All the Way (2016) Edit

A civil rights bill with your election coming up?

A civil rights law.

A Democratic president ignoring his own party

A Deputy Price arrested them yesterday afternoon.

A green light for Mr. Johnson, a stop light for Senator Goldwater,

A little love.

A man who changed the course of this country,

A perfectly legal maneuver, Uncle Dick. Just like you taught me.

A potential sighting? What the hell's a potential sighting?

A real chance.

A reign of freedom and a rule of justice.

A small town in which Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney

A Southern preacher who fucks his choir. Who ever heard of that?

A step away from the White House.

A towheaded boy to take fishing.

A visual sighting not confirmed by mechanical means.

A war on poverty?

A whole bunch of federal marshals into your state.

A workable compromise regarding at large delegates

ABC News continues its coverage of Election '64.

Abnormal moral imbecile.

About appointing William Macomber as ambassador, I know.

About going home one more time

About how I'm taking orders from the n****es,

About which we ought to be more confident before we act.

Absolutely critical, and we're gonna fix that.

Absolutely not.

Absolutely not.

Absolutely.

Accidental President.

Acting like he was running the FBI as well.

After everything I did for him, he should've stood up for me!

After he gutted it first.

After I was placed in a cell,

After President Kennedy's election,

Ah, no. No, sir. That's not true, sir.

Ah.

Ah. Uncle Dick.

Alabama and Mississippi are walking out, and Sanders says he might follow.

All I have,

All I'm saying is, don't work so hard to get this bill out of the House.

All right, keep Jim calm.

All right, Manny, let's just get this over with.

All right, now let's you and me understand something here.

All right, Robert.

All right, talk to me, Hubert.

All right, that's it. We're leaving. Come on.

All right?

All right.

All right.

All right.

All right.

All right.

All right. All right!

All right. Let's get started.

All the men in my family die young.

All the way on up to the people in Washington for what happened.

All the way with LBJ.

All this

All this soft on military bullshit.

All Wallace has to beat you with is this damn civil rights bill,

All we ever hear at election time

All we're asking

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

An entirely understandable concern.

And 130 votes against.

And a great liability to all of us n****es.

And a lock on the House, and we can elect a Southern Democrat president.

And a typewriter.

And all it cost us was the voting rights section.

And all these smiling faces will be watching me,

And all this two weeks before the start of the goddamn convention.

And all those goddamn people in the MFDP are talking about.

And another white man walked over and pulled it back up.

And any suggestions you have,

And are you gonna give them that pleasure?

And as a n**** leader, I'm asking...

And as for the rest of you, what the hell are you still standing here for?

And as we've seen,

And bring King and the MFDP in line or, by God,

And bussing them into Mississippi to register black voters.

And can I count on you now?

And dare LBJ not to seat us.

And Dick Russell's been studying them since he was sucking on his mama's titty.

And don't you think for a second I'll ever forget it.

And don't you worry about the president.

And eating them n****es for breakfast every morning.

And every detail in this process...

And every preacher who ever strayed from the marital bed,

And Freedom Summer is the perfect way to do that.

And freedom.

And get me Katharine Graham from the Post, will you?

And give me some extra room in my pockets there

And good day.

And he said, Well, I go into a bar,

And here Zephyr's made his favorite dinner,

And his tender heart back to the desert where he belongs.

And hit him back with everything we got!

And I ain't got much time left.

And I am, for one, am already out of the mainstream of American politics.

And I ask each woman if she'd like to fool around.

And I don't, for the life of me, understand why you are giving him this issue.

And I had to drag it into the light

And I remember the moment when they finally let me into the room

And I said to him, What is your secret?

And I see no need why we ought to sit idly by

And I thought, Yeah, this is familiar.

And I will carry the pain of that with me to my dying day.

And I would very enthusiastically support legislation to that effect.

And I'm asking you to feel angry with me.

And I'm gonna enforce it

And if Nevada wants any part of this, I need your vote.

And if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated at this convention,

And if they say they don't, they're lying.

And if you're not with me, then you're against me.

And in their despair, I...

And in this nation who love you.

And it damn sure isn't a filibuster rule.

And leave me some slack for my nut sack.

And listen, why don't you call next time you're up here

And lobbying is just like propositioning women, you know?

And making a deal with the Senate Minority Leader. Shameful!

And maybe yours.

And my mother...

And nobody's heard of them since.

And none of this can get in the way of party unity.

And not a clue.

And now they're just threatening to walk out of the whole goddamn convention!

And now we are hearing

And now... Now let's give a nice, warm New Orleans welcome

And one white man hit me in my head and told me to hush.

And one white man hit me in my head and told me to hush.

And one with a little meat on her bones, for Christ's sake.

And only three years later, Lee surrendered at Appomattox.

And people like you, Hubert.

And perhaps for the right wing conservative control of the Republican Party.

And places it with the western conservatives for the first time since 1936.

And President Johnson's Democratic Party is one big, happy family.

And put more money into

And see a bill pass in the American Senate called a civil rights bill

And sharing some time with me.

And some people thought he would've beat Jack

And some somewhat contradictory sonar evidence

And steal this nomination at the last minute.

And Strom Thurmond is formally switching parties.

And telling people the truth.

And that this bill, even without voting rights,

And the angrier those n****es on the street are.

And the Bible does not say that we cannot choose our own neighbor.

And the bill's still stuck.

And the Democratic Party will adopt a formal rules change

And the destruction of the Constitution of the United States.

And the Georgia delegation's not gonna walk out after all.

And the honorable Hubert Horatio Humphrey is our candidate for Vice President!

And the knives will come out,

And the law can ensure that you have the right to vote.

And the law I will now sign forbids it.

And the Mississippi government will do everything it can to stop you.

And the North is against me, and the n****es are against me,

And the old senator talked longingly

And the press sure doesn't have any damn affection for me.

And the rest of organized labor.

And the rest of those liberals a little bit of red meat now and again.

And the South will storm out of the convention in droves.

And the voting rights component is critical.

And then he ordered

And then the patrolman ordered the second n**** to beat me.

And then there's J. Edgar Hoover.

And then they will gut me like a deer.

And there are many, many people up there at that convention

And there on the floor

And there wouldn't be 10 people who'd shed a tear.

And these boys will turn up quick, and we can all just relax.

And they just found two bodies buried there in an earthen dam.

And they're gonna come back in,

And they're still digging for Chaney.

And think about what I said, huh?

And this

And this is a necessary political compromise.

And this is the thanks I get?

And this torpedo attack, this actually happened?

And to my esteemed colleague, Judge Smith,

And to that, I say, well,

And unfulfilled ideals.

And we in the Senate intend to fight with our boots on to the last ditch.

And we urge the delegates here to approve the recommendations

And we'll make that decision very, very soon, I promise you that.

And we're gonna pass that bill, as is, without changing a word.

And we're gonna start a new campaign right away

And were last seen driving away in the blue station wagon.

And what do you expect him to do, Judge?

And what kind of politician are you?

And what's the bad news?

And whatever happens, you don't quit.

And when we get to Atlantic City,

And whose fault would that be?

And why don't that make me feel any better?

And with a little luck,

And you are a terrible liar as always.

And you could paddle your milk white ass around the White House pool before dinner?

And you had better kill yourself before your filthy, fraudulent soul

And you have to decide how you want history to remember you.

And you just wrap this thing up quick, yeah?

And you make yourself one very real candidate

And you won't have nobody in the Senate to carry water for you.

And you.

And you'll see how you like dealing with them.

And you're gonna help your country.

And you're gonna help yourself, and you're gonna help your state,

And your child an education.

And your enemies would jeer.

And, by God, he did.

Andrew Goodman, age 21, and James Chaney, 21.

Another riot and he will. And there will be more riots.

Any jackass can kick a barn down,

Anything can happen from there.

Anything to turn off those goddamn cameras in Atlantic City.

Apparently Governor Wallace kept your name off it.

Apparently,

Apparently, Walter was arrested under similar circumstances five years ago.

Are gonna fight me tooth and nail on this civil rights stuff.

Are like putting a Band Aid on a cancer.

Are you a once a week fella, or do you hold the Word in your heart?

Are you all right, sir?

Are you sick and tired of this stuff like I am?

Are you so desperate for their approval

Are you so sure about that?

Are you, Lyndon?

Aren't you gonna offer me any more gravy?

As a conservative Republican,

As a great man,

As far as we know.

As I stand here...

As our candidate to the office of President of the United States,

As part of Freedom Summer,

As soon as it seems decent.

As soon as we hit the ground.

As the Republican vice presidential candidate.

At least one political party that isn't racist?

At the ballroom of Convention Hall

At the end of the day...

At the expense of those who got nothing.

At the same time, Roy, you are right.

At the White House in just a few moments.

At their new site in Eastern Kazakh.

At this point, I'm more worried about the liberals

Be plenty strong enough for Goldwater in November.

Beat up, old elementary school in Cotulla, Texas.

Became one of the leaders of the MFDP.

Because they wouldn't let them register!

Because you know Dick Russell and the Dixiecrats

Because you would be lost without me.

Beef up my schedule there.

Before it even gets to the Senate floor.

Beginning today, we will filibuster this bill.

Being blind in one eye and got the heaves.

Best chance in 100 years, and I will not throw it away.

Best damn chicken fried steak you ever put in your mouth.

Bill!

Bird and I lost three babies before we had Lynda,

Bird, go away and leave me be.

Bird, you look beautiful as always.

Bird's got me on a diet.

Bless those boys.

Bobby Kennedy would just soon cut my throat as smile at me.

Boo!

Both white.

Boy, I've seen him make a fool of you liberals with some arcane rule of order

Boy, oh, boy, look at you.

Boy, oh, boy, look at you.

Boy, that's a pretty tough sell for Humphrey's crowd,

Brown noser? Sure.

Bullshit!

Bullshit.

But a man wants a son.

But because of the color of their skin.

But come election day,

But Democrats have to stick together here.

But everybody thinks it ought to be given out, free of charge, like Mardi Gras beads.

But everything you get, you send it immediately to Walter.

But first, I gotta win the Democratic nomination.

But he didn't.

But he's there now.

But how damaged will you be?

But I also believe that the Constitution doesn't say

But I also got me a lot of yeses.

But I cannot emphasize enough to you the dangers you will face.

But I cannot emphasize enough to you the dangers you will face.

But I do.

But I need you to hold the South for me, Uncle Dick.

But I think he really wants civil rights.

But I will not abandon our friend.

But I'll tell you what.

But I'm talking to you now,

But I'm the one he chose. Hmm.

But if he gets the bill out of my committee?

But if I do charge them, then all the Southerners scream

But if it takes some white kid getting smacked around

But if not,

But if this big delegate war comes off and the South walks out of the convention,

But if you get in my way...

But if you were to support the civil rights bill,

But if you're willing to compromise,

But it takes a carpenter to build one.

But lining up votes to break the filibuster's a complicated process.

But maybe you don't have to fight quite as hard as you might otherwise.

But Mississippi and Alabama rejected the deal and walked out.

But my own people in the South, they're against me,

But now I can't cross the aisle?

But one of them has to be that white minister of theirs.

But right now,

But right now, we're gonna party like there's no tomorrow

But Schwerner and Goodman were both out of state volunteers,

But the fellas coming up behind me are utterly without principle of any kind,

But the government can't legislate what people feel in their hearts.

But the governor asked specifically for the FBI to investigate.

But the House is about to vote on my civil rights bill.

But the law can prevent them from lynching you.

But the rest of Dixie?

But the solemn commitment

But the sun will come up,

But the way he frames it, draping himself in the Stars and Stripes,

But the word is Governor Wallace has offered himself to Goldwater

But there'd come a day

But there's a lot of pressure to do something.

But they kept us out.

But they want results.

But they were so on fire to learn.

But this president is gonna have to deliver a real civil rights bill.

But those good old boys from Mississippi, they locked them out.

But timing is critical here, Hubert, you understand me?

But we should respond to the elimination of voting rights,

But we will not live in despair.

But we're gonna change all that.

But we're not gonna sit on our hands either.

But what I want is great solace.

But when it comes to King, apparently no warning is strong enough.

But with, say, a year of voluntary compliance before it becomes law.

But you can't give people blood tests for loyalty every 15 minutes.

But you can't rush these things. Look at the mess in Mississippi

But you need to get behind me

But you turned out to be nothing but a dissolute,

But you're wrong. You do what you must.

But,

But, as you suggested,

But, boy, I need someone more personable.

But, boy, I'm gonna have to have your help.

But, God, did I love those kids of mine.

But, he said,

By appealing to their racial hatred.

By God, it was the best investment I ever made.

By not losing it.

By the federal government.

By the foulest deed of our time.

Call for a vote, for God's sake.

Can have dignity, equality,

Can't believe it's true.

Captain Herrick of the USS Maddox reports a potential sighting last night

Carl Hayden and I are finally putting together the Central Arizona Water Project.

Carl, what the hell is going on?

CBS News correspondent Mike Wallace here

Chaney, Schwerner, and Goodman.

Chaney's a local n****,

Children playing with dynamite.

Children, children

Children, children, get on board

Children, children, get on board

Children, children, get on board

Children, children, get on board

Christ, the Democrats beat Hitler and T oj o.

Christ, why the hell did I ever consider you for my vice president?

Christ's sake, there's got to be a solution here.

Christ's sake, we got an election to win.

CIA? Oh, no, Mr. President.

Claiming to be an alternative delegation.

Clausewitz said...

Clearly you don't believe in any moral principles.

Close? Close don't make shit.

Combat veteran to combat veteran.

Come on over here.

Come on up here.

Come on!

Come on.

Congratulations, Mr. President, on your glorious achievement.

Congratulations, Mr. President.

Congratulations, Mr. President.

Congress is not alone in contributing problems to the presidency.

Cowardly son of a bitch.

Damn right it was.

Dear to my heart, but I know some people are wondering, Did he really mean it?

Death threats, jail, shot at.

Definitely planted by Goldwater.

Demands my soul

Did King screw his sister or something?

Did you hear from Bobby?

Didn't expect to see you here.

Didn't see that coming.

Dirksen needs to look tough to his people.

Dirksen's amendments will gut the bill.

Discharge petition.

Discover me,

Divided and conquered the people of the South

Do it.

Do we have to endorse his candidacy as well?

Do you wanna know what the ugliest sound in the world is, Hubert?

Doctors are optimistic.

Doesn't matter.

Dogs and people.

Doing the work the government hasn't been willing to do

Don't get me wrong, I love Luci and Lynda,

Don't retaliate,

Don't use their funeral pyre to burn what's left of the movement.

Don't you have anything that doesn't make me look like a dago undertaker?

Don't you tell me

Dr. Henry, who is their chairman,

Dr. King, what do you think we ought to do?

Dr. Martin Luther King, they are not going to accept any compromise

Eight points in Louisiana.

Eisenhower had publicly declared

Especially not good.

Especially to them because, of course, they're gonna do good with it.

Everett, what's this bullshit about how I treat my dog?

Every trace of discrimination that is based upon race or color.

Every trace of discrimination that is based upon race or color.

Everybody wants power, Walter.

Everybody.

Everybody's waiting for you. Come join the party.

Except for a whole bunch of dead people voting in Chicago at the last minute.

Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper's daughter.

Far be it from me to tell you how to do your job.

FBI was acting on a tip about a farm in rural Mississippi,

FBI?

Fine, what's your idea?

Fine. So we built our own Democrat Party, but with a difference.

First sign of trouble, you cut and run.

First thing tomorrow,

Five hundred beaten and arrested, 35 churches burned,

Five Republicans and three Democrats.

Floor manager?

Folks are gonna get hurt.

For 100 years, the Democratic Party's had a lock on the South.

For 100 years.

For a discharge petition to get the bill out of my committee in the House.

For an attack which may or may not have happened?

For Christ's sake.

For driving 35 miles over the speed limit.

For each and every one of them when I would see the light in their eyes die.

For God's sake, Robert.

For instance, if you were a podiatrist and had your office in a hotel.

For my stuff, my keys and my knife,

For only yesterday in Alabama,

For the first time, black people are building a new political party.

For the first time, he can do whatever he wants.

For this terrible moment,

For two weeks, we've been training

Four, three,

Freedom Summer.

From a Southern state appear here,

From me.

From our ambassador in Saigon.

From the Freedom Democratic Party representatives of Mississippi.

From Washington back down to the ranch for me.

Fuck you!

Full of Mexican immigrants who didn't have a pot to piss in.

General Burnside thought he'd crush Lee at Fredericksburg.

Gentlemen, we need to pick up this conversation some other time.

Gentlemen.

George Wallace is a nobody.

Georgia has never voted Republican before, not once.

Georgia, which has never deserted the Democratic Party,

Get me the governor of Mississippi.

Get on board

Get out there and do something!

Give me more time in the South, especially Louisiana.

Give me one minute.

Give me something I can work with here.

Go on, get out of here!

Go on, get the hell out of here.

Go on!

God damn it, you know, you're fired.

God damn it!

God damn it.

God damn it.

God damn it.

God damn it.

God damn it.

God damn it.

God damn it.

God damn.

God knows I've been kissing his ass since the day I moved to Washington,

God, Martin, that's not necessary.

God's a gonna trouble the water

God's honest truth.

Goddamn, this close to the election, it could be the whole ball of wax!

Goldwater must be laughing his ass off.

Goldwater wants to get down into the mud, by God, I could do that.

Goldwater was his commanding officer.

Goldwater will use this.

Goldwater! Goldwater!

Goldwater! Goldwater!

Goldwater! Goldwater!

Gonna be a very, very difficult sell, Mr. President.

Good morning, Mr. President.

Good night, then.

Good, good.

Got Zephyr there in the kitchen weighing my plates for every meal.

Governor, I'm calling about those three boys.

Had been arrested for speeding during the day.

Hallelujah.

Harnessed like a mule to a road plow,

Has asked again for federal protection.

Has carried you and me down to the road to statism and socialism

Has embraced the radical program of the left wing groups

Has gone for Senator Goldwater.

Has not yet reached the position the polls gave him.

Haul me, screaming, up into the light,

He called for a civil rights bill in front of Congress, Martin.

He could injure himself.

He did what?

He does.

He doesn't know you yet.

He got more pussy than you ever saw.

He has been put upon most disgracefully.

He is deliberately provocative.

He is our friend.

He passed the '57 Civil Rights Act.

He said he'd get it out of committee

He said his poor state hasn't heard the truth in 30 years.

He said, Oh, hell yeah.

He should've lost his chairmanship a long time ago.

He sure doesn't have a handle on the New Testament.

He sure gets people stirred up, even in Milwaukee.

He was our friend, and then he stabbed me in the back.

He will have no future in the Democratic Party, you hear me?

He will play all the angles against you.

He won't trust me now, and I can't say I blame him.

He'll do what it takes to get elected.

He's been busy.

He's gone.

He's got to at least look lively on civil rights.

He's just like every other politician.

He's nice.

He's seating the ******s.

He's spent his entire life trying to be president.

He's very supportive of their leadership on this.

Hear, hear.

Hear, hear.

Hell, even Dick Russell likes you.

Hell, Goldwater is beating my ass by 60% in Mississippi.

Hell, I thought you were running the Senate Republicans, not the ASPCA.

Hell, yes. You're the great white hope of liberals everywhere.

Here, lookie here.

Hey, listen, I need to talk to you about something.

Hey, look, everybody's out of step but me.

Hey, now, don't just run off. Come give me a hug.

Hey, you know that good old boy you put down for the federal bench?

Hiding down in the root cellar

His decision,

His hypocrisy is disgusting. The man is a flagrant adulterer.

His lady friends.

His moral turpitude is just the tip of the iceberg.

His overconfidence cost him his army.

His word? Are you serious?

Hold on, Bob.

Hold on!

Hold on.

Hold on. We tried to play by the rules of the regular Democrat Party,

Holy crap. What happened here?

Hoover will just drag his feet.

Hopefully, you're right about the whole thing,

How about that? How about that?

How can I help, Bob?

How did John Connally's surgery go?

How do you know when

How many civil rights bills have you buried in the last 10 years?

How many kids you got again? What is it, five?

How many voters have you actually registered?

Howard, you do the right thing here,

Hubert Humphrey is never gonna be my vice president or anything else!

Hunting for me.

I accept this award on behalf of a civil rights movement

I also taught you something about party loyalty.

I always thought it would take a Southern president

I always wanted a son.

I am deeply moved and humbled by the decision of the Nobel Committee

I am going to make a public statement of support.

I am old, that's true, and God knows I'm tired.

I am so glad that it's finally over, aren't you?

I began to scream.

I believe peoples everywhere

I believe that state authority should not be needlessly usurped.

I blame the state of Mississippi,

I can't believe it's true.

I can't do that, Lyndon.

I cannot support a bill without voting rights.

I could drop dead tomorrow,

I could probably get my troops to accept public accommodations.

I depend on you, Hubert, you know that.

I did.

I do not have the hide of a rhinoceros.

I do what I can.

I don't know what'll happen.

I don't need to get on the goddamn rooftops and shout it out.

I don't think Dulles is a good idea. This is very clearly an FBI matter.

I don't think so.

I don't think...

I don't want riots any more than you do.

I favor inflicting on New York and other cities

I feel so sorry for him.

I got a call from the president with a generous helping of the Texas twist.

I got it. I'll get that, Manny. Thank you.

I grew up like that in the Hill Country.

I grieve for those young men.

I guess I can get a few FBI agents to look into the thing.

I had to face down my own daddy over my inheritance to get it.

I have a genuine desire to unite people,

I have a genuine desire to unite people,

I have a real amendment to offer.

I have his word there will be no more compromises.

I have it in writing with your goddamn signature on it.

I hope you haven't just killed your election chances.

I just heard how you snuck that bill through Jim's committee

I just think asking for my vote while denying me the right to vote is bullshit.

I keep having this dream.

I knew this fellow once.

I know how to handle him.

I know Senator Jim Eastland wants Allen Dulles investigating.

I know that's right.

I know this.

I know what you're thinking.

I know why you think you have to do this, darling.

I know you will.

I know.

I know.

I loved Walter like a...

I made no headway.

I may have, in any case.

I may lose a battle, Bob,

I mean no disrespect, but take down that stuff over there.

I mean, I always set my car on fire before taking a weekend off.

I mean, the last thing I would want is Dulles down there

I mean, what are you fighting for, darling, in your heart?

I nearly died of that heart attack 10 years ago.

I need to be able to deliver meaningful reform.

I need to be able to go back to my people and tell them

I need to know everything that King and that Fannie Lou person and Bob Moses

I need to see Dr. King, you hear.

I never wanted to be president in the first place.

I once got to know this old senator from the South

I only lost one election my whole life.

I personally may not survive, but I will win this war.

I piss myself like an idiot child crouching in the dirt,

I propose we resettle Southern n****es all over the country

I put my entire political career at risk for the n****es,

I recently acquired certain information which is deeply troubling.

I reckon you're as close to that as I've got.

I regret that the president

I said, Boy, you must've got slapped a lot.

I said, what's your idea?

I see everything.

I still need you, Dick.

I stood up for you, Mr. President.

I sure wish you was here.

I think he's working as hard as he can.

I think I'll see how Zephyr's coming with that cobbler.

I think now I can open it up, and if you'd like to ask a few questions.

I think that I could deliver the necessary 25 Republican votes for cloture.

I think the president just put over the bill out of committee.

I think this is something that King cooked up with Bobby Kennedy to embarrass me.

I think we should have a discussion regarding Dr. King.

I thought I was a goner.

I tried to put him off, but, well, I suppose I could get some third party involved.

I urge you to enact President Kennedy's civil rights bill into law,

I urge you to enact President Kennedy's civil rights bill into law,

I used all the heartstrings I had.

I walked into the lion's den, I argued fervently,

I wanna talk to each and every one of them.

I wanna thank you, Dr. King, for your public expression of support.

I want a good bill, too, Martin,

I want all his travel covered from now on.

I want everyone to hear this.

I want his fucking head in a basket!

I want them under constant surveillance, the whole bunch of them.

I want you to run this right away.

I want you to take this.

I want you to wear them in good health, Bill.

I wanted to just respond to what Senator Russell...

I warned you about that.

I was arrested by the Winona police chief and taken to the county jail.

I was hoping we could talk about...

I was just thinking about you. Go on, take a ride with me.

I will give it all that I have, sir.

I will leave the goddamn Democratic Party before I turn it over

I will start a public fast to the death.

I will take care of this, Mr. President.

I wish I had a photograph of your face. Whoo!

I won't.

I won't.

I wonder if I'm dead already

I would hate to see the Democratic Party make the same mistake.

I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

I would like to introduce an amendment

I would want to know whether they smelled good or bad.

I, for one, am fed up with amendments

I'd ask him myself, but he's no longer returning my calls.

I'll be with you in a second.

I'll get them to pass some kind of resolution

I'll just deal with him.

I'll see what I can do.

I'll see you in Washington.

I'll see you up on three.

I'll tell you what, let's say Eastland is my problem.

I'm a hell of a lot better than you are with dogs.

I'm asking you to not work against it.

I'm coming for you, Dick.

I'm counting on you, now.

I'm digging a hole as we speak.

I'm fine, Bird.

I'm gonna go back home to my ranch and the people who love me.

I'm gonna need another set of those cufflinks.

I'm great.

I'm holding this campaign together with baling wire and spit.

I'm interested in this, and we'll talk soon, I promise.

I'm not asking you to.

I'm not feeling forgiveness.

I'm not feeling sad tonight, Dr. King.

I'm not gonna let them trick my people by appealing to their prejudice.

I'm not here today to tell you fine people who to vote for.

I'm not questioning you.

I'm not running anywhere, Mr. President.

I'm not saying the n**** hasn't been put upon.

I'm okay.

I'm pleased to say that we've come up with a mighty fine compromise.

I'm sick and tired of going to funerals for black men

I'm sorry, Dick.

I'm sorry.

I'm standing right here beside you.

I'm still here, Mr. President.

I'm supposed to have psychic abilities

I'm sure Elizabeth would love Europe.

I'm sure you'd know.

I'm the one he comes home to.

I've been working with that man for 25 years

I've got vengeance in my heart!

I've put all my credibility on the line

If a president can't do what he knows is right,

If at any time you wish to quit,

If Georgia walks out next,

If Goldwater gets elected, you can forget about poverty.

If he does get it out of committee, what then?

If he wins that primary, the Senate will never pass the bill.

If he's conscious, he can vote!

If I can't do that, I'll lose their faith.

If I could just...

If I don't charge these bastards,

If I keep King's support, I risk losing Uncle Dick's.

If I were a Mississippi n****, been through what you've been through,

If I were cutting corns, I would wanna know

If it gets out, we'll pass it off on our South Vietnamese allies.

If just one of your white volunteers gets hurt,

If only we'd all work together.

If the government does not do what is right here,

If the Republicans are foolish enough to nominate Barry Goldwater,

If there's anything I can do...

If this is what it takes to move the bill,

If you arrested every politician

If you go back home and take what these white men are doing to us...

If you take it and don't do something about it,

If you think Barry Goldwater's a legitimate heir to Abraham Lincoln,

If you're going to trim the stinky, smelly white corns...

In Alabama.

In each one of these districts here, your ministers,

In electoral votes, it is...

In fact, it's better if I don't know.

In fact, the whole South's about to bolt.

In hurting you or helping Barry Goldwater.

In order to avoid that type of situation,

In order to protect the president from deviants like Jenkins,

In public.

In St. Augustine, Florida,

In that case, we should sell tickets, so I can stop giving speeches.

In this election, we can have a lock on the Senate

In what is sure to be a very controversial decision,

In winning and carrying states,

In your line of work, I mean.

Into the Kremlin's bathroom and start World War III.

Is anybody gonna follow him?

Is bared to the nation.

Is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Is Hubert on board?

Is Khrushchev still in Egypt?

Is nominated by acclamation

Is not helpful.

Is that a threat?

Is the president caving in?

Is this America?

Is this just still so much red meat for Humphrey and his gang?

Is this the first time a civil rights bill made it through the House?

Is to demand our rights.

Is to enact his civil rights bill, especially voting rights.

Is, ******! ******! ******!

It ain't over until it's over.

It appears they had both been shot once in the chest.

It is still a vicious assault on the Constitution.

It is time now to write the next chapter in the books of law.

It just feels different than I thought it would.

It just made you feel good.

It reminds me that when I got out of college...

It still has to go through the House, then out of Jim's committee

It was just a dusty, old border town in the middle of nowhere.

It would scream.

It'd be a foolish thing to throw that away.

It'll be controversial. You'll get a lot of flak.

It'll be some other way.

It's a Democratic rally, for Christ's sake!

It's a strong president who's in your corner.

It's a waste of time.

It's about the gravest possible assault on the United States Constitution,

It's about those who got more wanting to hang on to what they got

It's about time the South rejoined the rest of the country.

It's all right, boys. I think I'm safe with Senator Fulbright.

It's all right.

It's because people know I stand by my principles.

It's compelling.

It's election year.

It's gonna look like the n****es are taking over the whole convention.

It's Governor Sanders of Georgia on the phone.

It's just getting started.

It's not fair, sir, not with all you've done.

It's not just about the votes.

It's not personal. It's just politics.

It's obvious that this Deputy Price was involved in that.

It's ridiculous.

It's so dark down there, like a grave.

It's something I don't think has happened in the Democratic Convention

It's still a damn good bill.

It's the passing of a time of etiquette, courtesy.

It's the passing of a time of principles like party unity.

It's the passing of an era.

It's the tick tick tick of a clock.

It's time to act.

J. Edgar Hoover on four.

Jackie?

James Chaney gave his life

Jesus, you are so thin skinned.

Jesus. Are they sure it's them?

John Connally, the governor of my own state, just told me, You seat those black buggers,

John F. Kennedy told his countrymen

Johnson Landslide.

Just 'cause of the color of their skin.

Just blowing smoke up my ass.

Just eight weeks before the Democratic Convention.

Just listen to me.

Just not in this bill.

Just peachy.

Just tell the credential committee what happened in Mississippi, Miss Hamer.

Katharine Graham of The Washington Post is on two.

Kennedy made promises, too, Stanley.

Kicking and screaming every inch of the way.

King is supposed to control his people.

King knows where I stand.

King won't be so easy.

King, you cannot believe in God.

King, you know you are a complete fraud

Kiss ass? You bet. I heard them all.

Knowing it's only a matter of time now before they find the trapdoor,

LBJ is not the second coming.

LBJ screwed us over.

LBJ wants our support.

LBJ! LBJ! LBJ!

Leave Judge Smith to me.

Led by Andrew Young and other civil rights leaders...

Let me remind you also

Let somebody else carry this one, Martin.

Let the real war begin.

Let this be Hoover's problem, not ours.

Let us begin.

Let us continue.

Let's be sure to send the fine senator from Arizona

Let's fight for freedom now

Let's get a move on. Move!

Let's just cut to the chase, shall we?

Let's reach out and get our membership mobilized on this new campaign.

Let's see who else King is meeting.

Like Kennedy, he damn sure is gonna need the n**** vote to win.

Like Kennedy, he damn sure is gonna need the n**** vote to win.

Likewise. Thank you.

Listen here, I want you to pull together a special group separate from the campaign

Listen, now... No, Howard, just... Howard, listen to me, will you?

Little son of a bitch loves to have his ears pulled.

Living off the bitter charity of my neighbors.

Look at me, Lyndon.

Look at that. Look at that. Look at the size of his ears.

Look, I don't need to be reminded of what I already know.

Lord have mercy.

Love so amazing

Love so divine

Lyndon Baines Johnson has been elected President of the United States.

Lyndon is gonna know who to thank on November 4th.

Lyndon, why don't you take a break from this for a while?

Lyndon.

Lyndon.

Made from the bones of an emaciated chicken.

Making all the decisions for his black sharecroppers.

Marjorie is just beside herself.

Marjorie.

Martin, I'm as frustrated as you are,

Martin, listen, he's a Southern politician.

Martin, you have not been to Mississippi in over a year.

Martin, your funding is on the line.

Martin.

Martin. Just...

Maybe.

McCORMACK: With no more amendments to be offered,

McCulloch is just playing to the peanut gallery.

Me and my delegates are about inches from walking out.

Michael Schwerner, age 25,

Mike is a good man,

Missing in Mississippi?

Mmm.

Mmm.

Mmm.

More times than I can remember.

Mr. Abbitt votes nay.

Mr. Abele votes yea.

Mr. Andrews from Alabama.

Mr. Andrews from North Dakota.

Mr. Johnson has inherited an armed clash in South Vietnam.

Mr. President, forgive my frankness, but you are speaking like a spoiled child.

Mr. President, I don't think sinking to their level is...

Mr. President, I was just kidding

Mr. President, I'm sorry to have to tell you,

Mr. President, Robert Kennedy has no interest whatsoever

Mr. President, the limited air strikes you ordered pre selected

Mr. President, this puts you in a terrible position.

Mr. President, we don't have any warrant.

Mr. President, we have word.

Mr. President, what a pleasant surprise.

Mr. President, you are ahead in the polls in most of the country.

Mr. President, you can't give these people two seats.

Mr. President, you need to remove these so called delegates at large.

Mr. President, you've got a phone call from Senator Russell.

Mr. President.

Mr. President.

Mr. President.

Mr. President.

Mr. Reuther.

Mr. Speaker,

My all

My apologies about Georgia.

My apologies.

My dress had worked up high, so I pulled it down.

My fellow Southerners, please.

My friends, if we do our part,

My goodness, man.

My life

My lipstick okay?

My Lord, what that woman has been through.

My money paid for his first campaign, did you know that?

My people have made every painful sacrifice that's been asked of them,

My... What?

n**** demonstrators were attacked today by an estimated 500 angry whites

Nice is for kissing babies.

Nice is what you call a gal with no tits, no ass, and no personality.

No one in this room has your legislative experience.

No, but we're very close.

No, Carl, Carl, you and I just can't survive our modern political life

No, I'm not.

No, no, no.

No, no, sit on over there. It's more comfortable.

No, no, sit on over there. It's more comfortable.

No, no, that's really not necessary.

No, no. Come on.

No, sir.

No, sir. No, not anymore.

No, you listen to me!

No, you would.

No, you're not.

No?

No? Well, I'll tell you what protects a small state, Alan,

No.

No.

Nobody in here gonna do anything they can't get behind.

Nobody will ever do me that way again.

Nobody's surrendering, Mr. President.

None of us can be involved.

None of us knew.

Nonviolence will no longer be an option.

Nope.

Nor even perhaps in our own lifetime.

Not a single goddamn dime.

Not another one of these scrawny, old Washington biddies.

Not because of their own failures,

Not even during Reconstruction.

Not even good.

Not if I light a fire under his ass.

Not only will Texas quit, but the whole South will walk out.

Not you, Humphrey. Stay here.

Nothing comes free.

Nothing.

Now Goldwater's killing me in the polls.

Now he's asking for our further assistance in lobbying Congress.

Now here's what I need.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have speeches to deliver.

Now take a tranquilizer, go to sleep.

Now the man of the hour, Lyndon Baines Johnson!

Now there are domestic considerations as well.

Now they gotta give us that voting rights bill.

Now they gotta give us that voting rights bill.

Now we gotta shop with them, eat with them, work with them.

Now who the hell is this?

Now you get yourself down to Atlantic City and fix this mess, and I mean now!

Now you've got your token representation.

Now,

Now, Barry Goldwater says he's not a racist.

Now, don't you get all high and mighty with me.

Now, for a man named Bible,

Now, he's getting on top!

Now, hell, I owe everything I have to your good wisdom and generosity,

Now, hold on a second, Strom.

Now, how many votes are we gonna get from your people?

Now, I don't care what you do or how you do it.

Now, I got all kinds of federal programs in mind

Now, I love you more than my own daddy.

Now, I'm trying to turn this country around and prevent a major war!

Now, if the Bureau needs anything from me, you just let me know.

Now, it's the principle of the thing.

Now, let's not bullshit an old bullshitter here, Everett.

Now, listen, Kennedy is gonna stab me in the back

Now, look here, either your people vote for this bill,

Now, look here, Everett, we gotta get this civil rights bill passed.

Now, Lyndon, you're gonna talk poor Uncle Dick to death,

Now, not too tight in the bunghole, Manny.

Now, that's just not right, and, by God, we're gonna fix that.

Now, the old senator described

Now, the only job that I could get

Now, we're making history here, Everett.

Now, we've got a chance here, Bob.

Now, what you don't get to do is threaten me.

Now, what's your plan to get our bill out of Eastland's committee?

Now, why didn't I know that?

Now, you don't understand the depth of feeling among my people.

Now, you get your people

Now, you make damn sure that the governor down there

Now, you need to tighten your leash

Now, you show me

Now, Zephyr, she can't use any restrooms on those highways

Of actual torpedo attack.

Of America.

Of course I don't.

Of course I'll come.

Of segregation in public accommodations first.

Of the Democratic National Party are in session.

Of the Democratic Party?

Of the segregated Mississippi delegation on national TV

Of those rights to which every man and woman...

Of two possibly hostile unidentified vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin.

Of two voting delegates for the MFDP,

Of white people everywhere!

Officially, this is a very delicate subject.

Oh, come on now, Dick.

Oh, Edgar,

Oh, for Christ's sake, it's one n**** and one white minister.

Oh, for God's sake, just do it.

Oh, God damn it, Manny.

Oh, hell, Dick, you know I got to throw Humphrey

Oh, hell, Edgar, you're more than the head of the Bureau.

Oh, Humphrey can know.

Oh, I could've kissed his bald head.

Oh, I made that part up.

Oh, I'm fine, Bird.

Oh, Lady Bird, it was delicious, but I just couldn't possibly.

Oh, Lord.

Oh, my.

Oh, see, now that's where it gets confusing

Oh, shit. Why, you don't have the votes.

Oh, that. Well...

Oh, you like these?

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh. I know. I know.

Oh. Our Thursday dinners are sacred.

Oh. Sixty million votes.

Oh. There's no need for that now.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

On account of we wanna register to vote.

On health, education, literacy, jobs, you name it.

On January 9th, 1963, I went to a meeting

On my way back,

On the innocent people of Georgia.

One heart attack in a lifetime is plenty, thank you very much.

One hundred and twenty one.

One man, one vote!

One man, one vote! One man, one vote!

One man, one vote! One man, one vote!

One of these days, Stokely and Wilkins gonna kill each other

One or two of the Mississippi regulars to agree to step aside.

Only yesterday in Mississippi,

Ooh. He was a real ladies' man.

Open to everybody, white or n****.

Or buried alive.

Or do you just slink away?

Or dug the hole with their shovel.

Or maybe when the vote comes up,

Or maybe you think Goldwater ought to be president.

Or somebody who just likes to hear himself talk.

Or there will be no more union money for the movement,

Or to go into the dark.

Or we must die.

Or you can take your tin cup and your principles

Or you vote with the segregationists and the country goes up in flames.

Or you wanna make a better life for all the people of Georgia?

Ordered me to lay facedown on the bunk bed, saying,

Our children, crying out for brotherhood,

Our Constitution forbids it.

Our pilot the Communists shot down over Laos, he's alive?

Out of the car, boys.

Out of the car, Jew boy.

Out onto the street and see how far that gets you.

Outside of Philadelphia, Mississippi.

Over?

Party unity, it is gonna be critical.

People aren't gonna stand for Jim Crow anymore, Uncle Dick.

People don't see that.

People think I want great power,

People turn on you so fast.

People who had been glad handing him just treated him like dog shit.

Perhaps since Reconstruction days.

Picking cotton on my hands and knees,

Planes are ready to go on your command.

Please stand by for the President of the United States.

Podiatrists, like other minorities, got rights, too.

Police have confronted the activists, leading to violent clashes.

Politician's curse.

Politics is war by other means.

Poor Marjorie must be wondering where the hell you are.

Preach.

Precious cold comfort you are.

President Johnson must decide whether to continue it in its present form,

President Johnson, though he's doing extremely well

Price said he released them at 10:00 that night.

Principles? Shit.

Probably having themselves a good laugh.

Probably the sheriff, too.

Public housing, access, school desegregation...

Public opinion's already against this bill, especially with those riots going on.

Purely on constitutional grounds, of course.

Putting my ass in a sling

Putting their lives at risk,

Registering n****es for a vote they still don't have.

Reverend Edwin King.

Reverend King.

Right now, we're gonna take care

Right there in the middle of the room.

Right this way, Senator Dirksen.

Right, Catholic.

Russell won't even see it coming.

Russell won't even see it coming.

Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House.

Sam Rayburn?

Says she wants them to see what they have done to Jack.

Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman,

Schwerner's draft card in his back pocket. Goodman's body right below his.

See that host all dressed in white?

Senator Cannon, listen,

Senator Dirksen's so called amendments

Senator Goldwater so far is doing respectably in the South,

Senator Goldwater's triumph

Senator Humphrey, God did not send us to Atlantic City

Senator Russell.

She could stampede the liberals into seating the MFDP,

She got to squat in a field by the side of the road to pee like a dog.

She won't change her clothes.

Shit, they're not gonna thank me for it.

Shit.

Short of having some kind of a vote in this convention.

Should we let Senator Dirksen make the public announcement?

Show the people that you are behind the Mississippi Freedom...

Sir, are you sure the president will be comfortable with this?

Sir, Governor Sanders was just on TV,

Six, five,

So clearly, you and the NAACP should lead our lobbying efforts in D.C.

So if you're gonna walk out of the convention, then you just do it right now!

So keep an eye on him, sure,

So last night was just election year politics or not?

So that we can eliminate from this nation

So the bill goes to the Senate. All right? So what?

So they can dismiss us all as a bunch of redneck goons.

So they held them for a couple hours.

So we'll just have to wait to judge his basic strategy.

So, do you like being the First Lady?

Solomon himself couldn't have cut that baby in half any cleaner.

Somebody who matters.

Somebody's...

Son of a bitch is turning it around!

Son of a bitch.

Son of a bitch.

Son of a bitch. I thought I had him.

Stand up!

Stand up!

Stand up! Stand up!

Stand up! Stand up!

Stanley Levison.

State highway patrolmen

Still awaiting confirmation.

Still has his daddy's money.

Suck up? Yeah.

Suddenly called out of town.

Take a look at this. Huh?

Takes the leadership of his party away from the eastern liberal block

Taking advice from a well known Communist agitator?

Telling our young people that this president can be trusted,

Than I am about the Dixiecrats.

Than the federal marshals and the US Army, isn't it?

Than the man the Democratic Party is proud to claim as our leader.

Than the president has, and the whole South will bolt.

Thank God for that.

Thank God he has you, Walter.

Thank you,

Thank you, gentlemen.

Thank you, Joles.

Thank you, Matthew. Most kind.

Thank you, Senator.

Thank you, sir. Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That among other things...

That among other things...

That bill was like soup

That extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.

That graveyard of yours got room for one more?

That his party had taken the n**** vote for granted.

That is erroneously called the civil rights bill.

That is not my problem.

That is not the man I married.

That is so not true.

That little piece of shit.

That little shit doesn't have his brother's balls.

That little weasel would sell his mother to get a leg up.

That man's obsessed.

That maniac wants to lob an A bomb

That moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

That motherfucker!

That n****es have more power in the Democratic Party

That our national work would not be finished in the life of this administration,

That sounds extraordinary.

That suddenly or blatantly defeat the purpose of this bill.

That they may not pass segregation laws?

That this president is committed to civil rights,

That was a fine speech, Mr. President.

That way, it's one white man and only one n****.

That we cannot build a wall betwixt ourselves and our neighbor.

That whites alone shall have our basic rights.

That will destroy individual liberty and freedom in this country.

That would exempt local businesses in public accommodations.

That you got the guts to push this thing through,

That you would sanction this mass suicide?

That's a very good question, sir.

That's all I want.

That's disgusting.

That's exactly what they wanna hear,

That's him, that's him.

That's right!

That's right!

That's right.

That's right.

That's telling him.

That's the question, isn't it?

That's what killed him.

That's what the people need to hear.

That's what they'll say.

That's why I want you to be the floor manager of this bill.

The American people have no greater advocate and friend

The ballot in Alabama, sir,

The best way to remember James Chaney

The Bible does not say

The bill is stuck in Judge Smith's Rules Committee,

The bill passes and will now go to the Senate.

The bill still does give us a lot.

The bill still gives us a lot.

The bodies of the three missing civil rights workers,

The burned out station wagon was discovered in the woods

The Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The condition of our beloved region.

The credentials committee settled on a compromise

The dead kid's wife, Schwerner.

The Democratic Party just lost the South for the rest of my lifetime,

The deputy said he had never heard of them.

The dust has settled here in Atlantic City,

The FBI is here to assist in any way we can.

The federal government is not getting involved in this.

The federal government will not protect you,

The figures have just come in.

The First Lady can't be involved in this.

The first prisoner beat me till he was exhausted.

The governor of Mississippi wants the FBI to look into these missing kids.

The greatest leader of our time has been struck down

The greatest tribute we can pay to President Kennedy

The hell it ain't.

The honorable Lyndon B. Johnson

The issue is not about race.

The justice says Bob Moses of the Freedom Summer project

The land of the free and the home of the brave

The law can prevent them from denying you a job

The law can't make white folks love you.

The least the MFDP might be willing to accept

The MFDP will get two voting delegates, Aaron Henry and Edwin King.

The minute McNamara gets here, you send him in.

The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, I heard.

The New York Herald Tribune put up the headline,

The next bill will be voting rights.

The number of delegates at a convention, who gives a shit?

The old senator talked about how outside forces

The other man arrested was an army staff sergeant.

The point is we can work with this president.

The point is, the press has got to it somehow.

The polls are closing right now in New York State.

The president is actively gathering signatures

The president is going to announce his address

The president is planning new legislation that will bring a huge federal intervention

The president will handle Everett Dirksen.

The principles of freedom forbid it.

The problem here is there's three sovereignties involved.

The same conditions that will be inflicted by this bill

The sex mad preacher.

The son of a bitch stole it from me in the final seconds

The Southern filibuster cannot be defeated without substantial changes.

The Speaker calls for a final vote on House Bill 736.

The stakes are too high for you to stay home.

The stronger Russell gets,

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC,

The terrible pain you must be feeling in your hearts.

The time for posturing is over.

The way a man dresses or combs his hair.

The way she'd freeze him out.

The white men who murdered James Chaney are never gonna be punished!

The whole country will think

The winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Peace

Then God damn your souls!

Then how the hell do we know we were attacked?

Then I expect to see your bright and shiny faces

Then King yells that I'm letting them get away with murder.

Then the hell with them all.

Then we can get back to things that really matter.

Then we filibuster it to death.

Then what's the presidency for?

Then, we'll only have to run it once and let the press do our work for us.

There an echo in here?

There damn well better not be.

There doesn't appear to be any security compromise at all.

There is a way that we can completely bypass Eastland's committee

There may be trouble,

There we go.

There were no bodies in the car they found.

There will be reporters there, too.

There you go, Everett.

There you go.

There's a barn owl out there in the live oaks hunting mice.

There's no place for nice in a knife fight.

There's no sense in pretending last night's event didn't happen, not anymore.

There's only two cufflinks like this in the entire world...

There's the United States, there's the state of Mississippi,

These are the numbers.

These are the stakes

These murders, they've rocked the movement.

These people have shed their blood...

They beat them and shot them and lynched them.

They claim they're sick or something.

They found Chaney's body.

They got to quit that!

They humiliated him to his face,

They owe us big, Martin.

They say the political risk is too high.

They were all working the Freedom Summer project in Meridian.

They were investigating the burning of a n**** church in Neshoba County.

They were released late at night by a deputy sheriff

They were taken to the medical center in Jackson for examination.

They'd show up hungry every morning

They'll just grin and bear it.

They're down in Mississippi right now

They're gonna claim they were abused or something.

They're gonna think you're just gutting the bill, sir.

They've been missing for 15 hours now.

Things are getting pretty violent in Mississippi.

Think what that will do for our people.

This ain't about principles, it's about votes!

This ain't about the Constitution.

This bill is just the thin edge of the wedge.

This bill is nothing less than an assault on the Constitution

This bill will guarantee the commercial destruction

This cannot continue.

This has Goldwater's fingerprints all over it.

This is a major victory.

This is clearly a publicity stunt.

This is just like the white plantation bosses

This is the seal of the presidency of the United States.

This map shows the current concentration of the n**** race in America.

This younger generation's not gonna fall on their sword for segregation.

Those bastards would love to see me down.

Those people are Democrats just like you and me,

Those young men went down to Mississippi and died

Three young men have gone missing.

Time is on our side.

To a bunch of Congolese savages.

To become my Vice President of the United States

To consider House Bill 736,

To drag the South out of the past.

To end discrimination in all future conventions

To enlarge it, or seek a negotiated settlement.

To force them to work

To get that bill out of Judge Smith's committee.

To get this bill passed.

To join other Freedom Summer organizers in Mississippi.

To learn how to register n**** voters in Mississippi.

To lobby these House members to release that bill.

To make a world in which all of God's children can live

To make this country live up to its forgotten promises

To poverty, hunger, and jobs.

To prohibit any segregated delegation in the future.

To respond to their violence with love and forgiveness.

To see my first live child.

To step down now would be wrong for your country.

To tell the owner of a cafe who he can hire or who he can serve?

To the President of the United States!

Today, I'd say to all my fellow Americans,

Trust LBJ. He's one of us.

Trying to get him to take notice of me.

Two hundred and ninety votes for

Two male n**** prisoners to beat me with a blackjack.

Two, one,

Uh huh. Nice cufflinks, Mr. President.

Uh, Edgar,

Uh, howdy.

Uh...

Uh...

Uh...

Uh... Edgar, Edgar, I hate to interrupt,

Uh... Rita, Rita.

Um, he was working too hard and just snapped.

Unbelievable.

Understands that we expect him to put a lid on his people.

Unfortunate decision on filibustering this bill.

Unless he gives that away, too.

Until racial proportions are equalized among the 50 states.

Violates the 13th Amendment's prohibition against slavery or involuntary servitude.

Vote for President Johnson on November 3rd.

Voting rights is the meat of the coconut,

Wade in the water

Wade in the water

Wade in the water, children

Waiting for that one first moment of weakness.

Wake up, honey.

Walks kind of funny.

Wallace almost won Maryland.

Wallace is running at 90% with whites in eastern Maryland.

Wallace would be dead in the water without these goddamn riots.

Walter will resign immediately.

Walter, a televised address to both houses of Congress

Walter, I want you to change my travel schedule.

Walter, you let me know the minute Dick Russell gets here

Walter, you tell the press

Walter, you'll be right outside?

Walter!

Walter!

Walter!

Walter! Oh, good. All right, here.

Walter. Walter!

Was teaching first grade at this

We are going to flood the state of Mississippi with hundreds of student volunteers

We are here to bring our morality to our politics.

We are not here to bring politics to our morality.

We believe all men are entitled to the blessings of liberty.

We both got tough election fights ahead of us here.

We did it.

We don't have to fight, Dick.

We don't, for sure.

We get a hold of those, and Goldwater won't be able to say shit!

We got a major announcement in the Rose Garden.

We got it done.

We got it, Walter. Thank you.

We got people in this country living in unbelievable poverty.

We got to give them something this time, Dick.

We got to stand up in Jackson!

We have a new law of the land.

We have been oppressed and degraded by black, slimy,

We have contradictory sonar readings.

We have talked for 100 years or more.

We have talked long enough in this country about civil rights.

We have to assume those young men are dead.

We have to be very careful how we handle this.

We might as well kiss the whole goddamn election good bye.

We must either love each other,

We only need eight yeses

We send our delegates to the convention

We stick together, we'll be fine.

We will continue

We will not campaign against the bill,

We will not surrender.

We will now call the House of Representatives to order

We'll call them at large delegates.

We'll have to change that next November.

We'll integrate their delegation.

We'll talk more about this business in Tonkin.

We're about to land in Washington.

We're all upset.

We're down five points in Georgia, six points in South Carolina,

We're gonna change this country top to bottom.

We're gonna declare a war on poverty.

We're gonna filibuster this bill. It will never pass.

We're two votes short.

We've been preempted by the President.

We've got to take a stand.

We've gotta take it.

Wearing your big All the way with LBJ hats tonight

Well done, Dr. King.

Well,

Well, all right, then.

Well, all right!

Well, don't see what you can do!

Well, don't you think that America ought to have

Well, every year, she and her husband drive my Packard

Well, find out, God damn it.

Well, go on, go on, have some fun!

Well, Goldwater is tougher than you think.

Well, he can wait.

Well, he's hard on everybody, especially himself.

Well, hell, everything we can do to get him back home, Robert.

Well, honey, I'd like to, but I can't.

Well, honey, I'm just worried.

Well, how you doing in school, Luci?

Well, I don't forget these things. You understand me?

Well, I don't know anything about that.

Well, I heard that, and I did my damnedest to be that boy.

Well, I think we have to strike equal employment altogether.

Well, I understand that,

Well, I'd be happy to, Mr. President, but there's a jurisdictional problem.

Well, I'd do anything for you, Bill.

Well, I'll certainly take that under consideration, John.

Well, I'm just trying to do what the old master taught me.

Well, I'm not gonna let them build up the hate.

Well, I'm not gonna tell you how to run your shop,

Well, if I do, it'll be the Dixiecrats and Martin Luther King put me in my grave.

Well, if I'm anything like what you say,

Well, if you don't think my loyalty is important...

Well, if you're sure.

Well, in light of your announcement last night,

Well, in public, then, but nothing else changes between us.

Well, it ain't gonna be easy.

Well, it was disappointing, yeah.

Well, it wasn't Wallace I'm thinking of.

Well, it's a damn sight better

Well, it's been an adjustment.

Well, it's the temperature she cooked... Everything all right, Uncle Dick?

Well, LBJ is not gonna give us anything.

Well, listen, I just wanna thank you all for coming up here

Well, maybe we can get

Well, Mr. President, I'm not sure my constituents would approve.

Well, my constituents have a number of concerns.

Well, neither did I.

Well, no, you don't wanna do that.

Well, nothing in this country will ever change until n****es can vote.

Well, now I'd hate to have to send

Well, now they got locked out because they're not registered to vote.

Well, now you're tarring a lot of people here, Mr. President.

Well, now,

Well, Reuther, I know how important

Well, right now it's all about the rules of the Senate.

Well, some folks tell me just to go slow.

Well, thank you, Martin. Thank you.

Well, that never stopped you before, did it?

Well, that's news to me.

Well, that's what I wanted to talk to you about, Mr. President.

Well, the good news is we've got a deal with Dirksen.

Well, the mainstream of American politics

Well, the party's changing.

Well, then they are yours.

Well, then they're probably on vacation, huh, Mr. Wilkins.

Well, there's certain signs, mannerisms.

Well, they'll be back.

Well, this whole mess is in my lap now.

Well, those boys are off hiding somewhere,

Well, we can talk more about it

Well, we were all very heartened by your speech last night, Mr. President.

Well, we'll talk about all them things in just a minute.

Well, well, well.

Well, were any of our ships hit?

Well, what did King say?

Well, what the president offered was an insult.

Well, whatever it is, 11 months from now, he has to run for reelection.

Well, yes, I guess that would.

Well, yes, it is.

Well, you can't pass the civil rights bill with it, not this year.

Well, you certainly don't sound fine.

Well, you could tell that liberal crowd of yours that I'm gonna out Lincoln Lincoln.

Well, you did throw me for a bit of a loop last night.

Well, you know you have it, sir.

Well...

Were brutalized and murdered.

Were found in a grave at the base of an earthen dam

Were met with water hoses, dogs, and even death.

What a great future the South could have

What are you doing out here by yourself?

What choice do I have?

What do we have to lose?

What do you think it is, why it tastes a little different?

What does Lyndon Johnson really want?

What does the visionary Bob Moses propose?

What I am saying is that there's a whole lot at stake here,

What I need is some help on this cloture vote.

What if Bobby smells blood and decides to run at the last minute?

What if he's serious?

What in...

What is it?

What kind of Christian you are.

What more do we have to do?

What the fuck are you so happy about?

What the hell do you want?

What the hell does Carl want?

What the hell is wrong with these people?

What the hell was she thinking?

What the hell?

What you looking at, ******?

What you think of Hubert?

What, are we just never gonna see him again?

What, it's Georgia?

What, you think I like this?

What?

What? I can't hear a goddamn thing you're saying, Humphrey.

What? Now where on Earth do you get that...

What...

What's the problem, Deputy Price? I thought we were good.

When all of us is tired.

When did you talk to Eastland about Dulles going down there?

When I take the stage.

When Lady Bird and I have you over for dinner on Thursday, as usual.

When Lyndon Johnson finished his speech, 20 million n****es unpacked.

When my daddy lost everything,

When the carpenter picks up his saw, if wood could talk,

When the time comes, he's gonna do the right thing.

When they broke through police lines.

When we get to Atlantic City, I will be the Democratic nominee.

When your great grandmother was hiding in the floorboards

Where our lives be threatened daily

Where the credentials committee

Where the hell are the ideas?

Where the hell's the solutions?

Where their knives gleam.

Where they challenge the legality

Where were you just now, Mr. President?

Whereas if one of our n**** volunteers gets hurt, who gives a fuck?

Which is working to establish

Which side are you on, Lord?

Which side are you on, Lord?

Which side are you on? Everybody, now

Which we are fighting to defend.

While a Comanche war party searches through the house just over my head,

While the Comanches were raiding her house, did she flinch?

While the people are still grieving Kennedy's death,

White students, too.

Who are devoted to the nonviolent pursuit

Who are devoted to the nonviolent pursuit of those rights...

Who are we

Who are we to tell a state

Who could argue with that, huh?

Who have been murdered by white men.

Who lamented to me

Who my vice presidential candidate will be.

Who said that? Who said that?

Whoo hoo!

Whoo!

Whose feet I was gonna have to be monkeying around with.

Why are you being such a shitheel with the press about me pulling on his ears?

Why didn't somebody stand up for me?

Why do I put up with you?

Why is this so called Reverend Martin Luther King

Why the hell is Senator Engle suddenly off my list?

Why, he's distraught, Lyndon.

Why, integrated buses are just the beginning.

Wife. Widow, I mean.

Will just disappear forever.

Will still be a strong bill with no further changes.

Will the delegates please be seated?

Will the delegates please be seated?

Will you vote for cloture?

With a handful of fake votes,

With all those agitators going down there, getting in people's business.

With any luck, he signed off on his fitness evaluations.

With the election only 11 months away...

With these goddamn fellas down there doing things the old way

With those conservative Republicans for years,

Without a discharge petition.

Won't happen again, sir.

Would be some actual votes at the convention, a few votes.

Would you leave me alone?

Would you like some more gravy?

Wouldn't be nobody in politics or the pulpit.

Wouldn't be respectful.

Yeah, and so was Nixon in '60.

Yeah, Goldwater.

Yeah, it is a big damn decision,

Yeah, that come into our state creating all kinds of problems.

Yeah, well, you're preaching to the choir there, Reverend.

Yeah, yeah, I'll keep that in mind, Hubert.

Yeah, you know, I think you got the right idea there, Governor.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. All right, put him through.

Yeah. Sit there.

Yes, okay.

Yes, personally Goldwater deplores racism.

Yes, sir, and the Soviets had their first nuclear test

Yes, sir, but I really must...

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

Yes, we do.

Yes, yes, yes, I know how Alan Bible feels about it,

Yes!

Yes!

Yes!

Yet millions are deprived of those blessings.

You and I both know you're not serious.

You and me, we got till the convention in August,

You are a colossal fraud, and an evil, vicious one at that,

You are as brave a man as FDR and Truman and Lincoln.

You bet I will.

You boys just stay here. I'll figure this out.

You call Rose Kennedy?

You can forget about civil rights. Is that what you want?

You can see a largely n**** delegation

You cannot cut voting rights out of the civil rights bill!

You could have been our greatest leader,

You could still see the doctor's footprints in my wife's blood.

You do what I tell you to do.

You don't go and sell a horse by talking about it

You don't have the goddamn votes.

You don't have to worry about Bobby.

You don't know how to fight.

You don't want the publicity, and I sure as hell don't wanna stir up a mess

You enjoy your party, Mr. President.

You get a hold of Walter's Air Force Reserve records.

You get me Walter Reuther.

You get over that pretty quick.

You get that?

You get your agents down there to Neshoba County,

You get your people to accept it,

You got the balls to do what you know is right,

You happen to be overseas visiting our troops.

You have been cutting deals

You have that from us, sir.

You hear of this public telegram of King's demanding that I seat the MFDP?

You hear what that n**** comedian Dick Gregory said about me?

You just out for yourself,

You know every year, my cook, Zephyr Wright...

You know how strongly I feel about this civil rights bill.

You know how you win a campaign?

You know I'm gonna be there for you when it counts,

You know I'm under a lot of pressure to announce my running mate for the election.

You know me, Walter.

You know none of this would've happened without you, Uncle Dick, none of it.

You know she would. Like my wife.

You know we got a hell of a lot of work ahead of us.

You know what I think it is?

You know what I think?

You know what Mr. Sam wanted?

You know what the old soldier said on parade?

You know what?

You know, civil rights isn't the only thing I'm interested in, Dr. King.

You know, Congress is gonna back me on this.

You know, Goldwater came out against civil rights,

You know, if that's the best the judge has to offer,

You know, that's the problem with you goddamn liberals.

You look a little down in the mouth for being the next vice president.

You look good, Bill. I bet you dropped a few pounds, huh?

You mean those three professional agitators.

You might as well paint a target on his back and declare open season.

You might win the nomination, but if the party splits...

You must seat the MFDP.

You need anything else?

You need to make up your mind once and for all

You okay, honey?

You promised this country a civil rights bill, Mr. President.

You read this bullshit Wall Street Journal exposé about my corruption?

You remember who told me that?

You saw what King and his bunch did in Birmingham.

You see her on TV?

You see the way she stared at me before I took the oath?

You see to it that his doctor issues a statement.

You should do so, including now.

You should vote for him.

You still plan on voting Republican this election, Bob?

You sure? So deep in Russell's back pocket, you'd think he was humping him.

You tell Lady Bird about this, and she'll starve me for a month.

You tell them that they can have two voting delegates.

You think every Southerner is gonna start dancing to your tune? Hmm?

You think he's hard on me?

You think there's any way we can stop him?

You told Dr. King you wanted this bill passed without one word changed.

You want me to call in the retaliatory strikes?

You would sabotage the entire civil rights movement over this?

You'll be expected to make a statement, something short.

You'll beat him with both hands tied behind your back.

You're all against me.

You're getting tall.

You're giving me a goddamn headache.

You're giving them something.

You're goddamn right it's my party,

You're gonna give yourself another heart attack.

You're gonna miss me when I'm gone.

You're gonna miss me when I'm gone.

You're gonna wish you was dead.

You're just like the rest of them.

You're my brother.

You're no accident, Mr. President.

You're thinking you're gonna cut a deal with Senator Dirksen.

You've got to get the MFDP to compromise.

You've gotta get the MFDP on board,

You've had your say, and now I'm gonna have mine.

You've won your case in the court of public opinion.

Young people seeking the right to vote

Your clergy, your union guys, and what have you,

Your friends would be frozen with embarrassment,

Your golden boy Humphrey is to you

Your lipstick.

Your party. Mmm.

Your people said they vetted him.

Your wife just doesn't want you to get too big for your britches.

Zero.

20 miles from Philadelphia, Mississippi,

30 n**** homes and businesses dynamited for 1,200 votes.

96% of the n**** vote to Johnson.

A terrible time. Yeah.

Abbitt. Nay.

Abele. Yea.

Adair. Yea.

Albert. Nay.

Amen! Yes!

And feel good about it. Yeah.

and it's getting cold. Saved by the belle.

And they are counting on you. I'm gonna resign.

And voting rights. Next year.

Are you? Yes!

bring them in. Well, actually...

but they're pulling me six ways from Sunday. Mr. President!

Can he do that? Of course he can.

Christ. Terrible.

Come to Mississippi. Don't be ridiculous.

Congratulations I appreciate it.

Congratulations. Thank you.

Damn right. That's right.

Do you? I do.

Edgar. Mr. President.

First of all, I wanna thank y'all... I don't understand.

for no two seats. That's right.

Forty acres and a mule. That's right.

from Mississippi has been reached. All right.

Gerri, where's Walter? Right here.

Get started. Yes, sir.

Grae. Mr. President.

He just never delivered. He's no George Wallace.

He'll gut the bill? Yes. He knows who his friends are.

His greatest regret? No, sir.

How you feeling? Fine, fine.

Hubert. Mr. President.

I assumed that Majority Leader Mansfield... No, no!

I can imagine. But I am enjoying it.

I got no brakes! Look out!

I know a lot of people are... Come on.

I know a lot of people are... Come on.

I'd vote against it. Right.

I'm sorry? My dog, Little Beagle Johnson.

I've never. Oh.

in case of another attack are good to go. Air strikes?

is a mighty big victory... Yes, it is.

is fair representation of this... Hold on.

Is Humphrey still around? Hey, Daddy.

Is that it? I never said that.

Isn't that something? Oh, my God!

It's a car and a boat. I have never seen such a thing.

It's a difficult time. Yes, it is.

It's for you, sir. It's an honor, Mr. President.

It's wrong. Look, there will be a final offer.

It's your job to bring them around. My job?

Let somebody else deal with this. You're not going to resign.

Lyndon. Mr. Speaker.

Martin, it's not that simple. Yes, it is.

Mississippi? Not just n**** volunteers.

Mr. President. Ah. Lyndon, Lyndon, please.

Mr. President... What, you think I like this?

Mr. President... You say you're the leader of the liberal wing

Mr. Speaker. Can you hear that?

Nay. Mr. Andrews votes nay.

Nine... ...eight, seven,

No brakes! Hold on! Jeez!

No, I'm wearing heels. Are you?

No, thank you. Hey, what about me?

No? No.

No... No, no, you have my word.

Now, are you in or are you out? Well, that...

Now, that's enough of that! No.

of the credentials committee. Jim, what the hell's going on?

Oh, she understands. Jesus.

Oh, yeah? Look at me.

our TV campaign down there. Yes, sir.

Politics is war, period. Congratulations, Daddy.

Put more money into Maryland. Yeah,

Really? Yes, sir.

Recovering from surgery. Holy shit.

Roy, people are dying in Mississippi. Exactly. Exactly.

Senator Russell. Oh. Yep, yep.

Shall we order them in? Surely, this is a situation

She's upset, honey. We're all upset, Bird!

Sir, I... He won't be able to get elected dogcatcher,

Sir, Senator Humphrey's here. All right.

Sir, Senator Humphrey's here. All right.

Sir? What?

Six. Six.

Sixty seven votes! Congratulations.

So the South held? Yes, sir.

Stand up! Stand up!

Stand up! Stand up!

Stand up! Stand up!

Thank you, Mr. President. Dr. King.

Thank you. I wanna reach out to the leadership

that ain't nothing, God damn it! The liberal wing of the party

That's all right. Bye, Daddy. Bye.

That's good. Yeah.

That's nonsense! Yes, sir!

That's right! And he's right.

the rest of the South will follow. Mr. President?

Then show me some goddamn leadership! Look out!

then why not? Because people will die in Mississippi!

There are 40 amendments I'm proposing. Forty?

There are some things you can't predict. That's your job, Edgar.

There you are. Here, Mr. President.

this close to the election? Sir...

This is awful. It sure as hell is.

This is watertight. Well, it's an amphibious car.

This must be some kind of mistake. No, sir.

to educate and register n**** voters. You crazy.

Token? Don't twist my words, Aaron.

Twelve hundred, give or take. Mmm.

Two girls and four boys. Phew!

unbearably stinking ******s. That's enough of that kind of talk.

Uncle Dick. Congratulations, Mr. President.

Uncle Dick. You're up awful late, Mr. President.

We got to stand up in Meridian! Yeah!

We're not asking... All right, all right, calm down.

We've got a situation in Mississippi. Yeah?

Well, I don't know. Well, find out.

Well, I wouldn't go that far. No, he does!

Well, is he conscious? I don't know, sir.

Well, of course I... And what kind of man are you?

Well, yes, that among... Get this shot. Get this shot here.

Well... Hey, why don't you bring your swimsuit

Were there any explosions? No, sir.

what are we going to do? Stand up!

What do we want? Freedom!

What do we want? Freedom!

What do you mean? There's been a leak somewhere.

What, Sanders backed down? Yes, sir, he did.

What? And Dr. King is still on three.

What? Fix your lipstick.

What's the announcement? Hell if I know!

When do we want it? Now!

When do we want it? Now!

When's the last time you ate anything? Go away, Bird.

Where's Lady Bird? Right behind you, where I've always been.

Where's the governor? Left an hour ago.

Which side are you on? Everybody, now Which side are you on?

Who? The...

Who? Who leaked it? We're tracking it down.

Why, his Communist connections... Edgar,

will think you've betrayed them. Well, those are your people.

with the press about that. Well, don't.

Yea. Mr. Andrews votes yea.

Yeah. The longer this filibuster goes,

Yes, but... Sir, Dr. Martin Luther King is on three.

Yes, he did. We all know

Yes, I am! No, you are not!

Yes, sir. And, Walter, anything that McNamara needs,

Yes. Are you angry?

You are essentially going to have to lie. Mr. President!

You don't own a monopoly over suffering. I never said that I did.

You know that. You got to look like

you make sure he gets it. Yes, sir.

You see how you like that. Mr. President, come on.

You understand me? Yes, sir.

You understand? Yeah.

you will do irreparable damage to the cause. That's right.

...11 months from now, he has to run for reelection.

...and you now own them both.

...but I know my Bible.

...CBS poll profile analysis.

...eight, nine...

...engaged by the Mississippi delegation here tonight.

...far too small

...I not only blame the people who pulled the trigger

...in which the MFDP can take real pride.

...movement of many peoples

...still wondering

...that every fiber of my being...

...that nothing shall be lacking from the struggle...

...this award should be given to the American civil rights...

...watching over every aspect

...you're gonna have to do the same thing to the black ones.

'cause it is the right thing to do!

'cause most of them hadn't had any breakfast.

'cause there's no feeling in the world half as good as winning.

'Cause they had discovered that the world hated them

'cause they're all whites only.

'Cause this is how new things are born.

'cause we wanna live as decent human beings.

'cause when their friends called the jail down there,