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

It is still a vicious assault on the Constitution.

And whose fault would that be?

Thank you, Joles.

Congratulations, Mr. President.

- Oh, yeah? - Look at me.

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

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

what kind of Christian you are.

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

Dirksen needs to look tough to his people.

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

The time for posturing is over.

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

Not even during Reconstruction.

Martin, I'm as frustrated as you are,

Officer: who did this? me:

Death threats, jail, shot at.

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

You get your agents down there to Neshoba County,

Aren't you gonna offer me any more gravy?

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

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

Well, thank you, Martin. Thank you.

Come on over here.

I once got to know this old senator from the South

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

Georgia, which has never deserted the Democratic Party,

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

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

Those bastards would love to see me down.

state highway patrolmen

Let the real war begin.

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

where our lives be threatened daily

Thank you, Senator.

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

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

Get me the sex tapes of King with those women.

Principles? Shit.

It's the passing of an era.

He could injure himself.

Um, he was working too hard and just snapped.

Well, all right!

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

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

Get me the governor of Mississippi.

Hoover will just drag his feet.

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

All right, talk to me, Hubert.

You must seat the MFDP.

A towheaded boy to take fishing.

Thank you, gentlemen.

We don't, for sure.

I could probably get my troops to accept public accommodations.

Georgia has never voted Republican before, not once.

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

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

If this is what it takes to move the bill,

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

Will the delegates please be seated?

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

I want you to run this right away.

Then we filibuster it to death.

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

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

Or maybe you think Goldwater ought to be president.

- You know that. - You got to look like

I'll see you up on three.

of the Democratic Party?

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

in order to protect the president from deviants like Jenkins,

- from Mississippi has been reached. - All right.

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

What the hell do you want?

White students, too.

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

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

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

Probably the sheriff, too.

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

had been arrested for speeding during the day.

That's the question, isn't it?

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

But if he gets the bill out of my committee?

Well, you certainly don't sound fine.

And the old senator talked longingly

That graveyard of yours got room for one more?

I'm digging a hole as we speak.

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

two male Negro prisoners to beat me with a blackjack.

Martin, your funding is on the line.

An entirely understandable concern.

She could stampede the liberals into seating the MFDP,

I'm still here, Mr. President.

Russell won't even see it coming.

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

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

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

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

I regret that the president

You remember who told me that?

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

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

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

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

it's compelling.

And people like you, Hubert.

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

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

They humiliated him to his face,

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

Well, I don't know anything about that.

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

I blame the state of Mississippi,