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

Politics is war by other means.

The dead kid's wife, Schwerner.

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

Doctors are optimistic.

And as we've seen,

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

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

Can't believe it's true.

You do what I tell you to do.

I need to be able to deliver meaningful reform.

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

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

You're giving me a goddamn headache.

You could have been our greatest leader,

but the word is Governor Wallace has offered himself to Goldwater

Nothing comes free.

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

It's a waste of time.

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

We'll integrate their delegation.

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

Didn't expect to see you here.

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

For God's sake, Robert.

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!

That man's obsessed.

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

And lobbying is just like propositioning women, you know?

King knows where I stand.

Marjorie is just beside herself.

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

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

One man, one vote!

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

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

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

and in this party

- Yes, he did. - We all know

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

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

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

to lobby these House members to release that bill.

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

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

and that this bill, even without voting rights,

Senator Humphrey, God did not send us to Atlantic City

Well, LBJ is not gonna give us anything.

James Chaney gave his life

A civil rights law.

I don't think so.

I've been working with that man for 25 years

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

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

None of us can be involved.

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

purely on constitutional grounds, of course.

The law can prevent them from denying you a job

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

to the President of the United States!

How about that? How about that?

and sharing some time with me.

POV: my friends when I give them the pass

Likewise. Thank you.

and then there's J. Edgar Hoover.

I warned you about that.

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

I don't think...

But first, I gotta win the Democratic nomination.

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

On my way back,

You get over that pretty quick.

- Yea. - Mr. Andrews votes yea.

And the law I will now sign forbids it.

But I also got me a lot of yeses.

Where the hell are the ideas?

made from the bones of an emaciated chicken.

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

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

And the voting rights component is critical.

your golden boy Humphrey is to you

I nearly died of that heart attack 10 years ago.

We don't have to fight, Dick.

Katharine Graham of The Washington Post is on two.

As part of Freedom Summer,

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

If at any time you wish to quit,

We're about to land in Washington.

about how I'm taking orders from the Negroes,

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

Wife. Widow, I mean.

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

I depend on you, Hubert, you know that.

Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House.

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.

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

Pov: You're on your 3rd lose streak

- Nay. - Mr. Andrews votes nay.

Did King screw his sister or something?

is not helpful.

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

Is Khrushchev still in Egypt?

He'll be waiting on the tarmac.

Son of a bitch.

I'm sure Elizabeth would love Europe.

He has been put upon most disgracefully.

Your party. Mmm.

We have contradictory sonar readings.

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

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

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

on the innocent people of Georgia.

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

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