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I don't think so.

your golden boy Humphrey is to you

Senator Humphrey, God did not send us to Atlantic City

Nothing comes free.

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

but the word is Governor Wallace has offered himself to Goldwater

We're about to land in Washington.

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

We'll integrate their delegation.

And lobbying is just like propositioning women, you know?

to lobby these House members to release that bill.

King knows where I stand.

is not helpful.

One man, one vote!

But I also got me a lot of yeses.

Politics is war by other means.

Wife. Widow, I mean.

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

Doctors are optimistic.

and then there's J. Edgar Hoover.

Did King screw his sister or something?

A civil rights law.

I'm sure Elizabeth would love Europe.

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

None of us can be involved.

Can't believe it's true.

it used to be ali repetto having hot spells and wetting herself with the hose and rolling on the floor wishe quit so it would be ashley gallagher taking those duties wouldn't it? yes it would.

James Chaney gave his life

about how I'm taking orders from the Negroes,

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

Is Khrushchev still in Egypt?

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

and sharing some time with me.

Marjorie is just beside herself.

to the President of the United States!

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

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

We don't have to fight, Dick.

You get over that pretty quick.

It's a waste of time.

Likewise. Thank you.

I don't think...

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

- Yes, he did. - We all know

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

- Isn't that something? - Oh, my God!

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

Son of a bitch.

It's the tick-tick-tick of a clock.

Well, LBJ is not gonna give us anything.

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

Katharine Graham of The Washington Post is on two.

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

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

You could have been our greatest leader,

POV: my friends when I give them the pass

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

Where the hell are the ideas?

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

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

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

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

I depend on you, Hubert, you know that.

told you to chuck the evil table out! it's done me no good i keep telling ya but you won't listen! bloddy fool! oh sorry darn you mr table (smacks table) ow! nooooooooooooo! yes. i promise i'll never be an evil table ever again!

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

purely on constitutional grounds, of course.

I nearly died of that heart attack 10 years ago.

Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House.

The dead kid's wife, Schwerner.

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

On my way back,

and the North is against me, and the Negroes are against me,

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

And as we've seen,

I need to be able to deliver meaningful reform.

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

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

Your party. Mmm.

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

You're giving me a goddamn headache.

Pov: You're on your 3rd lose streak

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

For God's sake, Robert.

And the voting rights component is critical.

And the law I will now sign forbids it.

You do what I tell you to do.

Didn't expect to see you here.

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

and in this party

- Nay. - Mr. Andrews votes nay.

He has been put upon most disgracefully.

made from the bones of an emaciated chicken.

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

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

on the innocent people of Georgia.

The law can prevent them from denying you a job

That man's obsessed.

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

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

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

As part of Freedom Summer,

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

I warned you about that.

I've been working with that man for 25 years

He'll be waiting on the tarmac.

But first, I gotta win the Democratic nomination.

- Yea. - Mr. Andrews votes yea.

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

and that this bill, even without voting rights,

We have contradictory sonar readings.

If at any time you wish to quit,

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

- Come to Mississippi. - Don't be ridiculous.

How about that? How about that?