LBJ: Is that you, Edgar?
JEH: It's me, Mr. President.
LBJ: That goddamn march. It's all over the news.
JEH: I've read the announcements. They've fulfilled my very worst fears and apprehensions.
LBJ: That son-of-a-bitch is bringing an army to protest me, after all I've done for the Negro people.
JEH: The march will unleash a bloodbath.
LBJ: I asked him to call it off, but the son-of-a-bitch refused. He's killing my chance to get reelected. He's in cahoots with that spoon-fed cocksucker, Bobby Kennedy.
JEH: I will let you in on a little-known fact, Mr. President. Bobby allowed me to tap and bug King himself, back in '63. He has forgotten his initial misgivings in his rush to embrace that Communist.
LBJ: The cocksucker wants my job. King's creating the fucking dissent that will get it for him.
JEH: I'm putting 44 agents on King. They will disseminate derogatory data nationwide. I will do everything in my power to subvert this march.
LBJ: Edgar, was there ever a better friend to the Negro people than me?
JEH: No, Mr. President.
LBJ: Edgar, has my legislation improved the lot of the Negro people?
JEH: Yes, Mr. President.
LBJ: Edgar, have I been a friend to Martin Luther King?
JEH: Yes, Mr. President.
LBJ: Then why is that cocksucker trying to cornhole me when I've bent over backwards to befriend him?
JEH: I don't know, Mr. President.
LBJ: He's a worse bane to my fucking existence than this fucking war I'm fucking knee-deep in.
JEH: I'm going to plant a Negro in the SCLC. He used to work as my chauffeur.
LBJ: Tell him to chauffeur King off a cliff JEH: I understand your frustration, Sir.
LBJ: I'm getting fucked from two flanks. I'm fighting a two-front war against a King and a fucking Kennedy.
JEH: Yes, Mr. President.
LBJ: You're a good man, Edgar.
JEH: Thank you, Mr. President.
LBJ: Do what you can on this, all right?
JEH: I will, Sir.
LBJ: Goodbye, Edgar.
JEH: Goodbye, Mr. President.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/7/67. Los Angeles Examiner subhead:
BUSINESS COMMUNITY ATTACKS KING FOR "POOR PEOPLE'S MARCH".
DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/9/67. Dallas Morning News subhead:
SPRING MARCH ON WASHINGTON "SOCIALISTIC,".
BUSINESS LEADERS CHARGE.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/17/67. Chicago Tribune headline and subhead:
NIXON IN '68?.
EX-VEEP TO ANNOUNCE CANDIDACY?.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/17/67. Miami Herald headline and subhead:
CLERGYMEN ON WASHINGTON MARCH:.
"A CALL TO ANARCHY AND RIOTS".
DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/18/67. Chicago Sun-Times subhead:
RFK PRAISES WASHINGTON MARCH.
MUM ON WHITE HOUSE PLANS.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/18/67. Denver Post-Dispatch headline and subhead:
WILL HE OR WON'T HE?.
PUNDITS ASSESS LBJ'S REELECTION PLANS.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/20/6 7. Boston Globe subhead:
KING CALLS FOR WAR PROTESTERS TO EMBRACE POOR PEOPLE'S MARCH.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/21/67. Sacramento Bee subhead:
EXPECT NIXON TO RUN, GOP INSIDERS SAY.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/22/67. Los Angeles Times subhead:
RFK, HUMPHREY PLAYING COY?.
AWAITING LBJ'S DECISION?.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/23/67. Kansas City Star subhead:
ROTARY PRESIDENT CALLS.
KING MARCH "COMMUNIST INSPIRED".
DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/28/67. Las Vegas Sun headline and subhead: