"He's gone." "Lyndon." "Lyndon." "honey." "We're about to land in Washington." "Okay." "Did you hear from Bobby?" "He'll be waiting on the tarmac." "too." "something short." " Thank you." " I wanna reach out to the leadership as soon as we hit the ground." "I wanna talk to each and every one of them." "You call Rose Kennedy?" "I did." "what that woman has been through." "Your lipstick." " What?" " Fix your lipstick." "How did John Connally's surgery go?" "Doctor said optimistic." "Thank God for that." "Jackie?" "She won't change her clothes." "Says she wants them to see what they have done to Jack." "You see the way she stared at me before I took the oath?" "Bird!" "We're all upset." "a televised address to both houses of Congress... as soon as it seems decent." "Mr. President?" "Accidental President." "That's what they'll say. we'll have to change that next November." "I keep having this dream." "hiding down in the root cellar while a Comanche war party searches through the house just over my head hunting for me." "like a grave." "The President of the United States!" "I wonder if I'm dead already... or buried alive." "Mr. President." "I pissed myself like an idiot child" "knowing it's only a matter of time now" "discover me... haul me screaming up into the light... where their knives gleam." "All I have" "I would have given gladly not to be standing here today." "The greatest leader of our time has been struck down by the foulest deed of our time." "John F. Kennedy told his countrymen that our national work would not be finished in the life of this administration... nor even perhaps in our own lifetime. let us begin." "Let us continue." "We have talked long enough in this country about civil rights." "We have talked for 100 years or more." "It is time now to write the next chapter in the books of law." "I urge you to enact" "President Kennedy's civil rights bill into law so that we can eliminate from this nation every trace of discrimination that is based upon race or color." "That's right!" "You hear what that Negro comedian Dick Gregory said about me? 20 million Negroes unpacked." "Mr. President." "Did he really mean it?" "you could tell that liberal crowd of yours that I'm gonna out-Lincoln Lincoln." "But you need to get behind me because you know Dick Russell and the Dixiecrats are gonna fight me tooth and nail on this civil rights stuff." "Manny." "And give me some extra room in my pockets there for my stuff..." "My keys and my knife..." "And leave me some slack for my nut sack." "Walter!" "you let me know the minute Dick Russell gets here will you?" "you understand me?" "With the election only 11 months away... you'll beat him with both hands tied behind your back." "Goldwater is tougher than you think." "I gotta win the Democratic nomination." "Holy crap." "What happened here?" "You tell Lady Bird about this and she'll starve me for a month." "yep." "Give me one minute." "George Wallace is a nobody." "it wasn't Wallace I'm thinking of." "You don't have to worry about Bobby." "Bobby Kennedy would just soon cut my throat as smile at me." "You know how strongly I feel about this civil rights bill." "If there's anything I can do..." "Hubert." "Mr. President." "Senator Russell." "Uncle Dick." "well." "please." "not anymore." "Wouldn't be respectful. but nothing else changes between us." "I owe everything I have and don't you think for a second I'll ever forget it." "you did throw me for a bit of a loop last night." "A civil rights bill with your election coming up... the Democratic Party's had a lock on the South." "It'd be a foolish thing to throw that away. you know I got to throw Humphrey and the rest of those liberals a little bit of red meat now and again." "Dr. Martin Luther King is on three." "he can wait." "election year politics or not?" "Absolutely." "Uncle Dick." "it is gonna be critical." "we can talk more about it as usual." "There's no need for that now." "Our Thursday dinners are sacred." "why don't you bring your swimsuit and you could paddle your milk-white ass around the White House pool before dinner?" "Mr. President." "Senator." "What the hell was she thinking?" "sir." "J. Edgar Hoover on four." "but take down that stuff over there." " Edgar." " Mr. President." "The FBI is here to assist in any way we can." "you're more than the head of the Bureau." "You're my brother." "you just let me know." "I think we should have a discussion regarding Dr. King." "I recently acquired certain information which is deeply troubling. - but they're pulling me six ways from Sunday." " Mr. President!" "I promise." "If I can just..." "Did King screw his sister or something?" "That man's obsessed." "let's just get this over with." "What?" "What is it?" "Katharine Graham of the "Washington Post" is on two." " What?" " And Dr. King is still on three." "I don't need to be reminded of what I already know." "you're fired." "get the hell out of here." "get me another secretary who knows what she's doing. for Christ's sake." "old Washington biddies." "Manny." "Don't you have anything that doesn't make me look like a dago undertaker? for your public expression of support." "Mr. President." "it ain't gonna be easy." "it is. the greatest tribute we can pay to President Kennedy especially voting rights." "Reverend. and we're gonna pass that bill as is without changing a word." "I'm gonna have to have your help." "sir." "Martin." "Thank you." "why don't you call next time you're up here actually..." "Just blowing smoke up my ass." "Martin." "Stanley." " He just never delivered." " He's no George Wallace. - you'd think he was humping him." "He passed the '57 Civil Rights Act." "After he gutted it first." "That bill was like soup made from the bones of an emaciated chicken." "he's a Southern politician." "He's spent his entire life trying to be president." "But he's there now." "he can do whatever he wants." "isn't it?" "What does Lyndon Johnson really want? he has to run for reelection." "he damn sure is gonna need the Negro vote to win." "Amen." "L.B.J. wants our support." "Okay." "But this president is gonna have to deliver a real civil rights bill." "And we're gonna hold his feet to the fire until he does." " Damn right." " That's right." "he has to run for reelection." "he damn sure is gonna need the Negro vote to win." "Amen." "Stanley Levison." "Why is this so-called "Reverend" Martin Luther King taking advice from a well-known Communist agitator?" "sir." "Let's see who else King is meeting." "I want all his travel covered from now on." "sir." "I will leave the goddamn Democratic Party before I turn it over to a bunch of Congolese savages." "Strom." "This bill is just the thin edge of the wedge." "You saw what King and his bunch did in Birmingham." "integrated buses are just the beginning." "work with them. - unbearably stinking niggers." " That's enough of that kind of talk." "That's exactly what they wanna hear so they can dismiss us all as a bunch of redneck goons." "Joles." "We have to be very careful how we handle this." "The issue is not about race." "It's about the gravest possible assault which we are fighting to defend." "The president is actively gathering signatures for a discharge petition to get the bill out of my committee in the House." "Judge?" "He's got to at least look lively on civil rights." "he's gonna do the right thing." " He'll gut the bill?" " Yes." "He knows who his friends are." "But if he gets the bill out of my committee? then out of Jim's committee before it even gets to the Senate floor." "And none of this can get in the way of party unity." "we can have a lock on the Senate and a lock on the House and we can elect a Southern Democrat president." "It's about time the South rejoined the rest of the country." "Lyndon is gonna know who to thank on November 4th." "And don't you worry about the president." "I know how to handle him." "the mainstream of American politics has carried you and me down to the road to statism and socialism and the destruction of the Constitution of the United States." "am already out of the mainstream of American politics. even in Milwaukee." "I will be the Democratic nominee." "But how damaged will you be?" "Be plenty strong enough for Goldwater in November." "What if Bobby smells blood and decides to run at the last minute?" "That little shit doesn't have his brother's balls." "Still has his daddy's money." "You might win the nomination." "Dick." "All Wallace has to beat you with is this damn civil rights bill understand why you are giving him this issue." "I'm more worried about the liberals than I am about the Dixiecrats." "Dick." "  You know that." " You got to look like you're giving them something." "All I'm saying is don't work so hard to get this bill out of the House." "I do what I can." "you're gonna talk poor Uncle Dick to death and here Zephyr's made his favorite dinner" " and it's getting cold." " Saved by the belle." "you look beautiful as always." "And you are a terrible liar as always." "Politician's curse." "do you like being the First Lady?" "it's been an adjustment." " I can imagine." " But I am enjoying it. but it takes a carpenter to build one." "You remember who told me that?" "Sam Rayburn?" "Speaker of the House." "I could've kissed his bald head." "Thank you." "God knows I've been kissing his ass trying to get him to take notice of me." "You know what Mr. Sam wanted?" "sir." "A towheaded boy to take fishing." "I heard that and I did my damnedest to be that boy." "Suck-up?" "Yeah." "Brown-noser?" "Sure." "Kiss-ass?" "You bet." "I heard them all." "Fuck you!" "Walter." "Everybody." "they're lying." "sir. free of charge like Mardi Gras beads. they're gonna do good with it." "Nothing comes free." "Nothing." "Not even good." "Especially not good." "if wood could talk... it would scream." "You cannot cut voting rights out of the civil rights bill." "not this year." "You told Dr. King you wanted this bill passed without one word changed." "You don't go and sell a horse by talking about it being blind in one eye and got the heaves." "sir." " Bullshit!" "It's still a damn good bill." "school desegregation." "God damn it!" " The liberal wing of the party those are your people." " It's your job to bring them around." " My job?" "!" "yes." "You're the great white hope of liberals everywhere. it's because people know I stand by my principles." "Principles?" "Shit." "it's about votes!" "that's the problem with you goddamn liberals..." "You don't know how to fight." " Mr. President..." " You say you're the leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party?" " Then show me some goddamn leadership!" " Look out!" " I got no brakes!" " Look out!" " No brakes!" "Hold on!" " Jeez!" "Hold on!" "What in..." "My... what?" "I thought I was a goner." "it's an amphibious car." " It's a car and a boat." " I have never seen such a thing." "I wish I had a photograph of your face." "I've never." "Hubert?" "It's the tick-tick-tick of a clock." "All the men in my family die young." "I nearly died of that heart attack 10 years ago." " A terrible time." " Yeah." "And I ain't got much time left. to get this bill passed." "this opportunity to do something about civil rights will just disappear forever." "that..." "Can you get the bill out of the House Rules Committee?" "Leave Judge Smith to me." " And voting rights." " Next year." "you have my word." "Mr. President." "I know." "I know." "That's why I want you to be the floor manager of this bill." "Floor manager?" "no! I need someone more personable." "Hubert." "even Dick Russell likes you." "he does!" "He does." "You know I'm under a lot of pressure to announce my running mate for the election." "you show me and you make yourself one very real candidate to become my Vice President of the United States... of America." "A step away from the White House." "As we've seen... anything can happen from there." "There's a barn owl out there in the live oaks hunting mice." "Is Hubert on board?" "Yeah. thank you very much." "Why do I put up with you?" "Because you would be lost without me." "King won't be so easy." "He won't trust me now and I can't say I blame him." "He doesn't know you yet." "I risk losing Uncle Dick's." "I may have in any case." "I always thought it would take a Southern president to drag the South out of the past." "they're not gonna thank me for it." "Mr. President." "And the voting rights component is critical." "and we're gonna fix that." "Just not in this bill." "we're gonna take care of segregation in public accommodations first." "Manny." "Thank you." "my cook Zephyr Wright..." "The best damn chicken fried steak you ever put in your mouth... she and her husband drive my Packard from Washington back down to the ranch for me. she can't use any restrooms on those highways 'cause they're all whites only." "She got to squat in a field by the side of the road to pee like a dog." "that's just not right we're gonna fix that." "nothing in this country will ever change until Negroes can vote." "The next bill will be voting rights." "Eisenhower had publicly declared that his party had taken the Negro vote for granted." "I would hate to see the Democratic Party make the same mistake." "If you think Barry Goldwater's you should vote for him." "civil rights isn't the only thing" "Dr. King." "We got people in this country living in unbelievable poverty." "I know." "I grew up like that in the Hill Country. living off the bitter charity of my neighbors." "But we're gonna change all that." "We're gonna declare a war on poverty." "A war on poverty?" "That's right." "I got all kinds of federal programs in mind you name it." "We're gonna change this country top to bottom." "That sounds extraordinary." "There you go." "And I would very enthusiastically support legislation to that effect." "I need to be able to go back to my people and tell them that this president is committed to civil rights" "will still be a strong bill with no further changes." "I'll lose their faith." "I..." "I don't know what'll happen." "Is that a threat?" "I don't want riots any more than you do." "But... I need to be able to deliver meaningful reform." "Okay." "Okay." "Now here's what I need..." "The bill is stuck in Judge Smith's Rules Committee and I need at least eight votes..." "Walter..." "To pry it out." "Five Republicans and three Democrats." "here." "you get your people and what have you..." "To lobby these House members to release that bill." "you know?" "ooh!" "He was a real ladies' man." "He got more pussy than you ever saw." ""What is your secret?" "I go into a bar and I ask each woman if she'd like to fool around." "you must've got slapped a lot. but I also got me a lot of yeses. we only need eight yeses to get that bill out of Judge Smith's committee." "All right." "All right." "He said he'd get it out of committee he did." " Hallelujah." " And all it cost us was the voting rights section." "The point is we can work with this president." "Now he's asking for our further assistance in lobbying Congress." "What do we have to lose?" "Do we have to endorse his candidacy as well?" "Bob? of course." "Goldwater deplores racism." "I just think asking for my vote while denying me the right to vote is bullshit!" "The bill still gives us a lot." "too." "I have his word there will be no more compromises." "His word?" "Are you serious?" "I cannot support a bill without voting rights." "I'm not asking you to." "I'm asking you to not work against it." "The president is planning new legislation that will bring a huge federal intervention and jobs." "Think what that will do for our people." " 40 acres and a mule." " That's right." "What if he's serious? but we're not gonna sit on our hands either." "What does the visionary Bob Moses propose?" "Freedom Summer." "We are going to flood the state of Mississippi with hundreds of student volunteers" " to educate and register Negro voters." " You crazy." " Mississippi?" " Not just Negro volunteers. you will do irreparable damage to the cause. who gives a fuck? but if it takes some white kid getting smacked around -  then why not?" "!" " Because people will die in Mississippi!" "people are dying in Mississippi." " Exactly!" "calm down." "Nobody in here gonna do anything they can't get behind. and Freedom Summer is the perfect way to do that." "you are right." "The bill still does give us a lot." "No one in this room has your legislative experience." "you and the NAACP should lead our lobbying efforts in DC." "All right?" "okay." "Gentlemen." "Lord have mercy." "Stokely and Wilkins gonna kill each other right there in the middle of the room." "we should sell tickets so I can stop giving speeches." "I know that's right. let's reach out and get our membership mobilized on this new campaign." "Yeah." "You need anything else?" "I'm okay." "then." "Give me a minute." "Whoo!" "The sex-mad preacher." "His hypocrisy is disgusting." "The man is a flagrant adulterer." "my." "A Southern preacher who fucks his choir." "Who ever heard of that? if you arrested every politician wouldn't be nobody in politics or the pulpit." "His moral turpitude is just the tip of the iceberg." "his... his Communist connections... far be it from me to tell you how to do your job. but the House is about to vote on my civil rights bill." "And this... is not helpful." "sir." "is recruiting and training black and white college students from the North and bussing them into Mississippi to register black voters." "leading to violent clashes." "we've been training" "but I cannot emphasize enough to you the dangers you will face." "The federal government will not protect you and the Mississippi government will do everything it can to stop you. including now." "All right." "Let's get started." "♪ Get on board ♪ get on board ♪ get on board ♪ children ♪" "♪ Let's fight for freedom now ♪" "♪ Get on board ♪ get on board ♪ get on board. ♪" "We will now call the House of Representatives to order" "the Civil Rights Act of 1964." " Mr. Speaker." " Can you hear that?" "This bill is nothing less than an assault on the Constitution by the federal government." "Who are we to tell the owner of a cafe who he can hire or who he can serve?" "Who are we to tell a state that they may not pass segregation laws? I believe that state authority should not be needlessly usurped." "hear." "But I also believe that the Constitution doesn't say that whites alone shall have our basic rights." "Didn't see that coming." "McCulloch is just playing to the peanut gallery." "Well." "Lyndon?" "Is this just still so much red meat for Humphrey and his gang?" "Uncle Dick." "I'm not saying the Negro hasn't been put upon." "He has been put upon most disgracefully." "But you can't rush these things." "Look at the mess in Mississippi with all those agitators going down there getting in people's business." "Folks are gonna get hurt." "And whose fault would that be?" "I would like to introduce an amendment that would exempt local businesses in public accommodations." "if you were a podiatrist" " and had your office in a hotel..." " Come on! I would wanna know whose feet" "I was gonna have to be monkeying around with." "Boo!" "Unbelievable." "I would want to know whether they smelled good or bad." " Boo!" " God's honest truth." "too." "sir!" "To force them to work violates the 13th Amendment's prohibition against slavery or involuntary servitude. he should've lost his chairmanship a long time ago." " Lyndon." " Mr. Speaker... am fed up with amendments that suddenly or blatantly defeat the purpose of this bill. smelly white corns you're gonna have to do the same thing to the black ones." "That's telling him." "man." "for God's sakes." "the Speaker calls for a final vote on House Bill 736." " Abbitt." "  Nay." "Mr. Abbitt votes nay." "Abele." " Yea." " Mr. Abele votes yea." " Adair." "  Yea." " Albert." " Nay." "Mr. Andrews from Alabama?" " Nay." " Mr. Andrews votes nay." "Mr. Andrews from North Dakota." " Yea." " Mr. Andrews votes yea." "290 votes for and 130 votes against." "The bill passes and will now go to the Senate." "Walter." "Thank you." "General Burnside thought he'd crush Lee at Fredericksburg." "His overconfidence cost him his army." "Lee surrendered at Appomattox." "Mr. President." "Matthew." "Most kind." "Negro demonstrators were attacked today by an estimated 500 angry whites when they broke through police lines." "The conflict began when 200 Negro demonstrators led by Andrew Young and other civil rights leaders..." "Trust L.B.J. He's one of us." "Is this the first time a civil rights bill made it through the House?" "So the bill goes to the Senate." "All right?" "So what?" "How many civil rights bills have you buried in the last 10 years?" " 121." " That graveyard of yours got room for one more?" "I'm digging a hole as we speak." "what then?" "Then we filibuster it to death." "we'll be fine. especially with those riots going on." "Time is on our side." "gentlemen." "And I see no need why we ought to sit idly by and see a bill pass in the American Senate called a civil rights bill that will destroy individual liberty and freedom in this country." "Wallace is running at 90% with whites in Eastern Maryland." "the Senate will never pass the bill." "" " Wallace would be dead in the water without these goddamn riots." "He is deliberately provocative." "King is supposed to control his people." "I put my entire political career at risk for the Negroes and this is the thanks I get?" "beef up my schedule there." "what's your plan to get our bill out of Eastland's committee?" "you don't have the votes." "we're very close." "Close?" "Close don't make shit." "You don't have the goddamn votes." "what's your idea?" "What?" "I can't hear" "Humphrey." "Come on over here." "I said what's your idea?" "right now it's all about the rules of the Senate." "And Dick Russell's been studying them since he was sucking on his mama's titty." "I've seen him make a fool of you liberals with some arcane rule of order more times than..." "Than I can remember." "Hold on." "Son of a..." "You know what?" "There is a way that we can completely bypass Eastland's committee without a discharge petition." "Russell won't even see it coming." "He did what?" "I think the president just put over the bill out of committee." "All right." "keep Jim calm." "I'll handle this." "What you think it is?" "Why it tastes a little different?" "it's the temperature she cooked..." "Uncle Dick?" "Just peachy." "Would you like some more gravy?" "but I just couldn't possibly." "what about me?" "Aren't you gonna offer me any more gravy?" "but I can't." "Bird's got me on a diet." "Got Zephyr there in the kitchen weighing my plates for every meal." "It's ridiculous!" "Your wife just doesn't want you to get too big for your britches." "An entirely understandable concern." "I think I'll see how Zephyr's coming with that cobbler." "I just heard how you snuck that bill through Jim's committee with some bogus procedural point of order." "Uncle Dick." " Just like you taught me." " I also taught you something about party loyalty." "the party's changing." "This younger generation's not gonna fall on their sword for segregation." "You think every Southerner is gonna start dancing to your tune?" "Wallace almost won Maryland." " But he didn't." " Another riot and he will." "And there will be more riots." "We're gonna filibuster this bill." " It will never pass." " Are you so sure about that?" "I know what you're thinking." "You're thinking you're gonna cut a deal with Senator Dirksen." "what choice do you leave me?" "A Democratic president ignoring his own party and making a deal with the Senate Minority Leader." "don't you get all high and mighty with me." "You have been cutting deals but now I can't cross the aisle?" "Shit." "Dick." "we do." "Dick." "I love you more than my own daddy." "But if you get in my way..." "I'll crush you." "I regret that the president has embraced the radical program of the left-wing groups that is erroneously called the civil rights bill." "It is still a vicious assault on the Constitution." "And we in the Senate intend to fight with our boots on to the last ditch." "we will filibuster this bill." "Let the real war begin." "This ain't about the Constitution." "It's about those who got more wanting to hang on to what they got at the expense of those who got nothing and feel good about it. it's compelling." "in your heart?" "That's what the people need to hear." "Look at that." "Look at that." "Look at the size of his ears." "You get that?" "Whoo-hoo! I just wanna thank you all for coming up here and sharing some time with me." "I wanted to just respond to what Senator Russell..." "His decision..." "Unfortunate decision on filibustering this bill. the only job that I could get was teaching first grade at this..." "Texas." "old border town in the middle of nowhere full of Mexican immigrants who didn't have a pot to piss in." "did I love those kids of mine." "They'd show up hungry every morning because most of them hadn't had any breakfast." "But they were so on fire to learn." "It just made you feel good." "But there..." "There come a day for each and every one of them when I would see the light in their eyes die." "'Cause they had discovered that the world hated them... just 'cause of the color of their skin." "some folks tell me just to go slow." "They say the political risk is too high. then what's the presidency for?" "Senator Dirksen's so-called amendments are like putting a Band-Aid on a cancer." "I have a real amendment to offer." "This map shows the current concentration of the Negro race in America." "I propose we resettle Southern Negroes all over the country until racial proportions are equalized among the 50 states." "" " I favor inflicting on New York and other cities the same conditions that will be inflicted by this bill on the innocent people of Georgia." "Is the president caving in? - but he's no longer returning my calls." " Absolutely not." "My people have made every painful sacrifice that's been asked of them and the bill's still stuck. but lining up votes to break the filibuster's a complicated process." "Dirksen's amendments will gut the bill." "Dirksen needs to look tough to his people." "The time for posturing is over." "It's time to act." "I've put all my credibility on the line but they want results." "They're down in Mississippi right now registering Negroes for a vote they still don't have. but you can't give people blood tests for loyalty every 15 minutes." "The president will handle Everett Dirksen." "I will start a public fast to the death." "that's not necessary." "What choice do I have?" "Senator Dirksen." "what's this bullshit about how I treat my dog?" "Little Beagle Johnson." "Why are you being such a shithead with the press about me pulling on his ears?" "Little son of a bitch loves to have his ears pulled." "not the ASPCA." "I was just kidding with the press about that." "don't." "I'm a hell of a lot better than you are with dogs." "Dogs and people." "I was hoping we could talk about..." "I know." " Is that among..." " Get this shot." "Get this shot here." "Therewego ." "sit on over there." " It's more comfortable." " That among other things?" "we'll talk about all them things in just a minute. we gotta get this civil rights bill passed. the stronger Russell gets and the angrier those Negroes on the street are." "how many votes are we gonna get from your people?" "Mr. President." "There are 40 amendments I'm proposing." "my constituents have a number of concerns." "Everett." "shall we?" "I think we have to strike equal employment altogether." "I could probably get my troops a year of voluntary compliance before it becomes law." "Nope." " No?" " No." "No?" "Is there an echo in here?" "The Southern filibuster cannot be defeated without substantial changes." "I think that I can deliver the necessary 25 Republican votes for cloture." "Everett." "either your people vote for this bill or you vote with the segregationists and the country goes up in flames. and you have to decide how you want history to remember you... or somebody who just likes to hear himself talk." "Congress is not alone in contributing problems to the presidency." "Mr. Johnson has inherited an armed clash in South Vietnam." "President Johnson must decide" "or seek a negotiated settlement. - he's alive?" " As far as we know." "Robert." "We'll talk more about this business in Tonkin. sir." "Daddy!" "don't..." "Don't just run off." " Come give me a hug." " All right." " Grae." "  Mr. President." "look at you." "I'm wearing heels." "Are you? Luci?" "good." "That's good." "Yeah." "Senator Humphrey's here." " All right." " That's all right." "Daddy." " Bye." "The justice says Bob Moses of the Freedom Summer project has asked again for federal protection." "Things are getting pretty violent in Mississippi." "The federal government is not getting involved in this." "you make damn sure that the governor down there understands that we expect him to put a lid on his people." "Is Khrushchev still in Egypt?" "and the Soviets had their first nuclear test at their new site in Eastern Kazakh." "Hubert." "the good news is we've got a deal with Dirksen." "And what's the bad news?" "We're two votes short." "Bill!" "I was just thinking about you." "take a ride with me." "boys." "I think I'm safe with Senator Fulbright." "I'll see you up on three." "look at you." "fine." "I need to talk to you about something." "Mr. President." "You like these?" " Do you?" " I do." "then they are yours." "that's really not necessary." "Bill." "you know that good old boy you put down for the federal bench? they'll just grin and bear it." "I'm not sure my constituents would approve. but maybe you don't have to fight quite as hard as you might otherwise. you happen to be overseas visiting our troops." "I'm sure Elizabeth would love Europe." "You know she would." "Like my wife." "lookie here." "This is the seal of the presidency of the United States." "There's only two cuff links like this in the entire world and you now own them both." "Bill." "And think about what I said?" "Bill." "I bet you dropped a few pounds?" "I'm gonna need another set of those cuff links." "What the hell?" "Walter." "Walter!" "where's Walter?" " Right here." " Why the hell is Senator Engle suddenly off my list?" "sir." " Recovering from surgery." " Holy shit." "sir." "God damn it." "he can vote!" "...but I know my Bible." "And the Bible does not say that we cannot choose our own neighbor." "The Bible does not say that we cannot build a wall betwixt ourselves and our neighbor." "What I need is some help on this cloture vote." "I'll tell you and it damn sure isn't a filibuster rule." "It's a strong president who's in your corner." "What... now where..." "Where on Earth do you get that..." "I don't forget these things." "You understand me?" "Son of a bitch." "I thought I had him. he sure doesn't have a handle on the New Testament." "This bill will guarantee the commercial destruction of white people everywhere! Carl Hayden and I are finally putting together the Central Arizona Water Project." "I need your vote. combat veteran to combat veteran." "Yeah. but Democrats have to stick together here." "just... will you?" "Just listen to me." "we both got tough election fights ahead of us here." "You know I'm gonna be there for you when it counts and can I count on you now?" "you do the right thing here and you're gonna help yourself and you're gonna help your state and you're gonna help your country." "Will you vote for cloture?" "you're a good man." "Thank you!" "Bye-bye." " 67 votes!" " Congratulations." "Should we let Senator Dirksen make the public announcement?" "You think there's any way we can stop him?" "We believe all men are entitled to the blessings of liberty." "Yet millions" "but because of the color of their skin." "This cannot continue." "Our Constitution forbids it." "The principles of freedom forbid it." "And the law I will now sign forbids it." "Thank you and good day." "Reverend King." "We did it." "We did it." "We got it done." " Congratulations." " Thank you." "Everett." "I appreciate it." "Mr. President." " Dr. King." "you hear." "Mr. President." "Mr. President." "Likewise." "Thank you." "hear." "you're not." "It's not personal." "It's just politics." "It's the passing of an era." "it is." "courtesy. like party unity." "You know what the old soldier said on parade?" "everybody's out of step but me." "Maybe." "and God knows I'm tired." "But the fellas coming up behind me are utterly without principle of any kind and you'll see how you like dealing with them." "You're gonna miss me when I'm gone." "Dick." "Mr. President." "But the rest of Dixie?" "I hope you haven't just killed your election chances. on your glorious achievement." "The Democratic Party just lost the South for the rest of my lifetime and maybe yours." "What the fuck are you so happy about?" "Senator Goldwater's triumph takes the leadership of his party away from the eastern liberal block and places it with the western conservatives for the first time since 1936." " L.B.!" " Clausewitz said..." "Marjorie." "...politics is war by other means." "Bullshit." "Daddy." "Thank you." "...that moderation and the pursuit of justice is no virtue." "Let me remind you also that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." "You know how you win a campaign?" "By not losing it." "Mr. President." "I only lost one election my whole life." "The son of a bitch stole it from me" "and I will carry the pain of that with me to my dying day." "But I'll tell you what." "Nobody will ever do me that way again." "...that every fiber of my being..." " It'll be some other way." "...that nothing shall be lacking from the struggle... boys." "Deputy Price?" "I thought we were good." "Jew boy." "nigger?" "We've got a situation in Mississippi." " Yeah?" " Three young men have gone missing. 21." "They were all working the Freedom Summer project in Meridian." "both white." "the shit will hit the fan now." "Get me the governor of Mississippi." "They were investigating the burning of a Negro church in Neshoba County." "They've been missing for 15 hours now." "Missing in Mississippi?" "Son of a bitch." "put him through." "I'm calling about those three boys." "You mean those three professional agitators." "and Goodman." "that come into our state creating all kinds of problems." "a Deputy Price arrested them yesterday afternoon." "For driving 35 miles over the speed limit." "sir." "So they held them for a couple hours." "now that's where it gets confusing the deputy said he had never heard of them." "I don't know anything about that." "Price said he released them at 10:00 that night." "And nobody's heard of them since." "This is clearly a publicity stunt." "those boys are off hiding somewhere" "they're gonna claim they were abused or something." "I'd hate to have to send a whole bunch of federal marshals into your state." "you don't wanna do that." "Of course I don't." "You don't want the publicity and I sure as hell don't wanna stir up a mess just eight weeks before the Democratic Convention." "But there's a lot of pressure to do something." "I guess I can get a few FBI agents to look into the thing." "FBI?" "it's a damn sight better isn't it?" "I guess it would." "I think" "Governor." "not ours." "you're right about the whole thing and these boys will turn up quick and we can all just relax." "we got an election to win." "Hoover will just drag his feet." "not if I light a fire under his ass." "the governor of Mississippi wants the FBI to look into these missing kids. but there's a jurisdictional problem. the governor asked specifically for the FBI to investigate." "I suppose" "I can get some third party involved." "I know Senator Jim Eastland wants Allen Dulles investigating." "I don't think Dulles is a good idea." "This is very clearly an FBI matter." "if you're sure." "the last thing I would want is Dulles down there acting like he was running the FBI as well." "let's say Eastland is my problem." "I'll just deal with him." "You get your agents down there to Neshoba County you hear?" "When did you talk to Eastland about Dulles going down there?" "I made that part up." "The problem here is there's three sovereignties involved. and then there's J. Edgar Hoover." "The burned-out station wagon was discovered in the woods" "and Chaney had been arrested for speeding during the day." "They were released late at night by a deputy sheriff and were last seen driving away in the blue station wagon." "We have to assume those young men are dead." "There were no bodies in the car they found." "Mr. Wilkins?" "I always set my car on fire before taking a weekend off." "How many voters have you actually registered?" "give or take. 30 Negro homes and businesses" "200 votes." "It's not just about the votes." "black people are building a new political party." "I heard." " Hold on." "We tried to play by the rules but they kept us out." "but with a difference." "white or Negro." "don't you think that America ought to have at least one political party" " that isn't racist?" " It's a waste of time." "We send our delegates to the convention where they challenge the legality of the segregated Mississippi delegation on national TV" " and dare L.B.J. - not to seat us." "Children playing with dynamite." "Are you so desperate for their approval that you would sanction this mass suicide?" "Those young men went down to Mississippi and died doing the work the government hasn't been willing to do for a hundred years." "We've got to take a stand." "I grieve for those young men." "Don't use their funeral pyre to burn what's left of the movement." "Bob?" " Come to Mississippi." " Don't be ridiculous." "Show the people that you are behind the Mississippi Freedom..." "You might as well paint a target on his back and declare open season." "you have not been to Mississippi" " in over a year." " He's been busy." "shot at." " You don't own a monopoly over suffering..." " And I never said that I did." "Martin." "Please." "Of course I'll come." "FBI was acting on a tip about a farm in rural Mississippi and they just found two bodies buried there in an earthen dam." "Jesus." "Are they sure it's them?" "Schwerner's draft card in his back pocket." "Goodman's body right below his." "It appears they had both been shot once in the chest." "And they're still digging for Chaney." "God damn." "Bless those boys." "you send him in." "we need to pick up this conversation some other time." "I'm sorry." "It's obvious that this Deputy Price was involved in that." "too." "Lord." "this whole mess is in my lap now. then King yells and I'm letting them get away with murder." "then all the Southerners scream and all this two weeks before the start of the goddamn convention. but the word is Governor Wallace has offered himself to Goldwater as the Republican vice presidential candidate." "That little weasel would sell his mother to get a leg up." "And Strom Thurmond is formally switching parties." "That motherfucker!" "Is anybody gonna follow him?" "find out." " You bet I will." " God damn it." "You see her on TV?" " Who?" " The..." "Schwerner." "Rita." "I mean." "Christ." "Terrible." "we have word." "no." "Come on." "Yeah." "Sit there." "Robert." "Captain Herrick of the USS Maddox reports a potential sighting last night of two possibly hostile unidentified vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin and some somewhat contradictory sonar evidence of actual torpedo attack." "Wh... a potential sighting?" "What the hell's a potential sighting?" "A visual sighting not confirmed by mechanical means." "this actually happened?" "Still awaiting confirmation." "were any of our ships hit?" "sir." "sir." "Then how the hell do we know we were attacked?" "for sure." "We have contradictory sonar readings." "Robert." "Give me something I could work with here." "this is a very delicate subject." "Humphrey can know. the limited air strikes you ordered preselected" " in case of another attack are good to go." " Air strikes?" "this is a situation about which we ought to be more confident before we act." "not anymore." " What do you mean?" " There's been a leak somewhere." " Who?" "Who leaked it?" " We're tracking it down." "I want his fucking head in a basket!" "The point is the press has got to it somehow." "God damn it!" "Now there are domestic considerations as well." "Goldwater." "Don't retaliate." "He will play all the angles against you." "All this "soft on military" bullshit." "the Democrats beat Hitler and Tojo." "What more do we have to do?" "You want me to call in the retaliatory strikes?" "For an attack which may or may not have happened?" "Planes are ready to go on your command." "this puts you in a terrible position." " You are essentially going to have to lie." " Mr. President!" "sir. we'll pass it off on our South Vietnamese allies." "you think I like this?" "!" "Putting my ass in a sling this close to the election?" " Sir..." " Or maybe you think Goldwater ought to be president." " Is that it?" " I never said that." "That maniac wants to lob an A-bomb into the Kremlin's bathroom and start World War III." "come on." "you can forget about poverty." "You can forget about civil rights." "Is that what you want?" "I'm trying to turn this country around and prevent a major war!" "why the hell did I ever consider you for my vice president?" "you cut and run." "Mr. President." "I'm standing right here beside you." "Precious cold comfort you are." "Congress is gonna back me on this." "It's election year." "I'll get them to pass some kind of resolution authorizing me full authority over there." "Then we can get back to things that really matter." " Sir?" " What?" "They found Chaney's body." "God damn it." "The bodies of the three missing civil rights workers... and Goodman were found in a grave at the base of an earthen dam" "Mississippi." "and three." "They were taken to the medical center in Jackson for examination." "♪ ...far too small... ♪" "♪Loveso amazing♪" "♪ Love so divine ♪" "♪ Demands my soul ♪" "♪ My life ♪" "♪ My all. ♪" "Amen." "James Chaney gave his life to make this country live up to its forgotten promises and unfulfilled ideals." "he did." " We all know the terrible pain you must be feeling in your hearts." "That'sright." "But we will not live in despair." " No." " We will not surrender." " No." " We will continue to respond to their violence with love and forgiveness." "Amen." "As I stand here..." "Who said that?" "Who said that?" "...I not only blame the people who pulled the trigger or dug the hole with the shovel." "I blame the state of Mississippi... all the way on up to the people in Washington for what happened." "that's enough of that!" " No." "It's all right." "Come on up here." "I'm sick and tired of going to funerals for black men" " who have been murdered by white men." " Yes." " Are you?" " Yes!" "Are you sick and tired of this stuff like I am?" "Yes!" "Dr. King." "I'm not feeling forgiveness." "Preach." "I've got vengeance in my heart." "And I'm asking you to feel angry with me." " Yes." " Are you angry?" " Yes!" " The white men who murdered James Chaney are never gonna be punished." "That's right." "The best way to remember James Chaney is to demand our rights." "If you go back home and take what these white men are doing to us... then God damn your souls!" "Standup!" "We got to stand up in Meridian!" " Yeah!" " We got to stand up in Jackson!" "Stand up! - what are we going to do?" " Stand up!" " Stand up!" " Stand up!" " Stand up!" " Stand up!" " Stand up!" " Stand up!" "Stand up!" "Stand up!" "Stand up!" "Stand up!" "Stand up!" "Stand up!" "one vote!" "You must seat the MFDP." "it is." "you don't understand the depth of feeling among my people." "they've rocked the movement. nonviolence will no longer be an option." "You can see a largely Negro delegation from a Southern state appear here claiming to be an alternative delegation." "It's something I don't think has happened in the Democratic Convention perhaps since Reconstruction days. they are not going to accept any compromise short of having some kind of a vote in this convention." "John." "and the other... but the whole South will walk out." "We might as well kiss the whole goddamn election good-bye." "What the hell do you want? Governor Wallace kept your name off it." "That little piece of shit." " Can he do that?" " Of course he can." "Goldwater must be laughing his ass off." "And now they're just threatening to walk out of the whole goddamn convention! why don't you take a break from this for a while?" "Bird." "you certainly don't sound fine." "Bird." "You're giving me a goddamn headache." "I'm just worried." "Would you leave me alone?" "!" "get out of here!" " Go on!" " ...watching over every aspect and every detail in this process engaged by the Mississippi delegation here tonight." "Thank you." "I feel so sorry for him." "I know." "Walter." "And you." "You think he's hard on me? especially himself." "People don't see that." "But I do." "I see everything." "His lady friends." "But I'm the one he chose?" "At the end of the day." "I'm the one he comes home to." "did you know that?" "I had to face down my own daddy over my inheritance to get it. it was the best investment I ever made." "My lipstick okay?" "You look beautiful." "I'm not." "But you make do with what you got. you don't quit." "CBS News correspondent Mike Wallace here at the ballroom of Convention Hall where the credentials committee of the Democratic National Party are in session." "And now we are hearing from the Freedom Democratic Party representatives of Mississippi." "Just tell the credential committee what happened" "Miss Hamer." "I went to a meeting to learn how to register Negro voters in Mississippi." "I was arrested by the Winona police chief and taken to the county jail. state highway patrolmen ordered me to lay face down on the bunk bed saying..." "You're gonna wish you was dead." "Now who the hell is this?" "a sharecropper's daughter." "Became one of the leaders of the MFDP." "For Christ's sakes." "And then he ordered... two male Negro prisoners to beat me with a blackjack." "The first prisoner beat me till he was exhausted." "And then a patrolman ordered the second Negro to beat me." " This is awful." " It sure as hell is." "She could stampede the liberals into seating the MFDP and the South will storm out of the convention in droves." "Walter!" "you tell the press we got a major announcement in the Rose Garden." " What's the announcement?" " Hell if I know!" "Anything to turn off those goddamn cameras in Atlantic City." "I began to scream... and one white man hit me in my head and told me to hush." "so I pulled it down." "And another white man walked over and pulled it back up." "All this... on account of we wanna register to vote." "And if the Freedom Democratic Party I question America." "Is this America?" "The land of the free and the home of the brave where our lives be threatened daily 'cause we wanna live as decent human beings." "All we're asking is fair representation of this..." "The president is going to announce his address at the White House in just a few moments." "Pleasestandby forthe  President of the United States." "Howdy." "I wanna thank y'all..." " I don't understand. we've been preempted by the president." "  I know a lot of people are..." " Come on." "Still wondering who my vice presidential candidate will be." "I promise you that." "I think now I can open it up and if you'd like to ask a few questions..." "I need to know everything that King and that Fannie Lou person and Bob Moses and all those goddamn people in the MFDP are talking about." "the whole bunch of them." "we don't have any warrant." "did it?" "I don't care what you do or how you do it." "it's better if I don't know." "you send it immediately to Walter." " You understand?" " Yeah." "Mr. President." "You're gonna give yourself another heart attack." "it'll be the Dixiecrats and Martin Luther King put me in my grave." "You hear of this public telegram of King's demanding that I seat the MFDP?" "The whole country will think that Negroes have more power in the Democratic Party and the whole South will bolt." "I warned you about that." "You know what I think?" "I think this is something that King cooked up with Bobby Kennedy to embarrass me." "Kennedy is gonna stab me in the back and steal this nomination at the last minute." "Robert Kennedy has no interest whatsoever in hurting you or helping Barry Goldwater." "Then the hell with them all." "I'm gonna go back home to my ranch and the people who love me." "I never wanted to be president in the first place. but you are speaking like a spoiled child." "You and I both know you're not serious." "go to sleep." "Thank you." "I used all the heartstrings I had." "I made no headway." "God damn it." "The least the MFDP might be willing to accept would be some actual votes a few votes." "what did King say?" "He's very supportive of their leadership on this." "he should've stood up for me!" "Why didn't somebody stand up for me?" "Mr. President." "Somebody who matters." "if you don't think my loyalty is important... you are so thin-skinned." "Shit." "you know that." "there's got to be a solution here." "maybe we can get one or two of the Mississippi regulars to agree to step aside." "They claim they're sick or something." "All right." "You tell them that they can have two voting delegates." "at large delegates." " But one of them has to be that white minister of theirs." " Reverend Edwin King." "that's him." "it's one white man and only one Negro." "We'll integrate their delegation." "Who can argue with that?" "I'll see what I can do." "don't see what you can do!" "You do what I tell you to do." "Mr. President." "What you think of Hubert?" "I think he's working as hard as he can." "Yeah." "He's nice. and no personality." "Nice is for kissing babies." "There's no place for nice in a knife fight." "You get me Walter Reuther." "what a pleasant surprise." "I know how important your golden boy Humphrey is to you and the rest of organized labor." "But if this big delegate war comes off he will have no future you hear me?" "but I..." "I really must... you need to tighten your leash Hubert Humphrey is never gonna be my vice president or anything else!" "I..." " He won't be able to get elected dogcatcher and you won't have nobody in the Senate to carry water for you." "Now you get yourself down to Atlantic City and I mean now!" "sir?" "I do not have the hide of a rhinoceros." "Walter. they're against me and the..." "The North is against me and the Negroes are against me and the press sure doesn't have any damn affection for me." "not with all you've done." "I could drop dead tomorrow and there wouldn't be 10 people who'd shed a tear." "sir." "The hell it ain't." "People turn on you so fast." "When my daddy lost everything... they just treated him like dog shit." "They humiliated him to his face... in public." "And my mother... the way she'd freeze him out." "That's what killed him." "You know what I think it is?" "People think I want great power... but what I want is great solace." "A little love." "That's all I want." "sir." "From me." "Poor Marjorie must be wondering where the hell you are." " She understands." " Jesus." "five?" " Six." " Six." "Two girls and four boys." "Catholic." "I always wanted a son. but... a man wants a son." "I reckon... you're as close to that as I've got. you'll be right outside?" "sir." "Martin." "Mr. Reuther." "Didn't expect to see you here." "neither did I." "I got a call from the president with a generous helping of the Texas twist." "You've got to get the MFDP to compromise." "what the president offered was an insult." "These people have shed their blood... your funding is on the line." "You've gotta get the MFDP on board not a single goddamn dime." "You would sabotage the entire civil rights movement over this?" "you would." "who gives a shit?" "there will be a final offer." "You get your people to accept it or you can take your tin cup and your principles out onto the street and see how far that gets you." "L.B.J.!" "L.B.J.!" "Will the delegates please be seated?" " What do we want?" " Freedom!" " When do we want it?" " Now!" " What do we want?" " Freedom!" " When do we want it?" " Now!" "now ♪" "Lord?" "♪ now ♪" "Lord?" "♪" " ♪ Which side are you on?" "♪" " I want everyone to hear this." "I'm pleased to say that we've come up with a mighty fine compromise." "The MFDP will get two voting delegates..." "Aaron Henry and Edwin King." "And the Democratic Party will adopt a formal rules change to prohibit any segregated delegation in the future." "This is a major victory." "God did not send us to Atlantic City" " for no two seats." " That's right." "When all of us is tired." "This is just like the white plantation bosses making all the decisions for his black sharecroppers." "Bob." "You've won your case in the court of public opinion." "Now you've got your token representation." "Aaron." "What I am saying is that there's a whole lot at stake here and this is a necessary political compromise." "We are not here to bring politics to our morality." "We are here to bring our morality to our politics." "what do you think we ought to do?" "♪ Which side are you on?" "♪" " I'd vote against it." " Right." "But the solemn commitment to end discrimination in all future conventions it is." "...in which the MFDP can take real pride." "I'm asking..." "I want you to take this." "♪ Wade in the water ♪ children ♪" "♪ Wade in the water ♪" "♪ God's a-gonna trouble the water ♪" "♪ See that host all dressed in white?" "♪" "Dr. King." "Solomon himself couldn't have cut that baby in half any cleaner. but I will win this war." "All the way with L.B.J." "L.B.J. is not the second coming." "He's just like every other politician." "He'll do what it takes to get elected." "But I think he really wants civil rights." "Bob." "A real chance." "Best chance in a hundred years and I will not throw it away." "Will the delegates please be seated?" "A workable compromise regarding at large delegates" "  from Mississippi has been reached." " All right." "that's it." "We're leaving." "Come on." "And we urge the delegates here to approve the recommendations what the hell's going on?" "L.B.J. screwed us over." "He's seating the niggers." "You boys just stay here." "I'll figure this out." "The credentials committee settled on a compromise" "but Mississippi and Alabama rejected the deal and walked out." "  the rest of the South will follow." " Mr. President?" "It's Governor Sanders of Georgia on the phone." "it's Georgia?" "What the hell does Carl want?" "Alabama and Mississippi are walking out and Sanders says he might follow." "God damn it!" "what the hell is going on?" "you can't give these people two seats." "It's gonna look like the Negroes are taking over the whole convention. it's one Negro and one white minister." "it's the principle of the thing." "Me and my delegates are about inches from walking out." "the whole South's about to bolt." "now let's you and me understand something here. they locked them out." "they got locked out because they're not registered to vote." "Because they wouldn't let them register!" "They beat them and shot them and lynched them." "Mr. President." "you and I just can't survive our modern political life with these goddamn fellas down there doing things the old way and eating them Negroes for breakfast every morning." "They got to quit that!" "you need to remove these so-called delegates at large." "you listen to me!" "You need to make up your mind once and for all what... what kind of Christian you are." "Are you a once-a-week fella or do you hold the Word in your heart?" "And what kind of politician are you?" "You just out for yourself or you wanna make a better life for all the people of Georgia?" "of course I..." "  And what kind of man are you?" "You got the balls to do what you know is right or do you just slink away?" "what you don't get to do is threaten me. then you just do it right now!" "then I expect to see your bright and shiny faces wearing your big "All the way with L.B.J." hats tonight when I take the stage." "go away and leave me be." "Lyndon." "I won't." "You're just like the rest of them." "You're all against me." "That is so not true." "yeah?" " Look at me." "Lyndon." "You are as brave a man as FDR and Truman and Lincoln." "many people up there at that convention and in this party and in this nation who love you." " And they are counting on you." " I'm gonna resign." " Let somebody else deal with this." " You're not going to resign." "you are not!" "When your great-grandmother was hiding in the floorboards did she flinch?" "To step down now would be wrong for your country." "Your friends would be frozen with embarrassment and your enemies would jeer." "Those bastards would love to see me down." "And are you gonna give them that pleasure?" "I don't think so." "That is not the man I married." "Governor Sanders was just on TV and the Georgia delegation's not gonna walk out after all." "he did." "sir." "The Honorable Lyndon B. Johnson is nominated by acclamation as our candidate to the office of President of the United States and the Honorable Hubert Horatio Humphrey is our candidate for Vice President!" "The dust has settled here in Atlantic City and President Johnson's Democratic Party happy family." "Hello there!" " Hubert." " Mr. President." "You look a little down in the mouth for being the next vice president." "It just feels different than I thought it would." "That." "Well... you get over that pretty quick." "The American people have no greater advocate and friend than the man the Democratic Party is proud to claim as our leader." "LyndonBainesJohnson!" "♪ The skies above are clear again ♪" "♪ Let us sing a song of cheer again ♪" "♪ Happy days are here again. ♪ eight points in Louisiana." "Goldwater is beating my ass by 60% in Mississippi." "he's getting on top!" "Son of a bitch is turning it around!" "Where the hell are the ideas?" "Where the hell's the solutions?" "I want you to change my travel schedule." "especially Louisiana." "sir." "what the hell are you still standing here for?" "Get out there and do something!" "Come on." "Humphrey." "Stay here." "You read this bullshit "Wall Street Journal" exposé about my corruption?" "Definitely planted by Goldwater." "Damn right it was." "Take a look at this." "That's disgusting." "I could do that." "I want you to pull together a special group separate from the campaign and hit him back with everything we got!" "I don't think sinking to their level is... just do it." "you are ahead in the polls in most of the country." "and so was Nixon in '60." "And some people thought he would've beat Jack except for a whole bunch of dead people voting in Chicago at the last minute." "It ain't over until it's over." "nine..." "zero." "These are the stakes to make a world in which all of God's children can live or to go into the dark." "We must either love each other or we must die." "Vote for President Johnson on November 3rd." "The stakes are too high for you to stay home." "I want you to run this right away." "It'll be controversial." "You'll get a lot of flak. then let the press do our work for us." "I wanna see it again." "Barry Goldwater says he's not a racist." "But the government can't legislate what people feel in their hearts." " That's right!" " And he's right." "The law can't make white folks love you." "But the law can prevent them from lynching you." "The law can prevent them from denying you a job and your child an education." "And the law can ensure that you have the right to vote." " Amen!" " Yes!" "I'm not here today to tell you fine people who to vote for. let's be sure to send the fine senator from Arizona and his tender heart back to the desert where he belongs." "Walter... was arrested?" "YMCA men's bathroom by the DC Vice Squad." "The other man arrested was an army staff sergeant." "no." "This must be some kind of mistake." "sir." "Walter was arrested under similar circumstances five years ago." "why didn't I know that?" "None of us knew." "This has Goldwater's fingerprints all over it." "Goldwater will use this. it could be the whole ball of wax!" "There doesn't appear to be any security compromise at all." "There damn well better not be." "Your people said they vetted him." "I have it in writing with your goddamn signature on it." "Edgar." "Mr. President." "And why don't that make me feel any better?" "You get ahold of Walter's Air Force Reserve records." "Goldwater was his commanding officer." "he signed off on his fitness evaluations." "We get ahold of those and Goldwater won't be able to say shit!" "Walter will resign immediately." "You see to it that his doctor issues a statement." "he was working too hard and just snapped." "I've been working with that man for 25 years... and not a clue." "How do you know when... somebody's...? mannerisms." "The way a man dresses or combs his hair." "Walks kind of funny." "Well... that's news to me." "I'm not questioning you." "I'm sure you'd know." "I mean." "Marjorie is just beside herself." "Can't believe it's true." "I can't believe it's true." "I am going to make a public statement of support." "Absolutely not." "The First Lady can't be involved in this." "None of us can be involved." "Lyndon." "He could injure himself." "That is not my problem." "What..." "He is our friend." "He was our friend and then he stabbed me in the back." "are we just never gonna see him again?" "you think I like this?" "Now Goldwater's killing me in the polls." "I loved Walter like a s..." "I'm holding this campaign together with baling wire and spit." "then you're against me." "darling." "But you're wrong." "You do what you must." "But I will not abandon our friend." "I have speeches to deliver." "God damn it." "In what is sure to be" "the winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Peace" "Jr." "I am deeply moved and humbled by the decision of the Nobel Committee who are devoted to the nonviolent pursuit of those rights to which every man and woman..." "How will you want to acknowledge Dr. King?" "I won't." "King knows where I stand." "I don't need to get on the goddamn rooftops" " and shout it out." " ...movement of many peoples who are devoted to the nonviolent pursuit of those rights..." "I'm supposed to have psychic abilities apparently no warning is strong enough." "...this award should be given to the American civil rights..." "Get me the sex tapes of King with those women." "And a typewriter." ""King" "you know you are a complete fraud and a great liability to all of us Negroes." "are you sure the president will be comfortable with this?" "Doesn't matter." "you cannot believe in God." "you don't believe in any moral principles. abnormal moral imbecile." "You are a colossal fraud vicious one at that and you had better kill yourself fraudulent soul is bared to the nation."" "Goldwater!" "Goldwater!" "Goldwater!" "Goldwater!" "Goldwater!" "Goldwater!" "What in the hell is wrong with these people?" "for Christ's sake!" " Where's the governor?" " Left an hour ago." "Suddenly called out of town." "Cowardly son of a bitch." "I've had enough of this horseshit." "Let's get a move on." "Move!" "And now..." "Now let's give warm New Orleans welcome to the President of the United States." "All right." "All right!" "You've had your say and now I'm gonna have mine. please." "I..." "I once got to know this old senator from the South who lamented to me the... the condition of our beloved region." "The old senator talked about how outside forces divided and conquered the people of the South by appealing to their racial hatred." "I accept this award on behalf of a civil rights movement which is working to establish a reign of freedom and a rule of justice. and even death." "the old senator described what a great future the South could have if only we'd all work together." "Only yesterday in Mississippi young people seeking the right to vote were brutalized and murdered." "And the old senator talked longingly... about going home one more time and telling people the truth." "He said his poor state hasn't heard the truth in 30 years." "" " All we ever hear at election time is "Nigger!" "Nigger!" "Nigger!" "I'm not gonna let them build up the hate." "I'm not gonna let them trick my people by appealing to their prejudice." "I believe peoples everywhere and freedom." "We have a new law of the land." "A civil rights law." "And I'm gonna enforce it 'cause it is the right thing to do." "ABC News continues its coverage of Election '64." "though he's doing extremely well has not yet reached the position the polls gave him." "The figures have just come in. has gone for Senator Goldwater." "so we'll just have to wait to judge his basic strategy." "" " The polls are closing right now in New York State." "The "New York Herald Tribune" put up the headline" ""Johnson Landslide."" "...CBSpollprofileanalysis." "Lyndon Baines Johnson has been elected" " President of the United States." "How about that?" "How about that?" "Isn't that something?" " Where's Lady Bird?" " Right behind you where I've always been." "60 million votes." "Mr. President. you've got a phone call from Senator Russell." "all right!" "have some fun!" "I'll be with you in a second." "Mr. President." "I'm just trying to do what the old master taught me." "You know none of this would've happened none of it." "sir." "Thank you." "My apologies about Georgia." "yeah. not once." "Not even during Reconstruction." "they'll be back." "I sure wish you was here." "you know we got a hell of a lot of work ahead of us." "now." "sir." "I know you will." "Mr. President." "I'll see you in Washington." "Mr. President." "Yeah." "My apologies." "From our ambassador in Saigon. a stop light for Senator Goldwater and perhaps for the right wing conservative control of the Republican Party." "These are the numbers." "it is... 96% of the Negro vote to Johnson." "Martin." "Now they gotta give us that voting rights bill." "L.B.J. is not gonna give us anything." "We've gotta take it." "And we're gonna start a new campaign right away in Alabama." "aren't you?" "Over?" "It's just getting started." "What are you doing out here by yourself?" "Everybody's waiting for you." "Come join the party." "Your party?" "In a minute." "You're goddamn right it's my party and I had to drag it into the light kicking and screaming every inch of the way." "'Cause this is how new things are born." "Bird and I lost three babies" "and I remember the moment when they finally let me into the room to see my first live child." "And there on the floor you could still see the doctor's footprints in my wife's blood." "this is familiar." "I know this."" "we're gonna party like there's no tomorrow 'cause there's no feeling in the world half as good as winning." "Butthesunwillcome up and the knives will come out and all these smiling faces" "waiting for that one first moment of weakness." "And then they will gut me like a deer." "honey?" "Bird." "I'm great." "I'm president." "♪ Happy days are here again ♪" "♪ The skies above are clear again ♪" "♪ Let us sing a song of cheer again ♪" "♪ Happy days are here again. ♪" "lots of land ♪" "♪ Under starry skies above ♪" "♪ Don't fence me in ♪" "♪ Let me ride through the wide-open country that I love ♪" "♪ Don't fence me in ♪" "♪ Let me be by myself in the evening breeze ♪" "♪ Listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees ♪ please ♪" "♪ Don't fence me in ♪" "♪ Just turn me loose ♪" "♪ Let me straddle my old saddle ♪" "♪ Underneath the western skies ♪" "♪ On my cayuse ♪" "♪ Let me wander over yonder ♪" "♪ Till I see the mountains rise ♪" "♪ I want to ride to the ridge ♪" "♪ Where the West commences ♪" "♪ Gaze at the moon till I lose my senses ♪" "♪ Can't look at hobbies and I can't stand fences ♪" "♪ Don't fence me in. ♪" "  ♪ No segregation ♪" "♪ No segregation ♪" "♪ No segregation ♪ over me ♪" "♪ And before I'll be a slave ♪" "♪ I'll be buried in my grave ♪" "♪ And go home to my Lord ♪ and be ♪" "♪ Nothing but freedom!" "♪" "♪ Nothing but freedom ♪" "♪ Nothing but freedom ♪" "♪ Nothing but freedom ♪ over me ♪" "♪ And before I'll be a slave ♪" "♪ I'll be buried in my grave ♪" "♪ And go home to my Lord ♪ and be ♪" "♪ No more dogs ♪" "♪ No more dogs ♪" "♪ No more dogs ♪" "♪ No more dogs ♪" " ♪ Biting me!" "♪ - ♪ Over me ♪" "♪ Biting me ♪" "♪ And before I'll be a slave ♪" "♪ I'll be buried in my grave ♪" "♪ And go home to my Lord ♪ and be ♪" "♪ No more shooting ♪" "♪ No more shooting ♪" "♪ No more shooting ♪" "♪ No more shooting ♪ over me ♪" "♪ And before I'll be a slave ♪" "♪ I'll be buried in my grave ♪" "♪ And go home to my Lord ♪ and be ♪" "♪ No more mourning ♪" "♪ No more mourning ♪" "♪ No more mourning ♪" "♪ No more mourning ♪ over me ♪"