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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

from the White House.

As we've seen...

anything can happen from there.

There's a barn owl out there

in the live oaks hunting mice.

Is Hubert on board?

Yeah.

One heart attack

in a lifetime is plenty,

thank you very much.

Why do I put up with you?

Oh, because you would

be lost without me.

King won't be so easy.

He won't trust me now and

I can't say I blame him.

He doesn't know you yet.

If I keep King's support,

I risk losing Uncle Dick's.

I may have in any case.

I always thought it would

take a Southern president

to drag the South

out of the past.

Sh*t, they're not gonna

thank me for it.

King:
You promised this country a

civil rights bill, Mr. President.

And the voting rights

component is critical.

Absolutely critical,

and we're gonna fix that.

Just not in this bill.

Right now, we're gonna take care

of segregation in public

accommodations first.

I got it. I'll get that, Manny.

Thank you.

You know, every year,

my cook Zephyr Wright...

Oh, the best

damn chicken fried steak

you ever put in your mouth...

Well, every year, she and her

husband drive my Packard

from Washington back down

to the ranch for me.

Well, now, Zephyr,

she can't use any restrooms

on those highways

'cause they're all whites only.

She got to squat in a field

by the side of the road

to pee like a dog.

Now, that's just not right

and by God,

we're gonna fix that.

Well, nothing in this country will

ever change until Negroes can vote.

The next bill

will be voting rights.

After President Kennedy's

election,

Eisenhower had publicly declared

that his party had taken

the Negro vote for granted.

I would hate to see the Democratic

Party make the same mistake.

If you think Barry Goldwater's

a legitimate heir

to Abraham Lincoln,

you should vote for him.

You know, civil rights

isn't the only thing

I'm interested in, Dr. King.

We got people in this country

living in unbelievable poverty.

I know.

I grew up like that

in the Hill Country.

Picking cotton

on my hands and knees,

harnessed like a mule

to a road plow,

living off the bitter

charity of my neighbors.

But we're gonna change all that.

We're gonna declare

a war on poverty.

A war on poverty?

That's right.

Now, I got all kinds

of federal programs in mind

on health, education,

literacy, jobs, you name it.

We're gonna change

this country top to bottom.

That sounds extraordinary.

There you go.

And I would very

enthusiastically support

legislation to that effect.

But right now,

I need to be able

to go back to my people

and tell them

that this president

is committed to civil rights

and that this bill,

even without voting rights,

will still be a strong bill

with no further changes.

If I can't do that,

I'll lose their faith.

And in their despair, I...

I don't know what'll happen.

Is that a threat?

I don't want riots

any more than you do.

But...

in order to avoid

that type of situation,

I need to be able

to deliver meaningful reform.

Okay.

Okay.

Now here's what I need...

The bill is stuck in Judge

Smith's Rules Committee

and I need at least

eight votes...

Walter... To pry it out.

Five Republicans

and three Democrats.

Walter! Oh, good.

All right, here.

Now, you get your people

in each one of these districts here...

your ministers,

your clergy, your union

guys, and what have you...

To lobby these House members

to release that bill.

And lobbying is just like

propositioning women, you know?

Oh, I knew

this fellow once, ooh!

He was a real ladies' man.

He got more p*ssy

than you ever saw.

And I said to him,

"What is your secret?"

And he said,

"Well, I go into a bar

and I ask each woman

if she'd like to fool around."

I said, "Boy, you must've

got slapped a lot."

He said, "Oh, hell yeah,

but I also got me

a lot of yeses."

Well, now,

we only need eight yeses

to get that bill out of

Judge Smith's committee.

All right.

All right.

He said he'd get it

out of committee

and by God, he did.

- Hallelujah.

- And all it cost us

was the voting rights section.

King:
The point is we can

work with this president.

Now he's asking

for our further assistance

in lobbying Congress.

What do we have to lose?

Do we have to endorse

his candidacy as well?

King:
You still plan on voting

Republican this election, Bob?

You know, Goldwater came out

against civil rights,

purely on constitutional

grounds, of course.

- Yes, personally,

Goldwater deplores racism.

I just think asking for my vote

while denying me the right

to vote is bullshit!

The bill still gives us a lot.

Unless he gives that away, too.

I have his word there will

be no more compromises.

His word? Are you serious?

I cannot support a bill

without voting rights.

King:
I'm not asking you to.

I'm asking you

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