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He's gone.

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Lyndon.

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<i>Lyndon.</i>

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<i>Wake up, honey.</i>

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<i>We're about to land</i>
<i>in Washington.</i>

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Okay.

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Did you hear
from Bobby?

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Man: <i>He'll be waiting</i>
<i>on the tarmac.</i>

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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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<i>Says she wants them to see</i>
<i>what they have done to Jack.</i>

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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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<i>Walter,</i>

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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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<i>Mr. President?</i>

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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>I keep having this dream.</i>

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<i>I'm back in the Hill Country</i>
<i>in the old days,</i>

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<i>hiding down</i>
<i>in the root cellar</i>

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<i>while a Comanche</i>
<i>war party</i>

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<i>searches through the house</i>
<i>just over my head</i>

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<i>hunting for me.</i>

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<i>It's so dark down there,</i>
<i>like a grave.</i>

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Man: The President of the United States!

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Johnson:
<i>For this terrible moment,</i>

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<i>I wonder</i>
<i>if I'm dead already...</i>

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<i>or buried alive.</i>

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Mr. President.

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Johnson: <i>I pissed myself</i>
<i>like an idiot child</i>

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<i>crouching in the dirt,</i>

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<i>knowing it's only</i>
<i>a matter of time now</i>

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<i>before they find</i>
<i>the trapdoor,</i>

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<i>discover me...</i>

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<i>haul me screaming</i>
<i>up into the light...</i>

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<i>where their knives gleam.</i>

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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
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every trace
of discrimination

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that is based upon race
or color.

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Man:
<i>That's right!</i>

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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: <i>Well, you could tell</i>
<i>that liberal crowd of yours</i>

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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:<i> Walter!</i>

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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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<i>With the election</i>
<i>only 11 months away...</i>

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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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<i>If there's anything</i>
<i>I can do-</i>

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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:<i> Ah.</i>

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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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<i>J. Edgar Hoover on four.</i>

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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:
<i>Oh, hell, Edgar,</i>

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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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<i>Well, in light</i> <i>of your
announcement</i> <i>last night,</i>

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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:
<i>If I can just-</i>

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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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-<i> It's a difficult time.</i>
- 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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-<i> bring them in.</i>
- 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: <i>Kennedy made
promises,</i> <i>too, Stanley.</i>

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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: <i>Martin, listen,</i>
<i>he's a Southern politician.</i>

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<i>He's spent his entire life</i>
<i>trying to be president.</i>

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<i>But he's there now.</i>

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<i>For the first time,</i>
<i>he can do whatever he wants.</i>

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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:<i> Damn right.</i>
- Abernathy:<i> That's right.</i>

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<i>...11 months from now,</i>

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<i>he has to run</i>
<i>for reelection.</i>

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<i>Like Kennedy,</i> <i>he damn sure is
gonna need</i> <i>the Negro vote to win.</i>

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Abernathy:
<i>Amen.</i>

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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?

240
00:16:11.371 --> 00:16:13.204
That's a very good
question, sir.

241
00:16:13.306 --> 00:16:14.839
Let's see who else
King is meeting.

242
00:16:14.941 --> 00:16:16.774
I want all his travel
covered from now on.

243
00:16:16.876 --> 00:16:19.544
- Get started.
- Yes, sir.

244
00:16:19.646 --> 00:16:22.347
I will leave the goddamn
Democratic Party

245
00:16:22.449 --> 00:16:23.514
before I turn it over

246
00:16:23.616 --> 00:16:26.117
to a bunch
of Congolese savages.

247
00:16:26.219 --> 00:16:28.186
Now, hold on
a second, Strom.

248
00:16:28.288 --> 00:16:31.689
This bill is just
the thin edge of the wedge.

249
00:16:31.791 --> 00:16:35.526
You saw what King and his
bunch did in Birmingham.

250
00:16:35.628 --> 00:16:37.829
<i>Why, integrated buses</i>
<i>are just the beginning.</i>

251
00:16:37.931 --> 00:16:41.132
<i>Now we gotta shop with them,</i>
<i>eat with them, work with them.</i>

252
00:16:41.234 --> 00:16:43.901
We have been oppressed and
degraded by black, slimy,

253
00:16:44.004 --> 00:16:47.372
- unbearably stinking niggers.
- That's enough of that kind of talk.

254
00:16:47.474 --> 00:16:48.806
That's exactly
what they wanna hear

255
00:16:48.908 --> 00:16:52.443
so they can dismiss us all
as a bunch of redneck goons.

256
00:17:01.254 --> 00:17:03.554
Thank you, Joles.

257
00:17:05.825 --> 00:17:08.593
We have to be very careful
how we handle this.

258
00:17:08.695 --> 00:17:10.828
The issue
is not about race.

259
00:17:10.930 --> 00:17:13.197
It's about the gravest
possible assault

260
00:17:13.299 --> 00:17:15.166
on the United States
Constitution,

261
00:17:15.268 --> 00:17:16.801
which we are fighting
to defend.

262
00:17:16.903 --> 00:17:20.838
The president is actively
gathering signatures

263
00:17:20.940 --> 00:17:22.240
for a discharge petition

264
00:17:22.342 --> 00:17:24.042
to get the bill out of
my committee in the House.

265
00:17:24.144 --> 00:17:25.810
And what do you expect
him to do, Judge?

266
00:17:25.912 --> 00:17:28.546
He's got to at least look
lively on civil rights.

267
00:17:28.648 --> 00:17:30.515
When the time comes,
he's gonna do the right thing.

268
00:17:30.617 --> 00:17:33.985
- He'll gut the bill?
- Yes. He knows who his friends are.

269
00:17:34.087 --> 00:17:36.087
But if he gets the bill
out of my committee?

270
00:17:36.189 --> 00:17:37.789
It still has to go
through the House,

271
00:17:37.891 --> 00:17:39.190
then out
of Jim's committee

272
00:17:39.292 --> 00:17:40.925
before it even gets
to the Senate floor.

273
00:17:41.027 --> 00:17:43.795
And none of this can get
in the way of party unity.

274
00:17:43.897 --> 00:17:46.597
In this election, we can
have a lock on the Senate

275
00:17:46.699 --> 00:17:50.668
and a lock on the House and we can
elect a Southern Democrat president.

276
00:17:50.770 --> 00:17:54.639
It's about time the South
rejoined the rest of the country.

277
00:17:56.843 --> 00:17:59.577
My friends,
if we do our part,

278
00:17:59.679 --> 00:18:04.048
Lyndon is gonna know who
to thank on November 4th.

279
00:18:04.150 --> 00:18:07.051
And don't you worry
about the president.

280
00:18:07.987 --> 00:18:09.987
I know how to handle him.

281
00:18:10.090 --> 00:18:12.557
Well, the mainstream
of American politics

282
00:18:12.659 --> 00:18:16.027
has carried you and me down to
the road to statism and socialism

283
00:18:16.129 --> 00:18:18.930
and the destruction of the
Constitution of the United States.

284
00:18:19.032 --> 00:18:21.065
And I am, for one,
am already out

285
00:18:21.167 --> 00:18:23.101
of the mainstream
of American politics.

286
00:18:23.203 --> 00:18:26.204
Russell: He sure gets people stirred up,

287
00:18:26.306 --> 00:18:28.306
even in Milwaukee.

288
00:18:28.408 --> 00:18:30.274
Johnson: When we get to Atlantic City,

289
00:18:30.376 --> 00:18:32.710
I will be
the Democratic nominee.

290
00:18:32.812 --> 00:18:35.279
But how damaged
will you be?

291
00:18:35.381 --> 00:18:38.816
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
00:18:43.656 --> 00:18:47.859
That little shit doesn't have
his brother's balls.

295
00:18:47.961 --> 00:18:51.295
Still has
his daddy's money.

296
00:18:51.397 --> 00:18:53.197
You might win
the nomination.

297
00:18:53.299 --> 00:18:56.934
- But if the party splits...
- Oh, come on now, Dick.

298
00:18:59.038 --> 00:19:00.872
All Wallace has
to beat you with

299
00:19:00.974 --> 00:19:02.840
is this damn
civil rights bill

300
00:19:02.942 --> 00:19:04.709
and I don't,
for the life of me,

301
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

303
00:19:10.083 --> 00:19:12.283
than I am about
the Dixiecrats.

304
00:19:12.385 --> 00:19:14.819
We got to give them
something this time, Dick.

305
00:19:14.921 --> 00:19:18.523
-<i> You know that.</i>
- 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

307
00:19:20.593 --> 00:19:23.027
to get this bill
out of the House.

308
00:19:23.129 --> 00:19:24.595
I do what I can.

309
00:19:24.697 --> 00:19:26.264
Lady Bird:
<i>Now, Lyndon,</i>

310
00:19:26.366 --> 00:19:28.299
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

312
00:19:30.403 --> 00:19:32.937
- and it's getting cold.
- Saved by the belle.

313
00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:34.539
Bird, you look
beautiful as always.

314
00:19:34.641 --> 00:19:37.642
Oh, and you are
a terrible liar as always.

315
00:19:37.744 --> 00:19:39.477
Politician's curse.

316
00:19:39.579 --> 00:19:43.681
Russell: <i>So, do you like</i>
<i>being the First Lady?</i>

317
00:19:43.783 --> 00:19:45.683
Lady Bird: <i>Well, it's
been</i> <i>an adjustment.</i>

318
00:19:45.785 --> 00:19:48.252
- Russell:<i> I can imagine.</i>
-<i> But I am enjoying it.</i>

319
00:19:52.358 --> 00:19:56.594
"Any jackass
can kick a barn down,

320
00:19:56.696 --> 00:19:59.964
but it takes a carpenter
to build one."

321
00:20:00.967 --> 00:20:02.867
You remember
who told me that?

322
00:20:02.969 --> 00:20:04.835
Sam Rayburn?

323
00:20:04.938 --> 00:20:08.439
Sam Rayburn,
Speaker of the House.

324
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.

326
00:20:14.948 --> 00:20:17.415
God knows I've been
kissing his ass

327
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?

330
00:20:25.858 --> 00:20:28.693
- His greatest regret?
- No, sir.

331
00:20:28.795 --> 00:20:31.329
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.

338
00:20:50.250 --> 00:20:52.183
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,

344
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
<i>When the carpenter</i>
<i>picks up his saw,</i>

350
00:21:29.555 --> 00:21:33.024
if wood could talk...

351
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

372
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:<i> You promised this country</i> <i>a
civil rights bill,</i> <i>Mr. President.</i>

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,

464
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
<i>living off</i> <i>the bitter
charity</i> <i>of my neighbors.</i>

479
00:28:44.256 --> 00:28:46.490
<i>But we're gonna</i>
<i>change all that.</i>

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
<i>and that this bill,</i>
<i>even without voting rights,</i>

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: <i>The point is we can
work</i> <i>with this president.</i>

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:<i> You still plan</i> <i>on voting
Republican</i> <i>this election, Bob?</i>

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>I'm not asking you to.</i>

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:<i> That's right.</i>

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:<i> That's right.</i>
- 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
-<i> then why not?!</i>
- 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
<i>So clearly,</i>
<i>you and the NAACP</i>

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: <i>In that case,</i>
<i>we should sell tickets</i>

594
00:34:23.729 --> 00:34:25.362
<i>so I can stop</i>
<i>giving speeches.</i>

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
-<i> You understand me?</i>
- Yes, sir.

624
00:36:07.032 --> 00:36:08.832
Reporter on TV:
<i>As part of Freedom Summer,</i>

625
00:36:08.934 --> 00:36:11.301
<i>the Student Nonviolent</i>
<i>Coordinating Committee,</i> <i>or SNCC,</i>

626
00:36:11.403 --> 00:36:14.804
<i>is recruiting and training</i> <i>black and
white college</i> <i>students from the North</i>

627
00:36:14.907 --> 00:36:18.141
<i>and bussing them</i> <i>into
Mississippi</i> <i>to register black voters.</i>

628
00:36:18.243 --> 00:36:21.778
<i>Police have</i> <i>confronted the
activists,</i> <i>leading to violent clashes.</i>

629
00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:23.813
Moses: <i>For two weeks,</i>
<i>we've been training</i>

630
00:36:23.916 --> 00:36:26.883
<i>to join other</i> <i>Freedom Summer
organizers</i> <i>in Mississippi,</i>

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
<i>The federal government</i>
<i>will not protect you</i>

634
00:36:32.891 --> 00:36:36.293
<i>and the Mississippi government</i> <i>will
do everything it can</i> <i>to stop you.</i>

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
<i>you should do so,</i>
<i>including now.</i>

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
<i>to consider</i>
<i>House Bill 736,</i>

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:<i> Mr. Speaker.</i>
- Can you hear that?

651
00:37:21.974 --> 00:37:25.976
<i>This bill is nothing less</i> <i>than
an assault on</i> <i>the Constitution</i>

652
00:37:26.078 --> 00:37:27.310
<i>by the federal</i>
<i>government.</i>

653
00:37:29.514 --> 00:37:31.214
<i>Who are we</i>

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
<i>Are you, Lyndon?</i>

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
<i>But you can't rush</i>
<i>these things.</i>

674
00:38:31.443 --> 00:38:32.642
<i>Look at the mess</i>
<i>in Mississippi</i>

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:
<i>Mr. Speaker,</i>

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
<i> Boo!</i>

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
-<i> Boo!</i>
-<i> God's honest truth.</i>

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
-<i> That's nonsense!</i>
-<i> Yes, sir!</i>

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:<i> Mr. Speaker...</i>

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: <i>With no more
amendments</i> <i>to be offered,</i>

709
00:40:10.509 --> 00:40:13.109
<i>the Speaker calls</i>
<i>for a final vote</i>

710
00:40:13.211 --> 00:40:15.678
<i>on House Bill 736.</i>

711
00:40:15.781 --> 00:40:18.415
- Abbitt.
-<i> Nay.</i>

712
00:40:18.517 --> 00:40:20.717
<i>Mr. Abbitt votes nay.</i>

713
00:40:20.819 --> 00:40:21.951
Abele.

714
00:40:22.053 --> 00:40:24.988
-<i> Yea.</i>
-<i> Mr. Abele votes yea.</i>

715
00:40:25.090 --> 00:40:26.523
- Adair.
-<i> Yea.</i>

716
00:40:26.625 --> 00:40:28.558
-<i> Albert.</i>
-<i> Nay.</i>

717
00:40:28.660 --> 00:40:30.727
<i>Mr. Andrews</i>
<i>from Alabama?</i>

718
00:40:30.829 --> 00:40:32.996
-<i> Nay.</i>
-<i> Mr. Andrews votes nay.</i>

719
00:40:33.098 --> 00:40:34.697
<i>Mr. Andrews</i>
<i>from North Dakota.</i>

720
00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:37.567
-<i> Yea.</i>
-<i> Mr. Andrews votes yea.</i>

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:
<i>In St. Augustine, Florida,</i>

731
00:41:33.358 --> 00:41:35.458
<i>Negro demonstrators</i>
<i>were attacked today</i>

732
00:41:35.560 --> 00:41:37.660
<i>by an estimated</i>
<i>500 angry whites</i>

733
00:41:37.762 --> 00:41:39.829
<i>when they broke through</i>
<i>police lines.</i>

734
00:41:39.931 --> 00:41:42.465
<i>The conflict began</i>
<i>when 200 Negro demonstrators</i>

735
00:41:42.567 --> 00:41:45.101
<i>led by Andrew Young</i> <i>and
other civil rights</i> <i>leaders...</i>

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
<i>especially with</i>
<i>those riots going on.</i>

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:
<i>Wallace is running at 90%</i>

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
<i>Well, right now</i>

776
00:43:30.909 --> 00:43:33.443
<i>it's all about</i>
<i>the rules of the Senate.</i>

777
00:43:33.545 --> 00:43:35.878
<i>And Dick Russell's</i>
<i>been studying them</i>

778
00:43:35.981 --> 00:43:38.147
<i>since he was sucking</i>
<i>on his mama's titty.</i>

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
<i> Oh.</i>

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>I think the president</i>
<i>just put over the bill</i>

793
00:44:23.728 --> 00:44:24.794
<i>out of committee.</i>

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:
<i>What you think it is?</i>

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
<i>Well,</i>
<i>the party's changing.</i>

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
<i>Wallace almost won</i>
<i>Maryland.</i>

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>I know</i>
<i>what you're thinking.</i>

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
<i>You have been</i>
<i>cutting deals</i>

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
<i>It was just a dusty,</i>
<i>old border town</i>

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
<i>They say the political risk</i>
<i>is too high.</i>

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:<i> Right this way,</i>
<i>Senator Dirksen.</i>

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:<i> There we go.</i>

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
<i>Now, look here,</i>

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
<i>Mr. Johnson</i>
<i>has inherited</i>

992
00:54:54.292 --> 00:54:56.258
<i>an armed clash</i>
<i>in South Vietnam.</i>

993
00:54:56.360 --> 00:54:58.327
<i>President Johnson</i>
<i>must decide</i>

994
00:54:58.429 --> 00:55:00.396
<i>whether to continue it</i>
<i>in its present form,</i>

995
00:55:00.498 --> 00:55:03.132
<i>to enlarge it, or seek</i>
<i>a negotiated settlement.</i>

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.
-<i> Mr. President.</i>

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
-<i> Bye, Daddy.</i>
- 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
<i>has asked again</i>
<i>for federal protection.</i>

1020
00:55:55.820 --> 00:55:57.753
<i>Things are getting</i> <i>pretty
violent</i> <i>in Mississippi.</i>

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:
<i>We believe all men</i>

1126
01:00:39.169 --> 01:00:43.739
<i>are entitled</i>
<i>to the blessings of liberty.</i>

1127
01:00:43.841 --> 01:00:46.041
<i>Yet millions</i>

1128
01:00:46.143 --> 01:00:50.112
<i>are deprived</i>
<i>of those blessings,</i>

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
<i>This cannot continue.</i>

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:
<i>Reverend King.</i>

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
<i>We got it done.</i>

1140
01:01:38.862 --> 01:01:40.328
- Man:<i> Congratulations.</i>
- Humphrey:<i> Thank you.</i>

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:<i> Dr. King.</i>

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:
<i>Hear, hear.</i>

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:<i> Senator</i>
<i>Goldwater's triumph</i>

1174
01:04:00.737 --> 01:04:03.638
<i>takes the leadership</i> <i>of his party
away from</i> <i>the eastern liberal block</i>

1175
01:04:03.740 --> 01:04:05.707
<i>and places it with</i>
<i>the western conservatives</i>

1176
01:04:05.809 --> 01:04:08.543
<i>for the first time</i>
<i>since 1936.</i>

1177
01:04:08.645 --> 01:04:12.247
- Woman:<i> L.B.!</i>
- Johnson's voice: <i>Clausewitz said...</i>

1178
01:04:12.349 --> 01:04:14.282
Marjorie.

1179
01:04:14.384 --> 01:04:18.820
<i>...politics is war</i>
<i>by other means.</i>

1180
01:04:20.791 --> 01:04:22.257
<i>Bullshit.</i>

1181
01:04:22.359 --> 01:04:25.493
-<i> Politics is war, period.</i>
- 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
<i>Let me remind you also</i>

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: <i>You know how
you win</i> <i>a campaign?</i>

1189
01:04:43.513 --> 01:04:45.313
<i>By not losing it.</i>

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>I only lost one
election</i> <i>my whole life.</i>

1192
01:04:51.488 --> 01:04:53.455
<i>The son of a bitch</i>
<i>stole it from me</i>

1193
01:04:53.557 --> 01:04:56.591
<i>in the final seconds</i> <i>with
a handful</i> <i>of fake votes,</i>

1194
01:04:56.693 --> 01:04:58.927
<i>and I will carry</i>
<i>the pain of that with me</i>

1195
01:04:59.029 --> 01:05:01.129
<i>to my dying day.</i>

1196
01:05:01.231 --> 01:05:02.797
<i>But I'll tell you what.</i>

1197
01:05:02.900 --> 01:05:07.068
<i>Nobody will ever</i>
<i>do me that way again.</i>

1198
01:05:07.170 --> 01:05:11.239
- Goldwater:...that every fiber of my being...
-<i> It'll be some other way.</i>

1199
01:05:11.341 --> 01:05:14.910
Goldwater: <i>...that nothing shall
be</i> <i>lacking from the struggle...</i>

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: <i>What you</i>
<i>looking at, nigger?</i>

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:<i> Yeah?</i>
- 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
<i>Chaney's a local Negro,</i>

1212
01:06:53.577 --> 01:06:57.779
<i>but Schwerner and Goodman</i> <i>were
both out-of-state</i> <i>volunteers,</i>

1213
01:06:57.881 --> 01:06:59.447
<i>both white.</i>

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
<i>Chaney, Schwerner,</i>
<i>and Goodman.</i>

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?
-<i> Yes, sir.</i>

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
<i>Oh, see, now that's</i>
<i>where it gets confusing</i>

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
<i>probably having themselves</i>
<i>a good laugh,</i>

1241
01:08:21.698 --> 01:08:23.364
<i>and they're gonna</i>
<i>come back in,</i>

1242
01:08:23.467 --> 01:08:25.633
<i>they're gonna claim they were</i>
<i>abused or something.</i>

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
<i>Of course I don't.</i>

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
<i>But there's</i> <i>a lot of
pressure</i> <i>to do something.</i>

1251
01:08:43.854 --> 01:08:45.720
<i>Now, if you'd rather,</i>

1252
01:08:45.822 --> 01:08:49.891
<i>I guess I can</i> <i>get a few FBI
agents</i> <i>to look into the thing.</i>

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.
-<i> Edgar,</i>

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
<i>Well, if you're sure.</i>

1281
01:10:07.437 --> 01:10:10.071
<i>I mean, the last thing</i>
<i>I would want</i>

1282
01:10:10.173 --> 01:10:13.775
<i>is Dulles down there</i> <i>acting like
he was running</i> <i>the FBI as well.</i>

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: <i>The burned-out station
wagon</i> <i>was discovered in the woods</i>

1295
01:10:54.184 --> 01:10:56.284
<i>20 miles from Philadelphia,</i>
<i>Mississippi,</i>

1296
01:10:56.386 --> 01:10:59.087
<i>a small town</i> <i>in which
Schwerner,</i> <i>Goodman, and Chaney</i>

1297
01:10:59.189 --> 01:11:01.589
<i>had been arrested for speeding</i>
<i>during the day.</i>

1298
01:11:01.691 --> 01:11:04.225
<i>They were released</i> <i>late at
night by</i> <i>a deputy sheriff</i>

1299
01:11:04.327 --> 01:11:07.795
<i>and were last seen driving away</i>
<i>in the blue station wagon.</i>

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:<i> Hold on.</i>

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:<i> He's been busy.</i>

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
<i>Please.</i>

1344
01:13:35.278 --> 01:13:38.112
Of course I'll come.

1345
01:13:38.214 --> 01:13:42.250
Jenkins: <i>FBI was acting on a tip
about</i> <i>a farm in rural Mississippi</i>

1346
01:13:42.352 --> 01:13:45.386
<i>and they just found</i> <i>two bodies
buried there</i> <i>in an earthen dam.</i>

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
<i>Is anybody</i>
<i>gonna follow him?</i>

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
-<i> Were there any explosions?</i>
- 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:<i> Sir?</i>
- 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: <i>The bodies of the three</i> <i>missing civil rights workers
-</i>

1461
01:19:29.065 --> 01:19:31.065
- <i> Schwerner,</i>
<i>Chaney, and Goodman...</i>

1462
01:19:31.167 --> 01:19:33.601
<i>...were found in a grave</i>
<i>at the base of an earthen dam</i>

1463
01:19:33.703 --> 01:19:36.103
<i>outside of Philadelphia,</i>
<i>Mississippi.</i>

1464
01:19:36.205 --> 01:19:39.974
<i>Their bodies were wrapped</i> <i>in plastic
bags numbered one,</i> <i>two, and three.</i>

1465
01:19:40.076 --> 01:19:44.111
<i>They were taken</i> <i>to the medical
center</i> <i>in Jackson for examination.</i>

1466
01:19:44.213 --> 01:19:49.216
♪...far too small... ♪

1467
01:19:49.318 --> 01:19:56.423
<i> ♪ Love so amazing ♪</i>

1468
01:19:56.526 --> 01:20:01.162
<i>♪ Love so divine ♪</i>

1469
01:20:01.264 --> 01:20:07.468
<i>♪ Demands my soul ♪</i>

1470
01:20:07.570 --> 01:20:09.804
<i>♪ My life ♪</i>

1471
01:20:09.906 --> 01:20:15.709
♪ My all. ♪

1472
01:20:15.812 --> 01:20:19.513
All:
<i>Amen.</i>

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:<i> Yes, he did.</i>
- 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:<i> That's right.</i>

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:<i> No.</i>
- We will not surrender.

1481
01:20:51.814 --> 01:20:53.981
- Congregation:<i> No.</i>
- 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:
<i>Amen.</i>

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:
<i>Preach.</i>

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:
<i>That's right.</i>

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
<i> Stand up!</i>

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
<i>One man, one vote!</i>
<i>One man, one vote!</i>

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: <i>You can see a
largely</i> <i>Negro delegation</i>

1536
01:23:37.246 --> 01:23:39.046
<i>from a Southern state</i>
<i>appear here</i>

1537
01:23:39.148 --> 01:23:41.181
<i>claiming to be</i>
<i>an alternative delegation.</i>

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
<i>Dr. Henry, who is</i>
<i>their chairman,</i>

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
<i>And now they're</i>
<i>just threatening</i>

1558
01:24:34.136 --> 01:24:36.336
<i>to walk out</i> <i>of the
whole</i> <i>goddamn convention!</i>

1559
01:24:38.174 --> 01:24:40.841
-<i> Son of a bitch.</i>
- 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:<i>...watching</i> <i>over every aspect</i>

1569
01:25:00.830 --> 01:25:03.430
<i>and every detail</i>
<i>in this process...</i>

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: <i>CBS News correspondent</i>
<i>Mike Wallace here</i>

1600
01:26:55.377 --> 01:26:56.910
<i>at the ballroom</i>
<i>of Convention Hall</i>

1601
01:26:57.012 --> 01:26:58.745
<i>where the credentials</i>
<i>committee</i>

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: <i>Fannie Lou Hamer,</i>
<i>a sharecropper's daughter.</i>

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
<i>Walter!</i>

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
<i>All we're asking</i>

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:<i> Please</i> <i>stand by for the
President</i> <i>of the United States.</i>

1656
01:30:31.727 --> 01:30:34.261
Uh, howdy.

1657
01:30:34.363 --> 01:30:36.530
-<i> First of all,</i> <i>I wanna thank y'all...</i>
- 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> I know a lot</i> <i>of people are...</i>
- 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>I think now</i>
<i>I can open it up</i>

1667
01:30:58.854 --> 01:31:01.755
<i>and if you'd like to ask</i>
<i>a few questions, uh...</i>

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
<i>Well, if I do,</i>
<i>it'll be the Dixiecrats</i>

1682
01:31:50.305 --> 01:31:52.606
<i>and Martin Luther King</i>
<i>put me in my grave.</i>

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
<i>and steal this nomination</i>
<i>at the last minute.</i>

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>I never wanted to be president</i>
<i>in the first place.</i>

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
<i>Nice is</i>
<i>for kissing babies.</i>

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: <i>Well, Reuther,</i>
<i>I know how important</i>

1751
01:35:16.912 --> 01:35:18.812
<i>your golden boy Humphrey</i>
<i>is to you</i>

1752
01:35:18.914 --> 01:35:20.780
<i>and the rest</i>
<i>of organized labor.</i>

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
<i>he will have</i>
<i>no future</i>

1756
01:35:30.392 --> 01:35:32.425
<i>in the Democratic Party,</i>
<i>you hear me?</i>

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
<i>You know me, Walter.</i>

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:
<i>Martin.</i>

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:<i> That's right.</i>

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:<i> Right.</i>

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: <i>Will the delegates</i>
<i>please be seated?</i>

1894
01:43:50.658 --> 01:43:54.327
<i>A workable compromise</i>
<i>regarding at large delegates</i>

1895
01:43:54.429 --> 01:43:56.229
-<i> from Mississippi</i> <i>has been reached.</i>
- 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
<i>And we urge the delegates here</i>
<i>to approve the recommendations</i>

1898
01:44:00.935 --> 01:44:04.003
-<i> of the credentials committee.</i>
- 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: <i>The credentials committee</i>
<i>settled on a compromise</i>

1903
01:44:15.583 --> 01:44:17.817
<i>of two voting delegates</i>
<i>for the MFDP,</i>

1904
01:44:17.919 --> 01:44:22.388
<i>but Mississippi and Alabama</i>
<i>rejected the deal</i> <i>and walked out.</i>

1905
01:44:22.490 --> 01:44:24.056
<i>If Georgia</i>
<i>walks out next,</i>

1906
01:44:24.158 --> 01:44:28.094
-<i> the rest of the South</i> <i>will follow.</i>
- Mr. President?

1907
01:44:28.196 --> 01:44:31.030
<i>It's Governor Sanders</i>
<i>of Georgia on the phone.</i>

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
<i>God damn it!</i>

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
<i>And what kind</i>
<i>of politician are you?</i>

1942
01:45:56.484 --> 01:45:58.851
<i>You just</i>
<i>out for yourself</i>

1943
01:45:58.953 --> 01:46:02.188
<i>or you wanna make</i> <i>a better life
for all</i> <i>the people of Georgia?</i>

1944
01:46:02.290 --> 01:46:04.890
- Well, of course I- -<i> And what
kind</i> <i>of man are you?</i>

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
<i>or do you</i>
<i>just slink away?</i>

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
<i>But if not,</i>

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?
-<i> Yes, sir, he did.</i>

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:<i> The Honorable</i>
<i>Lyndon B. Johnson</i>

1987
01:48:13.187 --> 01:48:15.020
<i>is nominated</i>
<i>by acclamation</i>

1988
01:48:15.122 --> 01:48:17.122
<i>as our candidate</i>
<i>to the office</i>

1989
01:48:17.225 --> 01:48:19.758
<i>of President</i>
<i>of the United States</i>

1990
01:48:19.861 --> 01:48:22.962
<i>and the Honorable</i>
<i>Hubert Horatio Humphrey</i>

1991
01:48:23.064 --> 01:48:25.531
<i>is our candidate</i>
<i>for Vice President!</i>

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
<i>and President Johnson's</i>
<i>Democratic Party</i>

1994
01:48:30.505 --> 01:48:32.705
<i>is one big,</i>
<i>happy family.</i>

1995
01:48:32.807 --> 01:48:34.573
<i>Hello there!</i>

1996
01:48:36.377 --> 01:48:37.810
<i>- Hubert.</i>
<i>- Mr. President.</i>

1997
01:48:37.912 --> 01:48:39.478
<i>You look a little down</i>
<i>in the mouth</i>

1998
01:48:39.580 --> 01:48:41.647
<i>for being the next</i>
<i>vice president.</i>

1999
01:48:41.749 --> 01:48:44.950
<i>It just feels different</i>
<i>than I thought it would.</i>

2000
01:48:45.052 --> 01:48:47.119
<i>Oh, that.</i>
<i>Well...</i>

2001
01:48:47.221 --> 01:48:49.421
<i>you get over that</i>
<i>pretty quick.</i>

2002
01:48:49.524 --> 01:48:54.627
Announcer: <i>The American people have</i>
<i>no greater advocate and friend</i>

2003
01:48:54.729 --> 01:48:57.162
<i>than the man</i>
<i>the Democratic Party</i>

2004
01:48:57.265 --> 01:49:00.399
<i>is proud to claim</i>
<i>as our leader.</i>

2005
01:49:00.501 --> 01:49:02.668
<i>Now the man of the hour,</i>

2006
01:49:02.770 --> 01:49:05.037
<i> Lyndon Baines Johnson!</i>

2007
01:49:05.139 --> 01:49:08.073
<i>♪ The skies above</i>
<i>are clear again ♪</i>

2008
01:49:08.175 --> 01:49:12.044
<i>♪ Let us sing a song</i>
<i>of cheer again ♪</i>

2009
01:49:12.146 --> 01:49:16.982
<i>♪ Happy days</i>
<i>are here again. ♪</i>

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:<i>...eight, seven,</i>

2046
01:50:54.181 --> 01:50:56.148
<i>six, five,</i>

2047
01:50:56.250 --> 01:50:58.751
<i>four, three,</i>

2048
01:50:58.853 --> 01:51:01.353
<i>two, one,</i>

2049
01:51:01.455 --> 01:51:03.188
<i>zero.</i>

2050
01:51:05.860 --> 01:51:08.427
Johnson's voice:
<i>These are the stakes</i>

2051
01:51:08.529 --> 01:51:12.965
<i>to make a world in which</i>
<i>all of God's children can live</i>

2052
01:51:13.067 --> 01:51:16.835
<i>or to go into the dark.</i>

2053
01:51:16.937 --> 01:51:20.372
<i>We must either</i>
<i>love each other</i>

2054
01:51:20.474 --> 01:51:22.508
<i>or we must die.</i>

2055
01:51:22.610 --> 01:51:26.679
Announcer: <i>Vote for President
Johnson</i> <i>on November 3rd.</i>

2056
01:51:26.781 --> 01:51:30.182
<i>The stakes are too high</i>
<i>for you to stay home.</i>

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:<i> And he's right.</i>

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
<i>The other man arrested</i>
<i>was an army staff sergeant.</i>

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:
<i>No, sir.</i>

2083
01:53:02.409 --> 01:53:04.042
<i>Apparently,</i>
<i>Walter was arrested</i>

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:
<i>None of us knew.</i>

2087
01:53:12.453 --> 01:53:16.355
<i>This has Goldwater's</i>
<i>fingerprints all over it.</i>

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
<i>You get ahold of Walter's</i>
<i>Air Force Reserve records.</i>

2100
01:53:53.093 --> 01:53:55.627
<i>Goldwater was</i>
<i>his commanding officer.</i>

2101
01:53:55.729 --> 01:53:58.564
<i>With any luck, he signed off</i>
<i>on his fitness evaluations.</i>

2102
01:53:58.666 --> 01:54:02.701
<i>We get ahold of those</i> <i>and Goldwater
won't be able</i> <i>to say shit!</i>

2103
01:54:02.803 --> 01:54:04.903
<i>Walter will resign</i>
<i>immediately.</i>

2104
01:54:05.005 --> 01:54:07.372
<i>You see to it that his doctor</i>
<i>issues a statement.</i>

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>I'm sure you'd know.</i>

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:<i> In what</i>
<i>is sure to be</i>

2147
01:56:49.803 --> 01:56:51.570
<i>a very controversial</i>
<i>decision,</i>

2148
01:56:51.672 --> 01:56:54.039
<i>the winner of this year's</i>
<i>Nobel Prize for Peace</i>

2149
01:56:54.141 --> 01:56:56.041
<i>is Dr. Martin</i>
<i>Luther King, Jr.</i>

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
<i>who are devoted</i>
<i>to the nonviolent pursuit</i>

2153
01:57:03.984 --> 01:57:06.551
<i>of those rights</i> <i>to which
every man</i> <i>and woman...</i>

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:<i>...movement</i> <i>of many peoples</i>

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:<i> "King"...</i>

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
<i>You are a colossal fraud</i>

2177
01:58:19.593 --> 01:58:22.627
<i>and an evil,</i>
<i>vicious one at that</i>

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
<i>is bared to the nation."</i>

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>I've had enough</i>
<i>of this horseshit.</i>

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
<i>to the President</i>
<i>of the United States.</i>

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
<i>Well, I'm not gonna let them</i>
<i>build up the hate.</i>

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: <i>ABC News continues</i>
<i>its coverage of Election '64.</i>

2238
02:02:06.720 --> 02:02:09.354
Reporter: <i>President Johnson,
though</i> <i>he's doing extremely well</i>

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: <i>Senator Goldwater so far
is</i> <i>doing respectably in the South,</i>

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
<i>The "New York Herald Tribune"</i>
<i>put up the headline</i>

2248
02:02:34.581 --> 02:02:36.348
<i>"Johnson Landslide."</i>

2249
02:02:40.487 --> 02:02:42.487
<i>...CBS poll profile analysis.</i>

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
<i>Well, I'm just trying to do</i>
<i>what the old master taught me.</i>

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
<i>Well, they'll be back.</i>

2273
02:03:50.157 --> 02:03:52.290
I sure wish
you was here.

2274
02:03:55.328 --> 02:03:56.795
<i>Listen, Uncle Dick,</i>

2275
02:03:56.897 --> 02:03:59.030
<i>you know we got a hell</i>
<i>of a lot of work ahead of us.</i>

2276
02:03:59.132 --> 02:04:01.332
<i>I-I'm counting</i>
<i>on you, now.</i>

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
<i>of the Republican Party.</i>

2289
02:04:44.878 --> 02:04:46.911
<i>These are the numbers.</i>

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
<i>Now they gotta give us</i>
<i>that voting rights bill.</i>

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: <i>You're goddamn
right</i> <i>it's my party</i>

2306
02:05:39.299 --> 02:05:42.133
<i>and I had to drag it</i>
<i>into the light</i>

2307
02:05:42.235 --> 02:05:45.203
<i>kicking and screaming</i>
<i>every inch of the way.</i>

2308
02:05:45.305 --> 02:05:49.440
<i>'Cause this is</i>
<i>how new things are born.</i>

2309
02:05:50.343 --> 02:05:52.677
<i>Bird and I</i>
<i>lost three babies</i>

2310
02:05:52.779 --> 02:05:54.779
<i>before we had Lynda,</i>

2311
02:05:54.881 --> 02:05:56.381
<i>and I remember</i>
<i>the moment</i>

2312
02:05:56.483 --> 02:05:58.416
<i>when they finally</i>
<i>let me into the room</i>

2313
02:05:58.518 --> 02:06:01.386
<i>to see my first</i>
<i>live child.</i>

2314
02:06:01.488 --> 02:06:03.321
<i>And there on the floor</i>

2315
02:06:03.423 --> 02:06:06.257
<i>you could still see</i>
<i>the doctor's footprints</i>

2316
02:06:06.359 --> 02:06:08.192
<i>in my wife's blood.</i>

2317
02:06:08.295 --> 02:06:14.265
<i>And I thought, "Yeah,</i>
<i>this is familiar.</i>

2318
02:06:14.367 --> 02:06:16.834
<i>I know this."</i>

2319
02:06:16.937 --> 02:06:20.605
<i>But right now,</i> <i>we're gonna
party</i> <i>like there's no tomorrow</i>

2320
02:06:20.707 --> 02:06:23.007
<i>'cause there's no feeling</i>
<i>in the world</i>

2321
02:06:23.109 --> 02:06:25.109
<i>half as good</i>
<i>as winning.</i>

2322
02:06:25.211 --> 02:06:28.613
<i> But the sun will come up</i>

2323
02:06:28.715 --> 02:06:31.649
<i>and the knives</i>
<i>will come out</i>

2324
02:06:31.751 --> 02:06:34.619
<i>and all these</i>
<i>smiling faces</i>

2325
02:06:34.721 --> 02:06:36.654
<i>will be watching me,</i>

2326
02:06:36.756 --> 02:06:40.658
<i>waiting for that one</i>
<i>first moment of weakness.</i>

2327
02:06:40.760 --> 02:06:45.563
<i>And then they will</i>
<i>gut me like a deer.</i>

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>I'm great.</i>

2331
02:06:53.607 --> 02:06:55.640
<i>Hell, I'm president.</i>

2332
02:06:57.043 --> 02:06:59.978
<i>♪ Happy days</i>
<i>are here again ♪</i>

2333
02:07:00.080 --> 02:07:03.715
<i>♪ The skies above</i>
<i>are clear again ♪</i>

2334
02:07:03.817 --> 02:07:07.685
<i>♪ Let us sing a song</i>
<i>of cheer again ♪</i>

2335
02:07:07.787 --> 02:07:12.190
<i>♪ Happy days</i>
<i>are here again. ♪</i>

2336
02:08:33.673 --> 02:08:36.674
<i>♪ Oh, give me land,</i>
<i>lots of land ♪</i>

2337
02:08:36.776 --> 02:08:39.744
<i>♪ Under starry skies above ♪</i>

2338
02:08:39.846 --> 02:08:42.847
<i>♪ Don't fence me in ♪</i>

2339
02:08:42.949 --> 02:08:47.585
<i>♪ Let me ride through</i> <i>the
wide-open country</i> <i>that I love ♪</i>

2340
02:08:47.687 --> 02:08:51.723
<i>♪ Don't fence me in ♪</i>

2341
02:08:51.825 --> 02:08:56.594
<i>♪ Let me be by myself</i>
<i>in the evening breeze ♪</i>

2342
02:08:56.696 --> 02:09:00.865
<i>♪ Listen to the murmur</i>
<i>of the cottonwood trees ♪</i>

2343
02:09:00.967 --> 02:09:05.103
<i>♪ Send me off forever,</i>
<i>but I ask you, please ♪</i>

2344
02:09:05.205 --> 02:09:07.905
<i>♪ Don't fence me in ♪</i>

2345
02:09:08.007 --> 02:09:09.640
<i>♪ Just turn me loose ♪</i>

2346
02:09:09.743 --> 02:09:12.143
<i>♪ Let me straddle</i>
<i>my old saddle ♪</i>

2347
02:09:12.245 --> 02:09:15.446
<i>♪ Underneath</i>
<i>the western skies ♪</i>

2348
02:09:16.683 --> 02:09:18.583
<i>♪ On my cayuse ♪</i>

2349
02:09:18.685 --> 02:09:20.785
<i>♪ Let me wander</i>
<i>over yonder ♪</i>

2350
02:09:20.887 --> 02:09:24.489
<i>♪ Till I see</i>
<i>the mountains rise ♪</i>

2351
02:09:24.591 --> 02:09:28.292
<i>♪ I want to ride</i>
<i>to the ridge ♪</i>

2352
02:09:28.394 --> 02:09:30.995
<i>♪ Where the West</i>
<i>commences ♪</i>

2353
02:09:31.097 --> 02:09:35.299
<i>♪ Gaze at the moon</i>
<i>till I lose my senses ♪</i>

2354
02:09:35.401 --> 02:09:39.737
<i>♪ Can't look at hobbles</i>
<i>and I can't stand fences ♪</i>

2355
02:09:39.839 --> 02:09:44.909
<i>♪ Don't fence me in. ♪</i>

2356
02:09:49.382 --> 02:09:52.884
- <i> ♪ No segregation ♪</i>

2357
02:09:52.986 --> 02:09:56.521
<i>♪ No segregation ♪</i>

2358
02:09:56.623 --> 02:09:59.257
<i>♪ No segregation ♪</i>

2359
02:09:59.359 --> 02:10:02.693
<i>♪ Over me, over me ♪</i>

2360
02:10:02.796 --> 02:10:06.397
<i>♪ And before</i>
<i>I'll be a slave ♪</i>

2361
02:10:06.499 --> 02:10:09.734
<i>♪ I'll be buried</i>
<i>in my grave ♪</i>

2362
02:10:09.836 --> 02:10:13.404
<i>♪ And go home</i>
<i>to my Lord ♪</i>

2363
02:10:13.506 --> 02:10:16.307
<i>♪ And be free, and be ♪</i>

2364
02:10:16.409 --> 02:10:17.975
<i>♪ Nothing but freedom! ♪</i>

2365
02:10:18.077 --> 02:10:20.945
<i>♪ Nothing but freedom ♪</i>

2366
02:10:21.047 --> 02:10:25.016
<i>♪ Nothing</i>
<i>but freedom ♪</i>

2367
02:10:25.118 --> 02:10:27.819
<i>♪ Nothing but freedom ♪</i>

2368
02:10:27.921 --> 02:10:31.255
<i>♪ Over me, over me ♪</i>

2369
02:10:31.357 --> 02:10:34.592
<i>♪ And before</i>
<i>I'll be a slave ♪</i>

2370
02:10:34.694 --> 02:10:38.196
<i>♪ I'll be buried</i>
<i>in my grave ♪</i>

2371
02:10:38.298 --> 02:10:41.833
<i>♪ And go home</i>
<i>to my Lord ♪</i>

2372
02:10:41.935 --> 02:10:44.769
<i>♪ And be free, and be ♪</i>

2373
02:10:44.871 --> 02:10:46.537
<i>♪ No more dogs ♪</i>

2374
02:10:46.639 --> 02:10:49.807
<i>♪ No more dogs ♪</i>

2375
02:10:49.909 --> 02:10:53.544
<i>♪ No more dogs ♪</i>

2376
02:10:53.646 --> 02:10:55.479
<i>♪ No more dogs ♪</i>

2377
02:10:55.582 --> 02:10:57.949
<i>- ♪ Biting me! ♪</i>
<i>- ♪ Over me ♪</i>

2378
02:10:58.051 --> 02:10:59.717
<i>♪ Biting me ♪</i>

2379
02:10:59.819 --> 02:11:03.120
<i>♪ And before</i>
<i>I'll be a slave ♪</i>

2380
02:11:03.223 --> 02:11:06.624
<i>♪ I'll be buried</i>
<i>in my grave ♪</i>

2381
02:11:06.726 --> 02:11:10.328
<i>♪ And go home</i>
<i>to my Lord ♪</i>

2382
02:11:10.430 --> 02:11:13.064
<i>♪ And be free, and be ♪</i>

2383
02:11:13.166 --> 02:11:14.699
<i>♪ No more shooting ♪</i>

2384
02:11:14.801 --> 02:11:18.069
<i>♪ No more shooting ♪</i>

2385
02:11:18.171 --> 02:11:21.672
<i>♪ No more shooting ♪</i>

2386
02:11:21.774 --> 02:11:24.508
<i>♪ No more shooting ♪</i>

2387
02:11:24.611 --> 02:11:28.112
<i>♪ Over me, over me ♪</i>

2388
02:11:28.214 --> 02:11:31.549
<i>♪ And before</i>
<i>I'll be a slave ♪</i>

2389
02:11:31.651 --> 02:11:35.119
<i>♪ I'll be buried</i>
<i>in my grave ♪</i>

2390
02:11:35.221 --> 02:11:38.923
<i>♪ And go home</i>
<i>to my Lord ♪</i>

2391
02:11:39.025 --> 02:11:41.692
<i>♪ And be free, and be ♪</i>

2392
02:11:41.794 --> 02:11:43.261
<i>♪ No more mourning ♪</i>

2393
02:11:43.363 --> 02:11:46.764
<i>♪ No more mourning ♪</i>

2394
02:11:46.866 --> 02:11:50.301
<i>♪ No more mourning ♪</i>

2395
02:11:50.403 --> 02:11:53.137
<i>♪ No more mourning ♪</i>

2396
02:11:53.239 --> 02:11:56.774
<i>♪ Over me, over me ♪</i>