:16,573
we only need eight yeses
529
00:31:16,675 --> 00:31:19,977
to get that bill out of
Judge Smith's committee.
530
00:31:23,682 --> 00:31:25,115
All right.
531
00:31:26,385 --> 00:31:28,552
All right.
532
00:31:28,654 --> 00:31:30,621
He said he'd get it
out of committee
533
00:31:30,723 --> 00:31:32,089
and by God, he did.
534
00:31:32,191 --> 00:31:34,024
- Hallelujah.
- And all it cost us
535
00:31:34,126 --> 00:31:35,859
was the voting rights
section.
536
00:31:35,961 --> 00:31:39,529
King: The point is we can
work with this president.
537
00:31:39,632 --> 00:31:42,032
Now he's asking
for our further assistance
538
00:31:42,134 --> 00:31:43,867
in lobbying Congress.
539
00:31:43,969 --> 00:31:45,302
What do we have to lose?
540
00:31:45,404 --> 00:31:47,771
Do we have to endorse
his candidacy as well?
541
00:31:47,873 --> 00:31:50,974
King: You still plan on voting
Republican this election, Bob?
542
00:31:52,478 --> 00:31:54,411
You know, Goldwater came out
against civil rights,
543
00:31:54,513 --> 00:31:57,080
purely on constitutional
grounds, of course.
544
00:31:57,182 --> 00:32:00,083
- Yes, personally,
Goldwater deplores racism.
545
00:32:00,185 --> 00:32:02,619
I just think
asking for my vote
546
00:32:02,721 --> 00:32:05,289
while denying me the right
to vote is bullshit!
547
00:32:05,391 --> 00:32:07,891
The bill still
gives us a lot.
548
00:32:07,993 --> 00:32:09,927
Unless he gives that
away, too.
549
00:32:10,029 --> 00:32:12,296
I have his word there will
be no more compromises.
550
00:32:12,398 --> 00:32:14,064
His word?
Are you serious?
551
00:32:14,166 --> 00:32:16,266
I cannot support a bill
without voting rights.
552
00:32:16,368 --> 00:32:17,567
King:
I'm not asking you to.
553
00:32:17,670 --> 00:32:20,337
I'm asking you
to not work against it.
554
00:32:20,439 --> 00:32:23,040
The president is planning
new legislation
555
00:32:23,142 --> 00:32:25,275
that will bring
a huge federal intervention
556
00:32:25,377 --> 00:32:29,413
to poverty, hunger,
and jobs.
557
00:32:29,515 --> 00:32:31,548
Think what that will do
for our people.
558
00:32:31,650 --> 00:32:33,483
- 40 acres and a mule.
- Moses: That's right.
559
00:32:33,585 --> 00:32:35,185
What if he's serious?
560
00:32:36,655 --> 00:32:40,857
Okay, we will not campaign
against the bill,
561
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:42,893
but we're not gonna sit
on our hands either.
562
00:32:42,995 --> 00:32:46,463
What does the visionary
Bob Moses propose?
563
00:32:46,565 --> 00:32:48,598
Freedom Summer.
564
00:32:48,701 --> 00:32:51,068
We are going to flood
the state of Mississippi
565
00:32:51,170 --> 00:32:53,036
with hundreds
of student volunteers
566
00:32:53,138 --> 00:32:55,305
- to educate and register Negro voters.
- Abernathy: You crazy.
567
00:32:55,407 --> 00:32:58,809
- Mississippi?
- Not just Negro volunteers.
568
00:32:58,911 --> 00:33:02,779
- White students, too.
- If just one of your white volunteers gets hurt,
569
00:33:02,881 --> 00:33:05,415
you will do irreparable
damage to the cause.
570
00:33:05,517 --> 00:33:08,652
- Abernathy: That's right.
- Whereas if one of our Negro volunteers gets hurt,
571
00:33:08,754 --> 00:33:10,087
who gives a fuck?
572
00:33:10,189 --> 00:33:11,788
There may be trouble,
573
00:33:11,890 --> 00:33:14,624
but if it takes some white kid
getting smacked around
574
00:33:14,727 --> 00:33:17,894
to shed a little light on the
darkness that is Mississippi,
575
00:33:17,997 --> 00:33:20,397
- then why not?!
- Because people will die in Mississippi!
576
00:33:20,499 --> 00:33:22,766
- Roy, people are dying in Mississippi.
- Exactly!
577
00:33:22,868 --> 00:33:26,136
- We're not asking- - All
right, all right, calm down.
578
00:33:26,238 --> 00:33:30,173
Nobody in here gonna do
anything they can't get behind.
579
00:33:30,275 --> 00:33:33,543
But we should respond to the
elimination of voting rights,
580
00:33:33,645 --> 00:33:36,380
and Freedom Summer is the
perfect way to do that.
581
00:33:36,482 --> 00:33:38,515
At the same time, Roy,
you are right.
582
00:33:38,617 --> 00:33:41,618
The bill still does
give us a lot.
583
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:45,322
No one in this room has
your legislative experience.
584
00:33:45,424 --> 00:33:48,091
So clearly,
you and the NAACP
585
00:33:48,193 --> 00:33:50,761
should lead our
lobbying efforts in DC.
586
00:33:50,863 --> 00:33:52,262
Hmm.
587
00:33:52,364 --> 00:33:54,264
All right?
588
00:33:55,434 --> 00:33:57,834
Yes, okay.
589
00:34:02,408 --> 00:34:03,774
Gentlemen.
590
00:34:14,753 --> 00:34:17,087
Lord have mercy.
591
00:34:17,189 --> 00:34:19,756
One of these days, Stokely and
Wilkins gonna kill each other
592
00:34:19,858 --> 00:34:21,425
right there in the middle
of the room.
593
00:34:21,527 --> 00:34:23,627
King: In that case,
we should sell tickets
594
00:34:23,729 --> 00:34:25,362
so I can stop
giving speeches.
595
00:34:27,399 --> 00:34:28,865
I know that's right.
596
00:34:28,967 --> 00:34:30,567
First thing tomorrow,
597
00:34:30,669 --> 00:34:33,203
let's reach out and get
our membership mobilized
598
00:34:33,305 --> 00:34:34,938
on this new campaign.
599
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:36,106
Yeah.
600
00:34:36,208 --> 00:34:37,607
You need anything else?
601
00:34:37,709 --> 00:34:39,276
I'm okay.
602
00:34:39,378 --> 00:34:40,811
Good night, then.
603
00:34:58,430 --> 00:35:00,363
Give me a minute.
604
00:35:16,081 --> 00:35:17,547
Whoo!
605
00:35:17,649 --> 00:35:19,983
The sex-mad preacher.
606
00:35:20,085 --> 00:35:22,452
His hypocrisy
is disgusting.
607
00:35:22,554 --> 00:35:24,521
The man is
a flagrant adulterer.
608
00:35:24,623 --> 00:35:26,022
Oh, my.
609
00:35:26,125 --> 00:35:28,625
A Southern preacher
who fucks his choir.
610
00:35:28,727 --> 00:35:29,926
Who ever heard of that?
611
00:35:31,797 --> 00:35:33,663
Oh, Edgar,
612
00:35:33,765 --> 00:35:35,532
if you arrested
every politician
613
00:35:35,634 --> 00:35:38,301
and every preacher who ever
strayed from the marital bed,
614
00:35:38,403 --> 00:35:40,237
wouldn't be nobody
in politics or the pulpit.
615
00:35:40,339 --> 00:35:43,373
His moral turpitude is
just the tip of the iceberg.
616
00:35:43,475 --> 00:35:45,208
Why, his- his Communist
connections-
617
00:35:45,310 --> 00:35:46,576
Edgar,
618
00:35:46,678 --> 00:35:49,946
far be it from me to tell
you how to do your job.
619
00:35:50,048 --> 00:35:52,549
So keep an eye
on him, sure,
620
00:35:52,651 --> 00:35:57,787
but the House is about to
vote on my civil rights bill.
621
00:35:58,724 --> 00:36:00,490
And this...
622
00:36:00,592 --> 00:36:02,425
is not helpful.
623
00:36:03,495 --> 00:36:05,795
- You understand me?
- Yes, sir.
624
00:36:07,032 --> 00:36:08,832
Reporter on TV:
As part of Freedom Summer,
625
00:36:08,934 --> 00:36:11,301
the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee, or SNCC,
626
00:36:11,403 --> 00:36:14,804
is recruiting and training black and
white college students from the North
627
00:36:14,907 --> 00:36:18,141
and bussing them into
Mississippi to register black voters.
628
00:36:18,243 --> 00:36:21,778
Police have confronted the
activists, leading to violent clashes.
629
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,813
Moses: For two weeks,
we've been training
630
00:36:23,916 --> 00:36:26,883
to join other Freedom Summer
organizers in Mississippi,
631
00:36:26,985 --> 00:36:28,852
but I cannot
emphasize enough to you
632
00:36:28,954 --> 00:36:30,387
the dangers
you will face.
633
00:36:30,489 --> 00:36:32,789
The federal government
will not protect you
634
00:36:32,891 --> 00:36:36,293
and the Mississippi government will
do everything it can to stop you.
635
00:36:36,395 --> 00:36:38,461
If at any time
you wish to quit,
636
00:36:38,564 --> 00:36:42,499
you should do so,
including now.
637
00:36:47,139 --> 00:36:48,605
All right.
638
00:36:48,707 --> 00:36:50,340
Let's get started.
639
00:36:51,610 --> 00:36:52,642
♪ Get on board ♪
640
00:36:52,744 --> 00:36:54,744
♪ Children, children,
get on board ♪
641
00:36:54,846 --> 00:36:57,180
♪ Children,
children, get on board ♪
642
00:36:57,282 --> 00:36:58,582
♪ Children, children ♪
643
00:36:58,684 --> 00:37:00,450
♪ Let's fight
for freedom now ♪
644
00:37:00,552 --> 00:37:01,785
♪ Get on board ♪
645
00:37:01,887 --> 00:37:03,753
♪ Children, children,
get on board ♪
646
00:37:03,855 --> 00:37:06,223
♪ Children,
children, get on board. ♪
647
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,695
We will now call the House
of Representatives to order
648
00:37:11,797 --> 00:37:15,632
to consider
House Bill 736,
649
00:37:15,734 --> 00:37:19,836
the Civil Rights Act
of 1964.
650
00:37:19,938 --> 00:37:21,871
- Smith: Mr. Speaker.
- Can you hear that?
651
00:37:21,974 --> 00:37:25,976
This bill is nothing less than
an assault on the Constitution
652
00:37:26,078 --> 00:37:27,310
by the federal
government.
653
00:37:29,514 --> 00:37:31,214
Who are we
654
00:37:31,316 --> 00:37:33,316
to tell the owner
of a cafe
655
00:37:33,418 --> 00:37:35,919
who he can hire
or who he can serve?
656
00:37:37,689 --> 00:37:41,591
Who are we
to tell a state
657
00:37:41,693 --> 00:37:44,728
that they may not pass
segregation laws?
658
00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:50,600
As a conservative
Republican,
659
00:37:50,702 --> 00:37:53,136
I believe
that state authority
660
00:37:53,238 --> 00:37:55,805
should not be
needlessly usurped.
661
00:37:55,907 --> 00:37:57,574
Hear, hear.
662
00:37:57,676 --> 00:38:00,043
But I also believe
that the Constitution
663
00:38:00,145 --> 00:38:02,479
doesn't say
that whites alone
664
00:38:02,581 --> 00:38:04,648
shall have
our basic rights.
665
00:38:06,485 --> 00:38:08,151
Didn't see that coming.
666
00:38:08,253 --> 00:38:12,489
McCulloch is just playing
to the peanut gallery.
667
00:38:12,591 --> 00:38:14,357
Well.
668
00:38:14,459 --> 00:38:16,326
Are you, Lyndon?
669
00:38:16,428 --> 00:38:20,330
Is this just still so much red
meat for Humphrey and his gang?
670
00:38:20,432 --> 00:38:23,800
People aren't gonna stand for
Jim Crow anymore, Uncle Dick.
671
00:38:23,902 --> 00:38:26,703
I'm not saying the Negro
hasn't been put upon.
672
00:38:26,805 --> 00:38:29,839
He has been put upon
most disgracefully.
673
00:38:29,941 --> 00:38:31,341
But you can't rush
these things.
674
00:38:31,443 --> 00:38:32,642
Look at the mess
in Mississippi
675
00:38:32,744 --> 00:38:35,045
with all those agitators
going down there
676
00:38:35,147 --> 00:38:36,813
getting in
people's business.
677
00:38:36,915 --> 00:38:38,682
Folks are gonna
get hurt.
678
00:38:38,784 --> 00:38:40,717
And whose fault
would that be?
679
00:38:40,819 --> 00:38:43,019
Smith:
Mr. Speaker,
680
00:38:43,121 --> 00:38:46,256
I would like
to introduce an amendment
681
00:38:46,358 --> 00:38:48,525
that would exempt
local businesses
682
00:38:48,627 --> 00:38:50,593
in public accommodations.
683
00:38:52,130 --> 00:38:55,165
For instance,
if you were a podiatrist
684
00:38:55,267 --> 00:38:58,335
- and had your office in a hotel...
- Man: Come on!
685
00:38:58,437 --> 00:39:00,437
...if I were
cutting corns,
686
00:39:00,539 --> 00:39:02,472
I would wanna know
whose feet
687
00:39:02,574 --> 00:39:05,208
I was gonna have to be
monkeying around with.
688
00:39:05,310 --> 00:39:06,609
Boo!
689
00:39:06,712 --> 00:39:09,179
Unbelievable.
690
00:39:09,281 --> 00:39:13,550
I would want to know whether
they smelled good or bad.
691
00:39:13,652 --> 00:39:15,518
- Boo!
- God's honest truth.
692
00:39:17,155 --> 00:39:21,758
Podiatrists, like other
minorities, got rights, too.
693
00:39:21,860 --> 00:39:24,194
- That's nonsense!
- Yes, sir!
694
00:39:24,296 --> 00:39:26,429
To force them to work
695
00:39:26,531 --> 00:39:30,600
violates the 13th Amendment's
prohibition against slavery
696
00:39:30,702 --> 00:39:32,369
or involuntary servitude.
697
00:39:32,471 --> 00:39:34,637
You know, if that's the best
the judge has to offer,
698
00:39:34,740 --> 00:39:37,507
he should've lost his
chairmanship a long time ago.
699
00:39:37,609 --> 00:39:39,409
- Lyndon.
- Man: Mr. Speaker...
700
00:39:39,511 --> 00:39:42,278
I, for one, am fed up
with amendments
701
00:39:42,381 --> 00:39:45,949
that suddenly or blatantly
defeat the purpose of this bill.
702
00:39:48,286 --> 00:39:51,888
And to my esteemed
colleague Judge Smith,
703
00:39:51,990 --> 00:39:56,659
if you're going to trim the
stinky, smelly white corns...
704
00:39:58,397 --> 00:40:01,664
...you're gonna have to do the
same thing to the black ones.
705
00:40:01,767 --> 00:40:04,267
That's telling him.
706
00:40:04,369 --> 00:40:06,536
My goodness, man.
707
00:40:06,638 --> 00:40:08,605
Call for a vote,
for God's sakes.
708
00:40:08,707 --> 00:40:10,407
McCormack: With no more
amendments to be offered,
709
00:40:10,509 --> 00:40:13,109
the Speaker calls
for a final vote
710
00:40:13,211 --> 00:40:15,678
on House Bill 736.
711
00:40:15,781 --> 00:40:18,415
- Abbitt.
- Nay.
712
00:40:18,517 --> 00:40:20,717
Mr. Abbitt votes nay.
713
00:40:20,819 --> 00:40:21,951
Abele.
714
00:40:22,053 --> 00:40:24,988
- Yea.
- Mr. Abele votes yea.
715
00:40:25,090 --> 00:40:26,523
- Adair.
- Yea.
716
00:40:26,625 --> 00:40:28,558
- Albert.
- Nay.
717
00:40:28,660 --> 00:40:30,727
Mr. Andrews
from Alabama?
718
00:40:30,829 --> 00:40:32,996
- Nay.
- Mr. Andrews votes nay.
719
00:40:33,098 --> 00:40:34,697
Mr. Andrews
from North Dakota.
720
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,567
- Yea.
- Mr. Andrews votes yea.
721
00:40:44,409 --> 00:40:47,577
290 votes for
722
00:40:47,679 --> 00:40:50,180
and 130 votes against.
723
00:40:51,516 --> 00:40:54,751
The bill passes and will
now go to the Senate.
724
00:40:54,853 --> 00:40:57,320
We got it, Walter.
Thank you.
725
00:41:04,162 --> 00:41:07,997
General Burnside thought he'd
crush Lee at Fredericksburg.
726
00:41:08,099 --> 00:41:11,067
His overconfidence
cost him his army.
727
00:41:11,169 --> 00:41:15,905
And only three years later,
Lee surrendered at Appomattox.
728
00:41:18,243 --> 00:41:21,744
Nobody's surrendering,
Mr. President.
729
00:41:23,248 --> 00:41:26,382
Thank you, Matthew.
Most kind.
730
00:41:31,723 --> 00:41:33,256
Reporter on TV:
In St. Augustine, Florida,
731
00:41:33,358 --> 00:41:35,458
Negro demonstrators
were attacked today
732
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:37,660
by an estimated
500 angry whites
733
00:41:37,762 --> 00:41:39,829
when they broke through
police lines.
734
00:41:39,931 --> 00:41:42,465
The conflict began
when 200 Negro demonstrators
735
00:41:42,567 --> 00:41:45,101
led by Andrew Young and
other civil rights leaders...
736
00:41:45,203 --> 00:41:48,171
"Trust L.B.J.
He's one of us."
737
00:41:48,273 --> 00:41:50,940
Is this the first time
a civil rights bill
738
00:41:51,042 --> 00:41:52,308
made it through
the House?
739
00:41:52,410 --> 00:41:54,344
So the bill goes
to the Senate.
740
00:41:54,446 --> 00:41:56,980
All right?
So what?
741
00:41:57,082 --> 00:41:58,681
How many
civil rights bills
742
00:41:58,783 --> 00:42:00,517
have you buried
in the last 10 years?
743
00:42:00,619 --> 00:42:04,254
- 121.
- That graveyard of yours got room for one more?
744
00:42:04,356 --> 00:42:06,222
I'm digging a hole
as we speak.
745
00:42:06,324 --> 00:42:10,727
- Well, all right, then.
- If you do get it out of committee, what then?
746
00:42:10,829 --> 00:42:14,030
Then we filibuster it
to death.
747
00:42:14,132 --> 00:42:16,499
We stick together,
we'll be fine.
748
00:42:16,601 --> 00:42:18,668
Public opinion's
already against this bill,
749
00:42:18,770 --> 00:42:20,904
especially with
those riots going on.
750
00:42:21,006 --> 00:42:23,406
Time is on our side.
751
00:42:25,610 --> 00:42:27,310
Thank you, gentlemen.
752
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:32,682
And I see no need
why we ought to sit idly by
753
00:42:32,784 --> 00:42:36,419
and see a bill pass in the American
Senate called a civil rights bill
754
00:42:36,521 --> 00:42:40,523
that will destroy individual
liberty and freedom in this country.
755
00:42:40,625 --> 00:42:43,893
Humphrey:
Wallace is running at 90%
756
00:42:43,995 --> 00:42:45,528
with whites
in Eastern Maryland.
757
00:42:45,630 --> 00:42:49,065
If he wins that primary, the
Senate will never pass the bill.
758
00:42:49,167 --> 00:42:51,401
- - Wallace would be
dead in the water
759
00:42:51,503 --> 00:42:53,002
without these
goddamn riots.
760
00:42:53,104 --> 00:42:54,971
He is deliberately
provocative.
761
00:42:55,073 --> 00:42:57,006
King is supposed to
control his people.
762
00:42:57,108 --> 00:42:59,075
I put my entire
political career
763
00:42:59,177 --> 00:43:01,044
at risk for the Negroes
and this is the thanks I get?
764
00:43:01,146 --> 00:43:04,347
- Put more money into Maryland.
- Yeah, beef up my schedule there.
765
00:43:04,449 --> 00:43:06,916
Now, what's your plan to get our
bill out of Eastland's committee?
766
00:43:07,018 --> 00:43:10,753
- Discharge petition.
- Oh, shit, why, you don't have the votes.
767
00:43:10,855 --> 00:43:13,323
No, but, uh,
we're very close.
768
00:43:13,425 --> 00:43:15,725
Close?
Close don't make shit.
769
00:43:15,827 --> 00:43:17,860
You don't have
the goddamn votes.
770
00:43:17,963 --> 00:43:19,562
Fine, what's your idea?
771
00:43:19,664 --> 00:43:21,264
What?
I can't hear
772
00:43:21,366 --> 00:43:23,166
a goddamn thing
you're saying, Humphrey.
773
00:43:23,268 --> 00:43:24,734
Come on over here.
774
00:43:26,137 --> 00:43:28,905
I said what's your idea?
775
00:43:29,007 --> 00:43:30,807
Well, right now
776
00:43:30,909 --> 00:43:33,443
it's all about
the rules of the Senate.
777
00:43:33,545 --> 00:43:35,878
And Dick Russell's
been studying them
778
00:43:35,981 --> 00:43:38,147
since he was sucking
on his mama's titty.
779
00:43:38,249 --> 00:43:41,551
Boy, I've seen him
make a fool of you liberals
780
00:43:41,653 --> 00:43:43,720
with some arcane
rule of order
781
00:43:43,822 --> 00:43:47,090
more times than-
than I can remember.
782
00:43:50,996 --> 00:43:52,695
Hold on.
783
00:43:54,099 --> 00:43:58,201
Ah, son of a...
784
00:43:58,303 --> 00:44:00,937
Oh.
785
00:44:01,039 --> 00:44:03,139
You know what?
786
00:44:03,241 --> 00:44:04,907
There is a way
that we can
787
00:44:05,010 --> 00:44:08,144
completely bypass
Eastland's committee
788
00:44:08,246 --> 00:44:10,947
without a discharge
petition.
789
00:44:12,784 --> 00:44:14,317
And with a little luck,
790
00:44:14,419 --> 00:44:18,354
Russell won't even
see it coming.
791
00:44:20,091 --> 00:44:21,858
Russell:
He did what?
792
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:23,626
Man's voice: I think the president
just put over the bill
793
00:44:23,728 --> 00:44:24,794
out of committee.
794
00:44:24,896 --> 00:44:26,062
All right.
795
00:44:26,164 --> 00:44:28,931
All right,
keep Jim calm.
796
00:44:29,034 --> 00:44:31,034
I'll handle this.
797
00:44:35,874 --> 00:44:37,006
Johnson:
What you think it is?
798
00:44:37,108 --> 00:44:38,408
Why it tastes
a little different?
799
00:44:38,510 --> 00:44:40,043
Well, it's the temperature
she cooked-
800
00:44:40,145 --> 00:44:41,678
everything all right,
Uncle Dick?
801
00:44:41,780 --> 00:44:43,880
Just peachy.
802
00:44:47,052 --> 00:44:48,851
Would you like
some more gravy?
803
00:44:48,953 --> 00:44:51,921
Oh, Lady Bird, it was delicious,
but I just couldn't possibly.
804
00:44:52,023 --> 00:44:54,357
- No, thank you.
- Hey, what about me?
805
00:44:54,459 --> 00:44:56,092
Aren't you gonna
offer me any more gravy?
806
00:44:56,194 --> 00:44:58,795
Well, honey, I'd like to,
but I can't.
807
00:44:58,897 --> 00:45:00,797
Bird's got me
on a diet.
808
00:45:00,899 --> 00:45:02,165
Got Zephyr there
in the kitchen
809
00:45:02,267 --> 00:45:04,534
weighing my plates
for every meal.
810
00:45:04,636 --> 00:45:06,235
It's ridiculous!
811
00:45:06,337 --> 00:45:08,171
Your wife
just doesn't want you
812
00:45:08,273 --> 00:45:10,139
to get too big
for your britches.
813
00:45:10,241 --> 00:45:13,943
An entirely
understandable concern.
814
00:45:18,783 --> 00:45:22,752
I think I'll see how Zephyr's
coming with that cobbler.
815
00:45:34,065 --> 00:45:38,434
I just heard how you snuck that
bill through Jim's committee
816
00:45:38,536 --> 00:45:41,704
with some bogus procedural
point of order.
817
00:45:44,042 --> 00:45:46,275
A perfectly legal maneuver, Uncle Dick.
818
00:45:46,377 --> 00:45:51,180
- Just like you taught me.
- I also taught you something about party loyalty.
819
00:45:51,282 --> 00:45:53,816
Well,
the party's changing.
820
00:45:53,918 --> 00:45:57,153
This younger generation's
not gonna fall on their sword
821
00:45:57,255 --> 00:45:58,421
for segregation.
822
00:45:58,523 --> 00:45:59,922
You think
every Southerner
823
00:46:00,024 --> 00:46:02,892
is gonna start dancing
to your tune, hmm?
824
00:46:02,994 --> 00:46:05,161
Wallace almost won
Maryland.
825
00:46:05,263 --> 00:46:08,064
- But he didn't.
- Another riot and he will.
826
00:46:08,166 --> 00:46:09,699
And there will be
more riots.
827
00:46:09,801 --> 00:46:11,634
We're gonna filibuster
this bill.
828
00:46:11,736 --> 00:46:14,604
- It will never pass.
- Are you so sure about that?
829
00:46:14,706 --> 00:46:16,105
I know
what you're thinking.
830
00:46:16,207 --> 00:46:18,474
You're thinking
you're gonna cut a deal
831
00:46:18,576 --> 00:46:19,976
with Senator Dirksen.
832
00:46:20,078 --> 00:46:21,477
You filibuster,
what choice do you leave me?
833
00:46:21,579 --> 00:46:25,248
A Democratic president
ignoring his own party
834
00:46:25,350 --> 00:46:27,483
and making a deal with
the Senate Minority Leader.
835
00:46:27,585 --> 00:46:31,954
- Shameful!
- Now, don't you get all high and mighty with me.
836
00:46:32,056 --> 00:46:33,923
You have been
cutting deals
837
00:46:34,025 --> 00:46:36,125
with those conservative
Republicans for years,
838
00:46:36,227 --> 00:46:38,060
but now I can't
cross the aisle?
839
00:46:38,163 --> 00:46:39,862
Shit.
840
00:46:47,972 --> 00:46:49,839
We don't
have to fight, Dick.
841
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:57,280
Yes, we do.
842
00:47:03,288 --> 00:47:05,788
I'm coming
for you, Dick.
843
00:47:07,592 --> 00:47:12,361
Now, I love you
more than my own daddy.
844
00:47:15,633 --> 00:47:17,967
But if you
get in my way...
845
00:47:19,204 --> 00:47:21,237
I'll crush you.
846
00:47:22,674 --> 00:47:24,273
I regret
that the president
847
00:47:24,375 --> 00:47:26,976
has embraced
the radical program
848
00:47:27,078 --> 00:47:28,477
of the left-wing groups
849
00:47:28,580 --> 00:47:32,181
that is erroneously called
the civil rights bill.
850
00:47:32,283 --> 00:47:36,452
It is still a vicious
assault on the Constitution.
851
00:47:36,554 --> 00:47:38,221
And we in the Senate
852
00:47:38,323 --> 00:47:40,723
intend to fight
with our boots on
853
00:47:40,825 --> 00:47:42,525
to the last ditch.
854
00:47:42,627 --> 00:47:47,129
Beginning today, we will
filibuster this bill.
855
00:47:47,232 --> 00:47:49,565
Let the real war begin.
856
00:47:49,667 --> 00:47:52,969
This ain't about
the Constitution.
857
00:47:54,472 --> 00:47:56,038
It's about those
who got more
858
00:47:56,140 --> 00:47:58,140
wanting to hang on
to what they got
859
00:47:58,243 --> 00:48:00,409
at the expense of those
who got nothing
860
00:48:00,511 --> 00:48:01,744
and feel good about it.
861
00:48:01,846 --> 00:48:04,046
Yeah, but the way
he frames it,
862
00:48:04,148 --> 00:48:06,682
draping himself
in the Stars and Stripes,
863
00:48:06,784 --> 00:48:08,184
it's compelling.
864
00:48:08,286 --> 00:48:11,120
I mean, what are you fighting
for, darling, in your heart?
865
00:48:11,222 --> 00:48:13,823
That's what the people
need to hear.
866
00:48:15,393 --> 00:48:16,792
Look at that.
867
00:48:16,895 --> 00:48:18,327
Look at that. Look at
the size of his ears.
868
00:48:18,429 --> 00:48:20,863
You get that?
869
00:48:23,902 --> 00:48:26,068
Whoo-hoo!
870
00:48:26,170 --> 00:48:27,970
Well, listen,
871
00:48:28,072 --> 00:48:29,939
I just wanna thank you all
for coming up here
872
00:48:30,041 --> 00:48:32,408
and sharing some time
with me.
873
00:48:32,510 --> 00:48:34,310
I wanted to just respond
874
00:48:34,412 --> 00:48:38,714
to what Senator Russell-
his decision, uh-
875
00:48:38,816 --> 00:48:42,818
unfortunate decision
on filibustering this bill.
876
00:48:44,188 --> 00:48:48,424
It reminds me that when-
when I got out of college,
877
00:48:48,526 --> 00:48:53,029
now, the only job
that I could get
878
00:48:53,131 --> 00:48:57,400
was teaching first grade
at this, uh-
879
00:48:57,502 --> 00:49:01,637
this beat-up, old elementary
school in Cotulla, Texas.
880
00:49:01,739 --> 00:49:05,308
It was just a dusty,
old border town
881
00:49:05,410 --> 00:49:08,344
in the middle
of nowhere
882
00:49:08,446 --> 00:49:14,050
full of Mexican immigrants who
didn't have a pot to piss in.
883
00:49:15,386 --> 00:49:19,255
But, God, did I love
those kids of mine.
884
00:49:20,792 --> 00:49:23,225
They'd show up hungry
every morning
885
00:49:23,328 --> 00:49:26,696
because most of them
hadn't had any breakfast.
886
00:49:26,798 --> 00:49:31,233
But they were
so on fire to learn.
887
00:49:32,503 --> 00:49:34,704
It just made you
feel good.
888
00:49:36,507 --> 00:49:40,443
But there-
there come a day
889
00:49:40,545 --> 00:49:42,445
for each
and every one of them
890
00:49:42,547 --> 00:49:46,949
when I would see
the light in their eyes die.
891
00:49:49,654 --> 00:49:53,055
'Cause they had discovered
that the world hated them...
892
00:49:54,826 --> 00:49:57,760
just 'cause of the color
of their skin.
893
00:50:02,967 --> 00:50:07,703
Well, some folks tell me
just to go slow.
894
00:50:07,805 --> 00:50:11,407
They say the political risk
is too high.
895
00:50:11,509 --> 00:50:14,210
And to that,
I say, well,
896
00:50:14,312 --> 00:50:18,714
if a president can't do
what he knows is right,
897
00:50:18,816 --> 00:50:21,450
then what's
the presidency for?
898
00:50:25,823 --> 00:50:29,291
Senator Dirksen's
so-called amendments
899
00:50:29,394 --> 00:50:33,095
are like putting
a Band-Aid on a cancer.
900
00:50:33,197 --> 00:50:36,098
I have a real amendment to offer.
901
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,901
This map shows
the current concentration
902
00:50:39,003 --> 00:50:41,771
of the Negro race
in America.
903
00:50:41,873 --> 00:50:45,474
I propose we resettle
Southern Negroes
904
00:50:45,576 --> 00:50:47,543
all over the country...
905
00:50:47,645 --> 00:50:49,412
...until
racial proportions
906
00:50:49,514 --> 00:50:52,448
are equalized
among the 50 states.
907
00:50:52,550 --> 00:50:56,385
- - I favor inflicting
on New York
908
00:50:56,487 --> 00:51:00,156
and other cities
the same conditions
909
00:51:00,258 --> 00:51:02,691
that will be inflicted
by this bill
910
00:51:02,794 --> 00:51:05,528
on the innocent people
of Georgia.
911
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:17,706
Is the president
caving in?
912
00:51:17,809 --> 00:51:19,542
I'd ask him myself,
913
00:51:19,644 --> 00:51:23,412
- but he's no longer returning my calls.
- Absolutely not.
914
00:51:23,514 --> 00:51:26,282
My people have made
every painful sacrifice
915
00:51:26,384 --> 00:51:29,251
that's been asked of them
and the bill's still stuck.
916
00:51:29,353 --> 00:51:31,420
Martin, I'm as frustrated as you are,
917
00:51:31,522 --> 00:51:35,024
but lining up votes to break the
filibuster's a complicated process.
918
00:51:35,126 --> 00:51:37,193
Dirksen's amendments
will gut the bill.
919
00:51:37,295 --> 00:51:40,162
Dirksen needs to look
tough to his people.
920
00:51:40,264 --> 00:51:43,299
The time
for posturing is over.
921
00:51:43,401 --> 00:51:45,634
It's time to act.
922
00:51:45,736 --> 00:51:48,237
I've put all my credibility on the line
923
00:51:48,339 --> 00:51:51,674
telling our young people that
this president can be trusted,
924
00:51:51,776 --> 00:51:53,909
but they want results.
925
00:51:54,011 --> 00:51:56,345
They're down
in Mississippi right now
926
00:51:56,447 --> 00:51:57,847
putting
their lives at risk,
927
00:51:57,949 --> 00:52:01,750
registering Negroes for a
vote they still don't have.
928
00:52:01,853 --> 00:52:03,385
I want a good bill,
too, Martin,
929
00:52:03,488 --> 00:52:05,387
but you can't
give people blood tests
930
00:52:05,490 --> 00:52:07,056
for loyalty
every 15 minutes.
931
00:52:07,158 --> 00:52:09,258
The president will handle
Everett Dirksen.
932
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:11,760
If this is what it takes
to move the bill,
933
00:52:11,863 --> 00:52:15,030
I will start
a public fast to the death.
934
00:52:15,133 --> 00:52:17,933
God, Martin,
that's not necessary.
935
00:52:18,035 --> 00:52:21,303
What choice do I have?
936
00:52:21,405 --> 00:52:23,706
- - Woman: Right this way,
Senator Dirksen.
937
00:52:23,808 --> 00:52:28,544
Everett, what's this bullshit
about how I treat my dog?
938
00:52:28,646 --> 00:52:31,881
- I'm sorry?
- My dog, Little Beagle Johnson.
939
00:52:31,983 --> 00:52:34,083
Why are you being such
a shithead with the press
940
00:52:34,185 --> 00:52:35,784
about me pulling
on his ears?
941
00:52:35,887 --> 00:52:38,320
Little son of a bitch loves
to have his ears pulled.
942
00:52:38,422 --> 00:52:42,224
Hell, I thought you were running the
Senate Republicans, not the ASPCA.
943
00:52:42,326 --> 00:52:44,393
Mr. President, I was just
kidding with the press about that.
944
00:52:44,495 --> 00:52:48,364
Well, don't. I'm a hell of a lot
better than you are with dogs.
945
00:52:48,466 --> 00:52:50,566
Dogs and people.
946
00:52:52,069 --> 00:52:53,669
I was hoping
we could talk about-
947
00:52:53,771 --> 00:52:56,305
About appointing William
Macomber as ambassador, I know.
948
00:52:56,407 --> 00:52:58,674
- Is that among- - Get this
shot. Get this shot here.
949
00:52:58,776 --> 00:53:00,075
Johnson: There we go.
950
00:53:00,178 --> 00:53:01,744
No, no,
sit on over there.
951
00:53:01,846 --> 00:53:03,646
- It's more comfortable.
- That among other things?
952
00:53:03,748 --> 00:53:07,983
Well, we'll talk about all
them things in just a minute.
953
00:53:09,854 --> 00:53:11,187
Now, look here,
Everett,
954
00:53:11,289 --> 00:53:12,955
we gotta get this
civil rights bill passed.
955
00:53:13,057 --> 00:53:15,491
- Yeah.
- The longer this filibuster goes,
956
00:53:15,593 --> 00:53:16,992
the stronger
Russell gets
957
00:53:17,094 --> 00:53:19,395
and the angrier those
Negroes on the street are.
958
00:53:19,497 --> 00:53:22,765
- Uh-huh. - Now, how many votes
are we gonna get from your people?
959
00:53:22,867 --> 00:53:25,901
Well, that's what I wanted to
talk to you about, Mr. President.
960
00:53:26,003 --> 00:53:27,937
There are 40 amendments
I'm proposing.
961
00:53:28,039 --> 00:53:32,041
- 40?
- Well, my constituents have a number of concerns.
962
00:53:32,143 --> 00:53:35,611
Oh, now, let's not bullshit an
old bullshitter here, Everett.
963
00:53:35,713 --> 00:53:37,680
Let's just cut
to the chase, shall we?
964
00:53:37,782 --> 00:53:42,351
Well, I think we have to strike
equal employment altogether.
965
00:53:42,453 --> 00:53:43,886
Hmm.
966
00:53:43,988 --> 00:53:45,521
I could probably
get my troops
967
00:53:45,623 --> 00:53:48,524
to accept
public accommodations,
968
00:53:48,626 --> 00:53:52,194
but with, say, um,
a year of voluntary compliance
969
00:53:52,296 --> 00:53:54,129
before it becomes law.
970
00:53:55,333 --> 00:53:56,565
Nope.
971
00:53:56,667 --> 00:53:59,068
- No?
- No.
972
00:53:59,170 --> 00:54:00,703
No?
973
00:54:01,572 --> 00:54:03,772
Is there
an echo in here?
974
00:54:03,874 --> 00:54:06,108
The Southern filibuster
cannot be defeated
975
00:54:06,210 --> 00:54:07,977
without
substantial changes.
976
00:54:08,079 --> 00:54:11,313
But if you're willing to compromise,
I think that I can deliver
977
00:54:11,415 --> 00:54:15,618
the necessary 25 Republican
votes for cloture.
978
00:54:16,921 --> 00:54:18,954
No can do, Everett.
979
00:54:19,890 --> 00:54:21,223
Now, look here,
980
00:54:21,325 --> 00:54:23,659
either your people
vote for this bill
981
00:54:23,761 --> 00:54:26,061
or you vote
with the segregationists
982
00:54:26,163 --> 00:54:28,163
and the country
goes up in flames.
983
00:54:28,266 --> 00:54:31,433
Now, we're making
history here, Everett,
984
00:54:31,535 --> 00:54:32,901
and you have to decide
985
00:54:33,004 --> 00:54:36,372
how you want history
to remember you-
986
00:54:36,474 --> 00:54:39,041
as a great man,
987
00:54:39,143 --> 00:54:42,745
a man who changed
the course of this country,
988
00:54:42,847 --> 00:54:47,816
or somebody who just likes
to hear himself talk.
989
00:54:49,020 --> 00:54:50,319
Congress is not alone
990
00:54:50,421 --> 00:54:52,454
in contributing problems
to the presidency.
991
00:54:52,556 --> 00:54:54,189
Mr. Johnson
has inherited
992
00:54:54,292 --> 00:54:56,258
an armed clash
in South Vietnam.
993
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:58,327
President Johnson
must decide
994
00:54:58,429 --> 00:55:00,396
whether to continue it
in its present form,
995
00:55:00,498 --> 00:55:03,132
to enlarge it, or seek
a negotiated settlement.
996
00:55:03,234 --> 00:55:06,035
Our pilot the Communists
shot down over Laos,
997
00:55:06,137 --> 00:55:08,203
- he's alive?
- As far as we know.
998
00:55:08,306 --> 00:55:11,173
Well, everything we can do
to get him back home, Robert.
999
00:55:11,275 --> 00:55:13,575
We'll talk more about
this business in Tonkin.
1000
00:55:13,678 --> 00:55:16,545
- Yes, sir.
- And, Walter, anything that McNamara needs,
1001
00:55:16,647 --> 00:55:18,247
- you make sure he gets it.
- Yes, sir.
1002
00:55:18,349 --> 00:55:19,882
- Is Humphrey still around?
- Hey, Daddy!
1003
00:55:19,984 --> 00:55:22,017
Hey, now, don't-
don't just run off.
1004
00:55:22,119 --> 00:55:24,086
- Come give me a hug.
- All right.
1005
00:55:26,624 --> 00:55:28,090
- Grae.
- Mr. President.
1006
00:55:28,192 --> 00:55:30,125
Boy, oh, boy,
look at you.
1007
00:55:30,227 --> 00:55:32,995
- You're getting tall.
- Oh, no, I'm wearing heels.
1008
00:55:33,097 --> 00:55:34,697
Are you?
1009
00:55:34,799 --> 00:55:36,799
Well, uh,
1010
00:55:36,901 --> 00:55:38,767
how are you doing
in school, Luci?
1011
00:55:38,869 --> 00:55:40,436
Good, good.
1012
00:55:40,538 --> 00:55:42,371
That's good.
1013
00:55:42,473 --> 00:55:43,806
Yeah.
1014
00:55:43,908 --> 00:55:46,542
Sir, um,
Senator Humphrey's here.
1015
00:55:46,644 --> 00:55:47,810
- All right.
- That's all right.
1016
00:55:47,912 --> 00:55:49,411
- Bye, Daddy.
- Bye.
1017
00:55:49,513 --> 00:55:51,747
The justice says Bob Moses
1018
00:55:51,849 --> 00:55:53,449
of the Freedom Summer
project
1019
00:55:53,551 --> 00:55:55,718
has asked again
for federal protection.
1020
00:55:55,820 --> 00:55:57,753
Things are getting pretty
violent in Mississippi.
1021
00:55:57,855 --> 00:56:00,956
The federal government is not
getting involved in this.
1022
00:56:01,058 --> 00:56:03,258
Now, you make damn sure
that the governor down there
1023
00:56:03,361 --> 00:56:06,061
understands that we expect him
to put a lid on his people.
1024
00:56:06,163 --> 00:56:08,464
Is Khrushchev
still in Egypt?
1025
00:56:08,566 --> 00:56:10,966
Yes, sir, and the Soviets
had their first nuclear test
1026
00:56:11,068 --> 00:56:12,768
at their new site
in Eastern Kazakh.
1027
00:56:12,870 --> 00:56:14,803
Oh. All right,
talk to me, Hubert.
1028
00:56:14,905 --> 00:56:17,940
Well, the good news is we've
got a deal with Dirksen.
1029
00:56:18,776 --> 00:56:20,275
And what's the bad news?
1030
00:56:20,378 --> 00:56:22,878
We're two votes short.
1031
00:56:24,982 --> 00:56:27,282
Bill!
1032
00:56:27,385 --> 00:56:29,184
I was just thinking
about you.
1033
00:56:29,286 --> 00:56:31,019
Go on,
take a ride with me.
1034
00:56:31,122 --> 00:56:33,756
It's all right, boys. I think
I'm safe with Senator Fulbright.
1035
00:56:33,858 --> 00:56:35,324
I'll see you up on three.
1036
00:56:35,426 --> 00:56:37,159
Boy, oh, boy,
look at you.
1037
00:56:37,261 --> 00:56:39,261
- How you feeling?
- Oh, fine, fine.
1038
00:56:39,363 --> 00:56:41,363
- Hey, listen, I need to talk
to you about something. - Uh-huh.
1039
00:56:41,465 --> 00:56:44,233
Nice cuff links,
Mr. President.
1040
00:56:44,335 --> 00:56:45,501
Oh, you like these?
1041
00:56:45,603 --> 00:56:47,169
- Do you?
- I do.
1042
00:56:47,271 --> 00:56:48,670
Well, then
they are yours.
1043
00:56:48,773 --> 00:56:51,507
No, no, that's really
not necessary.
1044
00:56:51,609 --> 00:56:54,243
Well, I'd do anything
for you, Bill.
1045
00:56:54,345 --> 00:56:55,811
Hey, you know
that good old boy
1046
00:56:55,913 --> 00:56:57,780
you put down
for the federal bench?
1047
00:56:57,882 --> 00:57:00,482
Boy, that's a pretty tough
sell for Humphrey's crowd,
1048
00:57:00,584 --> 00:57:03,218
but if you were to support
the civil rights bill,
1049
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:05,087
they'll just grin
and bear it.
1050
00:57:05,189 --> 00:57:09,091
Well, Mr. President, I'm not sure
my constituents would approve.
1051
00:57:09,193 --> 00:57:10,292
Well, I understand that,
1052
00:57:10,394 --> 00:57:12,194
but maybe you don't
have to fight
1053
00:57:12,296 --> 00:57:14,129
quite as hard
as you might otherwise.
1054
00:57:14,231 --> 00:57:17,166
- I don't think- - Or maybe
when the vote comes up,
1055
00:57:17,268 --> 00:57:20,702
you happen to be overseas
visiting our troops.
1056
00:57:20,805 --> 00:57:23,705
I'm sure Elizabeth
would love Europe.
1057
00:57:23,808 --> 00:57:26,542
You know she would.
1058
00:57:26,644 --> 00:57:28,610
Like my wife.
1059
00:57:28,712 --> 00:57:30,112
Here, lookie here.
1060
00:57:30,214 --> 00:57:33,482
This is the seal of the
presidency of the United States.
1061
00:57:33,584 --> 00:57:36,819
There's only two cuff links
like this in the entire world
1062
00:57:36,921 --> 00:57:39,087
and you now
own them both.
1063
00:57:39,190 --> 00:57:41,089
I want you to wear them
in good health, Bill.
1064
00:57:41,192 --> 00:57:43,325
And think about
what I said, huh?
1065
00:57:43,427 --> 00:57:46,728
You look good, Bill. I bet
you dropped a few pounds, huh?
1066
00:57:46,831 --> 00:57:50,399
I'm gonna need another set
of those cuff links.
1067
00:57:50,501 --> 00:57:53,135
What the hell?
1068
00:57:53,237 --> 00:57:54,837
Walter.
1069
00:57:54,939 --> 00:57:56,438
Walter!
1070
00:57:56,540 --> 00:57:58,607
- - Walter! Gerri,
where's Walter?
1071
00:57:58,709 --> 00:58:02,411
- Right here.
- Why the hell is Senator Engle suddenly off my list?
1072
00:58:02,513 --> 00:58:04,947
He's paralyzed with a
malignant brain tumor, sir.
1073
00:58:05,049 --> 00:58:07,216
- Recovering from surgery.
- Holy shit.
1074
00:58:07,318 --> 00:58:09,852
- Well, is he conscious?
- I don't know, sir.
1075
00:58:09,954 --> 00:58:12,621
Well, find out,
God damn it.
1076
00:58:12,723 --> 00:58:15,390
If he's conscious,
he can vote!
1077
00:58:15,493 --> 00:58:17,392
...but I know my Bible.
1078
00:58:17,495 --> 00:58:20,829
And the Bible does not say that
we cannot choose our own neighbor.
1079
00:58:20,931 --> 00:58:23,599
The Bible does not say
that we cannot build a wall
1080
00:58:23,701 --> 00:58:26,101
betwixt ourselves
and our neighbor.
1081
00:58:26,203 --> 00:58:30,239
Johnson: What I need is some
help on this cloture vote.
1082
00:58:30,341 --> 00:58:32,274
No? Well,
I'll tell you
1083
00:58:32,376 --> 00:58:34,209
what protects
a small state, Alan,
1084
00:58:34,311 --> 00:58:36,478
and it damn sure
isn't a filibuster rule.
1085
00:58:36,580 --> 00:58:39,748
It's a strong president
who's in your corner.
1086
00:58:41,385 --> 00:58:42,851
What- now where-
1087
00:58:42,953 --> 00:58:45,854
where on Earth
do you get that-
1088
00:58:45,956 --> 00:58:48,891
well, I don't forget
these things.
1089
00:58:48,993 --> 00:58:50,392
You understand me?
1090
00:58:50,494 --> 00:58:52,160
Son of a bitch.
1091
00:58:52,263 --> 00:58:53,729
I thought I had him.
1092
00:58:53,831 --> 00:58:55,697
Now, for a man
named Bible,
1093
00:58:55,799 --> 00:58:58,400
he sure doesn't have a handle
on the New Testament.
1094
00:58:58,502 --> 00:59:00,736
This bill will guarantee
1095
00:59:00,838 --> 00:59:05,040
the commercial destruction
of white people everywhere!
1096
00:59:05,142 --> 00:59:06,909
Senator Cannon,
1097
00:59:07,011 --> 00:59:08,744
listen,
Carl Hayden and I
1098
00:59:08,846 --> 00:59:12,080
are finally putting together the
Central Arizona Water Project.
1099
00:59:12,182 --> 00:59:15,150
And if Nevada wants
any part of this,
1100
00:59:15,252 --> 00:59:17,319
I need your vote.
1101
00:59:17,421 --> 00:59:18,921
Yes, yes, yes,
1102
00:59:19,023 --> 00:59:21,123
I know how Alan Bible
feels about it,
1103
00:59:21,225 --> 00:59:22,591
but I'm talking
to you now,
1104
00:59:22,693 --> 00:59:25,794
combat veteran
to combat veteran.
1105
00:59:25,896 --> 00:59:27,930
Yeah.
1106
00:59:28,032 --> 00:59:31,266
Yeah, it is
a big damn decision,
1107
00:59:31,368 --> 00:59:34,369
but Democrats have
to stick together here.
1108
00:59:36,774 --> 00:59:39,041
Listen- no, now-
no, Howard, just-
1109
00:59:39,143 --> 00:59:41,276
Howard, listen to me,
will you?
1110
00:59:41,378 --> 00:59:43,011
Just listen to me.
1111
00:59:43,113 --> 00:59:46,248
Now, we both got
1112
00:59:46,350 --> 00:59:49,251
tough election fights
ahead of us here.
1113
00:59:49,353 --> 00:59:52,554
You know I'm gonna be
there for you when it counts
1114
00:59:52,656 --> 00:59:56,558
and can I count
on you now?
1115
01:00:00,564 --> 01:00:02,898
Howard, you do
the right thing here
1116
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:04,800
and you're gonna
help yourself
1117
01:00:04,902 --> 01:00:07,336
and you're gonna help
your state
1118
01:00:07,438 --> 01:00:09,805
and you're gonna help
your country.
1119
01:00:10,574 --> 01:00:13,041
Will you vote
for cloture?
1120
01:00:19,283 --> 01:00:21,350
Howard,
you're a good man.
1121
01:00:21,452 --> 01:00:23,151
Thank you!
Bye-bye.
1122
01:00:23,253 --> 01:00:26,421
- 67 votes!
- Congratulations.
1123
01:00:26,523 --> 01:00:29,825
Should we let Senator Dirksen
make the public announcement?
1124
01:00:29,927 --> 01:00:32,361
You think there's any way
we can stop him?
1125
01:00:36,433 --> 01:00:39,067
Johnson:
We believe all men
1126
01:00:39,169 --> 01:00:43,739
are entitled
to the blessings of liberty.
1127
01:00:43,841 --> 01:00:46,041
Yet millions
1128
01:00:46,143 --> 01:00:50,112
are deprived
of those blessings,
1129
01:00:50,214 --> 01:00:54,549
not because
of their own failures,
1130
01:00:54,652 --> 01:00:58,920
but because of the color
of their skin.
1131
01:01:00,290 --> 01:01:03,392
This cannot continue.
1132
01:01:03,494 --> 01:01:06,928
Our Constitution
forbids it.
1133
01:01:07,031 --> 01:01:10,565
The principles
of freedom forbid it.
1134
01:01:10,668 --> 01:01:15,671
And the law I will now sign forbids it.
1135
01:01:15,773 --> 01:01:17,639
Thank you
1136
01:01:17,741 --> 01:01:20,876
and good day.
1137
01:01:30,220 --> 01:01:32,320
Man:
Reverend King.
1138
01:01:34,091 --> 01:01:37,225
Humphrey: We did it. We did it.
1139
01:01:37,327 --> 01:01:38,760
We got it done.
1140
01:01:38,862 --> 01:01:40,328
- Man: Congratulations.
- Humphrey: Thank you.
1141
01:01:40,431 --> 01:01:42,497
There you go, Everett.
I appreciate it.
1142
01:01:42,599 --> 01:01:45,033
- Thank you, Mr. President.
- Johnson: Dr. King.
1143
01:01:45,135 --> 01:01:47,769
I need to see
Dr. King, you hear.
1144
01:01:47,871 --> 01:01:49,705
- There you are.
- Here, Mr. President.
1145
01:01:49,807 --> 01:01:52,374
- It's for you, sir.
- It's an honor, Mr. President.
1146
01:01:52,476 --> 01:01:55,177
Likewise.
Thank you.
1147
01:01:56,113 --> 01:01:58,146
Man:
Hear, hear.
1148
01:02:14,665 --> 01:02:17,666
- I'm sorry, Dick.
- No, you're not.
1149
01:02:19,403 --> 01:02:22,637
It's not personal.
It's just politics.
1150
01:02:22,740 --> 01:02:24,873
It's the passing
of an era.
1151
01:02:24,975 --> 01:02:26,408
Well, yes, it is.
1152
01:02:26,510 --> 01:02:30,345
It's the passing of a time
of etiquette, courtesy.
1153
01:02:30,447 --> 01:02:33,115
It's the passing
of a time of principles,
1154
01:02:33,217 --> 01:02:34,616
like party unity.
1155
01:02:36,553 --> 01:02:39,921
You know what the old
soldier said on parade?
1156
01:02:40,023 --> 01:02:43,458
"Hey, look, everybody's
out of step but me."
1157
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:44,960
Maybe.
1158
01:02:45,062 --> 01:02:49,097
I am old, that's true,
and God knows I'm tired.
1159
01:02:49,199 --> 01:02:51,299
But the fellas
coming up behind me
1160
01:02:51,401 --> 01:02:54,436
are utterly without
principle of any kind
1161
01:02:54,538 --> 01:02:57,205
and you'll see how you like
dealing with them.
1162
01:02:58,575 --> 01:03:01,009
You're gonna miss me
when I'm gone.
1163
01:03:01,111 --> 01:03:04,212
I still need you, Dick.
1164
01:03:05,382 --> 01:03:08,717
I'm still here,
Mr. President.
1165
01:03:08,819 --> 01:03:11,419
But the rest of Dixie?
1166
01:03:14,224 --> 01:03:17,425
I hope you haven't just killed
your election chances.
1167
01:03:25,035 --> 01:03:26,735
Congratulations,
Mr. President,
1168
01:03:26,837 --> 01:03:29,404
on your glorious
achievement.
1169
01:03:30,374 --> 01:03:33,508
The Democratic Party
just lost the South
1170
01:03:33,610 --> 01:03:35,777
for the rest
of my lifetime
1171
01:03:35,879 --> 01:03:38,213
and maybe yours.
1172
01:03:40,884 --> 01:03:43,518
What the fuck
are you so happy about?
1173
01:03:58,468 --> 01:04:00,635
- - Reporter: Senator
Goldwater's triumph
1174
01:04:00,737 --> 01:04:03,638
takes the leadership of his party
away from the eastern liberal block
1175
01:04:03,740 --> 01:04:05,707
and places it with
the western conservatives
1176
01:04:05,809 --> 01:04:08,543
for the first time
since 1936.
1177
01:04:08,645 --> 01:04:12,247
- Woman: L.B.!
- Johnson's voice: Clausewitz said...
1178
01:04:12,349 --> 01:04:14,282
Marjorie.
1179
01:04:14,384 --> 01:04:18,820
...politics is war
by other means.
1180
01:04:20,791 --> 01:04:22,257
Bullshit.
1181
01:04:22,359 --> 01:04:25,493
- Politics is war, period.
- Congratulations, Daddy.
1182
01:04:25,596 --> 01:04:27,128
Thank you.
1183
01:04:27,231 --> 01:04:29,798
Goldwater: ...that moderation
and the pursuit of justice
1184
01:04:29,900 --> 01:04:31,733
is no virtue.
1185
01:04:31,835 --> 01:04:33,902
Let me remind you also
1186
01:04:34,004 --> 01:04:37,772
that extremism
in the defense of liberty
1187
01:04:37,875 --> 01:04:40,475
is no vice.
1188
01:04:40,577 --> 01:04:43,411
Johnson's voice: You know how
you win a campaign?
1189
01:04:43,513 --> 01:04:45,313
By not losing it.
1190
01:04:45,415 --> 01:04:47,249
Good morning,
Mr. President.
1191
01:04:47,351 --> 01:04:51,386
Johnson's voice: I only lost one
election my whole life.
1192
01:04:51,488 --> 01:04:53,455
The son of a bitch
stole it from me
1193
01:04:53,557 --> 01:04:56,591
in the final seconds with
a handful of fake votes,
1194
01:04:56,693 --> 01:04:58,927
and I will carry
the pain of that with me
1195
01:04:59,029 --> 01:05:01,129
to my dying day.
1196
01:05:01,231 --> 01:05:02,797
But I'll tell you what.
1197
01:05:02,900 --> 01:05:07,068
Nobody will ever
do me that way again.
1198
01:05:07,170 --> 01:05:11,239
- Goldwater:...that every fiber of my being...
- It'll be some other way.
1199
01:05:11,341 --> 01:05:14,910
Goldwater: ...that nothing shall
be lacking from the struggle...
1200
01:05:58,288 --> 01:05:59,988
Out of the car, boys.
1201
01:06:00,090 --> 01:06:02,057
What's the problem,
Deputy Price?
1202
01:06:02,159 --> 01:06:03,625
I thought we were good.
1203
01:06:03,727 --> 01:06:07,162
Out of the car,
Jew boy.
1204
01:06:32,222 --> 01:06:34,923
Man: What you
looking at, nigger?
1205
01:06:36,460 --> 01:06:38,626
We've got a situation
in Mississippi.
1206
01:06:38,729 --> 01:06:41,563
- Johnson: Yeah?
- Three young men have gone missing.
1207
01:06:41,665 --> 01:06:44,132
Michael Schwerner,
age 25,
1208
01:06:44,234 --> 01:06:45,967
Andrew Goodman,
age 21,
1209
01:06:46,069 --> 01:06:48,036
and James Chaney, 21.
1210
01:06:48,138 --> 01:06:51,373
They were all working the Freedom
Summer project in Meridian.
1211
01:06:51,475 --> 01:06:53,475
Chaney's a local Negro,
1212
01:06:53,577 --> 01:06:57,779
but Schwerner and Goodman were
both out-of-state volunteers,
1213
01:06:57,881 --> 01:06:59,447
both white.
1214
01:06:59,549 --> 01:07:02,917
Well, the shit
will hit the fan now.
1215
01:07:04,721 --> 01:07:06,454
Get me the governor
of Mississippi.
1216
01:07:06,556 --> 01:07:08,523
They were investigating
the burning
1217
01:07:08,625 --> 01:07:10,458
of a Negro church
in Neshoba County.
1218
01:07:10,560 --> 01:07:13,395
They've been missing
for 15 hours now.
1219
01:07:14,598 --> 01:07:17,098
Missing in Mississippi?
1220
01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:20,068
Son of a bitch.
1221
01:07:21,338 --> 01:07:24,005
Yeah. All right,
put him through.
1222
01:07:24,107 --> 01:07:27,809
- - Governor, I'm calling
about those three boys.
1223
01:07:27,911 --> 01:07:30,345
You mean those three
professional agitators.
1224
01:07:30,447 --> 01:07:32,680
Chaney, Schwerner,
and Goodman.
1225
01:07:32,783 --> 01:07:36,418
Yeah, that come into our state
creating all kinds of problems.
1226
01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:39,721
Apparently,
a Deputy Price
1227
01:07:39,823 --> 01:07:41,756
arrested them
yesterday afternoon.
1228
01:07:41,858 --> 01:07:44,959
For driving 35 miles
over the speed limit.
1229
01:07:45,062 --> 01:07:46,561
- Really?
- Yes, sir.
1230
01:07:46,663 --> 01:07:49,798
So they held them
for a couple hours.
1231
01:07:49,900 --> 01:07:52,267
Oh, see, now that's
where it gets confusing
1232
01:07:52,369 --> 01:07:56,237
'cause when their friends
called the jail down there,
1233
01:07:56,339 --> 01:08:00,075
the deputy said
he had never heard of them.
1234
01:08:00,177 --> 01:08:03,244
Well, I don't know
anything about that.
1235
01:08:03,346 --> 01:08:06,014
Uh, Price said
1236
01:08:06,116 --> 01:08:09,684
he released them
at 10:00 that night.
1237
01:08:09,786 --> 01:08:11,619
And nobody's
heard of them since.
1238
01:08:11,721 --> 01:08:16,191
This is clearly
a publicity stunt.
1239
01:08:16,293 --> 01:08:19,494
Well, those boys
are off hiding somewhere
1240
01:08:19,596 --> 01:08:21,596
probably having themselves
a good laugh,
1241
01:08:21,698 --> 01:08:23,364
and they're gonna
come back in,
1242
01:08:23,467 --> 01:08:25,633
they're gonna claim they were
abused or something.
1243
01:08:25,735 --> 01:08:27,168
Well, now, I'd hate
to have to send
1244
01:08:27,270 --> 01:08:29,904
a whole bunch of federal
marshals into your state.
1245
01:08:30,006 --> 01:08:33,541
Uh, well, no,
you don't wanna do that.
1246
01:08:33,643 --> 01:08:34,943
Of course I don't.
1247
01:08:35,045 --> 01:08:36,478
You don't want
the publicity
1248
01:08:36,580 --> 01:08:38,513
and I sure as hell
don't wanna stir up a mess
1249
01:08:38,615 --> 01:08:40,682
just eight weeks before
the Democratic Convention.
1250
01:08:40,784 --> 01:08:43,751
But there's a lot of
pressure to do something.
1251
01:08:43,854 --> 01:08:45,720
Now, if you'd rather,
1252
01:08:45,822 --> 01:08:49,891
I guess I can get a few FBI
agents to look into the thing.
1253
01:08:49,993 --> 01:08:51,559
FBI?
1254
01:08:51,661 --> 01:08:53,328
Well,
it's a damn sight better
1255
01:08:53,430 --> 01:08:55,964
than the federal marshals
and the US Army, isn't it?
1256
01:08:56,066 --> 01:09:00,135
Well, yes,
I guess it would.
1257
01:09:00,237 --> 01:09:01,369
Yeah, you know,
I think
1258
01:09:01,471 --> 01:09:03,938
you got the right idea
there, Governor.
1259
01:09:04,040 --> 01:09:07,509
Let this be Hoover's problem, not ours.
1260
01:09:07,611 --> 01:09:09,310
Hopefully, you're right
about the whole thing
1261
01:09:09,412 --> 01:09:12,647
and these boys will turn up
quick and we can all just relax.
1262
01:09:12,749 --> 01:09:14,883
Christ's sakes,
we got an election to win.
1263
01:09:14,985 --> 01:09:16,484
Hoover will just
drag his feet.
1264
01:09:16,586 --> 01:09:18,887
No, not if I light
a fire under his ass.
1265
01:09:25,028 --> 01:09:27,495
- Mr. President.
- Edgar,
1266
01:09:27,597 --> 01:09:29,731
the governor
of Mississippi
1267
01:09:29,833 --> 01:09:33,168
wants the FBI to look
into these missing kids.
1268
01:09:33,270 --> 01:09:36,070
Well, I'd be happy to,
Mr. President,
1269
01:09:36,173 --> 01:09:37,739
but there's
a jurisdictional problem.
1270
01:09:37,841 --> 01:09:40,308
Well, I'm not gonna tell you
how to run your shop,
1271
01:09:40,410 --> 01:09:44,045
but, uh, the governor
asked specifically
1272
01:09:44,147 --> 01:09:46,214
for the FBI
to investigate.
1273
01:09:46,316 --> 01:09:50,318
I tried to put him off,
but, uh, well, I suppose
1274
01:09:50,420 --> 01:09:53,454
I can get
some third party involved.
1275
01:09:53,557 --> 01:09:55,223
I know Senator
Jim Eastland
1276
01:09:55,325 --> 01:09:56,958
wants Allen Dulles
investigating.
1277
01:09:57,060 --> 01:09:59,694
CIA? Oh, no,
Mr. President,
1278
01:09:59,796 --> 01:10:02,030
I don't think Dulles
is a good idea.
1279
01:10:02,132 --> 01:10:04,999
This is very clearly
an FBI matter.
1280
01:10:05,101 --> 01:10:07,335
Well, if you're sure.
1281
01:10:07,437 --> 01:10:10,071
I mean, the last thing
I would want
1282
01:10:10,173 --> 01:10:13,775
is Dulles down there acting like
he was running the FBI as well.
1283
01:10:13,877 --> 01:10:17,612
I'll tell you what, let's
say Eastland is my problem.
1284
01:10:17,714 --> 01:10:18,880
I'll just deal with him.
1285
01:10:18,982 --> 01:10:21,082
You get your agents down there
to Neshoba County
1286
01:10:21,184 --> 01:10:23,418
and you just wrap this
thing up quick, you hear?
1287
01:10:23,520 --> 01:10:25,920
When did you talk
to Eastland
1288
01:10:26,022 --> 01:10:27,989
about Dulles
going down there?
1289
01:10:28,091 --> 01:10:30,592
Oh, I made that part up.
1290
01:10:30,694 --> 01:10:34,963
The problem here is there's
three sovereignties involved.
1291
01:10:35,065 --> 01:10:37,031
There's the United States,
1292
01:10:37,133 --> 01:10:40,034
there's the state
of Mississippi,
1293
01:10:40,136 --> 01:10:43,304
and then there's
J. Edgar Hoover.
1294
01:10:50,947 --> 01:10:54,082
Reporter: The burned-out station
wagon was discovered in the woods
1295
01:10:54,184 --> 01:10:56,284
20 miles from Philadelphia,
Mississippi,
1296
01:10:56,386 --> 01:10:59,087
a small town in which
Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney
1297
01:10:59,189 --> 01:11:01,589
had been arrested for speeding
during the day.
1298
01:11:01,691 --> 01:11:04,225
They were released late at
night by a deputy sheriff
1299
01:11:04,327 --> 01:11:07,795
and were last seen driving away
in the blue station wagon.
1300
01:11:07,897 --> 01:11:11,132
- We have to assume those young
men are dead. - Wilkins: Mm-hmm.
1301
01:11:11,234 --> 01:11:13,101
There were no bodies
in the car they found.
1302
01:11:13,203 --> 01:11:16,671
Oh, well, then they're probably
on vacation, huh, Mr. Wilkins?
1303
01:11:16,773 --> 01:11:19,007
I mean, I always
set my car on fire
1304
01:11:19,109 --> 01:11:20,675
before taking
a weekend off.
1305
01:11:20,777 --> 01:11:23,411
How many voters
have you actually registered?
1306
01:11:27,117 --> 01:11:29,550
- 1,200, give or take.
- Hmm.
1307
01:11:29,653 --> 01:11:32,553
500 beaten and arrested,
35 churches burned,
1308
01:11:32,656 --> 01:11:34,555
30 Negro homes
and businesses
1309
01:11:34,658 --> 01:11:38,259
dynamited
for 1,200 votes.
1310
01:11:38,361 --> 01:11:40,261
It's not just
about the votes.
1311
01:11:40,363 --> 01:11:43,865
For the first time, black people
are building a new political party.
1312
01:11:43,967 --> 01:11:46,734
- The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, I heard.
- Carmichael: Hold on.
1313
01:11:46,836 --> 01:11:49,203
We tried to play
by the rules
1314
01:11:49,306 --> 01:11:52,774
of the regular Democrat
Party, but they kept us out.
1315
01:11:52,876 --> 01:11:57,478
Fine. So we built our own Democrat
Party, but with a difference.
1316
01:11:57,580 --> 01:12:00,348
Open to everybody,
white or Negro.
1317
01:12:00,450 --> 01:12:03,651
Well, don't you think that America ought
to have at least one political party
1318
01:12:03,753 --> 01:12:05,453
- that isn't racist?
- It's a waste of time.
1319
01:12:05,555 --> 01:12:08,323
We send our delegates
to the convention
1320
01:12:08,425 --> 01:12:09,924
where they challenge
the legality
1321
01:12:10,026 --> 01:12:12,927
of the segregated Mississippi
delegation on national TV
1322
01:12:13,029 --> 01:12:17,799
- and dare L.B.J.
- not to seat us.
1323
01:12:18,835 --> 01:12:21,202
Children playing
with dynamite.
1324
01:12:21,304 --> 01:12:24,105
Are you so desperate
for their approval
1325
01:12:24,207 --> 01:12:27,442
that you would sanction
this mass suicide?
1326
01:12:27,544 --> 01:12:30,211
Those young men
went down to Mississippi
1327
01:12:30,313 --> 01:12:33,815
and died doing the work the
government hasn't been willing to do
1328
01:12:33,917 --> 01:12:36,384
for a hundred years.
1329
01:12:36,486 --> 01:12:38,753
We've got
to take a stand.
1330
01:12:43,893 --> 01:12:46,294
I grieve
for those young men.
1331
01:12:47,163 --> 01:12:48,863
Don't use
their funeral pyre
1332
01:12:48,965 --> 01:12:51,499
to burn what's left
of the movement.
1333
01:12:59,075 --> 01:13:01,209
How can I help, Bob?
1334
01:13:01,311 --> 01:13:03,678
- Come to Mississippi.
- Don't be ridiculous.
1335
01:13:03,780 --> 01:13:06,647
Show the people that you are
behind the Mississippi Freedom-
1336
01:13:06,750 --> 01:13:09,350
You might as well
paint a target on his back
1337
01:13:09,452 --> 01:13:10,718
and declare open season.
1338
01:13:10,820 --> 01:13:13,287
Martin, you have not
been to Mississippi
1339
01:13:13,390 --> 01:13:15,089
- in over a year.
- Abernathy: He's been busy.
1340
01:13:15,191 --> 01:13:17,725
Death threats,
jail, shot at.
1341
01:13:17,827 --> 01:13:22,230
- You don't own a monopoly over
suffering- - And I never said that I did.
1342
01:13:22,332 --> 01:13:24,632
Let somebody else
carry this one, Martin.
1343
01:13:26,336 --> 01:13:28,102
Please.
1344
01:13:35,278 --> 01:13:38,112
Of course I'll come.
1345
01:13:38,214 --> 01:13:42,250
Jenkins: FBI was acting on a tip
about a farm in rural Mississippi
1346
01:13:42,352 --> 01:13:45,386
and they just found two bodies
buried there in an earthen dam.
1347
01:13:45,488 --> 01:13:48,122
Jesus.
Are they sure it's them?
1348
01:13:48,224 --> 01:13:50,191
Schwerner's draft card
in his back pocket.
1349
01:13:50,293 --> 01:13:52,326
Goodman's body
right below his.
1350
01:13:52,429 --> 01:13:55,196
It appears they had both
been shot once in the chest.
1351
01:13:55,298 --> 01:13:57,098
And they're
still digging for Chaney.
1352
01:13:57,200 --> 01:13:59,500
God damn.
1353
01:13:59,602 --> 01:14:01,569
Bless those boys.
1354
01:14:02,739 --> 01:14:05,606
The minute McNamara
gets here, you send him in.
1355
01:14:07,510 --> 01:14:11,212
Gentlemen, we need to pick up
this conversation some other time.
1356
01:14:11,314 --> 01:14:13,347
I'm sorry.
1357
01:14:13,450 --> 01:14:17,819
It's obvious that
this Deputy Price
1358
01:14:17,921 --> 01:14:19,020
was involved in that.
1359
01:14:19,122 --> 01:14:20,788
Probably
the sheriff, too.
1360
01:14:20,890 --> 01:14:22,256
Oh, Lord.
1361
01:14:22,358 --> 01:14:25,626
- Well, this whole mess
is in my lap now.
1362
01:14:25,728 --> 01:14:28,196
If I don't charge
these bastards,
1363
01:14:28,298 --> 01:14:31,199
then King yells and I'm letting
them get away with murder.
1364
01:14:31,301 --> 01:14:34,402
But if I do charge them,
then all the Southerners scream
1365
01:14:34,504 --> 01:14:36,704
about how I'm taking orders
from the Negroes,
1366
01:14:36,806 --> 01:14:40,274
and all this two weeks before the
start of the goddamn convention.
1367
01:14:40,376 --> 01:14:42,510
Mr. President, I'm sorry
to have to tell you,
1368
01:14:42,612 --> 01:14:44,111
but the word is
Governor Wallace
1369
01:14:44,214 --> 01:14:45,580
has offered himself
to Goldwater
1370
01:14:45,682 --> 01:14:49,050
as the Republican vice
presidential candidate.
1371
01:14:49,152 --> 01:14:50,952
That little weasel
1372
01:14:51,054 --> 01:14:53,221
would sell his mother
to get a leg up.
1373
01:14:53,323 --> 01:14:56,991
And Strom Thurmond
is formally switching parties.
1374
01:14:57,093 --> 01:14:58,860
That motherfucker!
1375
01:14:58,962 --> 01:15:00,862
Is anybody
gonna follow him?
1376
01:15:00,964 --> 01:15:03,364
- Well, I don't know.
- Well, find out.
1377
01:15:03,466 --> 01:15:06,300
- You bet I will.
- God damn it.
1378
01:15:13,443 --> 01:15:15,776
You see her on TV?
1379
01:15:15,879 --> 01:15:18,579
- Who?
- Oh, the-
1380
01:15:18,681 --> 01:15:21,516
the dead kid's wife,
Schwerner.
1381
01:15:21,618 --> 01:15:23,985
Uh, Rita, Rita.
1382
01:15:24,087 --> 01:15:27,154
Wife.
Widow, I mean.
1383
01:15:27,257 --> 01:15:28,456
Christ.
1384
01:15:28,558 --> 01:15:30,291
Terrible.
1385
01:15:30,393 --> 01:15:33,427
- - Mr. President,
we have word.
1386
01:15:34,597 --> 01:15:37,431
No, no. Come on.
1387
01:15:38,601 --> 01:15:40,568
Yeah. Sit there.
1388
01:15:41,704 --> 01:15:43,571
All right, Robert.
1389
01:15:43,673 --> 01:15:46,340
Captain Herrick
of the USS Maddox
1390
01:15:46,442 --> 01:15:48,976
reports a potential
sighting last night
1391
01:15:49,078 --> 01:15:53,748
of two possibly hostile unidentified
vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin
1392
01:15:53,850 --> 01:15:56,951
and some somewhat
contradictory sonar evidence
1393
01:15:57,053 --> 01:15:58,853
of actual
torpedo attack.
1394
01:16:00,623 --> 01:16:02,957
Wh- a potential sighting?
1395
01:16:03,059 --> 01:16:05,326
What the hell's
a potential sighting?
1396
01:16:05,428 --> 01:16:08,663
A visual sighting not
confirmed by mechanical means.
1397
01:16:10,033 --> 01:16:12,767
And this torpedo attack,
this actually happened?
1398
01:16:12,869 --> 01:16:15,970
Still awaiting
confirmation.
1399
01:16:16,072 --> 01:16:19,273
Well, were any
of our ships hit?
1400
01:16:19,375 --> 01:16:20,675
No, sir.
1401
01:16:20,777 --> 01:16:24,211
- Were there any explosions?
- No, sir.
1402
01:16:24,314 --> 01:16:27,448
Then how the hell do we know
we were attacked?
1403
01:16:27,550 --> 01:16:29,717
We don't, for sure.
1404
01:16:29,819 --> 01:16:33,254
We have contradictory
sonar readings.
1405
01:16:33,356 --> 01:16:35,089
For God's sakes, Robert.
1406
01:16:35,191 --> 01:16:37,224
Give me something
I could work with here.
1407
01:16:37,327 --> 01:16:42,029
Officially, this is
a very delicate subject.
1408
01:16:42,832 --> 01:16:45,299
Oh, Humphrey can know.
1409
01:16:46,502 --> 01:16:48,269
Mr. President,
1410
01:16:48,371 --> 01:16:50,538
the limited air strikes
you ordered preselected
1411
01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:53,341
- in case of another attack are good to go.
- Air strikes?
1412
01:16:53,443 --> 01:16:56,143
- Shall we order them in?
- Surely, this is a situation
1413
01:16:56,245 --> 01:16:58,512
about which we ought to be
more confident before we act.
1414
01:16:58,615 --> 01:17:02,283
There's no sense in pretending last
night's event didn't happen, not anymore.
1415
01:17:02,385 --> 01:17:05,419
- What do you mean?
- There's been a leak somewhere.
1416
01:17:05,521 --> 01:17:08,823
- Who? Who leaked it?
- We're tracking it down.
1417
01:17:08,925 --> 01:17:10,658
I want his fucking head
in a basket!
1418
01:17:10,760 --> 01:17:14,762
The point is the press
has got to it somehow.
1419
01:17:14,864 --> 01:17:16,497
God damn it!
1420
01:17:16,599 --> 01:17:20,034
Now there are domestic
considerations as well.
1421
01:17:20,136 --> 01:17:21,936
Yeah, Goldwater.
1422
01:17:22,038 --> 01:17:24,338
Don't retaliate.
1423
01:17:24,440 --> 01:17:26,307
He will play all the angles against you.
1424
01:17:26,409 --> 01:17:30,311
All this "soft on military" bullshit.
1425
01:17:30,413 --> 01:17:33,114
Christ, the Democrats
beat Hitler and Tojo.
1426
01:17:33,216 --> 01:17:34,582
What more
do we have to do?
1427
01:17:34,684 --> 01:17:36,550
You want me to call in
the retaliatory strikes?
1428
01:17:36,653 --> 01:17:39,487
For an attack which may
or may not have happened?
1429
01:17:39,589 --> 01:17:41,155
Planes are ready to go
on your command.
1430
01:17:41,257 --> 01:17:43,491
Mr. President, this puts you
in a terrible position.
1431
01:17:43,593 --> 01:17:46,527
- You are essentially going to have to lie.
- Mr. President!
1432
01:17:54,437 --> 01:17:57,905
- Do it.
- Yes, sir.
1433
01:18:00,043 --> 01:18:01,542
If it gets out,
1434
01:18:01,644 --> 01:18:04,145
we'll pass it off on
our South Vietnamese allies.
1435
01:18:04,247 --> 01:18:06,881
- Mr. President- - What,
you think I like this?!
1436
01:18:06,983 --> 01:18:09,283
Putting my ass in a sling
this close to the election?
1437
01:18:09,385 --> 01:18:11,852
- Sir- - Or maybe you think
Goldwater ought to be president.
1438
01:18:11,954 --> 01:18:13,187
- Is that it?
- I never said that.
1439
01:18:13,289 --> 01:18:15,022
That maniac wants
to lob an A-bomb
1440
01:18:15,124 --> 01:18:17,725
into the Kremlin's bathroom
and start World War III.
1441
01:18:17,827 --> 01:18:20,194
- You see how you like that.
- Mr. President, come on.
1442
01:18:20,296 --> 01:18:23,064
If Goldwater gets elected,
you can forget about poverty.
1443
01:18:23,166 --> 01:18:26,434
You can forget about civil
rights. Is that what you want?
1444
01:18:26,536 --> 01:18:28,836
Now, I'm trying
to turn this country around
1445
01:18:28,938 --> 01:18:31,639
and prevent a major war!
1446
01:18:31,741 --> 01:18:33,607
Christ, why the hell
1447
01:18:33,710 --> 01:18:36,977
did I ever consider you
for my vice president?
1448
01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:41,449
First sign of trouble,
you cut and run.
1449
01:18:41,551 --> 01:18:44,952
I'm not running anywhere,
Mr. President.
1450
01:18:45,054 --> 01:18:47,555
I'm standing
right here beside you.
1451
01:18:47,657 --> 01:18:51,425
Precious
cold comfort you are.
1452
01:18:53,463 --> 01:18:56,197
You know, Congress
is gonna back me on this.
1453
01:18:56,299 --> 01:18:59,133
It's election year.
1454
01:18:59,235 --> 01:19:03,237
I'll get them to pass
some kind of resolution
1455
01:19:03,339 --> 01:19:05,406
authorizing me
full authority over there.
1456
01:19:05,508 --> 01:19:08,375
Then we can get back
to things that really matter.
1457
01:19:10,046 --> 01:19:11,345
- Jenkins: Sir?
- What?
1458
01:19:11,447 --> 01:19:14,715
They found
Chaney's body.
1459
01:19:21,958 --> 01:19:23,924
God damn it.
1460
01:19:26,129 --> 01:19:28,963
Reporter: The bodies of the three missing civil rights workers
-
1461
01:19:29,065 --> 01:19:31,065
- Schwerner,
Chaney, and Goodman...
1462
01:19:31,167 --> 01:19:33,601
...were found in a grave
at the base of an earthen dam
1463
01:19:33,703 --> 01:19:36,103
outside of Philadelphia,
Mississippi.
1464
01:19:36,205 --> 01:19:39,974
Their bodies were wrapped in plastic
bags numbered one, two, and three.
1465
01:19:40,076 --> 01:19:44,111
They were taken to the medical
center in Jackson for examination.
1466
01:19:44,213 --> 01:19:49,216
♪...far too small... ♪
1467
01:19:49,318 --> 01:19:56,423
♪ Love so amazing ♪
1468
01:19:56,526 --> 01:20:01,162
♪ Love so divine ♪
1469
01:20:01,264 --> 01:20:07,468
♪ Demands my soul ♪
1470
01:20:07,570 --> 01:20:09,804
♪ My life ♪
1471
01:20:09,906 --> 01:20:15,709
♪ My all. ♪
1472
01:20:15,812 --> 01:20:19,513
All:
Amen.
1473
01:20:25,688 --> 01:20:28,656
James Chaney
gave his life
1474
01:20:28,758 --> 01:20:32,793
to make this country live up
to its forgotten promises
1475
01:20:32,895 --> 01:20:36,263
and unfulfilled ideals.
1476
01:20:36,365 --> 01:20:38,866
- Woman: Yes, he did.
- We all know
1477
01:20:38,968 --> 01:20:43,137
the terrible pain you must
be feeling in your hearts.
1478
01:20:43,239 --> 01:20:44,872
Man: That's right.
1479
01:20:44,974 --> 01:20:48,275
But we will not live
in despair.
1480
01:20:48,377 --> 01:20:51,712
- Congregation: No.
- We will not surrender.
1481
01:20:51,814 --> 01:20:53,981
- Congregation: No.
- We will continue
1482
01:20:54,083 --> 01:20:58,219
to respond to their violence
with love and forgiveness.
1483
01:20:58,321 --> 01:21:00,120
Congregation:
Amen.
1484
01:21:00,223 --> 01:21:01,889
As I stand here...
1485
01:21:02,892 --> 01:21:05,759
Woman: Who said that? Who said that?
1486
01:21:05,862 --> 01:21:08,729
...I not only blame
1487
01:21:08,831 --> 01:21:11,465
the people
who pulled the trigger
1488
01:21:11,567 --> 01:21:14,602
or dug the hole
with the shovel.
1489
01:21:15,571 --> 01:21:18,739
I blame the state
of Mississippi...
1490
01:21:19,842 --> 01:21:21,208
all the way on up
1491
01:21:21,310 --> 01:21:23,177
to the people in Washington
for what happened.
1492
01:21:23,279 --> 01:21:26,347
- Now, that's enough of that!
- No.
1493
01:21:26,449 --> 01:21:28,215
It's all right.
1494
01:21:28,317 --> 01:21:30,251
Come on up here.
1495
01:21:32,521 --> 01:21:35,990
I'm sick and tired
1496
01:21:36,092 --> 01:21:38,459
of going to funerals
for black men
1497
01:21:38,561 --> 01:21:42,630
- who have been murdered by white men.
- Congregation: Yes.
1498
01:21:42,732 --> 01:21:44,832
- Are you?
- Congregation: Yes!
1499
01:21:44,934 --> 01:21:47,201
Are you sick and tired
of this stuff like I am?
1500
01:21:47,303 --> 01:21:49,136
Congregation:
Yes!
1501
01:21:49,238 --> 01:21:51,772
I'm not feeling sad
tonight, Dr. King.
1502
01:21:54,410 --> 01:21:56,610
I'm not feeling
forgiveness.
1503
01:21:56,712 --> 01:21:58,846
Woman:
Preach.
1504
01:21:58,948 --> 01:22:01,548
I've got vengeance
in my heart.
1505
01:22:02,818 --> 01:22:05,419
And I'm asking you
to feel angry with me.
1506
01:22:05,521 --> 01:22:07,354
- Congregation: Yes.
- Are you angry?
1507
01:22:07,456 --> 01:22:12,126
- Yes!
- The white men who murdered James Chaney
1508
01:22:12,228 --> 01:22:13,594
are never
gonna be punished.
1509
01:22:13,696 --> 01:22:15,496
Congregation:
That's right.
1510
01:22:15,598 --> 01:22:20,634
The best way
to remember James Chaney
1511
01:22:20,736 --> 01:22:23,704
is to demand our rights.
1512
01:22:23,806 --> 01:22:25,572
If you go back home
and take
1513
01:22:25,675 --> 01:22:29,209
what these white men
are doing to us...
1514
01:22:30,913 --> 01:22:34,682
if you take it and don't
do something about it,
1515
01:22:34,784 --> 01:22:36,817
then God damn
your souls!
1516
01:22:36,919 --> 01:22:39,086
Stand up!
1517
01:22:40,423 --> 01:22:42,756
We got to stand up
in Meridian!
1518
01:22:42,858 --> 01:22:46,226
- Congregation: Yeah!
- We got to stand up in Jackson!
1519
01:22:46,329 --> 01:22:47,561
Congregation:
Stand up!
1520
01:22:47,663 --> 01:22:49,396
And when we get
to Atlantic City,
1521
01:22:49,498 --> 01:22:52,199
- what are we going to do?
- Stand up!
1522
01:22:52,301 --> 01:22:54,535
- Stand up!
- Stand up!
1523
01:22:54,637 --> 01:22:56,003
- Stand up!
- Stand up!
1524
01:22:56,105 --> 01:22:58,138
- Stand up!
- Stand up!
1525
01:22:58,240 --> 01:22:59,873
Stand up! Stand up!
1526
01:22:59,976 --> 01:23:01,742
Stand up! Stand up!
1527
01:23:01,844 --> 01:23:03,711
Stand up!
Stand up!
1528
01:23:03,813 --> 01:23:07,414
One man, one vote!
One man, one vote!
1529
01:23:12,588 --> 01:23:14,221
You must seat the MFDP.
1530
01:23:14,323 --> 01:23:17,758
- Martin, it's- it's not
that simple. - Yes, it is.
1531
01:23:17,860 --> 01:23:21,428
Now, you don't understand the
depth of feeling among my people.
1532
01:23:21,530 --> 01:23:24,365
These murders, they've
rocked the movement.
1533
01:23:24,467 --> 01:23:27,868
If the government does not
do what is right here,
1534
01:23:27,970 --> 01:23:30,771
nonviolence will no longer
be an option.
1535
01:23:33,876 --> 01:23:37,144
Reporter: You can see a
largely Negro delegation
1536
01:23:37,246 --> 01:23:39,046
from a Southern state
appear here
1537
01:23:39,148 --> 01:23:41,181
claiming to be
an alternative delegation.
1538
01:23:41,283 --> 01:23:44,451
It's something I don't think has
happened in the Democratic Convention
1539
01:23:44,553 --> 01:23:46,587
perhaps since
Reconstruction days.
1540
01:23:46,689 --> 01:23:49,490
And according to the Freedom
Democratic representatives,
1541
01:23:49,592 --> 01:23:51,625
Dr. Henry, who is
their chairman,
1542
01:23:51,727 --> 01:23:55,195
Dr. Martin Luther King, they are
not going to accept any compromise
1543
01:23:55,297 --> 01:23:57,898
short of having some kind
of a vote in this convention.
1544
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:02,069
Well, I'll certainly take that
under consideration, John.
1545
01:24:02,171 --> 01:24:05,005
Reporter: ...this delegation
being seated, and the other...
1546
01:24:05,107 --> 01:24:07,508
John Connally, the
governor of my own state,
1547
01:24:07,610 --> 01:24:10,878
just told me, "You seat
those black buggers,
1548
01:24:10,980 --> 01:24:12,613
not only
will Texas quit,
1549
01:24:12,715 --> 01:24:14,448
but the whole South
will walk out."
1550
01:24:14,550 --> 01:24:17,618
We might as well kiss the
whole goddamn election good-bye.
1551
01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:19,486
What the hell
do you want?
1552
01:24:19,588 --> 01:24:21,088
The ballot
in Alabama, sir,
1553
01:24:21,190 --> 01:24:23,223
apparently, Governor Wallace
kept your name off it.
1554
01:24:23,325 --> 01:24:25,492
That little piece of shit.
1555
01:24:25,594 --> 01:24:28,729
- Can he do that?
- Of course he can.
1556
01:24:28,831 --> 01:24:31,832
Goldwater must be
laughing his ass off.
1557
01:24:31,934 --> 01:24:34,034
And now they're
just threatening
1558
01:24:34,136 --> 01:24:36,336
to walk out of the
whole goddamn convention!
1559
01:24:38,174 --> 01:24:40,841
- Son of a bitch.
- Lyndon,
1560
01:24:40,943 --> 01:24:43,343
why don't you take a break
from this for a while?
1561
01:24:43,446 --> 01:24:44,945
Oh, I'm fine, Bird.
1562
01:24:45,047 --> 01:24:47,614
Well, you certainly
don't sound fine.
1563
01:24:47,716 --> 01:24:51,285
- When's the last time you ate anything?
- Go away, Bird.
1564
01:24:51,387 --> 01:24:52,553
You're giving me
a goddamn headache.
1565
01:24:52,655 --> 01:24:54,154
Well, honey,
I'm just worried.
1566
01:24:54,256 --> 01:24:56,156
Would you leave me alone?!
1567
01:24:56,258 --> 01:24:58,025
Go on,
get out of here!
1568
01:24:58,127 --> 01:25:00,727
- Go on!
- Reporter:...watching over every aspect
1569
01:25:00,830 --> 01:25:03,430
and every detail
in this process...
1570
01:25:05,868 --> 01:25:09,203
Reporter #2: ...engaged by the
Mississippi delegation here tonight.
1571
01:25:19,582 --> 01:25:21,915
Oh.
1572
01:25:22,017 --> 01:25:24,151
Thank you.
1573
01:25:27,723 --> 01:25:29,289
Oh.
1574
01:25:29,391 --> 01:25:31,058
I feel so sorry for him.
1575
01:25:31,160 --> 01:25:32,526
I know.
1576
01:25:32,628 --> 01:25:35,195
Thank God
he has you, Walter.
1577
01:25:35,297 --> 01:25:37,931
And you.
1578
01:25:40,970 --> 01:25:43,070
You think
he's hard on me?
1579
01:25:43,172 --> 01:25:45,973
Well, he's hard
on everybody,
1580
01:25:46,075 --> 01:25:48,108
especially himself.
1581
01:25:48,210 --> 01:25:50,310
People don't see that.
1582
01:25:50,412 --> 01:25:52,412
But I do.
1583
01:25:52,515 --> 01:25:54,848
I see everything.
1584
01:25:54,950 --> 01:25:57,684
His lady friends.
1585
01:26:01,023 --> 01:26:03,790
But I'm the one
he chose, huh?
1586
01:26:03,893 --> 01:26:06,226
At the end of the day.
1587
01:26:08,063 --> 01:26:10,731
I'm the one
he comes home to.
1588
01:26:16,238 --> 01:26:20,340
My money paid for his first
campaign, did you know that?
1589
01:26:20,442 --> 01:26:21,975
I had to face down
my own daddy
1590
01:26:22,077 --> 01:26:25,646
over my inheritance
to get it.
1591
01:26:25,748 --> 01:26:27,414
By God,
1592
01:26:27,516 --> 01:26:31,118
it was the best investment
I ever made.
1593
01:26:34,256 --> 01:26:37,324
My lipstick okay?
1594
01:26:37,426 --> 01:26:39,159
You look beautiful.
1595
01:26:39,261 --> 01:26:41,762
No, I'm not.
1596
01:26:41,864 --> 01:26:45,265
But you make do
with what you got.
1597
01:26:45,367 --> 01:26:47,301
And whatever happens,
1598
01:26:47,403 --> 01:26:49,770
you don't quit.
1599
01:26:53,209 --> 01:26:55,275
Reporter: CBS News correspondent
Mike Wallace here
1600
01:26:55,377 --> 01:26:56,910
at the ballroom
of Convention Hall
1601
01:26:57,012 --> 01:26:58,745
where the credentials
committee
1602
01:26:58,847 --> 01:27:00,914
of the Democratic National
Party are in session.
1603
01:27:01,016 --> 01:27:02,516
And now we are hearing
1604
01:27:02,618 --> 01:27:05,819
from the Freedom Democratic Party
representatives of Mississippi.
1605
01:27:05,921 --> 01:27:09,189
Just tell the credential
committee what happened
1606
01:27:09,291 --> 01:27:11,091
in Mississippi,
Miss Hamer.
1607
01:27:32,114 --> 01:27:37,084
On January 9th, 1963,
I went to a meeting
1608
01:27:37,186 --> 01:27:40,721
to learn how to register
Negro voters in Mississippi.
1609
01:27:42,524 --> 01:27:44,224
On my way back,
1610
01:27:44,326 --> 01:27:47,060
I was arrested
by the Winona police chief
1611
01:27:47,162 --> 01:27:50,163
and taken
to the county jail.
1612
01:27:50,266 --> 01:27:54,501
After I was placed
in a cell,
1613
01:27:54,603 --> 01:27:57,304
state highway patrolmen
1614
01:27:57,406 --> 01:28:01,208
ordered me to lay facedown
on the bunk bed saying...
1615
01:28:02,878 --> 01:28:06,146
"You're gonna wish
you was dead."
1616
01:28:06,982 --> 01:28:08,715
Now who the hell is this?
1617
01:28:08,817 --> 01:28:12,286
Humphrey: Fannie Lou Hamer,
a sharecropper's daughter.
1618
01:28:12,388 --> 01:28:14,888
Became one of the leaders of the MFDP.
1619
01:28:14,990 --> 01:28:16,423
For Christ's sakes.
1620
01:28:16,525 --> 01:28:19,726
And then he ordered...
1621
01:28:20,996 --> 01:28:24,498
two male Negro prisoners
1622
01:28:24,600 --> 01:28:27,200
to beat me
with a blackjack.
1623
01:28:28,804 --> 01:28:31,405
The first prisoner
1624
01:28:31,507 --> 01:28:35,542
beat me till he was
exhausted.
1625
01:28:37,346 --> 01:28:42,282
And then a patrolman ordered
the second Negro to beat me.
1626
01:28:44,286 --> 01:28:48,155
- This is awful.
- It sure as hell is.
1627
01:28:48,257 --> 01:28:51,458
She could stampede the liberals
into seating the MFDP
1628
01:28:51,560 --> 01:28:54,394
and the South will storm out
of the convention in droves.
1629
01:28:54,496 --> 01:28:56,029
Walter!
1630
01:28:56,131 --> 01:28:57,564
Walter,
you tell the press
1631
01:28:57,666 --> 01:28:59,766
we got a major announcement
in the Rose Garden.
1632
01:28:59,868 --> 01:29:02,803
- What's the announcement?
- Hell if I know!
1633
01:29:02,905 --> 01:29:06,873
Anything to turn off those
goddamn cameras in Atlantic City.
1634
01:29:06,975 --> 01:29:11,111
I began to scream...
1635
01:29:12,214 --> 01:29:16,917
and one white man
hit me in my head
1636
01:29:17,019 --> 01:29:19,486
and told me to hush.
1637
01:29:22,624 --> 01:29:26,560
My dress had worked up high,
so I pulled it down.
1638
01:29:28,030 --> 01:29:30,330
And another white man
walked over
1639
01:29:30,432 --> 01:29:32,632
and pulled it back up.
1640
01:29:38,407 --> 01:29:41,041
All this...
1641
01:29:41,143 --> 01:29:44,945
on account
of we wanna register
1642
01:29:45,047 --> 01:29:47,581
to vote.
1643
01:29:50,285 --> 01:29:52,753
And if the Freedom
Democratic Party
1644
01:29:52,855 --> 01:29:55,589
is not seated
at this convention,
1645
01:29:55,691 --> 01:29:58,592
I question America.
1646
01:29:58,694 --> 01:30:01,294
Is this America?
1647
01:30:02,431 --> 01:30:06,266
The land of the free
and the home of the brave
1648
01:30:06,368 --> 01:30:08,969
where our lives
be threatened daily
1649
01:30:09,071 --> 01:30:13,840
'cause we wanna live
as decent human beings.
1650
01:30:13,942 --> 01:30:16,576
All we're asking
1651
01:30:16,678 --> 01:30:18,345
is fair representation
1652
01:30:18,447 --> 01:30:20,180
of this...
1653
01:30:21,583 --> 01:30:23,617
The president is going
to announce his address
1654
01:30:23,719 --> 01:30:25,852
at the White House
in just a few moments.
1655
01:30:25,954 --> 01:30:30,524
Announcer: Please stand by for the
President of the United States.
1656
01:30:31,727 --> 01:30:34,261
Uh, howdy.
1657
01:30:34,363 --> 01:30:36,530
- First of all, I wanna thank y'all...
- I don't understand.
1658
01:30:36,632 --> 01:30:39,065
- What's going on?
- It appears, Miss Hamer,
1659
01:30:39,168 --> 01:30:41,001
we've been preempted
by the president.
1660
01:30:41,103 --> 01:30:44,271
- I know a lot of people are...
- Come on.
1661
01:30:44,373 --> 01:30:46,907
still wondering
1662
01:30:47,009 --> 01:30:51,511
who my vice presidential
candidate
1663
01:30:51,613 --> 01:30:53,146
will be.
1664
01:30:53,248 --> 01:30:55,549
And we'll make that decision
very, very soon,
1665
01:30:55,651 --> 01:30:56,883
I promise you that.
1666
01:30:56,985 --> 01:30:58,752
I think now
I can open it up
1667
01:30:58,854 --> 01:31:01,755
and if you'd like to ask
a few questions, uh...
1668
01:31:01,857 --> 01:31:03,957
I need to know
everything that King
1669
01:31:04,059 --> 01:31:05,792
and that Fannie Lou person
and Bob Moses
1670
01:31:05,894 --> 01:31:09,696
and all those goddamn people
in the MFDP are talking about.
1671
01:31:09,798 --> 01:31:12,332
I want them under constant
surveillance, the whole bunch of them.
1672
01:31:12,434 --> 01:31:14,901
Mr. President, we don't
have any warrant.
1673
01:31:17,172 --> 01:31:20,540
Well, that never stopped
you before, did it?
1674
01:31:21,610 --> 01:31:24,211
Now, I don't care
what you do
1675
01:31:24,313 --> 01:31:25,479
or how you do it.
1676
01:31:25,581 --> 01:31:28,048
In fact, it's better
if I don't know.
1677
01:31:28,150 --> 01:31:31,885
But everything you get, you
send it immediately to Walter.
1678
01:31:31,987 --> 01:31:35,055
- You understand?
- Yeah.
1679
01:31:41,430 --> 01:31:45,532
- Uncle Dick.
- You're up awful late, Mr. President.
1680
01:31:45,634 --> 01:31:47,701
You're gonna give yourself
another heart attack.
1681
01:31:47,803 --> 01:31:50,203
Well, if I do,
it'll be the Dixiecrats
1682
01:31:50,305 --> 01:31:52,606
and Martin Luther King
put me in my grave.
1683
01:31:52,708 --> 01:31:56,276
You hear of this
public telegram of King's
1684
01:31:56,378 --> 01:31:59,980
demanding that I seat
the MFDP?
1685
01:32:00,082 --> 01:32:01,681
The whole country
will think
1686
01:32:01,783 --> 01:32:04,751
that Negroes have more power
in the Democratic Party
1687
01:32:04,853 --> 01:32:06,219
than the president has,
1688
01:32:06,321 --> 01:32:08,088
and the whole South
will bolt.
1689
01:32:08,190 --> 01:32:10,090
I warned you
about that.
1690
01:32:10,192 --> 01:32:12,592
You know what I think?
1691
01:32:12,694 --> 01:32:15,695
I think this is something
that King cooked up
1692
01:32:15,797 --> 01:32:17,364
with Bobby Kennedy
to embarrass me.
1693
01:32:17,466 --> 01:32:21,401
Now, listen, Kennedy is
gonna stab me in the back
1694
01:32:21,503 --> 01:32:24,004
and steal this nomination
at the last minute.
1695
01:32:24,106 --> 01:32:27,474
Mr. President, Robert Kennedy
has no interest whatsoever
1696
01:32:27,576 --> 01:32:29,843
in hurting you
or helping Barry Goldwater.
1697
01:32:29,945 --> 01:32:32,946
Then the hell
with them all.
1698
01:32:33,048 --> 01:32:35,048
I'm gonna go back home
to my ranch
1699
01:32:35,150 --> 01:32:36,750
and the people
who love me.
1700
01:32:36,852 --> 01:32:39,519
I never wanted to be president
in the first place.
1701
01:32:39,621 --> 01:32:41,454
Mr. President,
forgive my frankness,
1702
01:32:41,557 --> 01:32:43,957
but you are speaking
like a spoiled child.
1703
01:32:44,059 --> 01:32:46,293
You and I both know
you're not serious.
1704
01:32:46,395 --> 01:32:48,962
Now take a tranquilizer,
go to sleep.
1705
01:32:57,239 --> 01:32:59,506
Thank you.
1706
01:33:04,613 --> 01:33:08,481
I walked into the lion's
den, I argued fervently,
1707
01:33:08,584 --> 01:33:10,050
I used all
the heartstrings I had.
1708
01:33:10,152 --> 01:33:11,718
I made no headway.
1709
01:33:11,820 --> 01:33:13,553
God damn it.
1710
01:33:13,655 --> 01:33:17,324
The least the MFDP
might be willing to accept
1711
01:33:17,426 --> 01:33:19,392
would be
some actual votes
1712
01:33:19,494 --> 01:33:21,361
at the convention,
a few votes.
1713
01:33:21,463 --> 01:33:22,829
Well, what did King say?
1714
01:33:22,931 --> 01:33:25,632
He's very supportive
of their leadership on this.
1715
01:33:25,734 --> 01:33:28,568
After everything I did for him,
he should've stood up for me!
1716
01:33:28,670 --> 01:33:30,870
Why didn't somebody
stand up for me?
1717
01:33:30,973 --> 01:33:32,739
I stood up for you,
Mr. President.
1718
01:33:32,841 --> 01:33:35,208
Somebody who matters.
1719
01:33:35,310 --> 01:33:38,745
Well, if you don't think
my loyalty is important-
1720
01:33:38,847 --> 01:33:43,116
Jesus, you are
so thin-skinned.
1721
01:33:43,218 --> 01:33:45,585
Shit.
1722
01:33:45,687 --> 01:33:49,089
I depend on you, Hubert,
you know that.
1723
01:33:49,191 --> 01:33:52,892
Christ's sakes, there's
got to be a solution here.
1724
01:33:54,663 --> 01:33:56,363
Well, maybe we can get
1725
01:33:56,465 --> 01:34:00,533
one or two of the Mississippi
regulars to agree to step aside.
1726
01:34:00,636 --> 01:34:03,203
They claim
they're sick or something.
1727
01:34:05,140 --> 01:34:06,339
All right.
1728
01:34:06,441 --> 01:34:09,275
You tell them
that they can have
1729
01:34:09,378 --> 01:34:11,277
two voting delegates.
1730
01:34:11,380 --> 01:34:14,981
We'll- we'll call them,
uh, at large delegates.
1731
01:34:15,083 --> 01:34:18,318
- But one of them has to be that white minister of theirs.
- Reverend Edwin King.
1732
01:34:18,420 --> 01:34:19,919
That's him, that's him.
1733
01:34:20,022 --> 01:34:22,889
That way, it's one white
man and only one Negro.
1734
01:34:22,991 --> 01:34:24,691
We'll integrate
their delegation.
1735
01:34:24,793 --> 01:34:26,493
Who can argue
with that, huh?
1736
01:34:26,595 --> 01:34:28,061
I'll see what I can do.
1737
01:34:28,163 --> 01:34:31,464
Well, don't see
what you can do!
1738
01:34:31,566 --> 01:34:34,734
You do
what I tell you to do.
1739
01:34:36,071 --> 01:34:38,271
Mr. President.
1740
01:34:43,278 --> 01:34:44,477
What you think
of Hubert?
1741
01:34:44,579 --> 01:34:48,181
I think he's working
as hard as he can.
1742
01:34:48,283 --> 01:34:49,949
Yeah.
1743
01:34:50,052 --> 01:34:52,052
He's nice.
1744
01:34:54,489 --> 01:34:57,757
Nice is what you call
a gal with no tits,
1745
01:34:57,859 --> 01:35:00,026
no ass,
and no personality.
1746
01:35:00,128 --> 01:35:02,429
Nice is
for kissing babies.
1747
01:35:02,531 --> 01:35:06,733
There's no place for nice
in a knife fight.
1748
01:35:09,871 --> 01:35:12,172
You get me
Walter Reuther.
1749
01:35:12,274 --> 01:35:14,474
Mr. President,
what a pleasant surprise.
1750
01:35:14,576 --> 01:35:16,810
Johnson: Well, Reuther,
I know how important
1751
01:35:16,912 --> 01:35:18,812
your golden boy Humphrey
is to you
1752
01:35:18,914 --> 01:35:20,780
and the rest
of organized labor.
1753
01:35:20,882 --> 01:35:24,517
But if this
big delegate war comes off
1754
01:35:24,619 --> 01:35:27,287
and the South walks out
of the convention,
1755
01:35:27,389 --> 01:35:30,290
he will have
no future
1756
01:35:30,392 --> 01:35:32,425
in the Democratic Party,
you hear me?
1757
01:35:32,527 --> 01:35:33,693
Yes, sir, but I-
I really must-
1758
01:35:33,795 --> 01:35:35,395
Now, you need
to tighten your leash
1759
01:35:35,497 --> 01:35:39,799
and bring King and the
MFDP in line or by God,
1760
01:35:39,901 --> 01:35:41,634
Hubert Humphrey
is never gonna be
1761
01:35:41,737 --> 01:35:43,803
my vice president
or anything else!
1762
01:35:43,905 --> 01:35:46,773
- Sir, I- - He won't be able
to get elected dogcatcher
1763
01:35:46,875 --> 01:35:49,876
and you won't have nobody in the
Senate to carry water for you.
1764
01:35:49,978 --> 01:35:51,878
Now you get yourself down
to Atlantic City
1765
01:35:51,980 --> 01:35:54,047
and fix this mess,
and I mean now!
1766
01:36:03,024 --> 01:36:04,557
Are you all right, sir?
1767
01:36:06,995 --> 01:36:09,963
I do not have the hide
of a rhinoceros.
1768
01:36:11,299 --> 01:36:13,700
You know me, Walter.
1769
01:36:13,802 --> 01:36:17,137
I have a genuine desire
to unite people,
1770
01:36:17,239 --> 01:36:19,038
but my own people
in the South,
1771
01:36:19,141 --> 01:36:20,707
they're against me
and the-
1772
01:36:20,809 --> 01:36:23,543
the North is against me and
the Negroes are against me
1773
01:36:23,645 --> 01:36:27,147
and the press sure doesn't
have any damn affection for me.
1774
01:36:27,249 --> 01:36:30,016
It's not fair, sir,
not with all you've done.
1775
01:36:30,118 --> 01:36:32,485
I could drop dead
tomorrow
1776
01:36:32,587 --> 01:36:35,922
and there wouldn't be 10
people who'd shed a tear.
1777
01:36:36,024 --> 01:36:38,091
Oh, no. No, sir.
That's not true, sir.
1778
01:36:38,193 --> 01:36:40,326
Oh, the hell it ain't.
1779
01:36:43,832 --> 01:36:47,000
People turn on you
so fast.
1780
01:36:50,672 --> 01:36:53,907
When my daddy
lost everything...
1781
01:36:54,943 --> 01:36:57,143
people who had been
glad-handing him,
1782
01:36:57,245 --> 01:37:02,382
they just treated him
like dog shit.
1783
01:37:05,487 --> 01:37:09,222
They humiliated him
1784
01:37:09,324 --> 01:37:11,090
to his face...
1785
01:37:12,694 --> 01:37:14,527
in public.
1786
01:37:19,968 --> 01:37:22,202
And my mother...
1787
01:37:26,107 --> 01:37:29,209
the way she'd
freeze him out.
1788
01:37:34,616 --> 01:37:37,417
That's what killed him.
1789
01:37:45,393 --> 01:37:48,094
You know
what I think it is?
1790
01:37:50,332 --> 01:37:53,633
People think
I want great power...
1791
01:37:55,503 --> 01:37:57,437
but what I want
1792
01:37:57,539 --> 01:37:59,739
is great solace.
1793
01:38:02,444 --> 01:38:04,444
A little love.
1794
01:38:05,680 --> 01:38:08,281
That's all I want.
1795
01:38:13,054 --> 01:38:16,089
You have that
from us, sir.
1796
01:38:16,191 --> 01:38:18,091
From me.
1797
01:38:25,600 --> 01:38:28,401
Poor Marjorie
must be wondering
1798
01:38:28,503 --> 01:38:30,436
where the hell you are.
1799
01:38:30,538 --> 01:38:33,640
- Oh, she understands.
- Jesus.
1800
01:38:35,744 --> 01:38:38,511
How many kids you got again?
What is it, five?
1801
01:38:38,613 --> 01:38:40,380
- Six.
- Six.
1802
01:38:40,482 --> 01:38:43,449
Two girls and four boys.
1803
01:38:44,352 --> 01:38:46,853
Right, Catholic.
1804
01:38:52,961 --> 01:38:55,695
I always wanted a son.
1805
01:38:55,797 --> 01:38:56,829
Don't get me wrong,
1806
01:38:56,932 --> 01:39:00,333
I- I love Luci
and Lynda, but...
1807
01:39:02,404 --> 01:39:04,904
a man wants a son.
1808
01:39:11,246 --> 01:39:13,046
I reckon...
1809
01:39:13,148 --> 01:39:16,182
you're as close to that
as I've got.
1810
01:39:29,030 --> 01:39:31,064
Oh, Walter,
1811
01:39:31,166 --> 01:39:33,166
you'll be
right outside?
1812
01:39:33,268 --> 01:39:35,768
Yes, sir.
1813
01:39:49,718 --> 01:39:51,584
Reuther:
Martin.
1814
01:39:51,686 --> 01:39:53,987
Mr. Reuther.
1815
01:39:54,089 --> 01:39:55,788
Didn't expect
to see you here.
1816
01:39:55,890 --> 01:39:58,157
Well, neither did I.
1817
01:39:58,259 --> 01:40:00,293
I got a call
from the president
1818
01:40:00,395 --> 01:40:03,629
with a generous helping
of the Texas twist.
1819
01:40:03,732 --> 01:40:05,932
You've got to get
the MFDP to compromise.
1820
01:40:06,034 --> 01:40:08,334
Well, what the president
offered was an insult.
1821
01:40:08,436 --> 01:40:10,536
These people have shed
their blood-
1822
01:40:10,638 --> 01:40:13,106
Martin, your funding
is on the line.
1823
01:40:13,208 --> 01:40:15,341
You've gotta get
the MFDP on board
1824
01:40:15,443 --> 01:40:17,577
or there will be no more
union money for the movement,
1825
01:40:17,679 --> 01:40:19,479
not a single
goddamn dime.
1826
01:40:19,581 --> 01:40:22,982
You would sabotage the entire
civil rights movement over this?
1827
01:40:23,084 --> 01:40:24,417
No, you would.
1828
01:40:24,519 --> 01:40:26,552
The number of delegates at a
convention, who gives a shit?
1829
01:40:26,654 --> 01:40:29,722
- It's wrong.
- Look, there will be a final offer.
1830
01:40:29,824 --> 01:40:31,724
You get your people
to accept it
1831
01:40:31,826 --> 01:40:34,027
or you can take your tin cup
and your principles
1832
01:40:34,129 --> 01:40:37,330
out onto the street and
see how far that gets you.
1833
01:40:49,177 --> 01:40:53,646
L.B.J.! L.B.J.!
1834
01:40:55,350 --> 01:40:57,984
Announcer: Will the
delegates please be seated?
1835
01:41:00,055 --> 01:41:01,788
- What do we want?
- Freedom!
1836
01:41:01,890 --> 01:41:03,423
- When do we want it?
- Now!
1837
01:41:03,525 --> 01:41:05,558
- What do we want?
- Freedom!
1838
01:41:05,660 --> 01:41:07,894
- When do we want it?
- Now!
1839
01:41:07,996 --> 01:41:11,798
♪ Which side are you on?
Everybody, now ♪
1840
01:41:11,900 --> 01:41:15,401
All: ♪ Which side
are you on, Lord? ♪
1841
01:41:15,503 --> 01:41:18,638
Hamer: ♪ Which side are
you on? Everybody, now ♪
1842
01:41:18,740 --> 01:41:22,775
- Martin. Just...
- ♪ Which side are you on, Lord? ♪
1843
01:41:22,877 --> 01:41:25,178
- ♪ Which side are you on? ♪
- I want everyone to hear this.
1844
01:41:25,280 --> 01:41:29,015
I'm pleased to say that we've come
up with a mighty fine compromise.
1845
01:41:29,117 --> 01:41:31,184
The MFDP will get
two voting delegates-
1846
01:41:31,286 --> 01:41:32,952
Aaron Henry
and Edwin King.
1847
01:41:33,054 --> 01:41:37,490
And the Democratic Party will
adopt a formal rules change
1848
01:41:37,592 --> 01:41:40,927
to prohibit any segregated
delegation in the future.
1849
01:41:41,029 --> 01:41:42,395
This is a major victory.
1850
01:41:42,497 --> 01:41:44,797
Senator Humphrey, God did
not send us to Atlantic City
1851
01:41:44,899 --> 01:41:46,566
- for no two seats.
- Moses: That's right.
1852
01:41:46,668 --> 01:41:47,733
When all of us is tired.
1853
01:41:47,836 --> 01:41:49,702
This is just like
the white plantation bosses
1854
01:41:49,804 --> 01:41:52,238
making all the decisions
for his black sharecroppers.
1855
01:41:52,340 --> 01:41:53,773
Hold on, Bob.
1856
01:41:53,875 --> 01:41:56,542
You've won your case
in the court of public opinion.
1857
01:41:56,644 --> 01:41:58,244
Now you've got
your token representation.
1858
01:41:58,346 --> 01:42:00,480
- Token?!
- Don't twist my words, Aaron.
1859
01:42:00,582 --> 01:42:04,083
What I am saying is that
there's a whole lot at stake here
1860
01:42:04,185 --> 01:42:06,052
and this is a necessary
political compromise.
1861
01:42:06,154 --> 01:42:08,521
We are not here to bring
politics to our morality.
1862
01:42:08,623 --> 01:42:11,157
We are here to bring our
morality to our politics.
1863
01:42:11,259 --> 01:42:14,160
Dr. King, what do you
think we ought to do?
1864
01:42:14,262 --> 01:42:17,797
♪ Which side are you on? ♪
1865
01:42:17,899 --> 01:42:20,032
If I were
a Mississippi Negro,
1866
01:42:20,135 --> 01:42:21,834
been through
what you've been through,
1867
01:42:21,936 --> 01:42:23,503
- I'd vote against it.
- Moses: Right.
1868
01:42:23,605 --> 01:42:26,272
But the solemn commitment
1869
01:42:26,374 --> 01:42:29,008
to end discrimination
in all future conventions
1870
01:42:29,110 --> 01:42:31,677
- is a mighty big victory...
- Yes, it is.
1871
01:42:31,779 --> 01:42:34,947
...in which the MFDP
can take real pride.
1872
01:42:35,049 --> 01:42:37,783
And as a Negro leader,
I'm asking-
1873
01:42:39,687 --> 01:42:42,655
I want you to take this.
1874
01:42:42,757 --> 01:42:47,560
♪ Wade in the water ♪
1875
01:42:47,662 --> 01:42:53,032
♪ Wade in the water,
children ♪
1876
01:42:53,134 --> 01:42:57,904
♪ Wade in the water ♪
1877
01:42:58,006 --> 01:43:02,975
♪ God's a-gonna trouble
the water ♪
1878
01:43:03,077 --> 01:43:08,748
♪ See that host
all dressed in white? ♪
1879
01:43:08,850 --> 01:43:11,017
Well done, Dr. King.
1880
01:43:11,119 --> 01:43:12,518
Solomon himself
1881
01:43:12,620 --> 01:43:14,921
couldn't have cut that
baby in half any cleaner.
1882
01:43:15,023 --> 01:43:18,257
I may lose
a battle, Bob,
1883
01:43:18,359 --> 01:43:21,794
I personally may not survive,
but I will win this war.
1884
01:43:21,896 --> 01:43:23,229
All the way with L.B.J.
1885
01:43:23,331 --> 01:43:25,898
L.B.J. is not
the second coming.
1886
01:43:26,000 --> 01:43:27,967
He's just like
every other politician.
1887
01:43:28,069 --> 01:43:30,836
He'll do what it takes
to get elected.
1888
01:43:30,939 --> 01:43:33,472
But I think he really
wants civil rights.
1889
01:43:33,575 --> 01:43:36,809
Now, we've got
a chance here, Bob.
1890
01:43:36,911 --> 01:43:38,477
A real chance.
1891
01:43:38,580 --> 01:43:39,845
Best chance
in a hundred years
1892
01:43:39,948 --> 01:43:43,616
and I will not
throw it away.
1893
01:43:47,555 --> 01:43:50,556
Announcer: Will the delegates
please be seated?
1894
01:43:50,658 --> 01:43:54,327
A workable compromise
regarding at large delegates
1895
01:43:54,429 --> 01:43:56,229
- from Mississippi has been reached.
- All right.
1896
01:43:56,331 --> 01:43:58,431
All right, that's it.
We're leaving. Come on.
1897
01:43:58,533 --> 01:44:00,833
And we urge the delegates here
to approve the recommendations
1898
01:44:00,935 --> 01:44:04,003
- of the credentials committee.
- Jim, what the hell's going on?
1899
01:44:04,105 --> 01:44:06,072
L.B.J. screwed us over.
1900
01:44:06,174 --> 01:44:08,341
He's seating the niggers.
1901
01:44:10,612 --> 01:44:12,511
You boys just stay here.
I'll figure this out.
1902
01:44:12,614 --> 01:44:15,481
Reporter: The credentials committee
settled on a compromise
1903
01:44:15,583 --> 01:44:17,817
of two voting delegates
for the MFDP,
1904
01:44:17,919 --> 01:44:22,388
but Mississippi and Alabama
rejected the deal and walked out.
1905
01:44:22,490 --> 01:44:24,056
If Georgia
walks out next,
1906
01:44:24,158 --> 01:44:28,094
- the rest of the South will follow.
- Mr. President?
1907
01:44:28,196 --> 01:44:31,030
It's Governor Sanders
of Georgia on the phone.
1908
01:44:31,132 --> 01:44:33,432
What, it's Georgia?
1909
01:44:33,534 --> 01:44:34,867
What the hell
does Carl want?
1910
01:44:34,969 --> 01:44:37,203
Alabama and Mississippi
are walking out
1911
01:44:37,305 --> 01:44:39,071
and Sanders says
he might follow.
1912
01:44:39,173 --> 01:44:40,873
God damn it!
1913
01:44:42,110 --> 01:44:43,743
Carl, what the hell
is going on?
1914
01:44:43,845 --> 01:44:47,513
Mr. President, you can't give
these people two seats.
1915
01:44:47,615 --> 01:44:50,583
It's gonna look like the Negroes
are taking over the whole convention.
1916
01:44:50,685 --> 01:44:52,251
Oh, for Christ's sakes,
1917
01:44:52,353 --> 01:44:55,054
it's one Negro
and one white minister.
1918
01:44:55,156 --> 01:44:57,056
Now, it's the principle
of the thing.
1919
01:44:57,158 --> 01:44:59,859
Me and my delegates are
about inches from walking out.
1920
01:44:59,961 --> 01:45:01,627
In fact, the whole
South's about to bolt.
1921
01:45:01,729 --> 01:45:03,629
All right,
now let's you and me
1922
01:45:03,731 --> 01:45:05,197
understand something here.
1923
01:45:05,300 --> 01:45:08,834
Those people are Democrats
just like you and me,
1924
01:45:08,936 --> 01:45:11,570
but those good old boys from
Mississippi, they locked them out.
1925
01:45:11,673 --> 01:45:13,239
Well, now,
they got locked out
1926
01:45:13,341 --> 01:45:14,573
because they're
not registered to vote.
1927
01:45:14,676 --> 01:45:16,976
Because they wouldn't
let them register!
1928
01:45:17,078 --> 01:45:20,613
They beat them and shot them
and lynched them.
1929
01:45:20,715 --> 01:45:22,882
Well, now, you're tarring a lot
of people here, Mr. President.
1930
01:45:22,984 --> 01:45:25,818
No, Carl, Carl, you and I
just can't survive
1931
01:45:25,920 --> 01:45:29,889
our modern political life with
these goddamn fellas down there
1932
01:45:29,991 --> 01:45:34,493
doing things the old way and eating
them Negroes for breakfast every morning.
1933
01:45:34,595 --> 01:45:35,661
They got to quit that!
1934
01:45:35,763 --> 01:45:38,597
Mr. President,
you need to remove
1935
01:45:38,700 --> 01:45:40,633
these so-called
delegates at large.
1936
01:45:40,735 --> 01:45:43,202
No, you listen to me!
1937
01:45:43,304 --> 01:45:45,705
You need to make up your mind
once and for all
1938
01:45:45,807 --> 01:45:48,007
what- what kind
of Christian you are.
1939
01:45:48,109 --> 01:45:50,376
Are you
a once-a-week fella
1940
01:45:50,478 --> 01:45:53,079
or do you hold the Word
in your heart?
1941
01:45:53,181 --> 01:45:56,382
And what kind
of politician are you?
1942
01:45:56,484 --> 01:45:58,851
You just
out for yourself
1943
01:45:58,953 --> 01:46:02,188
or you wanna make a better life
for all the people of Georgia?
1944
01:46:02,290 --> 01:46:04,890
- Well, of course I- - And what
kind of man are you?
1945
01:46:04,992 --> 01:46:09,295
You got the balls to do
what you know is right
1946
01:46:09,397 --> 01:46:12,598
or do you
just slink away?
1947
01:46:12,700 --> 01:46:15,801
Now, what you don't get to do
is threaten me.
1948
01:46:15,903 --> 01:46:17,703
So if you're gonna walk out
of the convention,
1949
01:46:17,805 --> 01:46:19,338
then you just do it
right now!
1950
01:46:19,440 --> 01:46:21,507
But if not,
1951
01:46:21,609 --> 01:46:24,744
then I expect to see
your bright and shiny faces
1952
01:46:24,846 --> 01:46:28,314
wearing your big "All the way
with L.B.J." hats tonight
1953
01:46:28,416 --> 01:46:30,282
when I take the stage.
1954
01:46:36,924 --> 01:46:39,125
Bird, go away
and leave me be.
1955
01:46:39,227 --> 01:46:41,427
I can't do that,
Lyndon.
1956
01:46:41,529 --> 01:46:43,095
I won't.
1957
01:46:44,165 --> 01:46:46,499
You're just like
the rest of them.
1958
01:46:46,601 --> 01:46:48,667
You're all against me.
1959
01:46:48,770 --> 01:46:51,170
That is so not true.
1960
01:46:51,272 --> 01:46:54,140
- Oh, yeah?
- Look at me.
1961
01:46:55,009 --> 01:46:57,109
Look at me, Lyndon.
1962
01:47:00,314 --> 01:47:02,581
You are as brave a man
1963
01:47:02,683 --> 01:47:07,219
as FDR and Truman
and Lincoln.
1964
01:47:07,321 --> 01:47:09,588
And there are
many, many people
1965
01:47:09,690 --> 01:47:12,158
up there
at that convention
1966
01:47:12,260 --> 01:47:14,160
and in this party
1967
01:47:14,262 --> 01:47:17,930
and in this nation
who love you.
1968
01:47:18,032 --> 01:47:22,001
- And they are counting on you.
- I'm gonna resign.
1969
01:47:22,103 --> 01:47:24,136
- Let somebody else deal with this.
- You're not going to resign.
1970
01:47:24,238 --> 01:47:25,738
- Yes, I am!
- No, you are not!
1971
01:47:25,840 --> 01:47:28,474
- When your
great-grandmother... - Oh!
1972
01:47:28,576 --> 01:47:30,242
...was hiding
in the floorboards
1973
01:47:30,344 --> 01:47:33,379
while the Comanches
were raiding her house,
1974
01:47:33,481 --> 01:47:35,314
did she flinch?
1975
01:47:35,416 --> 01:47:39,118
To step down now would
be wrong for your country.
1976
01:47:39,220 --> 01:47:42,788
Your friends would be
frozen with embarrassment
1977
01:47:42,890 --> 01:47:44,924
and your enemies
would jeer.
1978
01:47:46,060 --> 01:47:48,494
Those bastards would love
to see me down.
1979
01:47:48,596 --> 01:47:50,529
And are you gonna
give them that pleasure?
1980
01:47:50,631 --> 01:47:52,865
I don't think so.
1981
01:47:52,967 --> 01:47:55,201
That is not
the man I married.
1982
01:47:55,303 --> 01:47:57,470
Sir, Governor Sanders
was just on TV
1983
01:47:57,572 --> 01:48:00,439
and the Georgia delegation's
not gonna walk out after all.
1984
01:48:01,709 --> 01:48:04,977
- What, Sanders backed down?
- Yes, sir, he did.
1985
01:48:05,079 --> 01:48:09,548
- So the South held?
- Yes, sir.
1986
01:48:09,650 --> 01:48:13,085
- - Announcer: The Honorable
Lyndon B. Johnson
1987
01:48:13,187 --> 01:48:15,020
is nominated
by acclamation
1988
01:48:15,122 --> 01:48:17,122
as our candidate
to the office
1989
01:48:17,225 --> 01:48:19,758
of President
of the United States
1990
01:48:19,861 --> 01:48:22,962
and the Honorable
Hubert Horatio Humphrey
1991
01:48:23,064 --> 01:48:25,531
is our candidate
for Vice President!
1992
01:48:25,633 --> 01:48:27,867
The dust has settled
here in Atlantic City
1993
01:48:27,969 --> 01:48:30,402
and President Johnson's
Democratic Party
1994
01:48:30,505 --> 01:48:32,705
is one big,
happy family.
1995
01:48:32,807 --> 01:48:34,573
Hello there!
1996
01:48:36,377 --> 01:48:37,810
- Hubert.
- Mr. President.
1997
01:48:37,912 --> 01:48:39,478
You look a little down
in the mouth
1998
01:48:39,580 --> 01:48:41,647
for being the next
vice president.
1999
01:48:41,749 --> 01:48:44,950
It just feels different
than I thought it would.
2000
01:48:45,052 --> 01:48:47,119
Oh, that.
Well...
2001
01:48:47,221 --> 01:48:49,421
you get over that
pretty quick.
2002
01:48:49,524 --> 01:48:54,627
Announcer: The American people have
no greater advocate and friend
2003
01:48:54,729 --> 01:48:57,162
than the man
the Democratic Party
2004
01:48:57,265 --> 01:49:00,399
is proud to claim
as our leader.
2005
01:49:00,501 --> 01:49:02,668
Now the man of the hour,
2006
01:49:02,770 --> 01:49:05,037
Lyndon Baines Johnson!
2007
01:49:05,139 --> 01:49:08,073
♪ The skies above
are clear again ♪
2008
01:49:08,175 --> 01:49:12,044
♪ Let us sing a song
of cheer again ♪
2009
01:49:12,146 --> 01:49:16,982
♪ Happy days
are here again. ♪
2010
01:49:17,084 --> 01:49:18,951
We're down five points
in Georgia,
2011
01:49:19,053 --> 01:49:21,120
six points
in South Carolina,
2012
01:49:21,222 --> 01:49:23,355
eight points
in Louisiana.
2013
01:49:23,457 --> 01:49:26,425
Hell, Goldwater
is beating my ass
2014
01:49:26,527 --> 01:49:28,928
by 60% in Mississippi.
2015
01:49:29,030 --> 01:49:30,629
Now, he's getting on top!
2016
01:49:30,731 --> 01:49:33,265
Son of a bitch
is turning it around!
2017
01:49:33,367 --> 01:49:35,301
Where the hell
are the ideas?
2018
01:49:35,403 --> 01:49:36,969
Where the hell's
the solutions?
2019
01:49:37,071 --> 01:49:39,605
Walter, I want you to change
my travel schedule.
2020
01:49:39,707 --> 01:49:42,675
Give me more time in the
South, especially Louisiana.
2021
01:49:42,777 --> 01:49:45,311
- And put more money into our TV campaign down there.
- Yes, sir.
2022
01:49:45,413 --> 01:49:48,747
And as for the rest of you, what the
hell are you still standing here for?
2023
01:49:48,849 --> 01:49:50,783
Get out there
and do something!
2024
01:49:50,885 --> 01:49:51,850
Come on.
2025
01:49:51,953 --> 01:49:54,520
Not you, Humphrey.
Stay here.
2026
01:49:54,622 --> 01:49:59,291
You read this bullshit "Wall Street
Journal" exposé about my corruption?
2027
01:49:59,393 --> 01:50:01,694
Definitely planted
by Goldwater.
2028
01:50:01,796 --> 01:50:03,429
Damn right it was.
2029
01:50:03,531 --> 01:50:06,031
Take a look at this.
2030
01:50:06,133 --> 01:50:09,735
- Huh?
- That's disgusting.
2031
01:50:09,837 --> 01:50:12,605
Goldwater wants
to get down into the mud,
2032
01:50:12,707 --> 01:50:14,740
by God,
I could do that.
2033
01:50:14,842 --> 01:50:17,276
Listen here, I want you
to pull together
2034
01:50:17,378 --> 01:50:19,411
a special group
separate from the campaign
2035
01:50:19,513 --> 01:50:21,347
and hit him back
with everything we got!
2036
01:50:21,449 --> 01:50:24,283
Mr. President, I don't think
sinking to their level is-
2037
01:50:24,385 --> 01:50:26,685
Oh, for God's sake,
just do it.
2038
01:50:26,787 --> 01:50:31,624
Mr. President, you are ahead in
the polls in most of the country.
2039
01:50:31,726 --> 01:50:34,460
Yeah, and so was
Nixon in '60.
2040
01:50:34,562 --> 01:50:36,929
And some people thought
he would've beat Jack
2041
01:50:37,031 --> 01:50:38,964
except for a whole bunch
of dead people
2042
01:50:39,066 --> 01:50:41,100
voting in Chicago
at the last minute.
2043
01:50:41,202 --> 01:50:44,570
It ain't over
until it's over.
2044
01:50:46,140 --> 01:50:49,541
...eight, nine-
2045
01:50:51,078 --> 01:50:54,079
- nine...
- Man:...eight, seven,
2046
01:50:54,181 --> 01:50:56,148
six, five,
2047
01:50:56,250 --> 01:50:58,751
four, three,
2048
01:50:58,853 --> 01:51:01,353
two, one,
2049
01:51:01,455 --> 01:51:03,188
zero.
2050
01:51:05,860 --> 01:51:08,427
Johnson's voice:
These are the stakes
2051
01:51:08,529 --> 01:51:12,965
to make a world in which
all of God's children can live
2052
01:51:13,067 --> 01:51:16,835
or to go into the dark.
2053
01:51:16,937 --> 01:51:20,372
We must either
love each other
2054
01:51:20,474 --> 01:51:22,508
or we must die.
2055
01:51:22,610 --> 01:51:26,679
Announcer: Vote for President
Johnson on November 3rd.
2056
01:51:26,781 --> 01:51:30,182
The stakes are too high
for you to stay home.
2057
01:51:33,854 --> 01:51:35,688
I want you to run this
right away.
2058
01:51:38,092 --> 01:51:40,492
It'll be controversial.
You'll get a lot of flak.
2059
01:51:40,594 --> 01:51:42,695
Then we'll only have
to run it once,
2060
01:51:42,797 --> 01:51:45,097
then let the press
do our work for us.
2061
01:51:46,801 --> 01:51:49,334
I wanna see it again.
2062
01:51:51,539 --> 01:51:54,840
Now, Barry Goldwater says
he's not a racist.
2063
01:51:54,942 --> 01:51:57,142
But the government
can't legislate
2064
01:51:57,244 --> 01:51:58,811
what people feel
in their hearts.
2065
01:51:58,913 --> 01:52:00,879
- Woman: That's right!
- King: And he's right.
2066
01:52:00,981 --> 01:52:04,416
The law can't make
white folks love you.
2067
01:52:04,518 --> 01:52:08,120
But the law can prevent them
from lynching you.
2068
01:52:09,690 --> 01:52:13,559
The law can prevent them
from denying you a job
2069
01:52:13,661 --> 01:52:16,295
and your child
an education.
2070
01:52:16,397 --> 01:52:20,165
And the law can ensure that
you have the right to vote.
2071
01:52:20,267 --> 01:52:22,501
- Amen!
- Yes!
2072
01:52:22,603 --> 01:52:27,372
I'm not here today to tell you
fine people who to vote for.
2073
01:52:27,475 --> 01:52:28,941
But come election day,
2074
01:52:29,043 --> 01:52:32,478
let's be sure to send the
fine senator from Arizona
2075
01:52:32,580 --> 01:52:36,181
and his tender heart back to
the desert where he belongs.
2076
01:52:42,123 --> 01:52:44,123
Walter...
2077
01:52:44,225 --> 01:52:45,791
was arrested?
2078
01:52:45,893 --> 01:52:49,428
YMCA men's bathroom
by the DC Vice Squad.
2079
01:52:49,530 --> 01:52:54,299
The other man arrested
was an army staff sergeant.
2080
01:52:57,037 --> 01:52:59,138
No, no, no, no.
2081
01:52:59,240 --> 01:53:00,773
This must be
some kind of mistake.
2082
01:53:00,875 --> 01:53:02,307
Hoover:
No, sir.
2083
01:53:02,409 --> 01:53:04,042
Apparently,
Walter was arrested
2084
01:53:04,145 --> 01:53:07,312
under similar circumstances
five years ago.
2085
01:53:08,783 --> 01:53:10,415
Now, why didn't
I know that?
2086
01:53:10,518 --> 01:53:12,351
Hoover:
None of us knew.
2087
01:53:12,453 --> 01:53:16,355
This has Goldwater's
fingerprints all over it.
2088
01:53:18,526 --> 01:53:20,659
Goldwater will use this.
2089
01:53:20,761 --> 01:53:23,195
God damn, this close
to the election,
2090
01:53:23,297 --> 01:53:24,897
it could be
the whole ball of wax!
2091
01:53:24,999 --> 01:53:26,632
There doesn't
appear to be
2092
01:53:26,734 --> 01:53:29,234
any security
compromise at all.
2093
01:53:30,571 --> 01:53:33,272
There damn well
better not be.
2094
01:53:33,374 --> 01:53:36,041
Your people said
they vetted him.
2095
01:53:36,143 --> 01:53:38,644
I have it in writing with
your goddamn signature on it.
2096
01:53:38,746 --> 01:53:42,681
- There are some things you can't predict.
- That's your job, Edgar.
2097
01:53:42,783 --> 01:53:45,951
I will take care of this,
Mr. President.
2098
01:53:46,053 --> 01:53:49,488
And why don't that
make me feel any better?
2099
01:53:49,590 --> 01:53:52,991
You get ahold of Walter's
Air Force Reserve records.
2100
01:53:53,093 --> 01:53:55,627
Goldwater was
his commanding officer.
2101
01:53:55,729 --> 01:53:58,564
With any luck, he signed off
on his fitness evaluations.
2102
01:53:58,666 --> 01:54:02,701
We get ahold of those and Goldwater
won't be able to say shit!
2103
01:54:02,803 --> 01:54:04,903
Walter will resign
immediately.
2104
01:54:05,005 --> 01:54:07,372
You see to it that his doctor
issues a statement.
2105
01:54:07,474 --> 01:54:11,376
Um, he was working too hard
and just snapped.
2106
01:54:19,887 --> 01:54:23,989
I've been working
with that man for 25 years...
2107
01:54:25,459 --> 01:54:28,227
and not a clue.
2108
01:54:38,739 --> 01:54:43,175
How do you know when...
2109
01:54:45,012 --> 01:54:47,312
somebody's...?
2110
01:54:49,817 --> 01:54:52,784
Well, there's
certain signs,
2111
01:54:52,887 --> 01:54:54,753
mannerisms.
2112
01:54:54,855 --> 01:54:58,991
The way a man dresses
or combs his hair.
2113
01:55:00,194 --> 01:55:02,327
Walks kind of funny.
2114
01:55:02,429 --> 01:55:05,030
Huh, well...
2115
01:55:05,132 --> 01:55:07,499
that's news to me.
2116
01:55:10,104 --> 01:55:12,437
I'm not questioning you.
2117
01:55:14,008 --> 01:55:16,608
I'm sure you'd know.
2118
01:55:19,914 --> 01:55:22,948
In your line
of work, I mean.
2119
01:55:25,019 --> 01:55:27,686
Marjorie is just
beside herself.
2120
01:55:27,788 --> 01:55:29,688
Can't believe
it's true.
2121
01:55:29,790 --> 01:55:31,556
I can't believe
it's true.
2122
01:55:31,659 --> 01:55:34,593
I am going to make a
public statement of support.
2123
01:55:34,695 --> 01:55:36,328
Absolutely not.
2124
01:55:36,430 --> 01:55:39,031
The First Lady
can't be involved in this.
2125
01:55:39,133 --> 01:55:40,599
None of us
can be involved.
2126
01:55:40,701 --> 01:55:42,567
Why, he's distraught,
Lyndon.
2127
01:55:42,670 --> 01:55:44,569
He could injure himself.
2128
01:55:44,672 --> 01:55:46,471
That is not my problem.
2129
01:55:46,573 --> 01:55:48,640
What-
2130
01:55:48,742 --> 01:55:50,342
He is our friend.
2131
01:55:50,444 --> 01:55:52,010
He was our friend
2132
01:55:52,112 --> 01:55:53,645
and then he stabbed me
in the back.
2133
01:55:53,747 --> 01:55:56,415
What, are we just never
gonna see him again?
2134
01:55:56,517 --> 01:55:58,050
What, you think
I like this?
2135
01:55:58,152 --> 01:56:01,186
Now Goldwater's
killing me in the polls.
2136
01:56:06,393 --> 01:56:09,494
I loved Walter
like a s-
2137
01:56:12,132 --> 01:56:14,232
I'm holding
this campaign together
2138
01:56:14,335 --> 01:56:16,535
with baling wire
and spit.
2139
01:56:16,637 --> 01:56:19,171
And if you're not with me,
then you're against me.
2140
01:56:19,273 --> 01:56:23,475
I know why you think you
have to do this, darling.
2141
01:56:23,577 --> 01:56:26,712
But you're wrong.
You do what you must.
2142
01:56:26,814 --> 01:56:30,382
But I will not
abandon our friend.
2143
01:56:31,585 --> 01:56:33,552
Now if you'll excuse me,
2144
01:56:33,654 --> 01:56:36,188
I have speeches
to deliver.
2145
01:56:39,526 --> 01:56:41,727
God damn it.
2146
01:56:47,668 --> 01:56:49,701
- - Announcer: In what
is sure to be
2147
01:56:49,803 --> 01:56:51,570
a very controversial
decision,
2148
01:56:51,672 --> 01:56:54,039
the winner of this year's
Nobel Prize for Peace
2149
01:56:54,141 --> 01:56:56,041
is Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
2150
01:56:56,143 --> 01:56:58,577
I am deeply moved
and humbled
2151
01:56:58,679 --> 01:57:01,213
by the decision
of the Nobel Committee
2152
01:57:01,315 --> 01:57:03,882
who are devoted
to the nonviolent pursuit
2153
01:57:03,984 --> 01:57:06,551
of those rights to which
every man and woman...
2154
01:57:06,653 --> 01:57:09,654
How will you want
to acknowledge Dr. King?
2155
01:57:09,757 --> 01:57:11,757
I won't.
2156
01:57:11,859 --> 01:57:14,159
King knows
where I stand.
2157
01:57:14,261 --> 01:57:16,161
I don't need to get
on the goddamn rooftops
2158
01:57:16,263 --> 01:57:19,064
- and shout it out.
- King:...movement of many peoples
2159
01:57:19,166 --> 01:57:23,535
who are devoted to the nonviolent
pursuit of those rights...
2160
01:57:23,637 --> 01:57:25,804
I'm supposed to have
psychic abilities
2161
01:57:25,906 --> 01:57:29,041
in order to protect the president
from deviants like Jenkins,
2162
01:57:29,143 --> 01:57:32,144
but when it comes to King, apparently
no warning is strong enough.
2163
01:57:32,246 --> 01:57:34,813
...this award should be given
to the American civil rights...
2164
01:57:34,915 --> 01:57:38,583
Get me the sex tapes
of King with those women.
2165
01:57:41,055 --> 01:57:42,087
And a typewriter.
2166
01:57:45,025 --> 01:57:46,825
Hoover: "King"...
2167
01:57:46,927 --> 01:57:48,760
..."you know you are
a complete fraud
2168
01:57:48,862 --> 01:57:53,298
and a great liability
to all of us Negroes."
2169
01:57:53,400 --> 01:57:57,369
Sir, are you sure the president
will be comfortable with this?
2170
01:57:57,471 --> 01:57:59,838
Doesn't matter.
2171
01:58:01,041 --> 01:58:04,810
"King, you cannot
believe in God.
2172
01:58:04,912 --> 01:58:09,314
Clearly, you don't believe
in any moral principles.
2173
01:58:09,416 --> 01:58:11,516
You could have been
our greatest leader,
2174
01:58:11,618 --> 01:58:14,119
but you turned out to be
nothing but a dissolute,
2175
01:58:14,221 --> 01:58:17,589
abnormal moral imbecile.
2176
01:58:17,691 --> 01:58:19,491
You are a colossal fraud
2177
01:58:19,593 --> 01:58:22,627
and an evil,
vicious one at that
2178
01:58:22,729 --> 01:58:24,296
and you had better
kill yourself
2179
01:58:24,398 --> 01:58:27,299
before your filthy,
fraudulent soul
2180
01:58:27,401 --> 01:58:30,535
is bared to the nation."
2181
01:58:43,383 --> 01:58:45,550
Goldwater! Goldwater!
2182
01:58:45,652 --> 01:58:47,619
Goldwater! Goldwater!
2183
01:58:47,721 --> 01:58:49,654
Goldwater!
Goldwater!
2184
01:58:49,756 --> 01:58:51,790
What in the hell is wrong
with these people?
2185
01:58:51,892 --> 01:58:54,459
It's a Democratic rally,
for Christ's sake!
2186
01:58:54,561 --> 01:58:56,728
- Where's the governor?
- Left an hour ago.
2187
01:58:56,830 --> 01:58:58,763
Suddenly called
out of town.
2188
01:58:58,866 --> 01:59:00,565
Cowardly son of a bitch.
2189
01:59:00,667 --> 01:59:02,567
I've had enough
of this horseshit.
2190
01:59:02,669 --> 01:59:05,437
Let's get a move on.
Move!
2191
01:59:07,474 --> 01:59:09,708
And now-
now let's give
2192
01:59:09,810 --> 01:59:13,011
a nice, warm
New Orleans welcome
2193
01:59:13,113 --> 01:59:16,047
to the President
of the United States.
2194
01:59:23,590 --> 01:59:26,458
All right.
All right!
2195
01:59:26,560 --> 01:59:28,260
You've had your say
2196
01:59:28,362 --> 01:59:30,695
and now I'm gonna
have mine.
2197
01:59:34,001 --> 01:59:36,635
My fellow-
my fellow Southerners,
2198
01:59:36,737 --> 01:59:38,069
please.
2199
01:59:38,172 --> 01:59:41,339
I- I once got to know
2200
01:59:41,441 --> 01:59:45,076
this old senator
from the South
2201
01:59:45,179 --> 01:59:46,711
who lamented to me
2202
01:59:46,813 --> 01:59:51,216
the- the condition
of our beloved region.
2203
01:59:51,318 --> 01:59:53,618
The old senator
2204
01:59:53,720 --> 01:59:57,756
talked about
how outside forces
2205
01:59:57,858 --> 02:00:01,960
divided and conquered
the people of the South
2206
02:00:02,062 --> 02:00:04,429
by appealing
to their racial hatred.
2207
02:00:04,531 --> 02:00:09,167
I accept this award on behalf
of a civil rights movement
2208
02:00:09,269 --> 02:00:12,037
which is working
to establish
2209
02:00:12,139 --> 02:00:15,974
a reign of freedom
and a rule of justice.
2210
02:00:16,076 --> 02:00:19,211
For only yesterday
in Alabama,
2211
02:00:19,313 --> 02:00:23,114
our children, crying out
for brotherhood,
2212
02:00:23,217 --> 02:00:26,084
were met
with water hoses,
2213
02:00:26,186 --> 02:00:28,954
dogs, and even death.
2214
02:00:29,056 --> 02:00:32,524
Now, the old senator
described
2215
02:00:32,626 --> 02:00:36,328
what a great future
the South could have
2216
02:00:36,430 --> 02:00:38,997
if only we'd all
work together.
2217
02:00:39,099 --> 02:00:41,933
Only yesterday
in Mississippi
2218
02:00:42,035 --> 02:00:46,037
young people seeking
the right to vote
2219
02:00:46,139 --> 02:00:49,808
were brutalized
and murdered.
2220
02:00:49,910 --> 02:00:54,946
And the old senator
talked longingly...
2221
02:00:55,882 --> 02:01:00,252
about going home
one more time
2222
02:01:00,354 --> 02:01:03,855
and telling people
the truth.
2223
02:01:03,957 --> 02:01:05,957
He said his poor state
2224
02:01:06,059 --> 02:01:09,694
hasn't heard the truth
in 30 years.
2225
02:01:09,796 --> 02:01:15,267
- - All we ever hear
at election time
2226
02:01:15,369 --> 02:01:18,470
is "Nigger!
Nigger! Nigger!"
2227
02:01:18,572 --> 02:01:22,707
Well, I'm not gonna let them
build up the hate.
2228
02:01:22,809 --> 02:01:26,645
I'm not gonna let them
trick my people
2229
02:01:26,747 --> 02:01:29,080
by appealing
to their prejudice.
2230
02:01:29,182 --> 02:01:33,285
I believe
peoples everywhere
2231
02:01:33,387 --> 02:01:37,722
can have dignity,
equality,
2232
02:01:37,824 --> 02:01:39,424
and freedom.
2233
02:01:39,526 --> 02:01:44,529
We have a new law
of the land.
2234
02:01:44,631 --> 02:01:47,999
A civil rights law.
2235
02:01:49,002 --> 02:01:52,304
And I'm gonna enforce it
2236
02:01:52,406 --> 02:01:56,074
'cause it is
the right thing to do.
2237
02:02:01,882 --> 02:02:06,618
Announcer: ABC News continues
its coverage of Election '64.
2238
02:02:06,720 --> 02:02:09,354
Reporter: President Johnson,
though he's doing extremely well
2239
02:02:09,456 --> 02:02:11,089
in winning
and carrying states,
2240
02:02:11,191 --> 02:02:13,525
has not yet reached the
position the polls gave him.
2241
02:02:13,627 --> 02:02:15,727
Reporter #2: The figures
have just come in.
2242
02:02:15,829 --> 02:02:19,030
Georgia, which has never
deserted the Democratic Party,
2243
02:02:19,132 --> 02:02:21,099
has gone
for Senator Goldwater.
2244
02:02:21,201 --> 02:02:24,402
Reporter: Senator Goldwater so far
is doing respectably in the South,
2245
02:02:24,504 --> 02:02:27,572
so we'll just have to wait
to judge his basic strategy.
2246
02:02:27,674 --> 02:02:30,909
- - The polls are closing
right now in New York State.
2247
02:02:31,011 --> 02:02:34,479
The "New York Herald Tribune"
put up the headline
2248
02:02:34,581 --> 02:02:36,348
"Johnson Landslide."
2249
02:02:40,487 --> 02:02:42,487
...CBS poll profile analysis.
2250
02:02:42,589 --> 02:02:44,956
Lyndon Baines Johnson
has been elected
2251
02:02:45,058 --> 02:02:47,125
- President
of the United States.
2252
02:02:47,227 --> 02:02:49,661
How about that, huh?
How about that?
2253
02:02:49,763 --> 02:02:51,796
Isn't that something?
2254
02:02:51,898 --> 02:02:56,468
- Where's Lady Bird?
- Right behind you where I've always been.
2255
02:02:56,570 --> 02:02:59,637
Oh, 60 million votes.
2256
02:02:59,740 --> 02:03:03,641
Oh, you're no accident,
Mr. President.
2257
02:03:03,744 --> 02:03:05,443
Mr. President,
2258
02:03:05,545 --> 02:03:07,512
you've got a phone call
from Senator Russell.
2259
02:03:07,614 --> 02:03:09,247
Well, all right!
2260
02:03:09,349 --> 02:03:12,050
Well, go on, go on,
have some fun!
2261
02:03:14,321 --> 02:03:16,354
I'll be with you
in a second.
2262
02:03:17,758 --> 02:03:21,626
- Uncle Dick.
- Congratulations, Mr. President.
2263
02:03:21,728 --> 02:03:25,897
Well, I'm just trying to do
what the old master taught me.
2264
02:03:25,999 --> 02:03:27,599
You know none of this
would've happened
2265
02:03:27,701 --> 02:03:29,067
without you, Uncle Dick,
none of it.
2266
02:03:29,169 --> 02:03:31,369
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
2267
02:03:31,471 --> 02:03:33,571
My apologies
about Georgia.
2268
02:03:33,673 --> 02:03:36,441
Well, it was
disappointing, yeah.
2269
02:03:36,543 --> 02:03:40,145
Georgia has never
voted Republican before,
2270
02:03:40,247 --> 02:03:41,813
not once.
2271
02:03:41,915 --> 02:03:44,015
Not even during
Reconstruction.
2272
02:03:44,117 --> 02:03:46,518
Well, they'll be back.
2273
02:03:50,157 --> 02:03:52,290
I sure wish
you was here.
2274
02:03:55,328 --> 02:03:56,795
Listen, Uncle Dick,
2275
02:03:56,897 --> 02:03:59,030
you know we got a hell
of a lot of work ahead of us.
2276
02:03:59,132 --> 02:04:01,332
I-I'm counting
on you, now.
2277
02:04:01,435 --> 02:04:04,102
I will give it
all that I have, sir.
2278
02:04:04,204 --> 02:04:05,870
I know you will.
2279
02:04:05,972 --> 02:04:07,639
You enjoy your party,
Mr. President.
2280
02:04:07,741 --> 02:04:09,441
I'll see you
in Washington.
2281
02:04:21,888 --> 02:04:23,988
Congratulations,
Mr. President.
2282
02:04:24,090 --> 02:04:25,890
Yeah.
2283
02:04:25,992 --> 02:04:28,526
My apologies.
2284
02:04:29,963 --> 02:04:32,363
From our ambassador
in Saigon.
2285
02:04:35,936 --> 02:04:37,936
A green light
for Mr. Johnson,
2286
02:04:38,038 --> 02:04:40,071
a stop light
for Senator Goldwater
2287
02:04:40,173 --> 02:04:42,907
and perhaps for the right wing
conservative control
2288
02:04:43,009 --> 02:04:44,776
of the Republican Party.
2289
02:04:44,878 --> 02:04:46,911
These are the numbers.
2290
02:04:47,013 --> 02:04:48,279
In electoral votes,
it is...
2291
02:04:48,381 --> 02:04:51,850
96% of the Negro vote
to Johnson.
2292
02:04:51,952 --> 02:04:53,485
They owe us big,
Martin.
2293
02:04:53,587 --> 02:04:56,354
Now they gotta give us
that voting rights bill.
2294
02:04:56,456 --> 02:04:58,990
Well, L.B.J. is not
gonna give us anything.
2295
02:04:59,092 --> 02:05:00,458
We've gotta take it.
2296
02:05:00,560 --> 02:05:03,161
And we're gonna start
a new campaign right away
2297
02:05:03,263 --> 02:05:04,796
in Alabama.
2298
02:05:09,002 --> 02:05:12,904
I am so glad that it's
finally over, aren't you?
2299
02:05:13,006 --> 02:05:14,506
Over?
2300
02:05:14,608 --> 02:05:16,474
It's just
getting started.
2301
02:05:16,576 --> 02:05:19,410
Oh, what are you doing
out here by yourself?
2302
02:05:19,513 --> 02:05:22,480
Everybody's waiting for you.
Come join the party.
2303
02:05:22,582 --> 02:05:25,350
Your party, hmm?
2304
02:05:25,452 --> 02:05:26,951
In a minute.
2305
02:05:36,062 --> 02:05:39,197
Johnson's voice: You're goddamn
right it's my party
2306
02:05:39,299 --> 02:05:42,133
and I had to drag it
into the light
2307
02:05:42,235 --> 02:05:45,203
kicking and screaming
every inch of the way.
2308
02:05:45,305 --> 02:05:49,440
'Cause this is
how new things are born.
2309
02:05:50,343 --> 02:05:52,677
Bird and I
lost three babies
2310
02:05:52,779 --> 02:05:54,779
before we had Lynda,
2311
02:05:54,881 --> 02:05:56,381
and I remember
the moment
2312
02:05:56,483 --> 02:05:58,416
when they finally
let me into the room
2313
02:05:58,518 --> 02:06:01,386
to see my first
live child.
2314
02:06:01,488 --> 02:06:03,321
And there on the floor
2315
02:06:03,423 --> 02:06:06,257
you could still see
the doctor's footprints
2316
02:06:06,359 --> 02:06:08,192
in my wife's blood.
2317
02:06:08,295 --> 02:06:14,265
And I thought, "Yeah,
this is familiar.
2318
02:06:14,367 --> 02:06:16,834
I know this."
2319
02:06:16,937 --> 02:06:20,605
But right now, we're gonna
party like there's no tomorrow
2320
02:06:20,707 --> 02:06:23,007
'cause there's no feeling
in the world
2321
02:06:23,109 --> 02:06:25,109
half as good
as winning.
2322
02:06:25,211 --> 02:06:28,613
But the sun will come up
2323
02:06:28,715 --> 02:06:31,649
and the knives
will come out
2324
02:06:31,751 --> 02:06:34,619
and all these
smiling faces
2325
02:06:34,721 --> 02:06:36,654
will be watching me,
2326
02:06:36,756 --> 02:06:40,658
waiting for that one
first moment of weakness.
2327
02:06:40,760 --> 02:06:45,563
And then they will
gut me like a deer.
2328
02:06:45,665 --> 02:06:47,765
You okay, honey?
2329
02:06:47,867 --> 02:06:50,134
I'm fine, Bird.
2330
02:06:51,304 --> 02:06:53,504
Johnson's voice:
I'm great.
2331
02:06:53,607 --> 02:06:55,640
Hell, I'm president.
2332
02:06:57,043 --> 02:06:59,978
♪ Happy days
are here again ♪
2333
02:07:00,080 --> 02:07:03,715
♪ The skies above
are clear again ♪
2334
02:07:03,817 --> 02:07:07,685
♪ Let us sing a song
of cheer again ♪
2335
02:07:07,787 --> 02:07:12,190
♪ Happy days
are here again. ♪
2336
02:08:33,673 --> 02:08:36,674
♪ Oh, give me land,
lots of land ♪
2337
02:08:36,776 --> 02:08:39,744
♪ Under starry skies above ♪
2338
02:08:39,846 --> 02:08:42,847
♪ Don't fence me in ♪
2339
02:08:42,949 --> 02:08:47,585
♪ Let me ride through the
wide-open country that I love ♪
2340
02:08:47,687 --> 02:08:51,723
♪ Don't fence me in ♪
2341
02:08:51,825 --> 02:08:56,594
♪ Let me be by myself
in the evening breeze ♪
2342
02:08:56,696 --> 02:09:00,865
♪ Listen to the murmur
of the cottonwood trees ♪
2343
02:09:00,967 --> 02:09:05,103
♪ Send me off forever,
but I ask you, please ♪
2344
02:09:05,205 --> 02:09:07,905
♪ Don't fence me in ♪
2345
02:09:08,007 --> 02:09:09,640
♪ Just turn me loose ♪
2346
02:09:09,743 --> 02:09:12,143
♪ Let me straddle
my old saddle ♪
2347
02:09:12,245 --> 02:09:15,446
♪ Underneath
the western skies ♪
2348
02:09:16,683 --> 02:09:18,583
♪ On my cayuse ♪
2349
02:09:18,685 --> 02:09:20,785
♪ Let me wander
over yonder ♪
2350
02:09:20,887 --> 02:09:24,489
♪ Till I see
the mountains rise ♪
2351
02:09:24,591 --> 02:09:28,292
♪ I want to ride
to the ridge ♪
2352
02:09:28,394 --> 02:09:30,995
♪ Where the West
commences ♪
2353
02:09:31,097 --> 02:09:35,299
♪ Gaze at the moon
till I lose my senses ♪
2354
02:09:35,401 --> 02:09:39,737
♪ Can't look at hobbles
and I can't stand fences ♪
2355
02:09:39,839 --> 02:09:44,909
♪ Don't fence me in. ♪
2356
02:09:49,382 --> 02:09:52,884
- ♪ No segregation ♪
2357
02:09:52,986 --> 02:09:56,521
♪ No segregation ♪
2358
02:09:56,623 --> 02:09:59,257
♪ No segregation ♪
2359
02:09:59,359 --> 02:10:02,693
♪ Over me, over me ♪
2360
02:10:02,796 --> 02:10:06,397
♪ And before
I'll be a slave ♪
2361
02:10:06,499 --> 02:10:09,734
♪ I'll be buried
in my grave ♪
2362
02:10:09,836 --> 02:10:13,404
♪ And go home
to my Lord ♪
2363
02:10:13,506 --> 02:10:16,307
♪ And be free, and be ♪
2364
02:10:16,409 --> 02:10:17,975
♪ Nothing but freedom! ♪
2365
02:10:18,077 --> 02:10:20,945
♪ Nothing but freedom ♪
2366
02:10:21,047 --> 02:10:25,016
♪ Nothing
but freedom ♪
2367
02:10:25,118 --> 02:10:27,819
♪ Nothing but freedom ♪
2368
02:10:27,921 --> 02:10:31,255
♪ Over me, over me ♪
2369
02:10:31,357 --> 02:10:34,592
♪ And before
I'll be a slave ♪
2370
02:10:34,694 --> 02:10:38,196
♪ I'll be buried
in my grave ♪
2371
02:10:38,298 --> 02:10:41,833
♪ And go home
to my Lord ♪
2372
02:10:41,935 --> 02:10:44,769
♪ And be free, and be ♪
2373
02:10:44,871 --> 02:10:46,537
♪ No more dogs ♪
2374
02:10:46,639 --> 02:10:49,807
♪ No more dogs ♪
2375
02:10:49,909 --> 02:10:53,544
♪ No more dogs ♪
2376
02:10:53,646 --> 02:10:55,479
♪ No more dogs ♪
2377
02:10:55,582 --> 02:10:57,949
- ♪ Biting me! ♪
- ♪ Over me ♪
2378
02:10:58,051 --> 02:10:59,717
♪ Biting me ♪
2379
02:10:59,819 --> 02:11:03,120
♪ And before
I'll be a slave ♪
2380
02:11:03,223 --> 02:11:06,624
♪ I'll be buried
in my grave ♪
2381
02:11:06,726 --> 02:11:10,328
♪ And go home
to my Lord ♪
2382
02:11:10,430 --> 02:11:13,064
♪ And be free, and be ♪
2383
02:11:13,166 --> 02:11:14,699
♪ No more shooting ♪
2384
02:11:14,801 --> 02:11:18,069
♪ No more shooting ♪
2385
02:11:18,171 --> 02:11:21,672
♪ No more shooting ♪
2386
02:11:21,774 --> 02:11:24,508
♪ No more shooting ♪
2387
02:11:24,611 --> 02:11:28,112
♪ Over me, over me ♪
2388
02:11:28,214 --> 02:11:31,549
♪ And before
I'll be a slave ♪
2389
02:11:31,651 --> 02:11:35,119
♪ I'll be buried
in my grave ♪
2390
02:11:35,221 --> 02:11:38,923
♪ And go home
to my Lord ♪
2391
02:11:39,025 --> 02:11:41,692
♪ And be free, and be ♪
2392
02:11:41,794 --> 02:11:43,261
♪ No more mourning ♪
2393
02:11:43,363 --> 02:11:46,764
♪ No more mourning ♪
2394
02:11:46,866 --> 02:11:50,301
♪ No more mourning ♪
2395
02:11:50,403 --> 02:11:53,137
♪ No more mourning ♪
2396
02:11:53,239 --> 02:11:56,774
♪ Over me, over me ♪