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You get your agents down there to Neshoba County,

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

Hoover will just drag his feet.

Come on over here.

I want you to run this right away.

I'm digging a hole as we speak.

Well, all right!

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

- We got to stand up in Meridian! - Yeah!

Officer: who did this? me:

All right, talk to me, Hubert.

- is fair representation of this... - Hold on.

Georgia has never voted Republican before, not once.

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

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

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

Thank you, Joles.

A towheaded boy to take fishing.

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

If this is what it takes to move the bill,

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

two male Negro prisoners to beat me with a blackjack.

Not even during Reconstruction.

I regret that the president

- Thank you. - I wanna reach out to the leadership

where our lives be threatened daily

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

It's the passing of an era.

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

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

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

The time for posturing is over.

You remember who told me that?

Well, thank you, Martin. Thank you.

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

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

Russell won't even see it coming.

in order to protect the president from deviants like Jenkins,

Get me the sex tapes of King with those women.

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

- You know that. - You got to look like

Those bastards would love to see me down.

But if he gets the bill out of my committee?

You must seat the MFDP.

- for no two seats. - That's right.

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

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

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

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

We don't, for sure.

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

That graveyard of yours got room for one more?

Well, I don't know anything about that.

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

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

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

it's compelling.

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

Probably the sheriff, too.

Death threats, jail, shot at.

He could injure himself.

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

Martin, your funding is on the line.

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

Georgia, which has never deserted the Democratic Party,

Or maybe you think Goldwater ought to be president.

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

Aren't you gonna offer me any more gravy?

- from Mississippi has been reached. - All right.

I blame the state of Mississippi,

who's filling in for marleen roch? matthew coombes.

Then we filibuster it to death.

- bring them in. - Well, actually...

had been arrested for speeding during the day.

I'll see you up on three.

Dirksen needs to look tough to his people.

And the old senator talked longingly

I'm still here, Mr. President.

Thank you, Senator.

Will the delegates please be seated?

what kind of Christian you are.

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

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

I could probably get my troops to accept public accommodations.

They humiliated him to his face,

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

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

Um, he was working too hard and just snapped.

- Oh, yeah? - Look at me.

She could stampede the liberals into seating the MFDP,

I once got to know this old senator from the South

That's the question, isn't it?

Thank you, gentlemen.

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

White students, too.

An entirely understandable concern.

Martin, I'm as frustrated as you are,

It is still a vicious assault on the Constitution.

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

Congratulations, Mr. President.

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

Principles? Shit.

Get me the governor of Mississippi.

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

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

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

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

Well, you certainly don't sound fine.

state highway patrolmen

And people like you, Hubert.

What the hell do you want?

And whose fault would that be?

Let the real war begin.

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

of the Democratic Party?