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You don't go and sell a

horse by talking about it

being blind in one eye

and got the heaves.

They're gonna think you're

just gutting the bill, sir.

Bullshit!

It's still a damn good bill.

Public housing, access,

school desegregation.

- Don't you tell me that ain't nothing, God damn it!

- The liberal wing of the party

- will think you've betrayed them.

- Well, those are your people.

- It's your job to bring them around.

- My job?!

Hell, yes. You're the great white

hope of liberals everywhere.

Well, if I'm anything

like what you say,

it's because people know

I stand by my principles.

Principles? Sh*t.

This ain't about principles,

it's about votes!

You know, that's the problem

with you goddamn liberals...

You don't know how to fight.

- Mr. President...

- You say you're the leader of the liberal wing

of the Democratic Party?

- Then show me some goddamn leadership!

- Look out!

- I got no brakes!

- Look out!

- No brakes! Hold on!

- Oh, jeez!

Hold on!

Humphrey:
What in...

My... what?

I thought I was a goner.

- This is watertight.

- Well, it's an amphibious car.

- It's a car and a boat.

- I have never seen such a thing.

I wish I had a

photograph of your face.

- Whew!

- Humphrey:
I've never.

Oh.

Do you wanna know what the ugliest

sound in the world is, Hubert?

It's the tick-tick-tick

of a clock.

All the men in my

family die young.

I nearly died of that heart

attack 10 years ago.

- A terrible time.

- Yeah.

And I ain't got much time left.

You and me, we got till

the convention in August,

while the people are still

grieving Kennedy's death,

to get this bill passed.

Now, if we don't act now,

this opportunity

to do something

about civil rights

will just disappear forever.

- Now, are you in or are you out?

- Well, that...

Can you get the bill out

of the House Rules Committee?

Leave Judge Smith to me.

- And voting rights.

- Next year.

- No...

- No, no, you have my word.

Gonna be a very, very difficult sell, Mr.

President.

Oh, I know. I know.

That's why I want you to be the

floor manager of this bill.

- Floor manager?

- Uh-huh.

I assumed that Majority

Leader Mansfield...

Oh, no, no!

Mike is a good man,

but, boy, I need

someone more personable.

And people like you, Hubert.

Hell, even Dick Russell

likes you.

- Well, I wouldn't go that far.

- No, he does!

He does.

You know I'm under

a lot of pressure

to announce my running

mate for the election.

Now, you show me

that you got the guts

to push this thing through,

and you make yourself

one very real candidate

to become my Vice President

of the United States...

of America.

A step away

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