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how Zephyr's coming with that cobbler. 720 00:45:35,900 --> 00:45:39,814 I just heard how you snuck that bill through Jim's committee 721 00:45:39,862 --> 00:45:42,696 with some bogus procedural point of order. 722 00:45:45,493 --> 00:45:49,203 A perfectly legal maneuver, Uncle Dick. Just like you taught me. 723 00:45:49,288 --> 00:45:52,406 I also taught you something about party loyalty. 724 00:45:52,500 --> 00:45:54,492 Well, the party's changing. 725 00:45:55,419 --> 00:45:59,754 This younger generation's not gonna fall on their sword for segregation. 726 00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:04,255 You think every Southerner is gonna start dancing to your tune? Hmm? 727 00:46:04,553 --> 00:46:06,385 Wallace almost won Maryland. 728 00:46:06,472 --> 00:46:07,508 But he didn't. 729 00:46:07,598 --> 00:46:11,137 Another riot and he will. And there will be more riots. 730 00:46:11,185 --> 00:46:14,019 We're gonna filibuster this bill. It will never pass. 731 00:46:14,063 --> 00:46:15,804 Are you so sure about that? 732 00:46:15,856 --> 00:46:17,392 I know what you're thinking. 733 00:46:17,942 --> 00:46:20,935 You're thinking you're gonna cut a deal with Senator Dirksen. 734 00:46:21,028 --> 00:46:22,940 You filibuster, what choice do you leave me? 735 00:46:23,030 --> 00:46:26,523 A Democratic president ignoring his own party 736 00:46:26,617 --> 00:46:29,701 and making a deal with the Senate Minority Leader. Shameful! 737 00:46:30,079 --> 00:46:32,617 Now, don't you get all high and mighty with me. 738 00:46:33,791 --> 00:46:35,373 You have been cutting deals 739 00:46:35,459 --> 00:46:37,542 with those conservative Republicans for years, 740 00:46:37,586 --> 00:46:39,669 but now I can't cross the aisle? 741 00:46:39,714 --> 00:46:40,875 Shit. 742 00:46:49,265 --> 00:46:50,847 We don't have to fight, Dick. 743 00:46:57,023 --> 00:46:58,309 Yes, we do. 744 00:47:04,947 --> 00:47:06,734 I'm coming for you, Dick. 745 00:47:09,410 --> 00:47:13,404 Now, I love you more than my own daddy. 746 00:47:17,043 --> 00:47:18,909 But if you get in my way... 747 00:47:20,504 --> 00:47:21,915 I'll crush you. 748 00:47:23,966 --> 00:47:25,502 <i>I regret that the president</i> 749 00:47:25,593 --> 00:47:29,928 <i>has embraced the radical program of the left-wing groups</i> 750 00:47:30,014 --> 00:47:33,428 <i>that is erroneously called "the civil rights bill".</i> 751 00:47:33,851 --> 00:47:37,265 <i>It is still a vicious assault on the Constitution.</i> 752 00:47:37,897 --> 00:47:43,438 <i>And we in the Senate intend to fight with our boots on to the last ditch.</i> 753 00:47:44,070 --> 00:47:47,734 <i>Beginning today, we will filibuster this bill.</i> 754 00:47:48,574 --> 00:47:50,486 <i>Let the real war begin.</i> 755 00:47:51,660 --> 00:47:54,118 This ain't about the Constitution. 756 00:47:55,831 --> 00:47:59,290 It's about those who got more wanting to hang on to what they got 757 00:47:59,377 --> 00:48:01,460 at the expense of those who got nothing. 758 00:48:02,129 --> 00:48:03,620 - And feel good about it. - Yeah. 759 00:48:03,714 --> 00:48:07,879 But the way he frames it, draping himself in the Stars and Stripes, 760 00:48:07,968 --> 00:48:09,425 it's compelling. 761 00:48:09,470 --> 00:48:12,634 I mean, what are you fighting for, darling, in your heart? 762 00:48:12,681 --> 00:48:14,889 That's what the people need to hear. 763 00:48:16,727 --> 00:48:19,970 Look at that. Look at that. Look at the size of his ears. 764 00:48:20,147 --> 00:48:21,854 You get that? 765 00:48:25,152 --> 00:48:26,142 Whoo-hoo! 766 00:48:28,322 --> 00:48:31,190 Well, listen, I just wanna thank you all for coming up here 767 00:48:31,283 --> 00:48:33,491 and sharing some time with me. 768 00:48:33,577 --> 00:48:38,117 I wanted to just respond to what Senator Russell... 769 00:48:38,165 --> 00:48:39,281 His decision, 770 00:48:40,459 --> 00:48:43,668 unfortunate decision on filibustering this bill. 771 00:48:45,631 --> 00:48:49,124 It reminds me that when I got out of college... 772 00:48:49,969 --> 00:48:53,178 Now, the only job that I could get 773 00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:58,429 was teaching first grade at this 774 00:48:59,019 --> 00:49:02,262 beat-up, old elementary school in Cotulla, Texas. 775 00:49:03,065 --> 00:49:08,777 It was just a dusty, old border town in the middle of nowhere. 776 00:49:10,531 --> 00:49:14,491 Full of Mexican immigrants who didn't have a pot to piss in. 777 00:49:16,787 --> 00:49:19,746 But, God, did I love those kids of mine. 778 00:49:22,334 --> 00:49:24,496 They'd show up hungry every morning 779 00:49:24,545 --> 00:49:26,832 'cause most of them hadn't had any breakfast. 780 00:49:28,174 --> 00:49:31,588 But they were so on fire to learn. 781 00:49:33,929 --> 00:49:35,545 It just made you feel good. 782 00:49: