HBO's 'All the Way', President Lyndon B. Johnson Behind-the Scenes Profile, Movie Premier May 21
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LBJ in the first year after John F. Kennedy's assassination stakes his presidency on what would be an historic unprecedented 1964 Civil Rights Act and is caught between the moral imperative of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the expectations of the southern Democratic Party leaders who brought him to power. As King battles to press Johnson while controlling more radical elements of the Civil Rights Movement, LBJ navigates the bill through Congress, winning a landslide victory against Barry Goldwater, but causing the South to defect from the Democratic Party.
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Bryan Cranston really was LBJ and I think they got the history right, too, great performances! 
in Atlantic City, NJ. Mrs. Hamer was a Mississippi resident and a civil rights and Freedom Summer activist. The speech she gave described the treatment she and others received when trying to register to vote in 1962 and the police violence she endured in Winona, MS in 1963 after sitting at a whites only bus station café.
Fannie Lou Hamer was also a founder of the MFDP, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party whose members attended the convention in hopes of representing the state as delegates. Mrs. Hamer's speech to the DNC Credentials Committee is partially shown on TV in the HBO film. Re-nominated by the DNC as the Democratic presidential candidate, in Nov. 1964 LBJ defeated his unpopular GOP opponent, Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona to earn another term in office. Goldwater was an extreme conservative who opposed the Civil Rights Act enacted by LBJ on July 2, 1964 and helped set up the modern Republican Party's candidate Ronald Reagan elected president in 1980.
http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2010/05/21/197312/goldwater-and-civil-rights/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
Wiki. The Republican candidate, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, suffered from a lack of support from his own party and his deeply unpopular conservative political positions. Johnson's campaign advocated a series of anti-poverty programs collectively known as the Great Society, and successfully portrayed Goldwater as being a dangerous extremist. Johnson easily won the Presidency, carrying 44 of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Goldwater's unsuccessful bid influenced the modern conservative movement and the long-time realignment within the Republican Party, which culminated in the 1980 presidential victory of Ronald Reagan.
His campaign received considerable support from former Democratic strongholds in the Deep South and was the first Republican campaign to win Georgia in a presidential election. Conversely, Johnson won Alaska for the Democrats for the first (and only) time, as well as Maine (for the first time since 1912) and Vermont (for the first time since the Democratic Party was founded).
Since 1992, Vermont and Maine have rested solidly in the Democratic column for presidential elections, and Georgia has remained in the Republican presidential fold since 1996.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1964
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/freedomsummer-hamer/
- Fannie Lou Hamer's Speech to the DNC Credentials Committee, Aug. 22, 1964, Atlantic City, NJ.
