All the Way Page #7

You know I'm gonna be there

for you when it counts

and can I count on you now?

Howard, you do

the right thing here

and you're gonna help yourself

and you're gonna help your state

and you're gonna help

your country.

Will you vote for cloture?

Howard, you're a good man.

Thank you! Bye-bye.

- 67 votes!

- Congratulations.

Should we let Senator Dirksen

make the public announcement?

You think there's any way

we can stop him?

Johnson:
We believe all men

are entitled

to the blessings of liberty.

Yet millions

are deprived of those blessings,

not because

of their own failures,

but because of the color

of their skin.

This cannot continue.

Our Constitution forbids it.

The principles

of freedom forbid it.

And the law I will

now sign forbids it.

Thank you

and good day.

Man:
Reverend King.

Humphrey:
We did it. We did it.

We got it done.

- Man:
Congratulations.

- Humphrey:
Thank you.

There you go, Everett.

I appreciate it.

- Thank you, Mr. President.

- Johnson:
Dr. King.

I need to see

Dr. King, you hear.

- There you are.

- Here, Mr. President.

- It's for you, sir.

- It's an honor, Mr. President.

Likewise. Thank you.

Man:
Hear, hear.

- I'm sorry, Dick.

- No, you're not.

It's not personal.

It's just politics.

It's the passing of an era.

Well, yes, it is.

It's the passing of a time

of etiquette, courtesy.

It's the passing

of a time of principles,

like party unity.

You know what the old

soldier said on parade?

"Hey, look, everybody's

out of step but me."

Maybe.

I am old, that's true,

and God knows I'm tired.

But the fellas

coming up behind me

are utterly without

principle of any kind

and you'll see how you like

dealing with them.

You're gonna miss me

when I'm gone.

I still need you, Dick.

I'm still here, Mr. President.

But the rest of Dixie?

I hope you haven't just killed

your election chances.

Congratulations, Mr. President,

on your glorious achievement.

The Democratic Party

just lost the South

for the rest of my lifetime

and maybe yours.

What the f***

are you so happy about?

- - Reporter:
Senator

Goldwater's triumph

takes the leadership of his party

away from the eastern liberal block

and places it with

the western conservatives

for the first time since 1936.

- Woman:
L.B.!

- Johnson's voice: Clausewitz said...

Marjorie.

Politics is war by other means.

Bullshit.

- Politics is war, period.

- Congratulations, Daddy.

Thank you.

Goldwater:
that moderation

and the pursuit of justice

is no virtue.

Let me remind you also

that extremism

in the defense of liberty

is no vice.

Johnson's voice:
You know

how you win a campaign?

By not losing it.

Good morning, Mr. President.

Johnson's voice:
I only lost

one election my whole life.

The son of a b*tch

stole it from me

in the final seconds with

a handful of fake votes,

and I will carry

the pain of that with me

to my dying day.

But I'll tell you what.

Nobody will ever

do me that way again.

Goldwater:
that every

fiber of my being...

It'll be some other way.

Goldwater:
that nothing shall

be lacking from the struggle...

Out of the car, boys.

What's the problem,

Deputy Price?

I thought we were good.

Out of the car, Jew boy.

Man:
What you

looking at, n*gger?

We've got a situation

in Mississippi.

- Johnson:
Yeah?

- Three young men have gone missing.

Michael Schwerner, age 25,

Andrew Goodman, age 21,

and James Chaney, 21.

They were all working the Freedom

Summer project in Meridian.

Chaney's a local Negro,

but Schwerner and Goodman were

both out-of-state volunteers,

both white.

Well, the sh*t

will hit the fan now.

Get me the governor

of Mississippi.

They were investigating

the burning

of a Negro church

in Neshoba County.

They've been missing

for 15 hours now.

Missing in Mississippi?

Son of a b*tch.

Yeah. All right,

put him through.

- - Governor, I'm calling

about those three boys.

You mean those three

professional agitators.

Chaney, Schwerner, and Goodman.

Yeah, that come into our state

creating all kinds of problems.

Apparently, a Deputy Price

arrested them

yesterday afternoon.

For driving 35 miles

over the speed limit.

- Really?

- Yes, sir.

So they held them

for a couple hours.

Oh, see, now that's

where it gets confusing

'cause when their friends

called the jail down there,

the deputy said

he had never heard of them.

Well, I don't know

anything about that.

Uh, Price said

he released them

at 10:
00 that night.

And nobody's

heard of them since.

This is clearly

a publicity stunt.

Well, those boys

are off hiding somewhere

probably having themselves

a good laugh,

and they're gonna come back in,

they're gonna claim they were

abused or something.

Well, now, I'd hate

to have to send

a whole bunch of federal

marshals into your state.

Uh, well, no,

you don't wanna do that.

Of course I don't.

You don't want the publicity

and I sure as hell

don't wanna stir up a mess

just eight weeks before

the Democratic Convention.

But there's a lot of

pressure to do something.

Now, if you'd rather,

I guess I can get a few FBI

agents to look into the thing.

FBI?

Well, it's a damn sight better

than the federal marshals

and the US Army, isn't it?

Well, yes, I guess it would.

Yeah, you know, I think

you got the right idea

there, Governor.

Let this be Hoover's

problem, not ours.

Hopefully, you're right

about the whole thing

and these boys will turn up quick

and we can all just relax.

Christ's sakes,

we got an election to win.

Hoover will just drag his feet.

No, not if I light

a fire under his ass.

- Mr. President.

- Edgar,

the governor of Mississippi

wants the FBI to look

into these missing kids.

Well, I'd be happy to,

Mr. President,

but there's

a jurisdictional problem.

Well, I'm not gonna tell you

how to run your shop,

but, uh, the governor

asked specifically

for the FBI to investigate.

I tried to put him off,

but, uh, well, I suppose

I can get

some third party involved.

I know Senator Jim Eastland

wants Allen Dulles

investigating.

CIA? Oh, no, Mr. President,

I don't think Dulles

is a good idea.

This is very clearly

an FBI matter.

Well, if you're sure.

I mean, the last thing

I would want

is Dulles down there acting like

he was running the FBI as well.

I'll tell you what, let's

say Eastland is my problem.

I'll just deal with him.

You get your agents down there

to Neshoba County

and you just wrap this

thing up quick, you hear?

When did you talk to Eastland

about Dulles going down there?

Oh, I made that part up.

The problem here is there's

three sovereignties involved.

There's the United States,

there's the state

of Mississippi,

and then there's

J. Edgar Hoover.

Reporter:
The burned-out station

wagon was discovered in the woods

20 miles from Philadelphia,

Mississippi,

a small town in which

Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney

had been arrested for speeding

during the day.

They were released late at

night by a deputy sheriff

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