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[uplifting music builds slowly]
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{\an8}[man] In the 12th Congressional District
of New York,
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{\an8}a schoolteacher named
Mrs. Shirley Chisholm
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{\an8}was elected to Congress.
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Running sip. Come on. [chuckling]
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- Shirley.
- [slurping]
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[chuckles]
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Mm.
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I'll see you later.
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[indistinct overlapping chatter]
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Ladies and gentlemen of the press,
fellow representatives,
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as Speaker of the House,
it is my honor to introduce
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the freshman class of the 91st Congress
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of the United States of America.
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[applause]
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Gentlemen, madam, welcome to Congress.
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Congratulations.
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- Thank you.
- Congresswoman Chisholm.
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[music ends]
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- ["Sugar" by The Isonics playing]
- ♪ A-one, a-two ♪
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♪ A-one, two, three, four ♪
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♪ Aw, shucks! ♪
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♪ Aw, baby, it's never less! ♪
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[trilling]
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- ♪ Come on ♪
- ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
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♪ Aw, yeah ♪
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♪ Like candy you buy at the corner store ♪
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♪ I keep coming for more ♪
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♪ Candy's sweet, girl, yes, it's true ♪
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♪ But not as sweet as you, now... ♪
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[indistinct conversations]
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[woman] Oh!
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Hello.
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How are you, young lady? Come here.
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She worked hard, man.
She worked real hard.
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You're going to be president?
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I'm a congressman.
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You ain't no man.
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Maybe we should find your mother.
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♪ Yeah ♪
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♪ All right, now, now, now, now ♪
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[man] You and Shirley
have to move to Washington.
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Well... you know, she'll probably
get an apartment down there.
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[cameraman] Conrad, Shirley,
would you mind?
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[camera clicks]
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[in Spanish] You've always
been there for us.
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I remember, when we came
to Brooklyn from Puerto Rico,
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you made us feel part of the family.
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You are my family.
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[woman in English] This is just
the beginning, honey. The real fight?
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Men in Washington don't understand
how important the ERA is for us.
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Yes, and when the bell hits the floor,
I'll be there for you. I promise.
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And we're gonna be there for you.
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- [in Spanish] I appreciate you so much.
- I appreciate you too.
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[both chuckle]
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- [in English] Thank you.
- Mm.
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Let's go, Mama.
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[mama] You don't wanna
say goodbye to your sister?
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[sister] She's busy.
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Always is.
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I'm gonna say bye.
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♪ All right, now, now, now, now ♪
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♪ Sugar ♪
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♪ Yeah ♪
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♪ Sugar ♪
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♪ Yeah ♪
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♪ Sugar ♪
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♪ I'm callin' your name out there, baby ♪
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♪ Sugar ♪
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♪ So sweet and... Yeah, baby ♪
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♪ Sugar ♪
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♪ Yeah ♪
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[footsteps echoing]
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Morning, Ms. Chisholm. How you doing?
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I'm feeling pretty well.
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My, imagine making 42.5 like me.
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Congressman, we've both been here
for at least a week.
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And you say that to me nearly every day.
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Nearly every day,
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I'm amazed that you're able to make
as much money as the rest of us.
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Two things.
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First of all, since you can't stand
the idea of my making 42.5 like you,
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when you see me coming
into this chamber, vanish.
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Vanish so you don't have to confront me
with this 42.5.
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Secondly, you have to remember
the reason I'm here.
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I'm paving the road
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for a lot of other people looking like me
to get elected to Congress and make 42.5.
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Hm.
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Shirley.
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- Ron.
- Got a second?
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More than a second for a friendly face.
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Well, let's just see
how you feel after we talk.
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Okay.
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Want to give you a heads-up.
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They're putting together assignments
for new congressmen,
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and... they're assigning you
to the Agricultural Committee.
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Agriculture?
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- Corn, wheat, cows?
- I don't know about no cows.
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I represent Brooklyn.
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What am I gonna do for the people
of Brooklyn on the Agriculture...
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I wanted Veterans' Affairs.
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I went through the same
my first year in Congress.
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- Serve on the committee you're assigned.
- Agriculture? No.
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- That's just how it is.
- Who do I have to talk to?
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Speaker McCormack makes
all the committee assignments.
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But he's Speaker of the House.
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You don't talk
to the Speaker of the House.
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You...
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Oh Lord.
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There is no good reason to appoint me
to the Agricultural Committee.
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- You're a freshman.
- I represent the 12th District.
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- Take the assignment you're given.
- People need jobs and housing.
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- That's why they voted.
- Earn seniority--
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Seniority? I don't want to hear
about seniority, John.
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If you want me to fight you
on this, I'll fight you.
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You are not going to fight anyone.
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I am Speaker of the House.
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I decide who sits where,
and you better fall in line,
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or you're gonna kill your career
before it even gets started.
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Um, Andrew, here. Hold up a sec.
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"Don't make a fuss,
and do as you're told."
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Sh-- Shirley. Shirley. Shirley. Shirley.
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I understand your frustration,
but it's just...
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- It's a process, Shirley.
- He's the leader of my own party.
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Congresswoman from Brooklyn,
and he wants to put me on an--
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It's about seniority.
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So wait my turn?
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Not wait, but...
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[sighs]
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Shirley, it's your first term.
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- Given time, you'll do great things.
-"Given time"?
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- I believe that. I do.
- You want to give Richard Nixon time.
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[sighs deeply]
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What?
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[sighs]
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What?
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[somber music playing]
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[sighs deeply]
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You'll find a way to fit in.
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[doorbell rings]
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["The Joy of Christmas"
by Dom James playing]
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[Shirley] Mac, good to see you.
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Shirley.
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Arthur.
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- Merry Christmas.
- Thank you. [chuckles]
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Come in.
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[Arthur] Thank you.
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[song fades out]
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[Mac] Shirley, in October,
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you told the Committee to Elect Chisholm
in Florida if they could raise $5,000,
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that you would put your name
on the primary ballot.
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They raised almost 10,000.
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[exhales]
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[Conrad] So what does that mean,
that they raised money?
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[Arthur] Yes, Miss Shirley.
What exactly does that mean?
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[exhales]
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Well, I told the women
if they raised the money,
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I'd put my name on the ticket.
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I'd run for president.
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President?
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What do you want us to tell them?
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Shirley, if you run,
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you can't win.
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Well, not with that attitude, I can't.
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And why can't I win?
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Besides the fact that I'm a Black woman.
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[Mac] Muskie's going to run away
with the Democratic primary.
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Even if you did get in the race,
the field's too crowded.
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Muskie. McGovern's running.
Lindsay's probably gonna run.
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Humphrey'll run.
Humphrey always runs. Mills.
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Scoop Jackson, for God's sake.
George Wallace.
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And what do they all have in common?
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Middle-aged white men.
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Who is representing the Blacks,
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the women, the Chicanos,
the youth, the working class?
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Well, one thing for sure,
you don't have enough money.
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I'll fundraise.
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[Mac] Off of who?
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The Chicanos, the youth,
the working class?
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[scoffs] They don't have any money.
Not real money.
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If you wanted to even
have a token campaign,
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you'd have to start with... three?
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Three.
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At least 300,000.
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And that would be a bare-bones,
slimmed-down campaign.
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Mac.
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I go to speak at college campuses,
and I have boys, white boys,
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coming up to me talking about,
"Mrs. Chisholm, when are you gonna do it?"
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"When are you going to run for president?"
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If there are white boys
who think I could be president,
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who think I should be president,
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then how am I not gonna try
for everybody else?
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[chuckles softly] Well...
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You're certainly not afraid to run.
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I ought to know.
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Mac.
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Shirley...
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[sighs deeply]
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What would you need from us?
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I would need you to advise me,
same as always.
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Arthur, you can oversee the money.
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Conrad can take a bit of time off work
to handle the security.
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Nothing?
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Hmm.
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[Shirley] Nothing?
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Nobody's got anything to say?
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You're running for president.
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What is there to say?
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"Yes."
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Tell them I said, "Yes."
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[gentle music playing]
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I'm gonna have to find you
a campaign manager.
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- Needs to be somebody Black.
- Needs to be somebody good.
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I have to make some calls.
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Yeah, well, I gotta raise $300,000.
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Merry Christmas to you. [chuckles]
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[Mac] One hell of a way
to start the New Year.
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You ready to do this again?
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- [Mac] One more time.
- [Shirley] Wow!
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[Shirley chuckling]
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[match ignites]
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[puffing]
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So?
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What do you think?
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A little late to be asking me now.
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But it's not too late.
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I've never known you not to win.
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Not once.
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Why should this time be any different?
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I should get a new camera.
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You're about to make history.
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Whatever you get, make sure it's used,
and make sure it's cheap.
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[chuckles softly]
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[gentle music builds slowly]
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[Shirley] Robert?
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Robert!
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How are you, Mrs. C?
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Look at you. What is all that?
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Uh, well, you know.
I'm not a congressional aide anymore. So--
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So you went and got all hip on me.
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- [chuckles]
- [Robert] I suppose I did.
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Yeah, it's been a little while.
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I would have to say
that the thing that I remember most,
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a first-year congressman,
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{\an8}and you forced the Speaker to give you
a different committee assignment.
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I mean, how do you even...
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Just don't ever accept things
the way they are.
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Mrs. C, I gotta tell you,
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interning for you
is one of the most memorable experiences
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that I've ever had.
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I appreciate it. I do.
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And I understand you're doing
some impressive things at Cornell.
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Elected to the Board of Regents.
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Yeah, I'm just a student representative.
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The first ever.
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Robert, a bit of advice?
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Don't be humble.
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Humility in successful people
comes off as its own kind of arrogance.
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I don't know that I'm a successful person.
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- Robert.
- [chuckling nervously]
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Okay. Yes.
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Yes. Understood.
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Hm.
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[takes a deep breath]
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So, I have something I want to tell you.
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I am running for president.
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Of the United States?
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Holy...
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That's... I mean, that's...
Right the hell on, Mrs. C.
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I mean, that's... that's great.
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You would be the most amazing president
that this country has ever seen.
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I mean, wow. That...
If there's anything I can do to help...
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Well, there is.
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I need you to be
my national student coordinator.
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I'm so... What?
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Overseeing all the student organizations
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affiliated with the campaign
in the states where I'm on the ballot.
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- Okay.
- Putting together campus rallies.
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Well, Mrs. C, um...
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I... I can't.
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I don't like the word "can't."
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Yes, I know. But I...
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Robert, this is the first year
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18-year-olds will be able to vote
in a national election.
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To get them to vote, they need to know
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that using their vote
can make a difference.
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National coordinator?
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I mean, I just turned 21.
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Old enough to be fighting
and dying in Vietnam.
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I mean, it's the middle
of the school year, and I can't...
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Mmm.
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Well, I mean, I... I...
I have to call the university.
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I mean... I mean, I gotta call my parents.
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[bell clinks]
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Should we maybe knock on the door
and tell Mrs. Chisholm I've arrived?
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She knows we're waiting.
We should let her finish her lunch.
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[Mac] New camera?
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Yeah, it's like new.
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[quietly] Thank you.
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Sorry to keep you waiting.
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Not at all.
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Shirley, Stanley Townsend.
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Stan.
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- How are you, Mrs. Chisholm?
- I'm feeling pretty well.
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You've met everybody? Conrad.
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Arthur, Robert Gottlieb,
my youth coordinator.
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He certainly fits the "youth" part.
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I'm old enough to be in Vietnam.
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Yes, you are.
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[Mac] Stan's a longtime
political operative.
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He's excited about the prospect
of working on the campaign.
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Very excited.
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Well, I think we all are.
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I can imagine. I will say,
we have a lot of ground to cover.
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So we need to decide
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how to most effectively position
your messaging.
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My position and my messaging
are very simple.
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I'm trying to give politics
back to the people.
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[Stan] Absolutely.
But you're running a national campaign.
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So how do we convey your message
to voters across America?
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By telling voters across America
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I'm trying to give politics
back to the people.
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A national campaign,
it's a little more challenging than that.
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But it needn't be.
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Mrs. Chisholm... I'm signing on
for an underfunded operation
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because who you are
and what you're about meet the moment.
329
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But you have to meet voters
where they live.
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All I ask is that you trust
I can help you accomplish that.
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Okay.
332
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All right.
333
00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,791
Well... [chuckles]
334
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- Let's get you elected president.
- All right.
335
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["I'm Coming Home"
by September Jones plays]
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♪ I'm coming home ♪
337
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♪ I'm coming home ♪
338
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♪ I'm coming home... ♪
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[Shirley] I stand before you today
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as a candidate
for the Democratic nomination
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for the presidency
of the United States of America.
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I am not the candidate of Black America,
although I am Black and proud.
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I am not the candidate
of the women's movement of this country,
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although I am a woman,
and I am equally proud of that.
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I am not the candidate
of any political bosses or fat cats
346
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or special interests.
347
00:19:08,541 --> 00:19:11,250
I stand here now without endorsements
348
00:19:11,333 --> 00:19:15,333
from any big-name politicians
or celebrities.
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I do not intend to offer
to you the tired and glib clichés
350
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which for too long have been
an accepted part of our political life.
351
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- [no audible applause or cheers]
- ["I'm Coming Home" intensifies]
352
00:19:36,791 --> 00:19:38,041
[song ends]
353
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I am the candidate
of the people of America.
354
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[cheers and applause]
355
00:19:45,750 --> 00:19:52,125
And my presence before you now symbolizes
a new era in American political history.
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I have faith in the American people.
357
00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:55,916
[audience] Yeah.
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I believe that we are intelligent enough
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to recognize the talent, energy,
and dedication which all Americans,
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including women and minorities,
have to offer.
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00:20:08,541 --> 00:20:13,583
We are all God's children,
and the will of each of us
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is just as precious
as the will of the most powerful of us.
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Our will can create a new America in 1972.
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[audience] Yeah!
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One where there is freedom from violence
and war at home and abroad.
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[audience] Yeah!
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Where there is freedom
from poverty and discrimination.
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Where there exists at least a feeling
that we are making progress for everyone.
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[audience] Yes!
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All of you who share this vision,
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who have been neglected,
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left out, forgotten,
ignored, or shunned aside,
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join me in an effort to regain our society
and regain control of our destiny.
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As we go down the Chisholm Trail for 1972.
375
00:21:00,541 --> 00:21:03,666
- [cheers and applause]
- ["I'm Coming Home" resumes]
376
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♪ I'm coming home... ♪
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Shirley Chisholm is the only candidate
who is perfectly situated
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to have a dramatic effect
on politics in this country.
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I will encourage all of my constituents
throughout Oakland, throughout California...
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Frankly, voters across this country,
381
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when you are considering
the next president,
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there's one name
and only one name that you should speak.
383
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And that name... is Shirley Chisholm.
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[Shirley] Ron.
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[Ron] Shirley.
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Mmm.
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00:21:48,750 --> 00:21:50,041
[song fades out]
388
00:21:50,125 --> 00:21:51,166
Thank you, Ron.
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For?
390
00:21:52,666 --> 00:21:55,041
The endorsement, early and strong.
391
00:21:55,125 --> 00:21:58,916
Oh, Shirley, if you in this race,
you in it to win.
392
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,166
Ron Dellums is not betting against you.
393
00:22:01,250 --> 00:22:02,416
[Shirley chuckles]
394
00:22:04,875 --> 00:22:07,000
- You competing in California?
- Mmm.
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00:22:07,541 --> 00:22:08,416
[Ron] Mmm.
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You run in California,
I will put all my capital behind you.
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You carry the Bay Area,
Oakland, San Francisco--
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00:22:15,125 --> 00:22:17,875
Ron, California is winner take all.
399
00:22:18,375 --> 00:22:21,666
I don't have the time
or resources to put into California,
400
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just so Muskie can take all the delegates.
401
00:22:24,375 --> 00:22:26,333
Well... word of caution.
402
00:22:28,875 --> 00:22:30,958
Walter Fauntroy might be
a problem for you.
403
00:22:31,041 --> 00:22:32,208
[scoffs]
404
00:22:33,166 --> 00:22:35,125
Little Lord Fauntroy.
405
00:22:35,208 --> 00:22:36,333
[Shirley chuckles]
406
00:22:36,416 --> 00:22:39,625
They want to run him as the favorite son
candidate in the district.
407
00:22:39,708 --> 00:22:41,541
It's gonna put you two in opposition.
408
00:22:43,791 --> 00:22:49,583
"Now, Ronald, I'm not in opposition
to Shirley, you understand?"
409
00:22:49,666 --> 00:22:55,083
"I'm simply asking that she be
a good little girl and wait her turn."
410
00:22:55,166 --> 00:22:56,250
[chuckling] You...
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00:22:56,333 --> 00:22:57,583
You got him down cold.
412
00:22:57,666 --> 00:22:59,666
- [Ron laughs]
- Mmm...
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00:23:00,750 --> 00:23:02,958
Ron, thank you for believing.
414
00:23:03,791 --> 00:23:04,625
[sighs]
415
00:23:04,708 --> 00:23:05,791
Shirley.
416
00:23:06,541 --> 00:23:09,708
You are like a big sister to me.
417
00:23:11,041 --> 00:23:15,333
However, this thing goes,
I'm with you till the end.
418
00:23:19,833 --> 00:23:21,041
[quietly] Thank you.
419
00:23:22,166 --> 00:23:24,041
- [quietly] Of course.
- [Shirley sighs]
420
00:23:24,833 --> 00:23:27,875
I'm hungry. Go and get some McDonald's.
421
00:23:27,958 --> 00:23:29,458
You know that's my favorite.
422
00:23:29,541 --> 00:23:32,416
- [Ron] May be able to go down the street.
- Strawberry shake.
423
00:23:32,500 --> 00:23:33,458
[Ron] Strawberry...
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00:23:33,541 --> 00:23:35,666
- [both chuckling]
- ["Street Girl" playing]
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00:23:35,750 --> 00:23:37,583
{\an8}The analysts are still analyzing,
426
00:23:37,666 --> 00:23:40,750
{\an8}and they don't understand that
something new is happening in America.
427
00:23:40,833 --> 00:23:43,458
{\an8}And this campaign,
the Shirley Chisholm campaign,
428
00:23:43,541 --> 00:23:45,583
is the note of the new politics.
429
00:23:45,666 --> 00:23:48,541
The rest of it
is just making tired old noises.
430
00:23:48,625 --> 00:23:54,000
{\an8}What I have said is very clear.
Shirley Chisholm views her candidacy
431
00:23:54,083 --> 00:23:56,875
{\an8}as a representation
of the right of a woman
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00:23:56,958 --> 00:23:59,625
{\an8}and a Black to run
for the highest office in this land.
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00:23:59,708 --> 00:24:04,333
{\an8}I have considered Senator McGovern
the best white male candidate.
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00:24:04,416 --> 00:24:08,750
I am sick and tired of
people asking the question,
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00:24:08,833 --> 00:24:13,541
"Mrs. Chisholm, are you serious
about running for president?"
436
00:24:14,125 --> 00:24:18,750
The fact that people,
even other women, feminists,
437
00:24:18,833 --> 00:24:21,750
can't take my campaign seriously
438
00:24:21,833 --> 00:24:27,166
is an indication of the prescribed role
this society has given to women.
439
00:24:28,125 --> 00:24:32,083
We acknowledge racial politics,
ethnic politics,
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00:24:32,166 --> 00:24:34,500
but we are just beginning to admit
441
00:24:34,583 --> 00:24:37,583
that this country has
a problem with gender politics.
442
00:24:38,333 --> 00:24:44,416
We need to get over ourselves
and redirect the priorities of this nation
443
00:24:44,500 --> 00:24:47,083
to make it a haven
for all kinds of people,
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00:24:47,166 --> 00:24:50,458
regardless of race, color, creed, or sex.
445
00:24:50,541 --> 00:24:52,458
[cheers and applause]
446
00:24:54,958 --> 00:24:56,666
- Yeah.
- Yeah, Chisholm.
447
00:24:59,291 --> 00:25:02,083
[funky instrumental music playing]
448
00:25:05,375 --> 00:25:07,375
[no audible dialogue]
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00:25:26,916 --> 00:25:28,916
[music fades]
450
00:25:35,541 --> 00:25:37,541
[music rises]
451
00:25:49,708 --> 00:25:51,083
[music ends]
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00:25:51,166 --> 00:25:53,750
[young woman] I want
to be part of something.
453
00:25:53,833 --> 00:25:57,000
I see what's going on in the country.
Vietnam, all of it.
454
00:25:57,500 --> 00:25:58,583
It's... [sighs]
455
00:25:59,083 --> 00:26:00,083
I'm tired.
456
00:26:00,166 --> 00:26:03,541
I am barely 25,
and I am tired of the way things are.
457
00:26:04,333 --> 00:26:06,583
Tired of the men
that we're sending to Washington.
458
00:26:06,666 --> 00:26:10,041
Humphrey and Muskie, they are better
than Nixon, but is that the standard?
459
00:26:10,125 --> 00:26:13,000
- I hope not.
- To be better than the man that's corrupt?
460
00:26:14,125 --> 00:26:17,375
And I hear you talk about people
having the power to make change.
461
00:26:18,166 --> 00:26:19,916
And I don't know where to start.
462
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,833
Are you registered to vote?
463
00:26:22,791 --> 00:26:24,666
Registered? No.
464
00:26:24,750 --> 00:26:28,666
Little girl, the first thing
you've got to do is vote.
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00:26:29,625 --> 00:26:32,541
That ain't my scene.
Voting's bourgeois politics.
466
00:26:32,625 --> 00:26:35,291
If all you're doing
is outside yelling and screaming,
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00:26:35,375 --> 00:26:39,208
that's all you're ever gonna be,
a yeller and a screamer.
468
00:26:39,291 --> 00:26:41,375
You have to be part of the process.
469
00:26:41,875 --> 00:26:45,291
The process doesn't exist
in politics for Black women.
470
00:26:46,250 --> 00:26:47,666
You're different.
471
00:26:47,750 --> 00:26:50,416
I saw what needed to be done,
and I did it.
472
00:26:51,083 --> 00:26:52,333
That's not different.
473
00:26:52,416 --> 00:26:53,958
That's necessary.
474
00:26:56,291 --> 00:26:58,041
I want you to come work for me.
475
00:27:00,125 --> 00:27:01,083
On your campaign?
476
00:27:01,166 --> 00:27:03,666
Or is that too bourgeois for you?
477
00:27:03,750 --> 00:27:04,583
Hmm.
478
00:27:05,541 --> 00:27:07,791
I got a baby. I'm a single mother.
479
00:27:07,875 --> 00:27:09,250
- And I just need to--
- Ah.
480
00:27:09,333 --> 00:27:12,625
Then you understand
what people are facing more than most.
481
00:27:12,708 --> 00:27:15,291
You don't have to work for us full-time.
482
00:27:15,375 --> 00:27:17,958
Just when you can, how you can.
483
00:27:19,041 --> 00:27:20,541
I don't have any experience.
484
00:27:20,625 --> 00:27:22,875
Well, I don't have any moola.
485
00:27:22,958 --> 00:27:24,083
[chuckling]
486
00:27:24,666 --> 00:27:29,166
But I can offer you
the opportunity to make a difference.
487
00:27:35,250 --> 00:27:37,583
[sighs] Okay.
488
00:27:38,208 --> 00:27:39,291
Okay.
489
00:27:39,916 --> 00:27:42,041
- Okay.
- [both chuckle softly]
490
00:27:42,125 --> 00:27:44,416
[gentle music playing]
491
00:27:50,958 --> 00:27:52,875
- Two signatures on the next page.
- Vote's Tuesday.
492
00:27:52,958 --> 00:27:55,583
- Sign where?
- Two signatures on this page.
493
00:27:55,666 --> 00:27:58,750
- Shirley... come on.
- [overlapping chatter]
494
00:27:58,833 --> 00:28:01,041
- [woman] You can't miss this flight.
- [Shirley] Yes.
495
00:28:01,125 --> 00:28:03,208
- Shirley.
- Bob Dole, Senator Dole.
496
00:28:03,291 --> 00:28:06,750
...first thing in the morning. You'll
get in late so I won't bother you tonight.
497
00:28:06,833 --> 00:28:08,583
If you need anything, I'm heading home.
498
00:28:08,666 --> 00:28:10,666
[light instrumental music playing]
499
00:29:17,208 --> 00:29:18,208
[driver] Ma'am.
500
00:29:19,166 --> 00:29:20,166
We're here.
501
00:29:22,791 --> 00:29:23,750
[clears throat]
502
00:29:24,416 --> 00:29:26,416
[low monotone droning]
503
00:29:33,625 --> 00:29:34,833
[Shirley] Conrad?
504
00:29:41,791 --> 00:29:42,916
Conrad.
505
00:29:52,833 --> 00:29:54,416
[Conrad groans softly]
506
00:29:54,500 --> 00:29:56,083
[Shirley] Sorry to wake you.
507
00:29:58,375 --> 00:29:59,500
You're late.
508
00:29:59,583 --> 00:30:01,125
[Shirley] Flight was delayed.
509
00:30:03,666 --> 00:30:05,375
Is there anything to eat?
510
00:30:06,625 --> 00:30:08,083
[Conrad] What's that?
511
00:30:08,166 --> 00:30:10,125
[Shirley] Do we have anything to eat?
512
00:30:11,041 --> 00:30:13,166
[Conrad] I think
there's something in the freezer.
513
00:30:13,250 --> 00:30:14,708
There's nothing warm?
514
00:30:17,541 --> 00:30:20,708
- I could run and get you something--
- From where? It's late.
515
00:30:21,750 --> 00:30:23,333
Everything's closed.
516
00:30:23,416 --> 00:30:24,416
Well...
517
00:30:27,291 --> 00:30:28,708
It's all right. I... I'll...
518
00:30:28,791 --> 00:30:30,375
I'll... I'll warm something.
519
00:30:31,125 --> 00:30:33,666
I have to get up early
and meet with Stanley.
520
00:30:35,916 --> 00:30:37,666
It's all right.
521
00:30:39,375 --> 00:30:40,625
It's all right.
522
00:31:32,416 --> 00:31:35,666
["I Don't Mind Doin' It"
by Jackie Lavant & The Fashions playing]
523
00:31:37,708 --> 00:31:39,041
[laughing]
524
00:31:41,333 --> 00:31:46,000
[newsman] The US has been holding
presidential elections nearly 200 years.
525
00:31:46,083 --> 00:31:49,000
Each one significant,
but the election this year
526
00:31:49,083 --> 00:31:53,125
has been more than a demonstration
of stability and continuity.
527
00:31:53,208 --> 00:31:57,333
A combination of factors,
reforms within the two major parties,
528
00:31:57,416 --> 00:31:59,833
a new law giving young people
the right to vote,
529
00:31:59,916 --> 00:32:03,541
and a new political awareness
on the part of groups previously inactive,
530
00:32:03,625 --> 00:32:09,125
have made 1972 a potential turning point
in American political history.
531
00:32:09,208 --> 00:32:13,083
[Stan] Reaching your base,
turning them on, getting them out to vote.
532
00:32:13,166 --> 00:32:15,333
That's what this campaign is all about.
533
00:32:15,416 --> 00:32:19,750
We need 1,500 delegates
to get the nomination for president.
534
00:32:19,833 --> 00:32:20,875
And...
535
00:32:22,250 --> 00:32:24,375
that's how many we currently have.
536
00:32:24,458 --> 00:32:25,875
So, we got six months
537
00:32:25,958 --> 00:32:29,500
from now until the last primaries
in June to rack up some numbers.
538
00:32:29,583 --> 00:32:33,125
- How are we gonna earn those delegates?
- I got national polling--
539
00:32:33,208 --> 00:32:36,208
[Stan] First two primaries are
New Hampshire and Florida on March 14th.
540
00:32:36,291 --> 00:32:38,000
Wouldn't be in the race without Florida.
541
00:32:38,083 --> 00:32:40,250
When asked,
"What do you know about Shirley Chisholm?"
542
00:32:40,333 --> 00:32:43,000
- [Stan] New Hampshire?
- Forget about New Hampshire.
543
00:32:43,083 --> 00:32:44,375
Muskie's got it sewn up.
544
00:32:44,458 --> 00:32:47,041
According to papers,
Muskie's got the nomination sewn up.
545
00:32:47,125 --> 00:32:50,166
46% of the respondents
knew that you were Black.
546
00:32:50,250 --> 00:32:51,583
38% knew you were a woman--
547
00:32:51,666 --> 00:32:54,083
38%? The name doesn't give it away?
548
00:32:54,166 --> 00:32:57,458
'Cause Shirley is one of those names
you see that goes either way.
549
00:32:57,541 --> 00:32:59,375
- Like Chris or Leslie.
- Alabama?
550
00:32:59,458 --> 00:33:01,666
- Shirley is not like Chris or Leslie.
- [Shirley] No.
551
00:33:01,750 --> 00:33:02,916
- [Stan] Arizona?
- Mm-mmm.
552
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,833
Point is, a plurality of the electorate
doesn't even know who you are.
553
00:33:06,916 --> 00:33:07,791
[Stan] Ohio?
554
00:33:07,875 --> 00:33:10,875
Carl Stokes would attack me
to death if I get into Ohio.
555
00:33:10,958 --> 00:33:12,958
- Colorado?
- [Mac] May I finish my thought?
556
00:33:13,833 --> 00:33:16,083
Your lack of recognition is a challenge,
557
00:33:16,166 --> 00:33:18,916
but it also means voters
haven't formed an opinion yet--
558
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,958
- Colorado?
- The reform wing is in the minority.
559
00:33:22,041 --> 00:33:24,458
- We should look to get on the ballot--
- [Conrad] Shirley.
560
00:33:24,541 --> 00:33:25,416
[camera clicks]
561
00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:27,875
We shouldn't actively campaign
in Colorado.
562
00:33:27,958 --> 00:33:30,208
Opinions about you
are going to be formed in debates.
563
00:33:30,291 --> 00:33:31,458
They're going to be critical.
564
00:33:31,541 --> 00:33:35,166
Shirley's a hell of a debater, man.
Ran circles around James Farmer.
565
00:33:35,250 --> 00:33:36,875
Farmer wasn't a career politician.
566
00:33:36,958 --> 00:33:39,833
The rest of these boys talk shit
faster than I can make it.
567
00:33:39,916 --> 00:33:42,541
- [Stan] California?
- [men laughing]
568
00:33:43,791 --> 00:33:44,625
[Arthur] Oh...
569
00:33:44,708 --> 00:33:45,833
California?
570
00:33:46,875 --> 00:33:48,541
- No.
- [all] Shirley!
571
00:33:48,625 --> 00:33:52,875
- Know how many colleges there are?
- California's a winner-take-all state.
572
00:33:52,958 --> 00:33:55,208
If we put our time
and energy into California,
573
00:33:55,291 --> 00:33:56,791
we'll walk away with nothing.
574
00:33:56,875 --> 00:34:00,416
It's a big, shiny object
that'll leave us distracted and defeated.
575
00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:01,375
No.
576
00:34:01,458 --> 00:34:05,375
Shirley, right now
your entire national campaign
577
00:34:05,458 --> 00:34:07,750
is built on one state, Florida.
578
00:34:21,083 --> 00:34:23,416
That's our campaign.
We'll build from there.
579
00:34:23,500 --> 00:34:26,166
["Let a Woman Be a Woman -
Let a Man Be a Man" plays]
580
00:34:26,916 --> 00:34:29,250
And they can talk shit all they want.
581
00:34:29,333 --> 00:34:32,791
[newsman] Why are more and more millions
of Americans turning to Governor Wallace?
582
00:34:32,875 --> 00:34:35,458
Take a walk in your street
or park tonight.
583
00:34:35,541 --> 00:34:37,333
- [gunshot]
- [glass shatters]
584
00:34:37,416 --> 00:34:40,375
{\an8}There's a lot of talk
these days about liberalism.
585
00:34:40,458 --> 00:34:43,791
{\an8}Well, what did liberalism do for America?
586
00:34:43,875 --> 00:34:48,666
{\an8}Brought us drug addiction in our streets,
brought a breakdown of law and order.
587
00:34:48,750 --> 00:34:53,208
{\an8}And now this idea they have of busing
our children to achieve racial balance.
588
00:34:53,291 --> 00:34:57,375
{\an8}That's their way of taking away your right
to raise your child how you see fit.
589
00:34:57,458 --> 00:35:01,208
{\an8}[newsman] Why are more and more millions
of Americans turning to Governor Wallace?
590
00:35:01,291 --> 00:35:03,916
Follow as your children
are bused across town.
591
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,166
Busing is an ineffective solution
to school integration.
592
00:35:07,250 --> 00:35:10,750
It is a burden carried
by the same children we're trying to help.
593
00:35:10,833 --> 00:35:12,375
That is a great answer for Florida.
594
00:35:12,458 --> 00:35:14,125
- But you can't say...
-"Can't"?
595
00:35:14,208 --> 00:35:17,416
...that you don't support busing
in Massachusetts or New York.
596
00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:20,416
It does sound
like something Wallace would say.
597
00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:22,458
[Stan] What's your position on abortion?
598
00:35:22,541 --> 00:35:25,000
I am an ardent advocate
of family planning.
599
00:35:25,083 --> 00:35:26,750
- I am aware, however...
- Shirley--
600
00:35:26,833 --> 00:35:28,625
...that for a number of reasons...
601
00:35:28,708 --> 00:35:30,375
- Shirley--
- ...birth control is not enough.
602
00:35:30,458 --> 00:35:32,791
- Shirl--
- Contraceptive devices fail, and--
603
00:35:32,875 --> 00:35:34,625
Shirley, you can't say all that.
604
00:35:34,708 --> 00:35:37,833
- I'm sorry, Stanley. "Can't"?
- Too much nuance.
605
00:35:37,916 --> 00:35:39,500
- Mac.
- [Man] I'm being honest.
606
00:35:39,583 --> 00:35:42,416
Your answer needs to be more direct.
The same with busing.
607
00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:46,750
Well, that's my answer on one side
of the Mason-Dixon or the other.
608
00:35:46,833 --> 00:35:49,583
And I am not leaving out the nuance.
609
00:35:49,666 --> 00:35:52,000
Hey! Hot off the press.
610
00:35:52,083 --> 00:35:56,041
Before we do all that, can we please
just finish up what we've started here?
611
00:35:56,125 --> 00:35:57,250
[Conrad] These came out good.
612
00:35:57,333 --> 00:35:59,666
- [Shirley] They did.
- I'm leaving for Florida in the morning.
613
00:35:59,750 --> 00:36:02,583
By the time you all get there,
I'll have volunteers in place.
614
00:36:02,666 --> 00:36:04,333
I'll have all the venues booked.
615
00:36:04,416 --> 00:36:07,750
We're gonna be starting
with a speaking engagement at FSU.
616
00:36:07,833 --> 00:36:11,291
This trip has got to run
like a Swiss watch, son.
617
00:36:11,375 --> 00:36:13,291
We have to have
a strong showing in this primary.
618
00:36:13,375 --> 00:36:15,708
- I'll have it handled.
- [Shirley] Thank you, Robert.
619
00:36:16,625 --> 00:36:17,791
Of course.
620
00:36:17,875 --> 00:36:18,875
{\an8}All right.
621
00:36:19,625 --> 00:36:21,333
{\an8}- I'll see you in Florida.
- All right.
622
00:36:21,416 --> 00:36:23,416
[up-tempo instrumental music playing]
623
00:36:34,208 --> 00:36:36,250
- [music stops]
- [indistinct PA announcement]
624
00:36:51,833 --> 00:36:56,250
Twenty-two primaries still to go
in this campaign '72.
625
00:36:56,333 --> 00:37:00,166
The politicians now are shifting
their efforts from New Hampshire's snow
626
00:37:00,250 --> 00:37:01,708
to Florida's sand.
627
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,791
You need to decide if you're going to
this National Black Political Convention
628
00:37:06,875 --> 00:37:10,041
in Gary, Indiana. There'll be leaders
from every cross-section.
629
00:37:10,125 --> 00:37:12,583
- Radical, faith-based, conservative--
- We'll see.
630
00:37:12,666 --> 00:37:16,166
I got an invitation for you to speak
down here at the Pearly Club.
631
00:37:16,250 --> 00:37:17,500
That's an exclusive club.
632
00:37:17,583 --> 00:37:18,958
Exclusive white?
633
00:37:19,041 --> 00:37:20,208
[Mac] Exclusive male.
634
00:37:20,291 --> 00:37:23,125
You'd be the first female speaker
they've ever had.
635
00:37:23,208 --> 00:37:24,958
A white men's club here in Florida?
636
00:37:25,041 --> 00:37:29,208
But you're not gonna attend
a Black political convention in Gary?
637
00:37:29,291 --> 00:37:31,958
Listen, why don't we just
table all the Gary talk
638
00:37:32,041 --> 00:37:33,958
and let her just get some sleep?
639
00:37:34,458 --> 00:37:36,208
We'll pick it up tomorrow.
640
00:37:37,208 --> 00:37:40,208
Hello. I'm calling on behalf
of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm.
641
00:37:40,291 --> 00:37:43,833
The congresswoman will be holding
events while campaigning in Florida...
642
00:37:43,916 --> 00:37:45,416
[woman] Your vote can change America.
643
00:37:45,500 --> 00:37:48,791
[man] These fundraisers are an opportunity
to meet Shirley face-to-face.
644
00:37:48,875 --> 00:37:50,125
[cheers and applause]
645
00:37:50,208 --> 00:37:53,291
And I call to you, the youth of America,
646
00:37:53,375 --> 00:37:56,166
to take part in the fight for the future.
647
00:37:56,250 --> 00:37:59,208
Those of you who are able to vote
for the very first time
648
00:37:59,291 --> 00:38:02,208
must use your voices
and let the politicians know
649
00:38:02,291 --> 00:38:05,041
that the government
belongs to all the people.
650
00:38:05,125 --> 00:38:06,958
- [young woman] Yes!
- [cheering]
651
00:38:07,041 --> 00:38:08,250
{\an8}Register to vote!
652
00:38:08,333 --> 00:38:10,958
{\an8}If all you are is on the outside
yelling and screaming,
653
00:38:11,041 --> 00:38:13,916
{\an8}then that's all you'll ever be,
a yeller and a screamer.
654
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:15,291
Be a part of the process!
655
00:38:16,333 --> 00:38:18,958
US foreign policy
should avoid taking sides
656
00:38:19,041 --> 00:38:22,083
and focus on the humanitarian crisis
happening in the Middle East.
657
00:38:22,166 --> 00:38:24,291
What's your take on the Black Panthers?
658
00:38:24,375 --> 00:38:27,166
Well, it's a shame
the Black Panthers are necessary,
659
00:38:27,250 --> 00:38:29,458
but I understand why they are.
660
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,958
But it's important for us
to get the vote out to young people.
661
00:38:33,041 --> 00:38:35,791
It's the first election
that people who are 18 get to vote.
662
00:38:35,875 --> 00:38:39,750
[in Spanish] This isn't just about
a fair wage. This is about our lives.
663
00:38:39,833 --> 00:38:40,750
[chanting]
664
00:38:40,833 --> 00:38:44,125
- [in English] You support busing.
- Are you asking me or telling me?
665
00:38:44,208 --> 00:38:45,166
[light laughter]
666
00:38:45,250 --> 00:38:47,500
My opponents is
twisting themselves into pretzels,
667
00:38:47,583 --> 00:38:49,625
trying to explain
where they stand on busing.
668
00:38:49,708 --> 00:38:51,083
I don't support busing.
669
00:38:51,166 --> 00:38:54,750
It's an artificial solution
to the segregation problem.
670
00:38:54,833 --> 00:38:57,208
Open housing is the real answer.
671
00:38:57,291 --> 00:38:59,541
But as long as the problem exists,
672
00:38:59,625 --> 00:39:02,083
an artificial solution
is better than none at all.
673
00:39:02,166 --> 00:39:05,041
[newsman] One of the most
active candidates of campaign '72
674
00:39:05,125 --> 00:39:07,083
is Shirley Chisholm of Brooklyn.
675
00:39:07,166 --> 00:39:08,083
I love you, Shirley!
676
00:39:08,166 --> 00:39:10,416
I don't need your love, darling.
I need your vote.
677
00:39:10,500 --> 00:39:13,125
I'm gonna vote for you.
You or George Wallace.
678
00:39:13,208 --> 00:39:14,708
All right. Well...
679
00:39:14,791 --> 00:39:17,750
I'll say this. Shirley Chisholm
is the only other candidate
680
00:39:17,833 --> 00:39:21,000
who says the same thing
in the South that she says in the North.
681
00:39:21,500 --> 00:39:24,416
[man 1] Shirley Chisholm
will never be president.
682
00:39:24,500 --> 00:39:26,333
This is America.
683
00:39:26,416 --> 00:39:28,583
{\an8}[man 2] That woman
needs to get out of the race.
684
00:39:28,666 --> 00:39:31,291
{\an8}[man 3] She bristles at the suggestion
she step aside,
685
00:39:31,375 --> 00:39:34,875
lest she draw liberal votes away
from other presidential contenders.
686
00:39:35,458 --> 00:39:38,750
[Shirley] Why is it that it has to
always be white males, white males,
687
00:39:38,833 --> 00:39:40,875
white males, white males, white males?
688
00:39:40,958 --> 00:39:42,333
[cheering]
689
00:39:43,375 --> 00:39:47,333
[Shirley] If you can't support me,
or you can't endorse me,
690
00:39:47,416 --> 00:39:48,750
get out of my way.
691
00:39:48,833 --> 00:39:51,041
You do your thing, and let me do mine.
692
00:39:51,125 --> 00:39:54,750
You go to hell, you Black bitch!
You fucking Black bitch! I'll kill you!
693
00:39:54,833 --> 00:39:57,458
You fucking Black bitch!
I'll fuckin' kill you!
694
00:39:57,541 --> 00:40:00,166
[echo fades to silence]
695
00:40:05,958 --> 00:40:07,541
[exhales shakily]
696
00:40:12,458 --> 00:40:14,458
- [tap squeaks]
- [water running]
697
00:40:25,083 --> 00:40:27,041
[breathing deeply]
698
00:40:39,125 --> 00:40:40,000
[tap squeaks]
699
00:40:59,791 --> 00:41:00,833
[door opens]
700
00:41:03,333 --> 00:41:04,333
[door shuts]
701
00:41:13,291 --> 00:41:14,416
Police got him.
702
00:41:16,583 --> 00:41:17,791
He was just some...
703
00:41:19,125 --> 00:41:20,500
some crazy.
704
00:41:22,125 --> 00:41:24,750
Hell of a world, eh?
[soft chuckle] People like that.
705
00:41:29,208 --> 00:41:31,875
Anyway, the police got him now.
706
00:41:33,541 --> 00:41:34,833
Where were you?
707
00:41:36,708 --> 00:41:39,125
He was that close to me.
708
00:41:41,541 --> 00:41:44,125
You're supposed to be my security.
709
00:41:45,458 --> 00:41:47,541
You're supposed to protect me.
710
00:41:48,416 --> 00:41:50,125
Where were you?
711
00:41:52,500 --> 00:41:56,625
I try as hard as I can
to be the man you want.
712
00:41:58,083 --> 00:42:01,000
Attentive, and mindful, and...
713
00:42:02,375 --> 00:42:05,375
But always... out of the way
and off to the side.
714
00:42:05,916 --> 00:42:07,166
I do it.
715
00:42:07,250 --> 00:42:10,750
I'm happy to do it because I know
how important all this is to you.
716
00:42:10,833 --> 00:42:12,250
It's not just for me.
717
00:42:12,333 --> 00:42:15,208
[Conrad] I know
all the good that you can do.
718
00:42:16,208 --> 00:42:17,625
So I'll be your shadow.
719
00:42:19,583 --> 00:42:25,583
Because I know, for whatever reason,
a shadow of a man is what you want.
720
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:32,666
But don't get upset with me
when I'm a little too good at it.
721
00:42:40,875 --> 00:42:43,458
[classical tune playing on piano]
722
00:43:08,125 --> 00:43:11,208
[interviewer] It has been said,
"Behind every great man is a great woman."
723
00:43:11,291 --> 00:43:13,541
Behind Shirley Chisholm
is Conrad Chisholm,
724
00:43:13,625 --> 00:43:17,416
an investigator for the City Bureau
of Medical Services.
725
00:43:18,208 --> 00:43:20,291
You two have been married for 19 years.
726
00:43:20,875 --> 00:43:22,625
How would you describe each other?
727
00:43:22,708 --> 00:43:24,541
[chuckling]
728
00:43:25,541 --> 00:43:26,875
[Conrad] Well, I tell you.
729
00:43:27,916 --> 00:43:33,000
I remember a time when she was introduced
at a dinner by the MC.
730
00:43:33,083 --> 00:43:37,250
And it was very fitting, to me,
731
00:43:37,333 --> 00:43:42,083
that he described her
as 100 pounds of nuclear energy.
732
00:43:42,916 --> 00:43:45,083
And I think it was very appropriate.
733
00:43:46,083 --> 00:43:51,708
Well, I would describe my husband as
734
00:43:52,500 --> 00:43:54,500
200 pounds of patience.
735
00:43:54,583 --> 00:43:56,375
[both chuckle]
736
00:43:56,458 --> 00:43:58,958
My husband is a remarkable man.
737
00:43:59,916 --> 00:44:02,375
I can truthfully say
738
00:44:02,458 --> 00:44:07,416
that I would not have
been able to reach the top
739
00:44:07,500 --> 00:44:10,125
unless I had a very understanding mate.
740
00:44:11,458 --> 00:44:15,375
And indeed, I know it has been
most difficult for him, occasionally.
741
00:44:16,708 --> 00:44:21,375
Well... I've had to sacrifice quite a bit,
742
00:44:21,458 --> 00:44:27,250
but I enjoy sacrificing it
for what she's doing.
743
00:44:30,166 --> 00:44:32,041
[interviewer] Thank you both very much.
744
00:44:41,791 --> 00:44:43,250
[tape unspooling]
745
00:44:45,208 --> 00:44:49,625
- ["Last Night" by Neice Dezel plays]
- ♪ Let me tells you what happened to me ♪
746
00:44:50,250 --> 00:44:51,916
[Stan] It's an embarrassment.
747
00:44:52,833 --> 00:44:55,291
I mean, this is
what the campaign's come to,
748
00:44:55,375 --> 00:44:57,208
Shirley and Wallace.
749
00:44:57,291 --> 00:45:01,625
Shirley got blown out in Florida,
less than 1% of the vote in Illinois.
750
00:45:01,708 --> 00:45:03,000
Same in Wisconsin.
751
00:45:03,083 --> 00:45:05,291
Less than 1% of the vote.
752
00:45:06,166 --> 00:45:07,666
And no delegates.
753
00:45:07,750 --> 00:45:10,208
You can spare Shirley the numbers.
754
00:45:10,291 --> 00:45:13,583
Three months from the convention,
and we're moving backward.
755
00:45:13,666 --> 00:45:14,666
Shirley...
756
00:45:15,875 --> 00:45:19,958
I dig her... speaking-truth thing,
but that doesn't get you votes.
757
00:45:20,041 --> 00:45:22,750
Stanley, what do you want?
758
00:45:23,750 --> 00:45:27,125
I want you to help me help Shirley.
I can't manage from the bleachers.
759
00:45:28,291 --> 00:45:30,666
You want me to help you sideline Shirley?
760
00:45:30,750 --> 00:45:33,208
[Stan chuckles] Oh, hell no, Mac.
761
00:45:33,291 --> 00:45:34,875
You know me better.
762
00:45:34,958 --> 00:45:39,958
We just need to compartmentalize her...
so we can better guide the campaign.
763
00:45:40,041 --> 00:45:40,875
Just--
764
00:45:40,958 --> 00:45:43,875
Just guide it. Guide Shirley for Shirley.
765
00:45:45,375 --> 00:45:48,166
You know my history with Shirley?
766
00:45:48,833 --> 00:45:53,000
You knew her from, uh, when you formed
the Bedford-Stuyvesant Political League.
767
00:45:54,708 --> 00:45:57,166
She was still a senior
at Brooklyn College.
768
00:45:57,250 --> 00:46:00,416
Taught Shirley everything
I knew about politics.
769
00:46:00,500 --> 00:46:02,791
How to read people
and the games they play.
770
00:46:02,875 --> 00:46:05,375
How the system works,
how some people are kept out
771
00:46:05,458 --> 00:46:06,833
and others kept in.
772
00:46:07,791 --> 00:46:10,666
And after I taught Shirley all that,
773
00:46:11,708 --> 00:46:16,000
she turns around and runs against me
for president of my own league.
774
00:46:16,083 --> 00:46:17,583
You still work with her.
775
00:46:18,166 --> 00:46:19,541
[chuckles] You forgive her?
776
00:46:22,625 --> 00:46:24,000
Nothing to forgive.
777
00:46:26,166 --> 00:46:28,166
Shirley believes in the necessary.
778
00:46:29,208 --> 00:46:33,708
At the time, she thought
it was necessary for her to replace me.
779
00:46:36,083 --> 00:46:41,916
That's something to remember
when you talk about guiding Shirley.
780
00:46:45,625 --> 00:46:49,041
["Take Care of Your Own Business"
by Dave Hamilton playing]
781
00:46:55,250 --> 00:46:57,125
♪ You drink your whiskey ♪
782
00:46:59,041 --> 00:47:01,708
- ♪ I'll drink my wine... ♪
- Congresswoman Chisholm.
783
00:47:01,791 --> 00:47:04,208
- Walter.
- It sure is good to see you.
784
00:47:05,291 --> 00:47:07,333
May I get you a menu?
785
00:47:07,416 --> 00:47:10,666
No, I won't be staying that long.
786
00:47:10,750 --> 00:47:13,083
Oh... That's too bad.
787
00:47:13,875 --> 00:47:19,250
A meal is so much better...
when it's enjoyed with friends.
788
00:47:19,333 --> 00:47:20,208
Mmm.
789
00:47:21,125 --> 00:47:23,375
Well, Shirley.
790
00:47:25,791 --> 00:47:26,791
What can I say?
791
00:47:27,291 --> 00:47:29,958
It's a shame
you didn't do better in Florida.
792
00:47:30,041 --> 00:47:30,958
Hmm.
793
00:47:31,541 --> 00:47:34,500
But my, my. You did get 4% of the vote.
794
00:47:35,791 --> 00:47:38,208
Well, almost 4%.
795
00:47:39,458 --> 00:47:41,958
- Could have used a few more endorsements.
- Mmm.
796
00:47:42,541 --> 00:47:46,166
The whole Congressional Black Caucus,
and the only ones I have behind me
797
00:47:46,250 --> 00:47:47,875
are Mitchell, Conyers, and Dellums.
798
00:47:47,958 --> 00:47:48,916
[chuckles]
799
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,583
I can hardly endorse you
when I'm running myself.
800
00:47:51,666 --> 00:47:56,416
As a favorite son candidate
in the district, that's it, Walter.
801
00:47:56,500 --> 00:47:58,666
You here, and Stokes in Ohio.
802
00:47:59,250 --> 00:48:00,708
That don't add up to much.
803
00:48:01,291 --> 00:48:06,375
But you want to tell the people,
our people, who should represent them.
804
00:48:07,083 --> 00:48:09,500
You're no better
than the fat cat white boys.
805
00:48:11,166 --> 00:48:12,166
Shirley.
806
00:48:15,625 --> 00:48:18,375
I made the march, Selma to Montgomery.
807
00:48:18,458 --> 00:48:21,375
I learned lessons of the flesh
on the front lines with Martin.
808
00:48:21,458 --> 00:48:25,875
So I'd appreciate
if you didn't suppose about me for me.
809
00:48:26,625 --> 00:48:28,416
How can I help you, Walter?
810
00:48:28,958 --> 00:48:31,625
I want you
to drop out of the primary in DC.
811
00:48:31,708 --> 00:48:32,916
[chuckles]
812
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,000
- Ron warned me.
- Ron Dellums is a West Coast dilettante.
813
00:48:36,083 --> 00:48:38,958
Willie Brown is the power in California.
814
00:48:39,833 --> 00:48:41,458
Don't let Ron get in your head.
815
00:48:41,541 --> 00:48:44,041
Now, if you stay in the primary,
816
00:48:44,125 --> 00:48:46,791
you and me are only gonna
end up splitting the vote.
817
00:48:46,875 --> 00:48:49,750
Splitting the delegates
doesn't help you, doesn't help me.
818
00:48:49,833 --> 00:48:52,625
And the best way for me to help you
is for me to drop out?
819
00:48:52,708 --> 00:48:55,166
[Walter] Only in DC,
where I'm on the ballot.
820
00:48:55,250 --> 00:48:58,583
Now, you and me both know
the nomination for president
821
00:48:58,666 --> 00:49:02,000
isn't gonna be decided
in the first round at the convention.
822
00:49:02,958 --> 00:49:04,625
Now, after that first round,
823
00:49:05,166 --> 00:49:10,291
after I get my... pound of flesh
out of the Democratic Party,
824
00:49:10,875 --> 00:49:14,083
I will release all my delegates to you
with the instruction to vote
825
00:49:14,166 --> 00:49:15,500
as you tell them to vote.
826
00:49:15,583 --> 00:49:18,041
I swear to God, Walter.
827
00:49:18,125 --> 00:49:20,333
Just more backroom politics.
828
00:49:20,416 --> 00:49:22,750
Nothing wrong with politics
when you're a politician.
829
00:49:22,833 --> 00:49:23,750
[scoffs lightly]
830
00:49:29,416 --> 00:49:34,125
After the first round,
you will get all my delegates.
831
00:49:37,041 --> 00:49:40,791
{\an8}You literally have my word.
832
00:49:41,916 --> 00:49:43,583
Now, do I have yours?
833
00:49:47,833 --> 00:49:49,333
I said yes.
834
00:49:49,958 --> 00:49:52,416
What else was I supposed to say?
835
00:49:52,500 --> 00:49:54,625
He made sense. He gave me his word.
836
00:49:54,708 --> 00:49:56,791
I... just don't...
837
00:49:57,583 --> 00:50:00,000
[exhales] Look.
838
00:50:00,083 --> 00:50:01,916
Walter's a good man,
839
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:05,208
but Walter's always going...
840
00:50:07,250 --> 00:50:09,000
So you think I made a mistake.
841
00:50:09,083 --> 00:50:13,458
Walter has a tendency to disappoint,
and when it happens, it happens.
842
00:50:13,541 --> 00:50:15,291
That's all. [chuckles]
843
00:50:16,958 --> 00:50:18,625
I got my ears open, Shirley.
844
00:50:18,708 --> 00:50:22,083
If I hear anything you should know,
I will be the first one to tell you.
845
00:50:22,166 --> 00:50:24,875
- [Shirley] Thank you, Ron.
- [Ron] Of course.
846
00:50:24,958 --> 00:50:26,250
Of course.
847
00:50:26,333 --> 00:50:29,041
You just worry
about being the next president.
848
00:50:29,875 --> 00:50:30,833
Hmm.
849
00:50:32,416 --> 00:50:33,958
[Robert] So I need to get out the vote.
850
00:50:34,041 --> 00:50:36,750
[Mac] If you want to mobilize students
on the campuses, you need to...
851
00:50:36,833 --> 00:50:39,500
- I'll tell you what my answer is.
- Before you say no--
852
00:50:39,583 --> 00:50:41,625
- [Shirley] I already said no.
- How many could we get?
853
00:50:41,708 --> 00:50:43,166
Well, how many do we need?
854
00:50:43,250 --> 00:50:46,250
- [Stan] You told me "I'll think about it."
- As many as we can get.
855
00:50:46,333 --> 00:50:48,416
And I thought about it.
856
00:50:48,500 --> 00:50:51,375
Jesse Jackson will be there.
Louis Farrakhan. Bobby Seale...
857
00:50:51,458 --> 00:50:53,916
- They weren't gonna endorse me.
- [Mac] How do you spell that?
858
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:55,916
- P-O-M-O-N-A.
- [Shirley] They'll never endorse me.
859
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:57,625
Shirley, you need some traction.
860
00:50:57,708 --> 00:51:00,750
You need to capitalize on your deal
with Walt Fauntroy.
861
00:51:00,833 --> 00:51:03,750
If you're looking for an endorsement,
when I get back to California,
862
00:51:03,833 --> 00:51:06,375
I could maybe talk
to the people with the Black Panthers.
863
00:51:06,458 --> 00:51:08,791
Oh Jesus. Yeah, let's bring
the radicals on board.
864
00:51:08,875 --> 00:51:10,875
That'll play great in the Midwest.
865
00:51:10,958 --> 00:51:12,000
- Shirley--
- Thank you.
866
00:51:12,083 --> 00:51:15,166
The guy who, um,
created Star Trek actually went there.
867
00:51:15,250 --> 00:51:16,416
Not-- Not even joking.
868
00:51:16,500 --> 00:51:19,541
- ...this event in Gary...
- Stanley, I am not going.
869
00:51:22,583 --> 00:51:23,666
[sighs deeply]
870
00:51:24,416 --> 00:51:25,875
- [door shuts]
- [phone ringing]
871
00:51:31,500 --> 00:51:32,916
Um, Barbara.
872
00:51:33,458 --> 00:51:35,375
Let her have her lunch, please.
873
00:51:36,125 --> 00:51:37,041
Please.
874
00:51:38,500 --> 00:51:39,625
[Robert] Yeah...
875
00:51:39,708 --> 00:51:42,958
- [Mac] You know what? So...
- [Robert] So, we're going to California.
876
00:51:44,250 --> 00:51:45,375
Five thousand.
877
00:51:46,875 --> 00:51:48,458
Barbara. Barbara. Barb--!
878
00:51:48,541 --> 00:51:52,125
- Shirley, I want to go to the convention.
- I told her you were eating.
879
00:51:52,708 --> 00:51:54,375
It's all right, Arthur.
880
00:51:55,625 --> 00:51:57,750
I want to go to the convention in Gary.
881
00:51:57,833 --> 00:52:01,041
- I can... I can be your representative.
- No.
882
00:52:01,125 --> 00:52:04,666
I want to do something big
for this campaign before I go to Oakland.
883
00:52:04,750 --> 00:52:08,708
- Stanley said that you have to be there.
- I don't have to do anything.
884
00:52:08,791 --> 00:52:11,083
Why don't you want to go?
What are you so afraid of?
885
00:52:11,916 --> 00:52:13,375
Little girl.
886
00:52:16,791 --> 00:52:17,958
Sit down.
887
00:52:20,958 --> 00:52:22,208
Sit down.
888
00:52:34,041 --> 00:52:37,500
Let me tell you something
about this convention.
889
00:52:37,583 --> 00:52:41,125
They don't have
one single Black woman invited to speak.
890
00:52:41,208 --> 00:52:43,250
Not one. Not Coretta.
891
00:52:43,916 --> 00:52:47,625
Betty Shabazz, they got her
introducing Jesse Jackson.
892
00:52:47,708 --> 00:52:52,083
They have made it clear they don't care
what Black women have to say.
893
00:52:52,750 --> 00:52:53,833
They just...
894
00:52:54,333 --> 00:52:57,041
- That's just how they are.
-"They"?
895
00:52:57,125 --> 00:52:59,833
Men, always plottin' and plannin'.
896
00:53:00,416 --> 00:53:02,916
I see these men and the games they play.
897
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:06,708
Black, white, they're all nothing
but hard-mout goats.
898
00:53:08,375 --> 00:53:09,416
"Hard-mout"?
899
00:53:09,500 --> 00:53:10,458
Ah...
900
00:53:10,541 --> 00:53:13,500
I slip into my Bajan roots
when I lose my religion.
901
00:53:13,583 --> 00:53:15,375
[chuckles lightly]
902
00:53:18,833 --> 00:53:20,166
Politics makes you do that?
903
00:53:23,041 --> 00:53:24,083
Then...
904
00:53:25,375 --> 00:53:27,333
I don't think politics is for me.
905
00:53:31,791 --> 00:53:33,041
[Shirley exhales deeply]
906
00:53:36,083 --> 00:53:36,958
[Mac] Shirley!
907
00:53:37,833 --> 00:53:38,708
{\an8}We need to talk.
908
00:53:38,791 --> 00:53:40,916
{\an8}- She has to go on.
- We need to talk to Shirley.
909
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:43,458
Mac, we've got
an auditorium full of students.
910
00:53:43,541 --> 00:53:46,041
Tell them she'll be out.
We need to talk to Shirley.
911
00:53:47,875 --> 00:53:48,875
[sighs softly]
912
00:53:50,541 --> 00:53:53,416
The networks just came out
with their debate schedules.
913
00:53:53,500 --> 00:53:55,125
You're not on them. None of them.
914
00:53:55,208 --> 00:53:57,000
They're saying
you don't meet the threshold--
915
00:53:57,083 --> 00:53:59,875
Whose threshold?
We were counting on these debates.
916
00:53:59,958 --> 00:54:01,166
They don't consider you--
917
00:54:01,250 --> 00:54:02,583
I filled out my paperwork.
918
00:54:02,666 --> 00:54:03,833
I've entered primaries.
919
00:54:03,916 --> 00:54:06,833
I'm polling above Lindsay,
McCarthy, Yorty.
920
00:54:06,916 --> 00:54:08,750
The networks don't care.
921
00:54:08,833 --> 00:54:11,416
- No other way to see it.
- Mrs. C, you have to go on.
922
00:54:11,500 --> 00:54:13,500
[light applause in distance]
923
00:54:23,750 --> 00:54:24,666
Sue them.
924
00:54:24,750 --> 00:54:26,750
[pensive music plays]
925
00:54:27,666 --> 00:54:28,875
Sue the networks?
926
00:54:28,958 --> 00:54:32,791
FCC mandates broadcasters
provide equal opportunity
927
00:54:32,875 --> 00:54:35,083
for any opposing political candidates.
928
00:54:35,166 --> 00:54:36,041
Any.
929
00:54:36,125 --> 00:54:38,625
So, you get a lawyer,
you get some paperwork,
930
00:54:38,708 --> 00:54:40,625
and you remind the networks
931
00:54:40,708 --> 00:54:43,125
that their licenses come
with a legal obligation.
932
00:54:43,208 --> 00:54:45,208
[whimsical instrumental music plays]
933
00:54:47,333 --> 00:54:51,166
We got no money for a campaign,
but we're gonna sue the networks.
934
00:54:51,250 --> 00:54:52,833
- [Shirley] Hello.
- [applause]
935
00:54:54,625 --> 00:54:57,750
- What's going on? What did I miss?
- [Shirley] Hello. Thank you.
936
00:54:58,666 --> 00:55:00,666
[Shirley speaking in distance]
937
00:55:02,416 --> 00:55:05,291
Aren't you a lawyer?
938
00:55:05,375 --> 00:55:08,083
I'm studying to be a lawyer. What? Why?
939
00:55:12,125 --> 00:55:14,375
- [man] You wanna sue the networks?
- [Robert] Yes.
940
00:55:14,458 --> 00:55:17,916
[man] The three pillars of
the Fourth Estate? ABC, NBC, CBS?
941
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:21,333
Yeah. They're in violation
of their mandate, all three of them are.
942
00:55:21,416 --> 00:55:25,375
And them doing business as usual
just doesn't cut it. Not in this election.
943
00:55:28,041 --> 00:55:30,916
Look, you try to take on the big three,
944
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,708
the money, the lawyers they have,
that whole scene,
945
00:55:33,791 --> 00:55:35,166
you're gonna lose in court,
946
00:55:35,750 --> 00:55:36,916
which is good.
947
00:55:37,541 --> 00:55:39,041
- That's good?
- It's good.
948
00:55:39,750 --> 00:55:42,333
No one's ever challenged
how the mandate's applied.
949
00:55:42,416 --> 00:55:44,541
If you lose, the case goes
to appellate court.
950
00:55:44,625 --> 00:55:47,583
You win there, if you can win there,
951
00:55:47,666 --> 00:55:50,458
you codify equal time as law, for like...
952
00:55:52,291 --> 00:55:53,833
[chuckling softly] Forever.
953
00:55:55,750 --> 00:55:59,583
But if we lose the appeal,
then nothing gets better,
954
00:55:59,666 --> 00:56:02,125
and we've made the whole situation worse.
955
00:56:02,208 --> 00:56:05,500
You'll have made it a lot worse. So...
956
00:56:07,208 --> 00:56:10,083
Before you take this to court,
make sure you've got a good case.
957
00:56:10,916 --> 00:56:13,291
You'd better make sure
you have a hell of a case.
958
00:56:16,625 --> 00:56:17,583
Okay.
959
00:56:18,833 --> 00:56:21,958
["Starving Child" by Musi-O-Tunya playing]
960
00:56:29,750 --> 00:56:32,958
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
961
00:56:38,791 --> 00:56:43,166
♪ Oh, I've seen this starving child
A day ago ♪
962
00:56:44,708 --> 00:56:48,041
♪ In my library ♪
963
00:56:48,625 --> 00:56:51,291
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
964
00:56:51,375 --> 00:56:53,083
[bell jangling at door]
965
00:56:53,166 --> 00:56:55,166
["Starving Child" continues faintly]
966
00:57:03,041 --> 00:57:04,083
I ordered you tea.
967
00:57:11,208 --> 00:57:14,791
The New York Times
is going to do a profile piece on me.
968
00:57:14,875 --> 00:57:17,083
They would like to speak to the family.
969
00:57:17,666 --> 00:57:19,833
They would like to know
that you support me.
970
00:57:19,916 --> 00:57:21,583
Some things go without saying.
971
00:57:22,625 --> 00:57:25,083
In politics, some things need to be said.
972
00:57:26,500 --> 00:57:27,791
[exhales deeply]
973
00:57:28,625 --> 00:57:30,791
What is it you're doing
with this campaign?
974
00:57:31,500 --> 00:57:34,125
All people do, Shirley,
they talk about you.
975
00:57:34,208 --> 00:57:35,458
They say you're crazy.
976
00:57:35,541 --> 00:57:37,208
I don't care what they say.
977
00:57:37,291 --> 00:57:39,708
Because you're not the one
that has to hear it.
978
00:57:39,791 --> 00:57:42,625
You're not the one people ask,
"What's wrong with your sister?"
979
00:57:42,708 --> 00:57:46,708
"How come your sister bad behave?"
We don't do these things, but you--
980
00:57:46,791 --> 00:57:48,166
-"We"?
- But you going--
981
00:57:48,250 --> 00:57:49,083
Black women?
982
00:57:49,166 --> 00:57:52,041
- You gonna humiliate yourself. Us.
- The St. Hill sisters?
983
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:54,916
You just...
984
00:57:56,166 --> 00:57:58,000
It's just how Papa raised you.
985
00:57:58,083 --> 00:57:59,041
[scoffs, chuckles]
986
00:57:59,125 --> 00:58:01,208
- It's the truth.
- Hmm.
987
00:58:01,291 --> 00:58:02,583
So I don't blame you.
988
00:58:02,666 --> 00:58:05,041
No, you blame our father.
989
00:58:05,125 --> 00:58:06,458
He had four daughters.
990
00:58:07,083 --> 00:58:07,958
Four.
991
00:58:08,875 --> 00:58:11,708
But when he died,
he left you the little money he had.
992
00:58:11,791 --> 00:58:13,333
You were treated differently.
993
00:58:14,166 --> 00:58:15,333
And now you think...
994
00:58:15,916 --> 00:58:17,583
Now you think you're special.
995
00:58:19,125 --> 00:58:20,958
That's how Papa was with you.
996
00:58:21,041 --> 00:58:22,625
He made you believe things.
997
00:58:23,125 --> 00:58:24,375
They aren't true.
998
00:58:24,916 --> 00:58:28,208
He made me believe in myself.
Regardless of what people think--
999
00:58:28,291 --> 00:58:29,750
You have no regard?
1000
00:58:29,833 --> 00:58:32,750
You don't care what
this campaign does to your friends?
1001
00:58:32,833 --> 00:58:35,833
- I can do what is necessary.
- Family? That's what Papa would want?
1002
00:58:35,916 --> 00:58:38,000
You are pushing us away over nothing.
1003
00:58:39,250 --> 00:58:40,375
[scoffs]
1004
00:58:41,625 --> 00:58:44,916
Muriel, is that
what you think my campaign is?
1005
00:58:45,583 --> 00:58:47,208
Is that all it is to you?
1006
00:58:48,125 --> 00:58:49,166
Nothing?
1007
00:58:49,250 --> 00:58:53,041
Nothing is what you make
the rest of us feel like.
1008
00:58:59,541 --> 00:59:00,750
No, Shirley.
1009
00:59:02,583 --> 00:59:04,791
We won't be talking
to the newspaper people.
1010
00:59:10,541 --> 00:59:11,750
[bell jangling]
1011
00:59:14,208 --> 00:59:16,208
["Starving Child" continues faintly]
1012
00:59:28,458 --> 00:59:31,000
["Think (About It)"
by Lyn Collins playing]
1013
00:59:32,250 --> 00:59:33,541
♪ All right ♪
1014
00:59:33,625 --> 00:59:34,833
[overlapping chatter]
1015
00:59:34,916 --> 00:59:37,583
♪ I'm laying my cards on the table ♪
1016
00:59:39,291 --> 00:59:41,458
♪ When it comes to taking care of me ♪
1017
00:59:41,541 --> 00:59:43,208
♪ I know I'm able ♪
1018
00:59:43,791 --> 00:59:45,833
♪ You may not call it true... ♪
1019
00:59:47,916 --> 00:59:50,500
Come on, y'all. Don't be cheap.
This is for Shirley.
1020
00:59:50,583 --> 00:59:54,333
The next president
of these United goddamn States!
1021
00:59:54,416 --> 00:59:56,291
[all cheering]
1022
00:59:56,375 --> 00:59:59,291
♪ So think about the good things ♪
1023
00:59:59,375 --> 01:00:00,666
- ♪ Come on! ♪
- ♪ Come on ♪
1024
01:00:01,833 --> 01:00:04,041
- ♪ Hey, yeah ♪
- [song ends]
1025
01:00:04,125 --> 01:00:05,833
{\an8}[phones ringing]
1026
01:00:05,916 --> 01:00:09,375
{\an8}- [Shirley] How much did they get?
- About 1,800 altogether.
1027
01:00:09,875 --> 01:00:11,750
And it was all small donations.
1028
01:00:11,833 --> 01:00:13,125
Five dollars, two dollars.
1029
01:00:13,208 --> 01:00:15,916
They show up,
claim to be from the Chisholm campaign,
1030
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:18,833
throw a party,
pour the liquor, steal the donations.
1031
01:00:19,625 --> 01:00:21,916
- [Mac] People want their money back.
- I don't blame them.
1032
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:25,541
- They want their money back from us.
- [Robert] From the campaign?
1033
01:00:25,625 --> 01:00:27,000
We didn't steal the money.
1034
01:00:27,083 --> 01:00:29,625
Somebody did, but we're taking the blame.
1035
01:00:29,708 --> 01:00:30,708
[Stan] Jesus!
1036
01:00:31,750 --> 01:00:32,916
I'm done.
1037
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:34,291
This isn't a campaign.
1038
01:00:34,375 --> 01:00:35,500
It's a joke.
1039
01:00:36,125 --> 01:00:38,791
You have no organization.
You have no infrastructure.
1040
01:00:38,875 --> 01:00:41,291
You got people stealing
out from under your noses.
1041
01:00:41,375 --> 01:00:42,625
Stanley, come on, now.
1042
01:00:42,708 --> 01:00:45,541
This magical voter coalition
doesn't exist.
1043
01:00:45,625 --> 01:00:48,375
When this blows all up,
the only thing anybody's gonna remember
1044
01:00:48,458 --> 01:00:52,541
is that there were a bunch of Black folks
who made fools of themselves.
1045
01:00:53,875 --> 01:00:55,916
Honest to God,
if you had any self-respect--
1046
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:58,250
If you got with the program, instead of--
1047
01:00:58,333 --> 01:01:01,000
I don't need an Ivy League white boy
givin' me lip!
1048
01:01:01,083 --> 01:01:02,708
Wait a goddamn minute!
1049
01:01:02,791 --> 01:01:05,708
- Who the hell you think you talkin' to?
- It's not worth it!
1050
01:01:05,791 --> 01:01:07,125
- You're pathetic.
- Stanley.
1051
01:01:07,208 --> 01:01:09,458
- You're an embarrassment.
- Stanley. Stanley!
1052
01:01:09,541 --> 01:01:11,333
Can we talk, please?
1053
01:01:14,416 --> 01:01:15,291
Yeah.
1054
01:01:18,375 --> 01:01:19,625
Yeah, of course.
1055
01:01:20,666 --> 01:01:22,000
[quietly] I'm sorry.
1056
01:01:28,750 --> 01:01:32,458
Shirley, I am sorry, but somebody has
got to be the one to tell these people--
1057
01:01:32,541 --> 01:01:35,750
Who the hell do you think you are,
talking to my people like that?
1058
01:01:35,833 --> 01:01:37,708
They're not your servants.
1059
01:01:37,791 --> 01:01:39,125
They're giving their time.
1060
01:01:39,208 --> 01:01:41,750
You're drawing a check,
but you got too much mout
1061
01:01:41,833 --> 01:01:43,083
to do how you get paid.
1062
01:01:43,166 --> 01:01:45,583
Got plaster for every sore.
1063
01:01:45,666 --> 01:01:48,625
Well, since you can't do,
let me relieve your load.
1064
01:01:48,708 --> 01:01:49,583
You're done.
1065
01:01:51,666 --> 01:01:54,666
- Woman, you are your own worst--
- Enough! The dog dead!
1066
01:01:54,750 --> 01:01:55,791
Go!
1067
01:02:02,166 --> 01:02:03,750
[tuts, sucks teeth]
1068
01:02:04,458 --> 01:02:05,541
[exhales]
1069
01:02:08,500 --> 01:02:10,500
[somber music playing]
1070
01:02:19,166 --> 01:02:20,291
[soft knocking]
1071
01:02:31,583 --> 01:02:34,208
- [Shirley] Thank you.
- You're welcome. You all right?
1072
01:02:34,291 --> 01:02:35,458
[Shirley] I'm fine.
1073
01:02:38,750 --> 01:02:40,375
Where are they, Arthur?
1074
01:02:42,666 --> 01:02:44,500
I was there for white women.
1075
01:02:45,041 --> 01:02:47,041
Why can't they support me?
1076
01:02:47,666 --> 01:02:48,916
Same with Black men.
1077
01:02:49,500 --> 01:02:51,500
Where are they?
1078
01:02:51,583 --> 01:02:52,416
They'll come.
1079
01:02:53,041 --> 01:02:53,875
[scoffs]
1080
01:02:57,166 --> 01:02:59,750
Barely two months left to the convention.
1081
01:03:00,916 --> 01:03:03,000
I'm running out of time.
1082
01:03:06,708 --> 01:03:08,166
Too sentimental.
1083
01:03:08,958 --> 01:03:10,666
I really am. I...
1084
01:03:11,458 --> 01:03:14,708
just see what's going on
in the world, and it's...
1085
01:03:15,291 --> 01:03:18,625
The agony of people, it moves me.
1086
01:03:19,291 --> 01:03:20,666
It moves me.
1087
01:03:22,583 --> 01:03:26,833
I... Conrad says
I'm not gonna live to see 55.
1088
01:03:27,458 --> 01:03:31,125
Says I'm just too into this thing,
and I know I am.
1089
01:03:31,208 --> 01:03:32,458
He's right.
1090
01:03:33,250 --> 01:03:34,291
[sighs]
1091
01:03:34,875 --> 01:03:36,375
But it's deep with me.
1092
01:03:36,458 --> 01:03:38,000
It's intense. I...
1093
01:03:38,791 --> 01:03:41,500
[sighs] I see too much sufferin'.
1094
01:03:42,416 --> 01:03:46,500
And these politicians around here,
they... they don't care.
1095
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:48,458
They don't care.
1096
01:03:48,541 --> 01:03:50,833
They just don't care.
1097
01:03:51,666 --> 01:03:53,916
And I don't know how to not try.
1098
01:03:54,458 --> 01:03:56,416
I believe in people. I do. I--
1099
01:03:56,958 --> 01:03:58,416
I'm not naive.
1100
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:01,958
[Arthur] You're not realistic either.
1101
01:04:02,833 --> 01:04:04,041
If you thought that
1102
01:04:04,125 --> 01:04:07,250
everything you were gonna have to do
was gonna be easy...
1103
01:04:09,791 --> 01:04:11,250
I mean, what do you wanna do?
1104
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:13,666
Wanna quit the campaign?
1105
01:04:15,750 --> 01:04:18,000
End of the day,
it comes down to one of two choices.
1106
01:04:18,083 --> 01:04:20,333
You either fight the fight
or quit the race.
1107
01:04:20,416 --> 01:04:22,291
And if you gonna quit the race,
1108
01:04:22,375 --> 01:04:25,083
get it done with,
and stop complaining about it.
1109
01:04:26,791 --> 01:04:27,791
[exhales]
1110
01:04:28,583 --> 01:04:30,625
Is this you being encouraging?
1111
01:04:32,750 --> 01:04:37,291
If you really are done
with... all of this mess,
1112
01:04:37,791 --> 01:04:40,916
I'm not gonna blame you,
and nobody else can.
1113
01:04:41,708 --> 01:04:43,875
People say I'm crazy.
1114
01:04:44,625 --> 01:04:46,416
Am I crazy?
1115
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:48,166
[Arthur] Yes.
1116
01:04:48,250 --> 01:04:52,208
But maybe that's what it takes
to make a difference in this world.
1117
01:04:52,291 --> 01:04:56,000
And, by some slim chance,
you make it down in Miami,
1118
01:04:56,083 --> 01:04:58,125
I'mma be right there with you.
1119
01:04:58,750 --> 01:05:00,916
And I hope to God it happens.
1120
01:05:01,583 --> 01:05:03,583
[gentle music playing]
1121
01:05:08,125 --> 01:05:09,625
Thank you, Arthur.
1122
01:05:10,250 --> 01:05:14,166
Thank you... for making us believe.
1123
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:17,458
That's what matters.
1124
01:05:23,666 --> 01:05:24,625
[door shuts]
1125
01:05:40,666 --> 01:05:43,916
- [Shirley] You all right?
- [Robert] Yeah, I'm just, you know, I'm...
1126
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:46,875
I'm really worried about
this FCC ruling the court handed down.
1127
01:05:46,958 --> 01:05:49,458
Isn't that what your man said
is likely to happen?
1128
01:05:49,541 --> 01:05:52,541
That we'd lose in court,
and then we'd take it to an appeal.
1129
01:05:53,125 --> 01:05:56,291
Yeah. I mean, he also said that,
you know, if we lose the appeal,
1130
01:05:56,375 --> 01:05:58,375
then the whole thing gets worse.
1131
01:05:58,458 --> 01:06:01,041
Eh, what's going to happen
is going to happen.
1132
01:06:03,083 --> 01:06:04,541
- What?
- [chuckling] I'm...
1133
01:06:04,625 --> 01:06:07,125
Sorry. What's going to happen
is going to happen?
1134
01:06:07,208 --> 01:06:10,666
Mrs. C... that doesn't sound
anything like you.
1135
01:06:10,750 --> 01:06:12,166
I mean, you're the one...
1136
01:06:12,250 --> 01:06:16,041
You're the one who told me to
not accept things the way that they are.
1137
01:06:16,125 --> 01:06:17,083
And I meant it.
1138
01:06:17,166 --> 01:06:19,041
Yes. So everything makes a difference.
1139
01:06:19,125 --> 01:06:21,166
If I let you down,
if the appeal goes wrong...
1140
01:06:21,250 --> 01:06:23,500
- How are you letting me down?
- Not just you.
1141
01:06:23,583 --> 01:06:25,708
So many people are gonna be
massively impacted.
1142
01:06:25,791 --> 01:06:28,250
- You are putting in the work.
- It's not a small thing.
1143
01:06:28,333 --> 01:06:29,583
- [sirens wail]
- [tires screech]
1144
01:06:29,666 --> 01:06:31,583
- Shirley Chisholm?
- Don't move!
1145
01:06:31,666 --> 01:06:34,083
- Right there! Let me see your hands!
- What?
1146
01:06:34,166 --> 01:06:36,166
Do you understand me? Do not move!
1147
01:06:36,250 --> 01:06:38,125
Don't tell me... Do not tell me what to do.
1148
01:06:38,208 --> 01:06:41,333
I'm not talking to you.
I'm talking to him. Is he threatening you?
1149
01:06:41,416 --> 01:06:42,291
No!
1150
01:06:42,375 --> 01:06:44,791
No. He works with me.
Why are you asking me this?
1151
01:06:45,666 --> 01:06:48,416
Ma'am, they just shot George Wallace.
1152
01:06:50,208 --> 01:06:52,875
[somber music plays]
1153
01:06:52,958 --> 01:06:54,958
- [gunshots firing]
- [woman screaming]
1154
01:06:57,666 --> 01:07:01,250
Five shots, point-blank.
It was a white boy that shot him.
1155
01:07:01,333 --> 01:07:04,125
- Chickens come home to roost.
- And he lived.
1156
01:07:05,375 --> 01:07:07,541
Wallace is a tough son of a bitch.
1157
01:07:08,041 --> 01:07:10,166
[Mac] Nixon's going to visit him
in the hospital.
1158
01:07:10,666 --> 01:07:13,375
[Arthur] Nixon would make him
his vice president if he could.
1159
01:07:13,958 --> 01:07:15,750
[Mac] What makes you think he won't?
1160
01:07:16,541 --> 01:07:17,583
I want to go visit him.
1161
01:07:22,166 --> 01:07:23,916
I want to visit Wallace.
1162
01:07:25,083 --> 01:07:27,000
I don't think it's a good idea.
1163
01:07:27,083 --> 01:07:28,875
I know it's not a good idea.
1164
01:07:28,958 --> 01:07:31,125
Nixon is gonna visit him.
1165
01:07:31,208 --> 01:07:32,708
McGovern's going. Humphrey--
1166
01:07:32,791 --> 01:07:34,375
They're signifying.
1167
01:07:34,458 --> 01:07:37,333
White men who wouldn't mind
getting a few of Wallace's voters.
1168
01:07:39,125 --> 01:07:40,250
Shirley.
1169
01:07:41,625 --> 01:07:44,750
Don't you know what it would mean
for you to go visit that man?
1170
01:07:44,833 --> 01:07:47,791
I know what it means
to have somebody try to take your life.
1171
01:07:48,291 --> 01:07:49,500
I know that.
1172
01:07:49,583 --> 01:07:51,541
Do you know what it would mean
to your base?
1173
01:07:51,625 --> 01:07:53,541
To Blacks, young people, progressives?
1174
01:07:53,625 --> 01:07:56,500
- The man is a stone-cold racist!
-"Segregation now, segregation tomorrow."
1175
01:07:56,583 --> 01:07:58,708
What does it say about you
when you ignore that?
1176
01:07:58,791 --> 01:08:01,083
What does it say about me as a Christian?
1177
01:08:01,791 --> 01:08:04,291
You are not running for Pope.
1178
01:08:04,791 --> 01:08:06,166
You're running for president.
1179
01:08:06,250 --> 01:08:08,458
All this, everything we put together,
1180
01:08:08,541 --> 01:08:10,916
and you want to throw it away
over Wallace?
1181
01:08:12,958 --> 01:08:14,000
[sighs]
1182
01:08:20,166 --> 01:08:23,166
You hired me to be your advisor.
1183
01:08:25,625 --> 01:08:27,291
That's hard as hell to do
1184
01:08:27,375 --> 01:08:29,625
when you won't listen
to the advice I give.
1185
01:08:35,583 --> 01:08:38,458
But you are still
going to advise me, right?
1186
01:08:42,625 --> 01:08:43,666
Mac?
1187
01:08:47,541 --> 01:08:48,541
I'll talk to him.
1188
01:09:07,166 --> 01:09:09,166
[gentle music playing]
1189
01:09:17,916 --> 01:09:19,916
[notes playing softly]
1190
01:09:27,833 --> 01:09:30,041
[Shirley] What are the doctors saying?
1191
01:09:30,708 --> 01:09:33,291
Well... I'll live.
1192
01:09:33,791 --> 01:09:35,166
So there's that.
1193
01:09:36,333 --> 01:09:37,375
But, uh...
1194
01:09:39,500 --> 01:09:41,333
shot me in the spine.
1195
01:09:41,916 --> 01:09:45,541
I will spend the rest of my days
looking at the world from a wheelchair.
1196
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:49,666
Where do these people come from, Shirley?
1197
01:09:51,166 --> 01:09:54,708
I suppose it's the hate that hate creates.
1198
01:09:55,791 --> 01:10:00,916
It is not fair to lecture a man
who has got nowhere to go to.
1199
01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:01,916
Oh... [sighs]
1200
01:10:02,000 --> 01:10:03,500
George... [sighs]
1201
01:10:04,208 --> 01:10:06,458
I wouldn't wish this on anyone.
1202
01:10:07,083 --> 01:10:08,083
Mm-mm.
1203
01:10:08,708 --> 01:10:10,250
I've been where you are.
1204
01:10:10,958 --> 01:10:13,333
Had somebody try and take my life.
1205
01:10:13,416 --> 01:10:16,041
So close to God calling me home.
1206
01:10:16,125 --> 01:10:20,125
But... I know he spared me for a reason.
1207
01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:23,708
And I believe the same for you.
1208
01:10:25,166 --> 01:10:28,791
Now, what that reason is... Why?
1209
01:10:28,875 --> 01:10:31,500
Maybe... Maybe he wanted you to...
1210
01:10:36,958 --> 01:10:38,583
It's not for me to say.
1211
01:10:40,125 --> 01:10:43,875
But you have an opportunity.
1212
01:10:44,708 --> 01:10:48,458
To keep on how you've been
or be more than what you were.
1213
01:10:49,708 --> 01:10:52,458
And you better figure it out quick.
1214
01:10:52,541 --> 01:10:55,458
'Cause the next time,
the good Lord may not be satisfied
1215
01:10:55,541 --> 01:10:57,541
with taking just half of you.
1216
01:11:06,375 --> 01:11:08,416
God is surrounding you.
1217
01:11:09,208 --> 01:11:14,958
May his light always guide you
and keep you safe in his arms.
1218
01:11:15,708 --> 01:11:17,250
In Jesus's name.
1219
01:11:17,833 --> 01:11:18,875
Amen.
1220
01:11:20,500 --> 01:11:22,208
[sobbing shakily] Well...
1221
01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:25,208
You keep praying for me, Shirley.
1222
01:11:27,541 --> 01:11:28,875
Always have.
1223
01:11:29,375 --> 01:11:31,791
[gentle music playing]
1224
01:11:35,083 --> 01:11:36,125
{\an8}[indistinct chatter]
1225
01:11:36,208 --> 01:11:38,541
{\an8}[newsman] George Wallace
had an unlikely visitor today,
1226
01:11:38,625 --> 01:11:40,416
political opponent Shirley Chisholm.
1227
01:11:40,500 --> 01:11:43,458
The New York congresswoman was
one of the most unexpected visitors
1228
01:11:43,541 --> 01:11:46,541
to pass through this morning
to visit the Alabama governor.
1229
01:11:46,625 --> 01:11:48,458
One of the bullets is still lodged...
1230
01:11:48,541 --> 01:11:52,583
You believe this shit?
And she's supposed to be Black.
1231
01:11:52,666 --> 01:11:56,333
...his staunch segregationist and
populist views, seems like the last person
1232
01:11:56,416 --> 01:11:59,541
the congresswoman
would want to offer condolences to.
1233
01:12:00,125 --> 01:12:02,291
[Mac] I think we've got to ask this point,
1234
01:12:02,791 --> 01:12:04,458
do we want to go on?
1235
01:12:06,166 --> 01:12:09,875
Well, the question really is,
can we go on?
1236
01:12:11,208 --> 01:12:13,416
I think we have to be realistic.
1237
01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:15,916
Two months left in the primaries,
1238
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:19,583
Dr. Wallace, if he stays
in the race, and McGovern.
1239
01:12:20,291 --> 01:12:21,875
There's just, for us,
1240
01:12:23,291 --> 01:12:25,250
no path to the presidency.
1241
01:12:26,458 --> 01:12:28,083
My numbers are improving.
1242
01:12:28,166 --> 01:12:31,458
Less than 3% of the vote
in Maryland and Michigan.
1243
01:12:31,541 --> 01:12:33,625
Better than less than 1%
in Wisconsin, but--
1244
01:12:33,708 --> 01:12:36,333
If I can't get the nomination,
I can still get delegates.
1245
01:12:36,416 --> 01:12:37,250
[Mac] Shirley.
1246
01:12:37,333 --> 01:12:39,375
And if we can control
some of the delegates,
1247
01:12:39,458 --> 01:12:41,833
we can still force change
at the convention.
1248
01:12:41,916 --> 01:12:45,375
Get delegates from where?
All that's left on the map...
1249
01:12:45,875 --> 01:12:47,583
Oregon's for McGovern. We know that.
1250
01:12:47,666 --> 01:12:50,500
We're not even on the ballot
in Rhode Island, South Dakota--
1251
01:12:50,583 --> 01:12:52,500
But there is California.
1252
01:12:52,583 --> 01:12:54,291
California is winner take all.
1253
01:12:54,375 --> 01:12:56,416
But what if we win California?
1254
01:12:56,500 --> 01:12:59,750
[Mac] Shirley, you said yourself
it'd be a waste of time.
1255
01:13:00,250 --> 01:13:02,541
I'd do whatever it takes
to compete in California.
1256
01:13:02,625 --> 01:13:04,125
It takes money.
1257
01:13:04,208 --> 01:13:06,458
Do you have money? Because we need money.
1258
01:13:06,541 --> 01:13:08,666
- We can get money.
- [Mac] We... Jesus.
1259
01:13:08,750 --> 01:13:12,625
Look, even if we enter the primary,
how do we get traction?
1260
01:13:12,708 --> 01:13:14,166
Who wants to back you?
1261
01:13:14,250 --> 01:13:15,416
Now, come on, Mac.
1262
01:13:15,500 --> 01:13:18,208
- I am just being realistic.
- Yeah, I know. But come on.
1263
01:13:18,291 --> 01:13:19,458
[Mac sighs deeply]
1264
01:13:20,416 --> 01:13:21,583
You want to do this?
1265
01:13:21,666 --> 01:13:24,458
We'll... figure it out.
1266
01:13:24,541 --> 01:13:26,291
But at this point,
1267
01:13:27,541 --> 01:13:31,041
without something
that's going to make some noise...
1268
01:13:32,750 --> 01:13:35,500
[laughter on television]
1269
01:13:38,333 --> 01:13:41,416
Well, then, no, if that's it...
Were they colored?
1270
01:13:45,166 --> 01:13:47,333
- Yeah, white.
- [audience laughs]
1271
01:13:47,416 --> 01:13:52,166
[Shirley] Our total expenses
for the campaign have been $215,000.
1272
01:13:52,250 --> 01:13:54,125
Our liabilities,
1273
01:13:54,666 --> 01:13:58,333
outstanding debts... bills...
1274
01:13:59,833 --> 01:14:01,625
Twenty-six thousand.
1275
01:14:02,375 --> 01:14:06,333
Our payroll, if we keep it really tight,
1276
01:14:06,416 --> 01:14:08,000
2,000 a week.
1277
01:14:09,125 --> 01:14:10,666
Our cash on hand?
1278
01:14:11,166 --> 01:14:12,958
We don't have any cash on hand,
1279
01:14:13,041 --> 01:14:17,000
so to have enough money
to pay all our obligations
1280
01:14:17,083 --> 01:14:20,166
and keep the campaign going
throughout the California primary,
1281
01:14:20,250 --> 01:14:23,375
we need about $36,000.
1282
01:14:25,708 --> 01:14:29,250
Where are we supposed to get $36,000?
1283
01:14:29,750 --> 01:14:31,916
[Shirley] I have my congressional salary.
1284
01:14:33,125 --> 01:14:34,125
[Conrad sighs]
1285
01:14:35,958 --> 01:14:40,625
We already put in 20,000 of our own money.
1286
01:14:41,208 --> 01:14:44,375
Now you want to put in
another 36,000 on top?
1287
01:14:44,875 --> 01:14:48,208
Wh-- Why are you doing this?
Why go on? I don't understand what--
1288
01:14:48,291 --> 01:14:49,333
Conrad.
1289
01:14:49,416 --> 01:14:52,833
People walking out on you,
giving up on you.
1290
01:14:53,458 --> 01:14:57,166
I don't understand why you want
to keep going out there alone.
1291
01:14:57,250 --> 01:14:58,875
- Torturing yourself.
- I'm not alone.
1292
01:14:58,958 --> 01:15:02,375
There are people who put their blood
and sweat into what we're doing.
1293
01:15:02,458 --> 01:15:05,291
What would you have me tell them?
"Fight, but not too much?"
1294
01:15:05,375 --> 01:15:07,541
- Why do it?!
- Because it's my money!
1295
01:15:07,625 --> 01:15:08,791
It's my money!
1296
01:15:11,125 --> 01:15:13,125
[chatter on TV continues indistinctly]
1297
01:15:24,416 --> 01:15:26,416
[footsteps receding]
1298
01:15:29,458 --> 01:15:32,875
- [light clattering]
- [faint rustling]
1299
01:15:32,958 --> 01:15:34,958
[footsteps approaching]
1300
01:15:37,958 --> 01:15:38,791
[sighs]
1301
01:15:43,208 --> 01:15:44,375
[Conrad] You're right.
1302
01:15:46,083 --> 01:15:47,416
It is your money.
1303
01:15:48,833 --> 01:15:50,333
It's your campaign.
1304
01:15:53,500 --> 01:15:56,458
So, why even pretend to care
1305
01:15:57,750 --> 01:15:59,083
about what I think?
1306
01:16:10,041 --> 01:16:12,041
[audience laughing on television]
1307
01:16:34,333 --> 01:16:35,500
[exhales deeply]
1308
01:16:35,583 --> 01:16:37,583
[applause on television]
1309
01:16:37,666 --> 01:16:40,875
We sure appreciate you
getting the word out to everybody.
1310
01:16:40,958 --> 01:16:42,208
Do whatever I can.
1311
01:16:42,291 --> 01:16:43,708
Get the people to vote.
1312
01:16:43,791 --> 01:16:45,875
Every delegate coming to the convention,
1313
01:16:45,958 --> 01:16:48,708
that's a voice
for equal rights, civil rights.
1314
01:16:48,791 --> 01:16:50,250
That can't happen without you.
1315
01:16:50,333 --> 01:16:53,250
Fight the fight, Shirley. Finish the race.
1316
01:16:53,333 --> 01:16:54,583
- Thank you.
- Yes.
1317
01:16:54,666 --> 01:16:56,916
- God bless you.
- We gotta get you across town.
1318
01:16:57,000 --> 01:16:59,083
We got two more churches to get to
1319
01:16:59,166 --> 01:17:02,625
and a fundraiser that Mac and Conrad
have been greasing them
1320
01:17:02,708 --> 01:17:03,916
until we get you there.
1321
01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:06,208
Then you got
the rest of the day to yourself.
1322
01:17:06,291 --> 01:17:07,958
- Arthur.
- I'll get the cab.
1323
01:17:09,458 --> 01:17:10,291
Muriel!
1324
01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:15,750
[Muriel] Not staying for services?
1325
01:17:16,250 --> 01:17:18,375
Well, I have some campaigning to do.
1326
01:17:18,458 --> 01:17:20,333
You're staying in the race?
1327
01:17:20,416 --> 01:17:23,875
Well, I still think there are good things
we can do at the convention.
1328
01:17:26,666 --> 01:17:31,458
Muriel, I hate that you and Mother
have to listen to other people.
1329
01:17:31,541 --> 01:17:33,250
I don't want that for you.
1330
01:17:33,333 --> 01:17:34,875
I don't want that for anybody.
1331
01:17:35,583 --> 01:17:36,541
Sure.
1332
01:17:37,416 --> 01:17:38,541
Have a good Sunday.
1333
01:17:39,958 --> 01:17:42,333
Muriel, I don't think I'm special.
1334
01:17:44,250 --> 01:17:47,625
I don't. I'm just how I am.
1335
01:17:49,125 --> 01:17:51,375
And I don't know any other way to be.
1336
01:17:55,916 --> 01:17:57,125
I'm sorry.
1337
01:18:07,875 --> 01:18:08,875
[sighs softly]
1338
01:18:13,166 --> 01:18:14,000
Sh...
1339
01:18:17,333 --> 01:18:18,500
[sighs softly]
1340
01:18:19,083 --> 01:18:21,083
[somber music playing]
1341
01:18:45,875 --> 01:18:48,291
[Robert] Thank you so, so, so much.
1342
01:18:48,958 --> 01:18:49,958
Okay. Bye-bye.
1343
01:18:50,708 --> 01:18:52,708
[up-tempo music builds]
1344
01:18:55,375 --> 01:18:57,500
We got the judgment
from the appellate court.
1345
01:18:57,583 --> 01:18:58,791
They ruled in our favor.
1346
01:18:58,875 --> 01:19:02,250
ABC has to include you in the debate,
and because we missed the one on CBS,
1347
01:19:02,333 --> 01:19:04,583
they're giving you a half hour
on air to yourself.
1348
01:19:04,666 --> 01:19:06,333
- Hot diggity dog!
- [Mac laughs]
1349
01:19:06,416 --> 01:19:09,083
- You did it.
- Boy's gonna make a hell of a lawyer.
1350
01:19:09,166 --> 01:19:13,291
Wait, no. I didn't do this all by myself.
The folks over at the Media Access--
1351
01:19:13,375 --> 01:19:15,958
Robert, good job.
1352
01:19:16,458 --> 01:19:17,916
- [chuckles]
- Thank you.
1353
01:19:18,000 --> 01:19:19,500
[Shirley and Mac laughing]
1354
01:19:19,583 --> 01:19:20,750
Good work.
1355
01:19:20,833 --> 01:19:21,708
You did it.
1356
01:19:21,791 --> 01:19:25,458
What has kept me in this election
is that I am willing to fight the fight,
1357
01:19:25,541 --> 01:19:27,458
irrespective of the odds that I face.
1358
01:19:28,208 --> 01:19:30,166
The only reason I am sitting here now
1359
01:19:30,250 --> 01:19:34,166
is because I am unwilling
to... to accept the inequality
1360
01:19:34,250 --> 01:19:36,708
imposed by the so-called liberal media.
1361
01:19:37,291 --> 01:19:39,041
- It's Barbara Lee.
- Thank you.
1362
01:19:40,458 --> 01:19:41,500
Hello.
1363
01:19:44,250 --> 01:19:46,333
Yes. Barbara. How are you?
1364
01:19:46,416 --> 01:19:48,750
[Barbara] I'm all right. Saw you on TV.
1365
01:19:48,833 --> 01:19:51,166
Sounds like you're gonna
go through California.
1366
01:19:51,250 --> 01:19:54,375
Well, we're considering options.
1367
01:19:54,458 --> 01:19:57,833
[interviewer] Do you believe California
can make a difference for your campaign?
1368
01:19:57,916 --> 01:20:00,291
The largest delegate count of any state?
1369
01:20:00,875 --> 01:20:02,791
Of course it can make a difference.
1370
01:20:02,875 --> 01:20:06,083
[Barbara] Look, I told you that I wanted
to do something to help the campaign.
1371
01:20:06,166 --> 01:20:08,958
Something big. I spoke to Chairman Newton.
He wants to meet you.
1372
01:20:09,041 --> 01:20:12,166
Wait, little girl. Slow down.
1373
01:20:12,750 --> 01:20:15,041
Chairman Huey Newton
of the Black Panther Party.
1374
01:20:15,125 --> 01:20:17,875
He's willing to try to get
the Black Panther party to endorse you.
1375
01:20:17,958 --> 01:20:19,833
But the meeting
needs to be on neutral territory.
1376
01:20:19,916 --> 01:20:23,958
And what does he consider neutral
for a congresswoman and a Panther?
1377
01:20:24,666 --> 01:20:26,750
He'll do it at Diahann Carroll's house.
1378
01:20:26,833 --> 01:20:28,250
Diahann Carroll?
1379
01:20:28,333 --> 01:20:29,708
[hesitates] The actress?
1380
01:20:29,791 --> 01:20:32,666
She looks like an angel but she fights
like the devil for civil rights.
1381
01:20:32,750 --> 01:20:36,000
Huey thinks that he can get the BPP
to give you an endorsement.
1382
01:20:36,083 --> 01:20:39,916
When it comes to this election,
every voice deserves to be heard.
1383
01:20:40,000 --> 01:20:42,375
Not just some people, all of the people.
1384
01:20:42,958 --> 01:20:44,166
Right the hell on.
1385
01:20:44,250 --> 01:20:46,208
And after what you just did to the FCC,
1386
01:20:46,291 --> 01:20:47,916
a Panther endorsement?
1387
01:20:48,916 --> 01:20:50,375
People are gonna notice.
1388
01:20:51,500 --> 01:20:53,041
They're gonna have to notice.
1389
01:20:55,750 --> 01:20:56,583
Okay.
1390
01:20:57,250 --> 01:21:01,000
[Shirley] This will be the most open
Democratic Convention this country's seen.
1391
01:21:01,083 --> 01:21:03,458
Nobody's gonna get through
on the first ballot.
1392
01:21:03,541 --> 01:21:05,166
[yelping, laughing]
1393
01:21:05,250 --> 01:21:07,916
{\an8}["Four-Letter Words"
by Miriam Makeba playing]
1394
01:21:10,375 --> 01:21:11,791
- Barbara.
- [Barbara] Diahann.
1395
01:21:14,333 --> 01:21:15,208
- Mmm.
- Mm.
1396
01:21:15,291 --> 01:21:17,791
I would like you
to please meet Mrs. Shirley Chisholm.
1397
01:21:17,875 --> 01:21:18,916
Mrs. Chisholm.
1398
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:20,666
Shirley, please.
1399
01:21:20,750 --> 01:21:23,000
It is an honor, Shirley.
1400
01:21:23,083 --> 01:21:24,583
Nothing short of an honor.
1401
01:21:24,666 --> 01:21:25,916
Likewise.
1402
01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:28,708
Come on. Let's wait out back.
Huey isn't here yet.
1403
01:21:28,791 --> 01:21:32,333
Really? Caught traffic.
Was afraid we'd keep you waiting.
1404
01:21:32,416 --> 01:21:37,000
Panthers, they run on CP time.
They'll be late to their own revolution.
1405
01:21:37,083 --> 01:21:38,375
[all chuckling]
1406
01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:41,875
She's funny. [chuckles]
1407
01:21:43,333 --> 01:21:44,375
Oh...
1408
01:21:46,375 --> 01:21:48,375
- Yes, let's get you out of the sun.
- Mmm.
1409
01:21:48,458 --> 01:21:49,458
[song ends]
1410
01:21:50,416 --> 01:21:51,458
[sighs]
1411
01:21:51,541 --> 01:21:52,708
Ms. Carroll--
1412
01:21:52,791 --> 01:21:55,000
If you're "Shirley," then I'm "Diahann."
1413
01:21:55,083 --> 01:21:57,958
I truly appreciate
you facilitating this meeting.
1414
01:21:58,041 --> 01:22:02,000
Darling, bringing together
the Black Panthers and Shirley Chisholm,
1415
01:22:02,625 --> 01:22:05,833
it's like marrying thunder and lightning.
1416
01:22:05,916 --> 01:22:07,208
[chuckles lightly]
1417
01:22:08,708 --> 01:22:10,708
[sighs] Oh... Hmm.
1418
01:22:10,791 --> 01:22:12,708
It is lovely here.
1419
01:22:12,791 --> 01:22:14,333
Beautiful house.
1420
01:22:14,416 --> 01:22:15,458
Thank you.
1421
01:22:16,291 --> 01:22:17,791
Certainly cost enough.
1422
01:22:17,875 --> 01:22:19,416
Money well spent.
1423
01:22:19,500 --> 01:22:21,791
Oh, it's not about the money.
1424
01:22:21,875 --> 01:22:24,083
In Hollywood,
they throw money at you for nothing.
1425
01:22:24,166 --> 01:22:25,833
The more money, the more nothing.
1426
01:22:27,208 --> 01:22:30,041
This house, I bought it after I did Julia.
1427
01:22:30,125 --> 01:22:33,208
Mmm... That was a remarkable program.
1428
01:22:33,291 --> 01:22:34,125
Hmm.
1429
01:22:35,291 --> 01:22:38,416
When I did that show, 1968,
1430
01:22:38,500 --> 01:22:42,250
the first Black woman to have
her own prime-time network program,
1431
01:22:42,333 --> 01:22:44,083
playing a nurse, a professional...
1432
01:22:44,166 --> 01:22:47,000
The letters that I used to get
from some folks.
1433
01:22:47,083 --> 01:22:49,041
Know what they hated the most?
1434
01:22:49,125 --> 01:22:50,958
There was no man in Julia's life.
1435
01:22:51,458 --> 01:22:52,541
[Shirley] Hmm.
1436
01:22:52,625 --> 01:22:54,166
She was on her own,
1437
01:22:54,250 --> 01:22:57,625
raising her son by herself,
and getting by.
1438
01:22:57,708 --> 01:22:58,708
Thriving.
1439
01:22:59,666 --> 01:23:03,541
And for a lot of men, when they see
a woman on her own, doing for herself--
1440
01:23:03,625 --> 01:23:06,250
I can't speak to your profession,
1441
01:23:06,333 --> 01:23:08,125
but in mine... [scoffs]
1442
01:23:08,625 --> 01:23:12,375
Men are so used to being in control
that equality, to them, feels like chaos.
1443
01:23:12,458 --> 01:23:13,833
[laughing]
1444
01:23:13,916 --> 01:23:15,625
Well, it is still a beautiful home.
1445
01:23:15,708 --> 01:23:17,375
- Oh... Isn't it, though?
- Mmm.
1446
01:23:17,958 --> 01:23:20,000
- Diahann.
- [Diahann] Hmm.
1447
01:23:21,125 --> 01:23:22,541
Get ready for a little chaos.
1448
01:23:25,375 --> 01:23:26,250
Huey.
1449
01:23:27,250 --> 01:23:28,458
Come on over.
1450
01:23:32,083 --> 01:23:35,625
I would like you to meet...
Mrs. Shirley Chisholm.
1451
01:23:44,458 --> 01:23:45,333
Shirley.
1452
01:23:45,916 --> 01:23:46,916
Huey.
1453
01:23:47,958 --> 01:23:50,500
Thunder and lightning.
1454
01:24:00,500 --> 01:24:01,625
[sighs softly]
1455
01:24:03,958 --> 01:24:04,958
Hmm.
1456
01:24:09,625 --> 01:24:10,833
[Shirley clears throat]
1457
01:24:16,125 --> 01:24:20,333
I've come to California
'cause I'm seeking your endorsement.
1458
01:24:20,916 --> 01:24:23,416
- Why?
- Why do I want your endorsement?
1459
01:24:23,500 --> 01:24:25,625
Why do you think we would give it?
1460
01:24:25,708 --> 01:24:30,750
What did you say about us? The, uh...
"The Black Panther Party is shameful."
1461
01:24:30,833 --> 01:24:32,416
[Shirley] That's not what I said.
1462
01:24:32,500 --> 01:24:35,583
I said, "It's a shame
the Black Panther Party is necessary,
1463
01:24:35,666 --> 01:24:37,625
but I understand why it's needed."
1464
01:24:37,708 --> 01:24:42,083
It is needed to stand against ofays like
George Wallace, who you broke bread with.
1465
01:24:42,166 --> 01:24:45,041
I'd break bread with the devil
if it made him more Christian.
1466
01:24:46,416 --> 01:24:48,916
You understand that there is
a revolution going on?
1467
01:24:49,416 --> 01:24:55,208
And... And that the government that runs
this system is an inherently corrupt one?
1468
01:24:55,291 --> 01:24:59,833
But if you burn down the empire,
all that's left to rule over are ashes.
1469
01:25:00,416 --> 01:25:04,500
Democracy works. If it didn't,
we wouldn't be having this conversation.
1470
01:25:04,583 --> 01:25:06,791
You call brothers and sisters
1471
01:25:06,875 --> 01:25:09,458
getting beat up, shot,
choked to death by the police--
1472
01:25:09,541 --> 01:25:12,875
Exactly. And they need
to be held accountable.
1473
01:25:12,958 --> 01:25:15,375
And I'm going to force all the politicians
1474
01:25:15,458 --> 01:25:20,208
to earn the vote that we secured
with our rent flesh and spilt blood.
1475
01:25:20,291 --> 01:25:22,500
From Birmingham
all the way up to Binghamton.
1476
01:25:22,583 --> 01:25:24,958
You gonna do all that?
Schoolteacher from Brooklyn.
1477
01:25:25,041 --> 01:25:26,500
[scoffs, chuckles softly]
1478
01:25:27,250 --> 01:25:31,208
Yes, I am just a schoolteacher
from Brooklyn.
1479
01:25:31,291 --> 01:25:33,333
And Harriet was just a slave.
1480
01:25:33,416 --> 01:25:35,416
Rosa was just a domestic.
1481
01:25:37,041 --> 01:25:39,583
What is it you do for a living again?
1482
01:25:40,500 --> 01:25:42,500
[percussive music playing]
1483
01:25:45,791 --> 01:25:48,291
The Black Panther Party
puts forth the call
1484
01:25:48,375 --> 01:25:52,375
to unite together to join
Sister Shirley Chisholm's campaign.
1485
01:25:53,333 --> 01:25:57,083
Shirley... has stood up
in the face to racism,
1486
01:25:57,625 --> 01:26:04,166
denouncing the sufferance of Black
and poor people at every opportunity.
1487
01:26:05,416 --> 01:26:07,333
Shirley deserves to be president.
1488
01:26:08,208 --> 01:26:09,625
And she will be.
1489
01:26:11,041 --> 01:26:13,250
When we deliver to her
the state of California.
1490
01:26:13,333 --> 01:26:16,791
[Willie Brown] A place like California,
where it's a winner-take-all operation,
1491
01:26:16,875 --> 01:26:20,375
{\an8}you're simply dissipating the potential
of Black delegate strength
1492
01:26:20,458 --> 01:26:22,541
{\an8}at the convention if you come here
1493
01:26:22,625 --> 01:26:26,166
{\an8}and try to run a Black
in a symbolic protest campaign,
1494
01:26:26,250 --> 01:26:28,875
and that's what Shirley Chisholm's
campaign will amount to.
1495
01:26:28,958 --> 01:26:32,708
[man 1] The winner-take-all votes, crucial
to the presidential nominating race.
1496
01:26:32,791 --> 01:26:36,166
[man 2] George McGovern won
California's Democratic primary.
1497
01:26:36,250 --> 01:26:38,375
He got 44% of the vote.
1498
01:26:38,458 --> 01:26:40,458
Hubert Humphrey got 39%.
1499
01:26:40,541 --> 01:26:42,291
And other candidates got the rest.
1500
01:26:42,375 --> 01:26:43,875
The others, Muskie, Jackson,
1501
01:26:43,958 --> 01:26:47,541
Chisholm, Wallace, Yorty,
got a scattering few percent each.
1502
01:26:47,625 --> 01:26:50,833
But that gave McGovern
all 271 delegate votes.
1503
01:26:50,916 --> 01:26:54,416
And it's put him well on the way
to a first ballot nomination in Miam--
1504
01:26:56,083 --> 01:26:57,500
[somber music plays]
1505
01:26:58,625 --> 01:26:59,500
[sighs]
1506
01:27:28,458 --> 01:27:31,625
Shirley, this is Oly Clark
with the Muskie campaign,
1507
01:27:31,708 --> 01:27:33,916
and Arnold Pinkney, with Senator Humphrey.
1508
01:27:34,000 --> 01:27:35,583
Ms. Chisholm, may we offer you...
1509
01:27:38,625 --> 01:27:41,041
Appreciate you coming in, Mrs. Chisholm.
1510
01:27:41,125 --> 01:27:42,625
How are you holding up?
1511
01:27:42,708 --> 01:27:45,500
I'm feeling pretty well.
Would have been better
1512
01:27:45,583 --> 01:27:48,791
if one of your candidates
had cared to drop out of the race.
1513
01:27:48,875 --> 01:27:50,500
We could say the same about you.
1514
01:27:50,583 --> 01:27:53,416
You run a good campaign, Mrs. Chisholm.
A real good one.
1515
01:27:53,500 --> 01:27:54,625
[Mac sighs]
1516
01:27:55,666 --> 01:27:59,333
Shirley, I think we're all disappointed
with the results in California.
1517
01:27:59,416 --> 01:28:01,875
- Not just McGovern winning--
- If you can call it winning.
1518
01:28:01,958 --> 01:28:04,333
He didn't carry the state,
but he gets all the delegates.
1519
01:28:04,416 --> 01:28:07,625
Winner take all.
Those were the rules before the primary.
1520
01:28:07,708 --> 01:28:09,750
They were the rules when the people voted.
1521
01:28:09,833 --> 01:28:12,333
Not sure there's much
that can be done about it.
1522
01:28:12,416 --> 01:28:14,541
We think that there is.
1523
01:28:14,625 --> 01:28:17,375
We think we can make the case
to the Credentials Committee
1524
01:28:17,458 --> 01:28:20,666
that what happened in California
was not a democratic process,
1525
01:28:20,750 --> 01:28:23,166
and that the delegates
be awarded proportionally.
1526
01:28:23,666 --> 01:28:26,458
And we would like your campaign
to join us in the motion.
1527
01:28:26,541 --> 01:28:27,833
[Shirley inhales deeply]
1528
01:28:27,916 --> 01:28:29,833
You all are killing me.
1529
01:28:30,416 --> 01:28:32,666
Now you're worried about being fair.
1530
01:28:33,500 --> 01:28:36,291
Vote doesn't go your way,
you just change the rules.
1531
01:28:36,375 --> 01:28:39,666
When you work on a skunk farm,
you can't complain when the shit stinks.
1532
01:28:39,750 --> 01:28:41,625
And right now, it stinks.
1533
01:28:41,708 --> 01:28:45,083
Do you want McGovern's campaign
to control the entire convention?
1534
01:28:45,166 --> 01:28:47,833
What exactly is the benefit to us?
1535
01:28:47,916 --> 01:28:49,916
[Oly] You came in fourth in California.
1536
01:28:50,000 --> 01:28:52,416
You should be entitled
to some of those delegates.
1537
01:28:52,500 --> 01:28:54,125
And with the 28 you already have--
1538
01:28:54,208 --> 01:28:55,958
Senator Humphrey has asked me to relay
1539
01:28:56,041 --> 01:28:58,791
that he'd be willing to have
his Black delegates defer to you.
1540
01:28:58,875 --> 01:29:02,958
I understand you have arrangements
with Walter Fauntroy and Ron Dellums.
1541
01:29:03,041 --> 01:29:08,125
[Oly] Altogether, you would go into the
convention controlling over 150 delegates.
1542
01:29:08,666 --> 01:29:13,791
McGovern only has 762 pledged delegates,
and he needs 1,500 to get the nomination.
1543
01:29:14,500 --> 01:29:15,541
I don't want to speak ill--
1544
01:29:15,625 --> 01:29:19,000
I would expect he would do
whatever it takes to get those delegates.
1545
01:29:19,583 --> 01:29:21,000
Whatever it takes.
1546
01:29:21,625 --> 01:29:25,625
[Oly] We work together, we can keep him
from getting it on the first ballot.
1547
01:29:25,708 --> 01:29:27,916
If I support your suit.
1548
01:29:32,833 --> 01:29:34,833
[pensive music plays]
1549
01:29:54,875 --> 01:29:56,500
[Mac] If you do this, Shirley,
1550
01:29:57,666 --> 01:29:59,375
if you take this to Miami,
1551
01:30:01,083 --> 01:30:02,625
they will come at you.
1552
01:30:05,416 --> 01:30:06,708
[exhales deeply]
1553
01:30:23,458 --> 01:30:26,833
{\an8}[man] Reporting from CBS News Convention
Headquarters in Miami Beach,
1554
01:30:26,916 --> 01:30:29,250
here is correspondent Walter Cronkite.
1555
01:30:29,708 --> 01:30:31,791
[Cronkite] The anti-McGovern
forces got together,
1556
01:30:31,875 --> 01:30:35,083
and they've challenged the legality
of the winner-take-all primary.
1557
01:30:35,166 --> 01:30:39,125
They claim that it, in effect,
denied all those millions
1558
01:30:39,208 --> 01:30:42,833
who voted for candidates other than
McGovern a voice in the convention.
1559
01:30:42,916 --> 01:30:46,791
So now, tonight, when Mrs. Pat Harris,
chairman of the Credentials Committee,
1560
01:30:46,875 --> 01:30:50,916
presents her report, there will be
a minority report on California.
1561
01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:54,125
That's a challenge to not seat
the Humphrey and other delegates,
1562
01:30:54,208 --> 01:30:57,541
but to give those 151 seats
back to McGovern's people.
1563
01:30:57,625 --> 01:31:01,000
{\an8}...with my 271-man delegation,
1564
01:31:01,083 --> 01:31:06,625
{\an8}and cast the votes
of that unanimous 271-man delegation.
1565
01:31:06,708 --> 01:31:08,625
{\an8}And I don't think I deserve any less!
1566
01:31:11,958 --> 01:31:13,666
We obeyed the law!
1567
01:31:14,166 --> 01:31:15,250
The first time!
1568
01:31:15,791 --> 01:31:17,166
Seat my delegation!
1569
01:31:17,250 --> 01:31:20,500
I did it for you in Mississippi in '64.
1570
01:31:20,583 --> 01:31:22,000
In Georgia in '68.
1571
01:31:22,083 --> 01:31:24,416
And it's now California in '72.
1572
01:31:24,500 --> 01:31:28,500
I deserve no less.
Give me back my delegation!
1573
01:31:28,583 --> 01:31:30,708
Willie Brown is going crazy.
1574
01:31:30,791 --> 01:31:33,541
What in the hell did McGovern promise him?
1575
01:31:34,041 --> 01:31:36,000
Secretary of Housing.
1576
01:31:36,083 --> 01:31:38,291
That's all they ever give Black folks.
1577
01:31:38,375 --> 01:31:41,000
- Secretary of Housing.
- Any word on McGovern's camp?
1578
01:31:41,083 --> 01:31:43,958
They're not interested
in making concessions at this time.
1579
01:31:44,041 --> 01:31:47,000
Why would McGovern make a deal
for delegates? He'll steal them.
1580
01:31:47,083 --> 01:31:49,250
Conrad, did you call down to maintenance?
1581
01:31:49,333 --> 01:31:51,666
They said there's nothing wrong
with the air conditioner.
1582
01:31:51,750 --> 01:31:55,375
Nothing wrong? They're all from Florida.
They don't know what good weather is.
1583
01:31:55,458 --> 01:31:57,541
[Mac] Shirley...
Willie Brown is playing games.
1584
01:31:57,625 --> 01:32:01,375
This luncheon for the Black delegates...
You've got a coalition, Shirley.
1585
01:32:01,458 --> 01:32:04,041
Your delegates, Muskie's,
Humphrey's, Fauntroy's.
1586
01:32:04,125 --> 01:32:06,708
But you've got to keep them
from breaking for McGovern.
1587
01:32:07,208 --> 01:32:10,500
You need to bring
the Black delegates to Jesus.
1588
01:32:10,583 --> 01:32:14,416
Get them together and hold them together.
1589
01:32:16,458 --> 01:32:17,500
Okay.
1590
01:32:21,458 --> 01:32:22,666
It's so warm.
1591
01:32:24,166 --> 01:32:26,208
[MC] Let's continue on with our program.
1592
01:32:27,083 --> 01:32:29,791
Our next speaker...
Well, hell, you all know her.
1593
01:32:31,041 --> 01:32:34,333
She is the only Black woman crazy enough
1594
01:32:34,416 --> 01:32:37,750
to run for president
of these United States.
1595
01:32:37,833 --> 01:32:42,458
Give a warm welcome
for Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm.
1596
01:32:42,541 --> 01:32:45,250
[scattered clapping]
1597
01:32:51,916 --> 01:32:53,291
[Shirley] Good afternoon.
1598
01:32:55,958 --> 01:32:59,125
Well... this is something.
1599
01:33:00,083 --> 01:33:01,000
Isn't it?
1600
01:33:01,083 --> 01:33:02,666
[hushed chattering]
1601
01:33:02,750 --> 01:33:04,666
[Shirley] Look around this room today.
1602
01:33:05,916 --> 01:33:08,416
Go ahead. Look around.
1603
01:33:09,750 --> 01:33:12,833
Four years ago, less than 2%
1604
01:33:12,916 --> 01:33:16,458
of the delegates
at the Democratic Convention were Black.
1605
01:33:17,166 --> 01:33:21,500
Today there are 452 of you.
1606
01:33:21,583 --> 01:33:23,250
[hushed chatter]
1607
01:33:23,333 --> 01:33:24,625
[sparse applause]
1608
01:33:27,250 --> 01:33:31,250
[Shirley] There are people here
promising you this, promising you that.
1609
01:33:31,875 --> 01:33:34,708
Well, my brothers and sisters,
1610
01:33:34,791 --> 01:33:39,333
let me tell it to you this afternoon
like it really is.
1611
01:33:39,416 --> 01:33:41,333
- [man 1] All right, now.
- [man 2] Right.
1612
01:33:42,208 --> 01:33:45,875
[Shirley] The only thing you have going,
my brothers and sisters...
1613
01:33:45,958 --> 01:33:48,166
There's only one thing you've got going.
1614
01:33:48,791 --> 01:33:52,708
Your... one... vote.
1615
01:33:52,791 --> 01:33:54,958
- [man 3] All right.
- [applause]
1616
01:33:55,041 --> 01:33:58,333
Don't sell that vote out!
1617
01:33:58,916 --> 01:34:03,125
The Black people of America
are watching us.
1618
01:34:03,833 --> 01:34:09,791
Find out what these candidates who
need our votes to get across the top
1619
01:34:09,875 --> 01:34:15,250
are going to do
for us concretely, not rhetorically.
1620
01:34:15,333 --> 01:34:16,750
[man 4] Yeah! All right!
1621
01:34:16,833 --> 01:34:18,833
- [excited chatter]
- [applause builds]
1622
01:34:23,000 --> 01:34:27,000
[Shirley] As I look at the faces
of the Black youth of this country
1623
01:34:27,083 --> 01:34:29,541
as I went from one place to another,
1624
01:34:30,500 --> 01:34:34,250
and they said, "Chisholm,
we know what you're going through."
1625
01:34:34,875 --> 01:34:37,708
"We know how rough and how tough,
1626
01:34:38,208 --> 01:34:40,416
but we know that you have the courage,
1627
01:34:40,500 --> 01:34:45,166
and the balls, and the audacity
to shake this system up
1628
01:34:45,250 --> 01:34:46,625
within the system."
1629
01:34:46,708 --> 01:34:49,750
- [audience] Yeah!
- But I need your help to do it.
1630
01:34:50,833 --> 01:34:53,083
Hold on to your vote.
1631
01:34:53,916 --> 01:34:55,833
Hold on to your vote!
1632
01:34:56,375 --> 01:34:57,916
[excited chatter]
1633
01:34:58,000 --> 01:35:00,458
- [cheering]
- [applause swells]
1634
01:35:00,541 --> 01:35:03,000
[bittersweet instrumental music plays]
1635
01:35:28,375 --> 01:35:31,458
- [music fades out]
- [woman] Sixty-one, 62, 63, 64, 65...
1636
01:35:31,541 --> 01:35:34,500
Twenty-one Louisiana delegates
are switching their pledge to you,
1637
01:35:34,583 --> 01:35:37,708
- Twelve from Mississippi.
- If they are switching, I'll take them.
1638
01:35:37,791 --> 01:35:40,375
I have 23 switching from Ohio,
nine from Pennsylvania,
1639
01:35:40,458 --> 01:35:43,375
and two from Florida.
They were originally pledged to Wallace.
1640
01:35:43,458 --> 01:35:46,083
Muskie's keeping his name
in the first round of balloting,
1641
01:35:46,166 --> 01:35:48,666
but he's directing
his Black delegates to vote for you.
1642
01:35:48,750 --> 01:35:50,041
Hey. Humphrey's dropping out.
1643
01:35:50,125 --> 01:35:51,666
- [Barbara] What?
- [Arthur] He withdrew?
1644
01:35:51,750 --> 01:35:53,708
He's dropping out
and releasing all his delegates.
1645
01:35:53,791 --> 01:35:55,000
To who? McGovern?
1646
01:35:55,083 --> 01:35:58,125
Like he promised, he's telling all
his Black delegates to vote for you.
1647
01:36:02,875 --> 01:36:08,000
With Humphrey's delegates,
California's, Fauntroy's, you have almost...
1648
01:36:10,791 --> 01:36:13,083
Two hundred and fifty delegates
pledged to you.
1649
01:36:14,083 --> 01:36:16,750
So McGovern can't get
the nomination in the first round.
1650
01:36:20,708 --> 01:36:22,791
- Ahh!
- [woman screams]
1651
01:36:22,875 --> 01:36:23,791
Yes!
1652
01:36:23,875 --> 01:36:25,875
[all cheering and clapping]
1653
01:36:25,958 --> 01:36:26,875
Yeah!
1654
01:36:26,958 --> 01:36:29,125
[man] Let's do this!
1655
01:36:29,208 --> 01:36:32,000
Robert! Robert, hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
1656
01:36:32,083 --> 01:36:35,750
We have not done anything yet.
You get on the phone to McGovern's people.
1657
01:36:35,833 --> 01:36:39,833
And you tell them if he wants my delegates
then he'd better start talking about
1658
01:36:39,916 --> 01:36:43,125
what's going into the platform,
who he's going to appoint,
1659
01:36:43,208 --> 01:36:44,916
to what cabinet positions.
1660
01:36:45,000 --> 01:36:46,000
Shirley.
1661
01:36:46,500 --> 01:36:47,500
[Shirley exhales]
1662
01:36:49,625 --> 01:36:50,583
Thank you.
1663
01:36:51,125 --> 01:36:53,166
I'm going to get something to eat.
1664
01:36:53,250 --> 01:36:55,500
Can't conquer the world
on an empty stomach!
1665
01:37:01,083 --> 01:37:02,291
[knocking on door]
1666
01:37:06,125 --> 01:37:07,208
Congressman.
1667
01:37:07,791 --> 01:37:09,833
Senator McGovern's
very excited to see you.
1668
01:37:11,166 --> 01:37:13,000
- Can I get you a drink?
- Thank you.
1669
01:37:16,041 --> 01:37:19,083
...and then to get 250 delegates
at the last moment?
1670
01:37:19,166 --> 01:37:20,666
- Whoo!
- [woman] What was he gonna do?
1671
01:37:20,750 --> 01:37:22,250
[Barbara] I did not expect him to keep...
1672
01:37:22,333 --> 01:37:24,333
[man on TV] Mr. Abernathy,
why are you on the floor?
1673
01:37:24,416 --> 01:37:28,000
[Abernathy] Well, we're out here
fighting the cause for poor people.
1674
01:37:28,083 --> 01:37:33,333
As you know, one fourth
of our people are poor in the country,
1675
01:37:33,416 --> 01:37:35,375
And I'm fighting that struggle...
1676
01:37:35,458 --> 01:37:37,458
Hello, it's Shirley.
1677
01:37:38,333 --> 01:37:39,750
I got your message.
1678
01:37:39,833 --> 01:37:41,833
[man on TV continues indistinctly]
1679
01:37:44,625 --> 01:37:47,666
Not that busy. Would've taken the call.
1680
01:37:51,083 --> 01:37:56,166
Well, we didn't quite get there,
but we did okay.
1681
01:37:56,250 --> 01:37:57,250
[gentle music plays]
1682
01:37:57,333 --> 01:37:59,208
We're gonna do some good things here.
1683
01:38:00,541 --> 01:38:02,625
Some really good things.
1684
01:38:03,333 --> 01:38:05,541
[Muriel] I'm proud
of the things you did do.
1685
01:38:06,416 --> 01:38:08,625
Mom and I are watching the news.
1686
01:38:09,833 --> 01:38:11,166
You done well, Shirley.
1687
01:38:11,875 --> 01:38:13,458
You done really well.
1688
01:38:16,916 --> 01:38:18,250
Pop was right.
1689
01:38:19,583 --> 01:38:20,708
You are special.
1690
01:38:27,666 --> 01:38:28,833
I love you.
1691
01:38:31,333 --> 01:38:32,291
I...
1692
01:38:35,583 --> 01:38:37,000
I love you too.
1693
01:38:37,791 --> 01:38:38,875
[exhales softly]
1694
01:38:38,958 --> 01:38:40,958
[gentle music continues]
1695
01:38:43,875 --> 01:38:45,625
- [sighs softly]
- [receiver clatters]
1696
01:38:47,833 --> 01:38:48,833
[receiver clatters]
1697
01:38:52,416 --> 01:38:53,541
[sighs softly]
1698
01:39:05,541 --> 01:39:07,541
[breathes deeply]
1699
01:39:10,250 --> 01:39:11,750
Shirley? Come here.
1700
01:39:15,416 --> 01:39:17,333
CBS News. They want a statement.
1701
01:39:17,416 --> 01:39:19,208
[Conrad] Now they want a statement.
1702
01:39:19,291 --> 01:39:21,500
They had seven months.
Now they want a statement.
1703
01:39:21,583 --> 01:39:23,416
- I have a statement for you!
- Conrad.
1704
01:39:23,500 --> 01:39:25,750
- I'll give you a statement!
- [laughter]
1705
01:39:27,208 --> 01:39:28,750
This is Congresswoman Chisholm.
1706
01:39:33,208 --> 01:39:34,958
And where did you hear that?
1707
01:39:37,166 --> 01:39:39,583
Then I would say
that your sources are wrong,
1708
01:39:39,666 --> 01:39:41,166
and I have no further comment.
1709
01:39:43,583 --> 01:39:44,583
[Mac] What?
1710
01:39:45,791 --> 01:39:48,208
They're asking for my response
1711
01:39:48,291 --> 01:39:51,708
on Walter Fauntroy
releasing his delegates to McGovern.
1712
01:39:51,791 --> 01:39:54,041
- What?
- Walter wouldn't release his delegates.
1713
01:39:54,125 --> 01:39:58,500
- That's McGovern's campaign trying to--
- It's not coming from McGovern's campaign.
1714
01:39:59,500 --> 01:40:01,708
There's more than one person saying it.
1715
01:40:05,875 --> 01:40:07,041
Find Walter.
1716
01:40:07,125 --> 01:40:08,208
[Shirley] Walter.
1717
01:40:09,375 --> 01:40:11,416
Are you releasing
your delegates to McGovern?
1718
01:40:11,500 --> 01:40:13,458
- Shirley, hold on--
- Answer me.
1719
01:40:14,166 --> 01:40:17,083
- Can you give us a minute?
- They don't need to go anywhere.
1720
01:40:17,166 --> 01:40:18,666
Yes or no?
1721
01:40:20,416 --> 01:40:22,791
Yes, I'm giving my delegates to McGovern.
1722
01:40:22,875 --> 01:40:24,791
- Backstabber.
- No need for all of that.
1723
01:40:24,875 --> 01:40:28,000
We had an agreement.
You promised your delegates to me.
1724
01:40:28,083 --> 01:40:31,916
I told you I'd give you my delegates if
the voting went beyond the first ballot.
1725
01:40:32,000 --> 01:40:35,750
McGovern's going to have all he needs.
He's getting my delegates, Willie's--
1726
01:40:35,833 --> 01:40:37,791
Ugh, you and Willie are weak.
1727
01:40:37,875 --> 01:40:40,208
Selling out your own
for scraps off the table.
1728
01:40:40,291 --> 01:40:42,541
Trying to make sure
we don't get four more years of Nixon.
1729
01:40:42,625 --> 01:40:44,666
McGovern can't win over the party.
1730
01:40:44,750 --> 01:40:47,208
What makes you think
he can win this election?
1731
01:40:47,708 --> 01:40:50,750
You can fold if you want,
but the rest of us, we're fightin'.
1732
01:40:50,833 --> 01:40:52,500
[Walter scoffs] Rest of who?
1733
01:40:52,583 --> 01:40:54,958
All the Black delegates
are going to McGovern.
1734
01:40:56,000 --> 01:40:58,791
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Your man, Ron Dellums.
1735
01:40:59,458 --> 01:41:02,500
He's telling all the Black delegates
to get behind McGovern.
1736
01:41:02,583 --> 01:41:04,041
- Yours too.
- [Shirley scoffs]
1737
01:41:06,458 --> 01:41:08,791
I tried to warn you about him, Shirley.
1738
01:41:08,875 --> 01:41:09,916
I tried!
1739
01:41:10,000 --> 01:41:13,291
The Black delegates
at this convention have a mandate
1740
01:41:13,375 --> 01:41:16,750
from their people
not to support Shirley Chisholm.
1741
01:41:16,833 --> 01:41:20,916
[man] Shirley Chisholm doesn't have
a chance. Blacks, on the first vote,
1742
01:41:21,000 --> 01:41:24,875
are going to vote in terms
of meaningful political responsibility.
1743
01:41:24,958 --> 01:41:26,708
- [newsman] So the reaction was...
- Sentimental.
1744
01:41:26,791 --> 01:41:29,958
- [newsman] Will not have political effect?
- No political effect whatever.
1745
01:41:31,083 --> 01:41:34,250
- [Conrad] I'm looking for Ron Dellums.
- I'm looking for Congressman Ron Dellums.
1746
01:41:34,333 --> 01:41:36,583
Congressman Ronald Dellums.
1747
01:41:36,666 --> 01:41:39,500
- I need to find Ron.
- I need you to find Ron Dellums.
1748
01:41:39,583 --> 01:41:41,791
- [overlapping chatter]
- I asked for Congressman Dellums.
1749
01:41:41,875 --> 01:41:44,666
- You told me...
- ...to Shirley, and now going to McGovern.
1750
01:41:45,875 --> 01:41:47,458
- Mrs. C.
- Did you find Ron?
1751
01:41:47,541 --> 01:41:49,791
I looked everywhere I could think,
but nobody's seen him.
1752
01:41:49,875 --> 01:41:52,125
- Did you check McGovern's suite?
- They wouldn't let me in.
1753
01:41:52,208 --> 01:41:53,333
Go back down there.
1754
01:41:53,416 --> 01:41:55,250
No, I tried, but they wouldn't let me in.
1755
01:41:55,333 --> 01:41:57,791
You go back down there.
You get in the room.
1756
01:41:57,875 --> 01:41:59,416
Kick in the door if you have to.
1757
01:41:59,500 --> 01:42:01,583
Shirley, Ronald's on TV.
1758
01:42:01,666 --> 01:42:04,916
[Ron] Frankly, no other candidate
running for president could have.
1759
01:42:05,500 --> 01:42:08,625
It's through his vision for this party
that we've seen the beginnings
1760
01:42:08,708 --> 01:42:11,083
of a very powerful movement
in this country.
1761
01:42:11,833 --> 01:42:15,958
A movement that has
just realized its potential power.
1762
01:42:17,041 --> 01:42:20,916
Yet, at this moment... cynical,
1763
01:42:22,291 --> 01:42:27,791
even diabolical forces are moving to stop
the candidacy of Senator George McGovern.
1764
01:42:28,708 --> 01:42:32,083
Now, we have to ignore
the dreamers and the fools,
1765
01:42:32,875 --> 01:42:34,208
and get behind a candidate
1766
01:42:34,291 --> 01:42:38,000
who actually has the ability
to win the election in November.
1767
01:42:39,458 --> 01:42:42,833
That is why I am giving
my full endorsement
1768
01:42:43,583 --> 01:42:45,250
to Senator George McGovern.
1769
01:42:45,333 --> 01:42:46,666
[sighs deeply]
1770
01:42:48,833 --> 01:42:50,750
[somber music playing]
1771
01:42:50,833 --> 01:42:56,333
A man who has the extraordinary ability
to lead this party into the future.
1772
01:42:57,000 --> 01:42:58,916
Start working the phones.
1773
01:42:59,000 --> 01:43:01,541
Get to every delegate you can.
They cannot break away.
1774
01:43:01,625 --> 01:43:04,375
I don't care what McGovern's
promising Dellums. He can't.
1775
01:43:04,458 --> 01:43:05,958
- Go!
- Put out a statement.
1776
01:43:06,041 --> 01:43:10,000
- Ronald's got another thing coming.
- I need you to put out a statement.
1777
01:43:10,083 --> 01:43:13,041
And... release my delegates.
1778
01:43:13,125 --> 01:43:14,750
- No. Don't do this.
- Release?
1779
01:43:14,833 --> 01:43:17,583
- Shirley. No, we can still find a way--
- No. Mac.
1780
01:43:17,666 --> 01:43:18,791
Mac!
1781
01:43:19,666 --> 01:43:21,708
I owe you everything.
1782
01:43:21,791 --> 01:43:25,208
But right now, I need you to do as I ask.
1783
01:43:26,791 --> 01:43:28,458
Put out a statement.
1784
01:43:29,083 --> 01:43:30,750
Release my delegates.
1785
01:43:33,041 --> 01:43:34,250
Please.
1786
01:43:37,833 --> 01:43:39,125
I'll call the DNC.
1787
01:43:49,041 --> 01:43:50,125
[sighs]
1788
01:43:57,166 --> 01:43:58,125
[exhales]
1789
01:44:05,375 --> 01:44:06,541
[exhales deeply]
1790
01:44:22,166 --> 01:44:24,166
[somber music faces out]
1791
01:44:52,583 --> 01:44:53,750
[Barbara sobs softly]
1792
01:44:53,833 --> 01:44:57,041
Well... we had something.
1793
01:44:58,333 --> 01:45:00,208
Maybe just for a second, but...
1794
01:45:01,416 --> 01:45:02,625
we had something.
1795
01:45:07,125 --> 01:45:08,541
- I hate him.
- Mmm.
1796
01:45:08,625 --> 01:45:10,500
- I hate Dellums.
- No.
1797
01:45:12,250 --> 01:45:14,666
Ron was just doing what he had to do.
1798
01:45:16,541 --> 01:45:18,875
[crying] I'm not mad at him.
1799
01:45:24,083 --> 01:45:29,791
I understand the pressures
and everything that man was going through.
1800
01:45:30,583 --> 01:45:33,583
He stood out for so long.
1801
01:45:34,958 --> 01:45:40,000
And for me, when everybody
was ridiculing him and what have you, and...
1802
01:45:40,083 --> 01:45:42,083
[breathes deeply]
1803
01:45:46,000 --> 01:45:48,125
I want you all to know
1804
01:45:49,750 --> 01:45:51,458
there are no bad feelings.
1805
01:45:54,708 --> 01:45:58,583
You find Ron,
and you tell him to come home to Shirley.
1806
01:46:00,875 --> 01:46:02,041
Okay?
1807
01:46:03,291 --> 01:46:05,208
You don't owe him a thing.
1808
01:46:07,250 --> 01:46:09,250
I owe him forgiveness.
1809
01:46:12,708 --> 01:46:13,625
Mm-hmm.
1810
01:46:14,500 --> 01:46:17,208
You find him,
and you tell him to come home.
1811
01:46:21,333 --> 01:46:22,375
[exhales shakily]
1812
01:46:28,000 --> 01:46:28,875
[sighs]
1813
01:46:30,500 --> 01:46:34,250
I dragged you kids
all the way down to Florida.
1814
01:46:35,000 --> 01:46:36,458
[chuckles softly]
1815
01:46:38,958 --> 01:46:40,708
[Barbara] It wasn't for nothing.
1816
01:46:45,291 --> 01:46:48,500
All the reasons that any of us had
to come down to this convention,
1817
01:46:48,583 --> 01:46:50,833
we all came for the best one. [inhales]
1818
01:46:52,541 --> 01:46:53,708
[crying] We came for you.
1819
01:46:56,208 --> 01:46:57,500
[quietly] Then keep on.
1820
01:46:57,583 --> 01:46:59,583
[gentle music plays]
1821
01:47:00,333 --> 01:47:02,541
If I can't get there today,
1822
01:47:02,625 --> 01:47:05,750
you have to believe
you can get there tomorrow.
1823
01:47:11,458 --> 01:47:18,208
And if the best I was able to do
is to remind people what's possible...
1824
01:47:20,833 --> 01:47:22,666
then I'm thankful.
1825
01:47:28,541 --> 01:47:30,916
[breathes deeply]
1826
01:47:31,000 --> 01:47:32,416
[crying] Thank you, Shirley.
1827
01:47:33,875 --> 01:47:35,500
Thank you so much.
1828
01:47:36,458 --> 01:47:37,625
[Shirley] Thank you.
1829
01:47:40,583 --> 01:47:41,458
[sniffles]
1830
01:47:44,250 --> 01:47:45,333
[chuckling sob]
1831
01:47:46,250 --> 01:47:49,125
Chairman O'Brien is on the extension.
1832
01:47:49,791 --> 01:47:50,833
[exhales]
1833
01:47:57,708 --> 01:47:58,875
Okay.
1834
01:47:59,958 --> 01:48:01,125
[inhales]
1835
01:48:02,125 --> 01:48:03,333
[exhales deeply]
1836
01:48:14,333 --> 01:48:15,958
This is Shirley Chisholm.
1837
01:48:16,916 --> 01:48:18,333
I'm going to make a statement
1838
01:48:18,416 --> 01:48:21,083
that I'd like for you to give
to my pledged delegates.
1839
01:48:21,166 --> 01:48:23,875
My intention over the last seven months
1840
01:48:23,958 --> 01:48:29,166
has been to remind people
that politics in America belongs to them.
1841
01:48:30,083 --> 01:48:36,041
I have wanted to be nothing more,
nothing less, than a catalyst for change.
1842
01:48:38,291 --> 01:48:40,916
[gentle music fades out]
1843
01:48:41,000 --> 01:48:42,708
[uplifting music playing]
1844
01:48:42,791 --> 01:48:45,708
[woman] Shirley Chisholm,
she opened the door for all of us.
1845
01:48:45,791 --> 01:48:48,291
For women of color,
and especially for Black women.
1846
01:48:48,375 --> 01:48:51,500
She opened that door for everybody,
1847
01:48:51,583 --> 01:48:54,041
and she gave everybody the confidence
1848
01:48:54,125 --> 01:48:57,208
that they too could run
and that they too had a voice.
1849
01:49:00,333 --> 01:49:01,875
My name is Barbara Lee.
1850
01:49:01,958 --> 01:49:05,250
I represent the 13th
Congressional District of California,
1851
01:49:05,333 --> 01:49:06,708
as a member of Congress.
1852
01:49:06,791 --> 01:49:09,916
What Shirley Chisholm
tried to do was teach us
1853
01:49:10,000 --> 01:49:12,416
not only do you have to fight
to help people now,
1854
01:49:12,500 --> 01:49:14,750
but you have to fight
to change this madness.
1855
01:49:14,833 --> 01:49:17,916
Her legacy is directly connected to today.
1856
01:49:18,000 --> 01:49:23,375
And so many of us have felt like
we could take that baton and keep running.
1857
01:49:23,458 --> 01:49:24,458
♪ Fight! ♪
1858
01:49:24,541 --> 01:49:26,375
["Why I'm Here" by Samara Joy plays]
1859
01:49:26,458 --> 01:49:27,458
{\an8}♪ Fight! ♪
1860
01:49:29,375 --> 01:49:30,375
{\an8}♪ Fight! ♪
1861
01:49:32,291 --> 01:49:33,291
{\an8}♪ Fight! ♪
1862
01:49:35,166 --> 01:49:37,916
{\an8}♪ Bending ♪
1863
01:49:38,000 --> 01:49:40,708
{\an8}♪ But never broken ♪
1864
01:49:40,791 --> 01:49:43,791
♪ Knocked down ♪
1865
01:49:43,875 --> 01:49:46,833
♪ But I keep going ♪
1866
01:49:46,916 --> 01:49:49,791
♪ I decided to stand my ground ♪
1867
01:49:49,875 --> 01:49:52,791
♪ I will not be moved ♪
1868
01:49:53,708 --> 01:49:57,625
{\an8}♪ And I have no fear ♪
1869
01:49:59,375 --> 01:50:04,416
{\an8}♪ I know why I'm here ♪
1870
01:50:04,500 --> 01:50:05,625
{\an8}♪ Fight! ♪
1871
01:50:07,041 --> 01:50:09,916
{\an8}♪ An easy road ♪
1872
01:50:10,000 --> 01:50:12,916
{\an8}♪ Was never promised ♪
1873
01:50:13,000 --> 01:50:15,708
{\an8}♪ And so much ♪
1874
01:50:15,791 --> 01:50:18,875
{\an8}♪ Has been taken from us ♪
1875
01:50:18,958 --> 01:50:24,958
{\an8}♪ But I won't stop
No matter how much I have to go through ♪
1876
01:50:25,666 --> 01:50:30,708
{\an8}♪ I won't shed one tear ♪
1877
01:50:31,666 --> 01:50:36,583
{\an8}♪ I know why I'm here ♪
1878
01:50:36,666 --> 01:50:37,791
{\an8}♪ Fight! ♪
1879
01:50:39,208 --> 01:50:43,375
{\an8}♪ The future is in our hands ♪
1880
01:50:43,458 --> 01:50:45,958
♪ Now's the time to stand ♪
1881
01:50:46,041 --> 01:50:50,250
♪ Together we'll pave the way ♪
1882
01:50:51,208 --> 01:50:55,083
{\an8}♪ Those who walk by faith ♪
1883
01:50:55,166 --> 01:50:58,041
{\an8}♪ With their heads held high ♪
1884
01:50:58,125 --> 01:51:02,458
{\an8}♪ Have the power to change ♪
1885
01:51:02,541 --> 01:51:05,958
{\an8}♪ Oh-whoa ♪
1886
01:51:06,041 --> 01:51:08,291
♪ Bending ♪
1887
01:51:08,375 --> 01:51:11,166
♪ But I can't be broken ♪
1888
01:51:11,250 --> 01:51:14,375
♪ I've been knocked down ♪
1889
01:51:14,458 --> 01:51:17,500
♪ But I choose to keep going ♪
1890
01:51:17,583 --> 01:51:20,500
♪ I decided to stand my ground ♪
1891
01:51:20,583 --> 01:51:26,916
♪ I will not be moved ♪
1892
01:51:28,791 --> 01:51:33,500
♪ And I have no fear ♪
1893
01:51:34,458 --> 01:51:39,541
♪ So, don't you shed one tear ♪
1894
01:51:40,083 --> 01:51:45,125
♪ 'Cause I know why ♪
1895
01:51:45,208 --> 01:51:50,541
♪ I'm here ♪
1896
01:51:50,625 --> 01:51:57,625
[vocalizing]
1897
01:52:01,875 --> 01:52:02,875
{\an8}♪ Fight! ♪
1898
01:52:04,791 --> 01:52:05,791
♪ Fight! ♪
1899
01:52:07,708 --> 01:52:08,708
♪ Fight! ♪
1900
01:52:10,625 --> 01:52:11,625
♪ Fight! ♪
1901
01:52:13,583 --> 01:52:15,583
{\an8}["Why I'm Here" instrumental continues]
1902
01:52:45,833 --> 01:52:47,833
[choir vocalizing]
1903
01:53:12,083 --> 01:53:13,083
♪ Fight! ♪
1904
01:53:15,000 --> 01:53:16,000
♪ Fight! ♪
1905
01:53:17,958 --> 01:53:22,166
[choir singing] ♪ Ooh, in our hands ♪
1906
01:53:22,250 --> 01:53:25,208
♪ Time to stand ♪
1907
01:53:25,291 --> 01:53:26,625
♪ Ooh-oooh ♪
1908
01:53:26,708 --> 01:53:27,708
♪ Fight! ♪
1909
01:53:29,583 --> 01:53:33,958
♪ Those who walk by faith ♪
1910
01:53:34,041 --> 01:53:36,666
♪ Heads held high ♪
1911
01:53:36,750 --> 01:53:41,125
♪ The power to change ♪
1912
01:53:41,208 --> 01:53:44,208
♪ The world ♪
1913
01:53:44,291 --> 01:53:47,125
♪ Bending ♪
1914
01:53:47,208 --> 01:53:50,041
♪ Can't be broken ♪
1915
01:53:50,125 --> 01:53:52,916
♪ Knocked down ♪
1916
01:53:53,000 --> 01:53:55,875
♪ I keep going ♪
1917
01:53:55,958 --> 01:53:58,833
♪ I decided to stand my ground ♪
1918
01:53:58,916 --> 01:54:04,708
♪ I will not be moved ♪
1919
01:54:06,291 --> 01:54:08,291
[choir vocalizing]
1920
01:54:23,833 --> 01:54:25,833
["Why I'm Here" instrumental playing]
1921
01:54:35,875 --> 01:54:37,875
[pensive percussive music playing]
1922
01:56:27,000 --> 01:56:29,083
[music peaks and fades out]