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He's spent his entire life

trying to be president.

But he's there now.

For the first time,

he can do whatever he wants.

That's the question, isn't it?

What does Lyndon Johnson

really want?

Well, whatever it is,

11 months from now,

he has to run for reelection.

Like Kennedy, he damn sure is

gonna need the Negro vote to win.

Amen.

L.B.J. wants our support.

Okay.

But this president is gonna have to

deliver a real civil rights bill.

And we're gonna hold his feet

to the fire until he does.

- Levison:
Damn right.

- Abernathy:
That's right.

11 months from now,

he has to run for reelection.

Like Kennedy, he damn sure is

gonna need the Negro vote to win.

Abernathy:
Amen.

Hoover:
Stanley Levison.

Why is this so-called

"Reverend" Martin Luther King

taking advice from a

well-known Communist agitator?

That's a very good

question, sir.

Let's see who else

King is meeting.

I want all his travel

covered from now on.

- Get started.

- Yes, sir.

I will leave the goddamn

Democratic Party

before I turn it over

to a bunch of Congolese savages.

Now, hold on a second, Strom.

This bill is just

the thin edge of the wedge.

You saw what King and his

bunch did in Birmingham.

Why, integrated buses

are just the beginning.

Now we gotta shop with them,

eat with them, work with them.

We have been oppressed and

degraded by black, slimy,

- unbearably stinking n*ggers.

- That's enough of that kind of talk.

That's exactly

what they wanna hear

so they can dismiss us all

as a bunch of redneck goons.

Thank you, Joles.

We have to be very careful

how we handle this.

The issue is not about race.

It's about the gravest

possible assault

on the United States

Constitution,

which we are fighting to defend.

The president is actively

gathering signatures

for a discharge petition

to get the bill out of my

committee in the House.

And what do you expect

him to do, Judge?

He's got to at least look

lively on civil rights.

When the time comes,

he's gonna do the right thing.

- He'll gut the bill?

- Yes. He knows who his friends are.

But if he gets the bill

out of my committee?

It still has to go

through the House,

then out of Jim's committee

before it even gets

to the Senate floor.

And none of this can get

in the way of party unity.

In this election, we can

have a lock on the Senate

and a lock on the House and we can

elect a Southern Democrat president.

It's about time the South

rejoined the rest of the country.

My friends, if we do our part,

Lyndon is gonna know who

to thank on November 4th.

And don't you worry

about the president.

I know how to handle him.

Well, the mainstream

of American politics

has carried you and me down to the

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