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[uplifting music builds slowly]

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{\an8}[man] <i>In the 12th Congressional District
of New York,</i>

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{\an8}<i>a schoolteacher named
Mrs. Shirley Chisholm</i>

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{\an8}<i>was elected to Congress.</i>

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Running sip. Come on. [chuckling]

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- Shirley.
- [slurping]

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[chuckles]

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Mm.

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I'll see you later.

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[indistinct overlapping chatter]

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Ladies and gentlemen of the press,
fellow representatives,

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as Speaker of the House,
it is my honor to introduce

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the freshman class of the 91st Congress

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of the United States of America.

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[applause]

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Gentlemen, madam, welcome to Congress.

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Congratulations.

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- Thank you.
- Congresswoman Chisholm.

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[music ends]

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- ["Sugar" by The Isonics playing]
<i>- ♪ A-one, a-two ♪</i>

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<i>♪ A-one, two, three, four ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Aw, shucks! ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Aw, baby, it's never less! ♪</i>

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[trilling]

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<i>- ♪ Come on ♪
- ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Aw, yeah ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Like candy you buy at the corner store ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I keep coming for more ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Candy's sweet, girl, yes, it's true ♪</i>

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<i>♪ But not as sweet as you, now... ♪</i>

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[indistinct conversations]

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[woman] Oh!

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Hello.

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How are you, young lady? Come here.

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She worked hard, man.
She worked real hard.

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You're going to be president?

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I'm a congressman.

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You ain't no man.

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Maybe we should find your mother.

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<i>♪ Yeah ♪</i>

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<i>♪ All right, now, now, now, now ♪</i>

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[man] You and Shirley
have to move to Washington.

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Well... you know, she'll probably
get an apartment down there.

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[cameraman] Conrad, Shirley,
would you mind?

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[camera clicks]

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[in Spanish] You've always
been there for us.

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I remember, when we came
to Brooklyn from Puerto Rico,

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you made us feel part of the family.

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You are my family.

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[woman in English] This is just
the beginning, honey. The real fight?

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Men in Washington don't understand
how important the ERA is for us.

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Yes, and when the bell hits the floor,
I'll be there for you. I promise.

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And we're gonna be there for you.

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- [in Spanish] I appreciate you so much.
- I appreciate you too.

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[both chuckle]

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- [in English] Thank you.
- Mm.

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Let's go, Mama.

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[mama] You don't wanna
say goodbye to your sister?

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[sister] She's busy.

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Always is.

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I'm gonna say bye.

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<i>♪ All right, now, now, now, now ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Sugar ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Yeah ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Sugar ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Yeah ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Sugar ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I'm callin' your name out there, baby ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Sugar ♪</i>

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<i>♪ So sweet and... Yeah, baby ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Sugar ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Yeah ♪</i>

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[footsteps echoing]

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Morning, Ms. Chisholm. How you doing?

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I'm feeling pretty well.

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My, imagine making 42.5 like me.

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Congressman, we've both been here
for at least a week.

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And you say that to me nearly every day.

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Nearly every day,

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I'm amazed that you're able to make
as much money as the rest of us.

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Two things.

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First of all, since you can't stand
the idea of my making 42.5 like you,

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when you see me coming
into this chamber, vanish.

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Vanish so you don't have to confront me
with this 42.5.

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Secondly, you have to remember
the reason I'm here.

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I'm paving the road

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for a lot of other people looking like me
to get elected to Congress and make 42.5.

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Hm.

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Shirley.

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- Ron.
- Got a second?

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More than a second for a friendly face.

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Well, let's just see
how you feel after we talk.

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Okay.

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Want to give you a heads-up.

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They're putting together assignments
for new congressmen,

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and... they're assigning you
to the Agricultural Committee.

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Agriculture?

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- Corn, wheat, cows?
- I don't know about no cows.

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I represent Brooklyn.

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What am I gonna do for the people
of Brooklyn on the Agriculture...

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I wanted Veterans' Affairs.

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I went through the same
my first year in Congress.

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- Serve on the committee you're assigned.
- Agriculture? No.

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- That's just how it is.
- Who do I have to talk to?

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Speaker McCormack makes
all the committee assignments.

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But he's Speaker of the House.

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You don't talk
to the Speaker of the House.

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You...

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Oh Lord.

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There is no good reason to appoint me
to the Agricultural Committee.

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- You're a freshman.
- I represent the 12th District.

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- Take the assignment you're given.
- People need jobs and housing.

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- That's why they voted.
- Earn seniority...

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Seniority? I don't want to hear
about seniority, John.

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If you want me to fight you
on this, I'll fight you.

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You are not going to fight anyone.

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I am Speaker of the House.

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I decide who sits where,
and you better fall in line,

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or you're gonna kill your career
before it even gets started.

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Um, Andrew, here. Hold up a sec.

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<i>"Don't make a fuss,
and do as you're told."</i>

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Sh... Shirley. Shirley. Shirley. Shirley.

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I understand your frustration,
but it's just...

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- It's a process, Shirley.
- He's the leader of my own party.

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Congresswoman from Brooklyn,
and he wants to put me on an...

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It's about seniority.

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So wait my turn?

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Not wait, but...

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[sighs]

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Shirley, it's your first term.

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- Given time, you'll do great things.
- "Given time"?

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- I believe that. I do.
- You want to give Richard Nixon time.

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[sighs deeply]

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What?

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[sighs]

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What?

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[somber music playing]

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[sighs deeply]

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You'll find a way to fit in.

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[doorbell rings]

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["The Joy of Christmas"
by Dom James playing]

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[Shirley] Mac, good to see you.

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Shirley.

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Arthur.

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- Merry Christmas.
- Thank you. [chuckles]

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Come in.

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[Arthur] Thank you.

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[song fades out]

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[Mac] Shirley, in October,

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you told the Committee to Elect Chisholm
in Florida if they could raise $5,000,

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that you would put your name
on the primary ballot.

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They raised almost 10,000.

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[exhales]

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[Conrad] So what does that mean,
that they raised money?

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[Arthur] Yes, Miss Shirley.
What exactly does that mean?

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[exhales]

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Well, I told the women
if they raised the money,

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I'd put my name on the ticket.

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I'd run for president.

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President?

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What do you want us to tell them?

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Shirley, if you run,

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you can't win.

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Well, not with that attitude, I can't.

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And why can't I win?

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Besides the fact that I'm a Black woman.

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[Mac] Muskie's going to run away
with the Democratic primary.

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Even if you did get in the race,
the field's too crowded.

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Muskie. McGovern's running.
Lindsay's probably gonna run.

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Humphrey'll run.
Humphrey always runs. Mills.

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Scoop Jackson, for God's sake.
George Wallace.

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And what do they all have in common?

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Middle-aged white men.

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Who is representing the Blacks,

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the women, the Chicanos,
the youth, the working class?

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Well, one thing for sure,
you don't have enough money.

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I'll fundraise.

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[Mac] Off of who?

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The Chicanos, the youth,
the working class?

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[scoffs] They don't have any money.
Not real money.

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If you wanted to even
have a token campaign,

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you'd have to start with... three?

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Three.

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At least 300,000.

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And that would be a bare-bones,
slimmed-down campaign.

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Mac.

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I go to speak at college campuses,
and I have boys, white boys,

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coming up to me talking about,
"Mrs. Chisholm, when are you gonna do it?"

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"When are you going to run for president?"

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If there are white boys
who think I could be president,

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who think I <i>should</i> be president,

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then how am I not gonna try
for everybody else?

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[chuckles softly] Well...

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You're certainly not afraid to run.

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I ought to know.

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Mac.

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Shirley...

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[sighs deeply]

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What would you need from us?

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I would need you to advise me,
same as always.

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Arthur, you can oversee the money.

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Conrad can take a bit of time off work
to handle the security.

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Nothing?

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Hmm.

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[Shirley] Nothing?

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Nobody's got anything to say?

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You're running for president.

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What is there to say?

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"Yes."

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Tell them I said, "Yes."

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[gentle music playing]

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I'm gonna have to find you
a campaign manager.

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- Needs to be somebody Black.
- Needs to be somebody good.

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I have to make some calls.

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Yeah, well, I gotta raise $300,000.

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Merry Christmas to you. [chuckles]

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[Mac] One hell of a way
to start the New Year.

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You ready to do this again?

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- [Mac] One more time.
- [Shirley] Wow!

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[Shirley chuckling]

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[match ignites]

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[puffing]

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So?

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What do <i>you</i> think?

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A little late to be asking me now.

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But it's not <i>too</i> late.

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I've never known you not to win.

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Not once.

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Why should this time be any different?

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I should get a new camera.

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You're about to make history.

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Whatever you get, make sure it's used,
and make sure it's cheap.

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[chuckles softly]

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[gentle music builds slowly]

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[Shirley] Robert?

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Robert!

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How are you, Mrs. C?

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Look at you. What is all that?

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Uh, well, you know.
I'm not a congressional aide anymore. So...

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So you went and got all hip on me.

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- [chuckles]
- [Robert] I suppose I did.

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Yeah, it's been a little while.

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<i>I would have to say
that the thing that I remember most,</i>

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a first-year congressman,

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{\an8}and you forced the Speaker to give you
a different committee assignment.

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I mean, how do you even...

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Just don't ever accept things
the way they are.

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Mrs. C, I gotta tell you,

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interning for you
is one of the most memorable experiences

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that I've ever had.

251
00:14:16,041 --> 00:14:18,000
I appreciate it. I do.

252
00:14:18,958 --> 00:14:22,458
And I understand you're doing
some impressive things at Cornell.

253
00:14:22,541 --> 00:14:24,541
Elected to the Board of Regents.

254
00:14:24,625 --> 00:14:26,625
Yeah, I'm just a student representative.

255
00:14:26,708 --> 00:14:28,458
The first ever.

256
00:14:29,291 --> 00:14:31,750
Robert, a bit of advice?

257
00:14:31,833 --> 00:14:32,958
Don't be humble.

258
00:14:33,041 --> 00:14:37,041
Humility in successful people
comes off as its own kind of arrogance.

259
00:14:37,125 --> 00:14:39,375
I don't know that I'm a successful person.

260
00:14:39,458 --> 00:14:41,166
- Robert.
- [chuckling nervously]

261
00:14:42,083 --> 00:14:43,458
Okay. Yes.

262
00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,666
Yes. Understood.

263
00:14:46,750 --> 00:14:47,625
Hm.

264
00:14:47,708 --> 00:14:49,708
[takes a deep breath]

265
00:14:50,291 --> 00:14:53,833
So, I have something I want to tell you.

266
00:14:55,083 --> 00:14:57,291
I am running for president.

267
00:14:59,833 --> 00:15:01,416
Of the United States?

268
00:15:04,125 --> 00:15:05,125
Holy...

269
00:15:05,958 --> 00:15:09,083
That's... I mean, that's...
Right the hell on, Mrs. C.

270
00:15:09,166 --> 00:15:10,625
I mean, that's... that's great.

271
00:15:10,708 --> 00:15:14,375
You would be the most amazing president
that this country has ever seen.

272
00:15:14,458 --> 00:15:17,791
I mean, wow. That...
If there's anything I can do to help...

273
00:15:17,875 --> 00:15:20,333
Well, there is.

274
00:15:21,083 --> 00:15:24,333
I need you to be
my national student coordinator.

275
00:15:24,958 --> 00:15:25,958
I'm so... What?

276
00:15:26,041 --> 00:15:28,375
Overseeing all the student organizations

277
00:15:28,458 --> 00:15:31,625
affiliated with the campaign
in the states where I'm on the ballot.

278
00:15:31,708 --> 00:15:33,500
- Okay.
- Putting together campus rallies.

279
00:15:33,583 --> 00:15:35,208
Well, Mrs. C, um...

280
00:15:35,833 --> 00:15:36,833
I... I can't.

281
00:15:36,875 --> 00:15:39,000
I don't like the word "can't."

282
00:15:39,083 --> 00:15:40,625
Yes, I know. But I...

283
00:15:41,125 --> 00:15:43,875
Robert, this is the first year

284
00:15:43,958 --> 00:15:47,125
18-year-olds will be able to vote
in a national election.

285
00:15:47,708 --> 00:15:50,708
To get them to vote, they need to know

286
00:15:51,250 --> 00:15:53,625
that using their vote
can make a difference.

287
00:15:54,375 --> 00:15:56,291
<i>National</i> coordinator?

288
00:15:56,375 --> 00:15:58,000
I mean, I just turned 21.

289
00:15:58,666 --> 00:16:01,416
Old enough to be fighting
and dying in Vietnam.

290
00:16:02,583 --> 00:16:05,333
I mean, it's the middle
of the school year, and I can't...

291
00:16:05,416 --> 00:16:06,500
Mmm.

292
00:16:07,625 --> 00:16:10,416
Well, I mean, I... I...
I have to call the university.

293
00:16:10,500 --> 00:16:13,125
I mean... I mean, I gotta call my parents.

294
00:16:15,166 --> 00:16:16,250
[bell clinks]

295
00:16:18,541 --> 00:16:23,541
Should we maybe knock on the door
and tell Mrs. Chisholm I've arrived?

296
00:16:24,125 --> 00:16:26,875
She knows we're waiting.
We should let her finish her lunch.

297
00:16:27,875 --> 00:16:28,875
[Mac] New camera?

298
00:16:29,375 --> 00:16:30,958
Yeah, it's like new.

299
00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,250
[quietly] Thank you.

300
00:16:38,333 --> 00:16:39,708
Sorry to keep you waiting.

301
00:16:39,791 --> 00:16:40,791
Not at all.

302
00:16:41,208 --> 00:16:43,416
Shirley, Stanley Townsend.

303
00:16:43,500 --> 00:16:44,500
Stan.

304
00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,833
- How are you, Mrs. Chisholm?
- I'm feeling pretty well.

305
00:16:47,916 --> 00:16:49,750
You've met everybody? Conrad.

306
00:16:49,833 --> 00:16:52,958
Arthur, Robert Gottlieb,
my youth coordinator.

307
00:16:53,041 --> 00:16:55,000
He certainly fits the "youth" part.

308
00:16:56,458 --> 00:16:58,375
I'm old enough to be in Vietnam.

309
00:17:00,708 --> 00:17:01,750
Yes, you are.

310
00:17:01,833 --> 00:17:04,625
[Mac] Stan's a longtime
political operative.

311
00:17:04,708 --> 00:17:07,500
He's excited about the prospect
of working on the campaign.

312
00:17:07,583 --> 00:17:08,458
Very excited.

313
00:17:08,541 --> 00:17:10,125
Well, I think we all are.

314
00:17:10,625 --> 00:17:13,500
I can imagine. I will say,
we have a lot of ground to cover.

315
00:17:13,583 --> 00:17:14,666
So we need to decide

316
00:17:14,750 --> 00:17:17,208
how to most effectively position
your messaging.

317
00:17:17,291 --> 00:17:20,000
My position and my messaging
are very simple.

318
00:17:20,083 --> 00:17:22,541
I'm trying to give politics
back to the people.

319
00:17:22,625 --> 00:17:25,208
[Stan] Absolutely.
But you're running a national campaign.

320
00:17:25,291 --> 00:17:29,541
So how do we convey your message
to voters across America?

321
00:17:29,625 --> 00:17:31,750
By telling voters across America

322
00:17:31,833 --> 00:17:34,833
I'm trying to give politics
back to the people.

323
00:17:36,875 --> 00:17:40,625
A national campaign,
it's a little more challenging than that.

324
00:17:40,708 --> 00:17:42,625
But it needn't be.

325
00:17:43,958 --> 00:17:48,125
Mrs. Chisholm... I'm signing on
for an underfunded operation

326
00:17:48,208 --> 00:17:51,916
because who you are
and what you're about meet the moment.

327
00:17:52,708 --> 00:17:55,083
But you have to meet voters
where they live.

328
00:17:55,166 --> 00:17:58,500
All I ask is that you trust
I can help you accomplish that.

329
00:18:06,500 --> 00:18:07,750
Okay.

330
00:18:07,833 --> 00:18:08,916
All right.

331
00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,791
Well... [chuckles]

332
00:18:12,458 --> 00:18:14,875
- Let's get you elected president.
- All right.

333
00:18:14,958 --> 00:18:17,708
["I'm Coming Home"
by September Jones plays]

334
00:18:17,791 --> 00:18:21,583
<i>♪ I'm coming home ♪</i>

335
00:18:21,666 --> 00:18:25,958
<i>♪ I'm coming home ♪</i>

336
00:18:26,041 --> 00:18:30,333
<i>♪ I'm coming home... ♪</i>

337
00:18:30,916 --> 00:18:32,833
[Shirley] <i>I stand before you today</i>

338
00:18:32,916 --> 00:18:35,583
<i>as a candidate
for the Democratic nomination</i>

339
00:18:35,666 --> 00:18:39,333
<i>for the presidency
of the United States of America.</i>

340
00:18:40,958 --> 00:18:46,666
<i>I am not the candidate of Black America,
although I am Black and proud.</i>

341
00:18:47,875 --> 00:18:51,416
<i>I am not the candidate
of the women's movement of this country,</i>

342
00:18:51,500 --> 00:18:56,208
<i>although I am a woman,
and I am equally proud of that.</i>

343
00:18:59,166 --> 00:19:03,250
<i>I am not the candidate
of any political bosses or fat cats</i>

344
00:19:03,333 --> 00:19:05,375
<i>or special interests.</i>

345
00:19:08,541 --> 00:19:11,250
<i>I stand here now without endorsements</i>

346
00:19:11,333 --> 00:19:15,333
<i>from any big-name politicians
or celebrities.</i>

347
00:19:16,500 --> 00:19:21,500
<i>I do not intend to offer
to you the tired and glib clichés</i>

348
00:19:21,583 --> 00:19:26,333
<i>which for too long have been
an accepted part of our political life.</i>

349
00:19:31,041 --> 00:19:35,166
- [no audible applause or cheers]
- ["I'm Coming Home" intensifies]

350
00:19:36,791 --> 00:19:38,041
[song ends]

351
00:19:38,125 --> 00:19:42,291
I am the candidate
of the people of America.

352
00:19:42,375 --> 00:19:43,916
[cheers and applause]

353
00:19:45,750 --> 00:19:52,125
And my presence before you now symbolizes
a new era in American political history.

354
00:19:52,791 --> 00:19:54,916
I have faith in the American people.

355
00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:55,916
[audience] Yeah.

356
00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,791
I believe that we are intelligent enough

357
00:19:58,875 --> 00:20:04,250
to recognize the talent, energy,
and dedication which all Americans,

358
00:20:04,333 --> 00:20:07,625
including women and minorities,
have to offer.

359
00:20:08,541 --> 00:20:13,583
We are all God's children,
and the will of each of us

360
00:20:13,666 --> 00:20:18,166
is just as precious
as the will of the most powerful of us.

361
00:20:18,666 --> 00:20:22,833
Our will can create a new America in 1972.

362
00:20:22,916 --> 00:20:23,916
[audience] Yeah!

363
00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:28,916
One where there is freedom from violence
and war at home and abroad.

364
00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:29,916
[audience] Yeah!

365
00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,958
Where there is freedom
from poverty and discrimination.

366
00:20:34,041 --> 00:20:39,958
Where there exists at least a feeling
that we are making progress for everyone.

367
00:20:40,041 --> 00:20:40,916
[audience] Yes!

368
00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,625
All of you who share this vision,

369
00:20:43,708 --> 00:20:45,375
who have been neglected,

370
00:20:45,458 --> 00:20:49,250
left out, forgotten,
ignored, or shunned aside,

371
00:20:49,333 --> 00:20:56,250
join me in an effort to regain our society
and regain control of our destiny.

372
00:20:56,333 --> 00:21:00,458
As we go down the Chisholm Trail for 1972.

373
00:21:00,541 --> 00:21:03,666
- [cheers and applause]
- ["I'm Coming Home" resumes]

374
00:21:14,375 --> 00:21:16,375
<i>♪ I'm coming home... ♪</i>

375
00:21:16,458 --> 00:21:20,375
Shirley Chisholm is the only candidate
who is perfectly situated

376
00:21:20,458 --> 00:21:23,958
to have a dramatic effect
on politics in this country.

377
00:21:24,041 --> 00:21:28,708
I will encourage all of my constituents
throughout Oakland, throughout California...

378
00:21:28,791 --> 00:21:31,250
Frankly, voters across this country,

379
00:21:31,333 --> 00:21:34,041
when you are considering
the next president,

380
00:21:34,125 --> 00:21:38,208
there's one name
and only one name that you should speak.

381
00:21:38,791 --> 00:21:41,750
<i>And that name... is Shirley Chisholm.</i>

382
00:21:43,583 --> 00:21:44,750
[Shirley] <i>Ron.</i>

383
00:21:44,833 --> 00:21:46,000
[Ron] <i>Shirley.</i>

384
00:21:46,083 --> 00:21:47,291
Mmm.

385
00:21:48,750 --> 00:21:50,041
[song fades out]

386
00:21:50,125 --> 00:21:51,166
Thank you, Ron.

387
00:21:51,750 --> 00:21:52,583
For?

388
00:21:52,666 --> 00:21:55,041
The endorsement, early and strong.

389
00:21:55,125 --> 00:21:58,916
Oh, Shirley, if you in this race,
you in it to win.

390
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,166
Ron Dellums is not betting against you.

391
00:22:01,250 --> 00:22:02,416
[Shirley chuckles]

392
00:22:04,875 --> 00:22:07,000
- You competing in California?
- Mmm.

393
00:22:07,541 --> 00:22:08,541
[Ron] Mmm.

394
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,541
You run in California,
I will put all my capital behind you.

395
00:22:12,625 --> 00:22:15,041
You carry the Bay Area,
Oakland, San Francisco...

396
00:22:15,125 --> 00:22:17,875
Ron, California is winner take all.

397
00:22:18,375 --> 00:22:21,666
I don't have the time
or resources to put into California,

398
00:22:21,750 --> 00:22:24,291
just so Muskie can take all the delegates.

399
00:22:24,375 --> 00:22:26,333
Well... word of caution.

400
00:22:28,875 --> 00:22:30,958
Walter Fauntroy might be
a problem for you.

401
00:22:31,041 --> 00:22:32,208
[scoffs]

402
00:22:33,166 --> 00:22:35,125
Little Lord Fauntroy.

403
00:22:35,208 --> 00:22:36,333
[Shirley chuckles]

404
00:22:36,416 --> 00:22:39,625
They want to run him as the favorite son
candidate in the district.

405
00:22:39,708 --> 00:22:41,541
It's gonna put you two in opposition.

406
00:22:43,791 --> 00:22:49,583
"Now, Ronald, I'm not in opposition
to Shirley, you understand?"

407
00:22:49,666 --> 00:22:55,083
"I'm simply asking that she be
a good little girl and wait her turn."

408
00:22:55,166 --> 00:22:56,250
[chuckling] You...

409
00:22:56,333 --> 00:22:57,583
You got him down cold.

410
00:22:57,666 --> 00:22:59,666
- [Ron laughs]
- Mmm...

411
00:23:00,750 --> 00:23:02,958
Ron, thank you for believing.

412
00:23:03,791 --> 00:23:04,625
[sighs]

413
00:23:04,708 --> 00:23:05,791
Shirley.

414
00:23:06,541 --> 00:23:09,708
You are like a big sister to me.

415
00:23:11,041 --> 00:23:15,333
However, this thing goes,
I'm with you till the end.

416
00:23:19,833 --> 00:23:21,041
[quietly] Thank you.

417
00:23:22,166 --> 00:23:24,041
- [quietly] Of course.
- [Shirley sighs]

418
00:23:24,833 --> 00:23:27,875
I'm hungry. Go and get some McDonald's.

419
00:23:27,958 --> 00:23:29,458
You know that's my favorite.

420
00:23:29,541 --> 00:23:32,416
- [Ron] May be able to go down the street.
- Strawberry shake.

421
00:23:32,500 --> 00:23:33,500
[Ron] Strawberry...

422
00:23:33,541 --> 00:23:35,666
- [both chuckling]
- ["Street Girl" playing]

423
00:23:35,750 --> 00:23:37,583
{\an8}The analysts are still analyzing,

424
00:23:37,666 --> 00:23:40,750
{\an8}and they don't understand that
something new is happening in America.

425
00:23:40,833 --> 00:23:43,458
{\an8}And this campaign,
the Shirley Chisholm campaign,

426
00:23:43,541 --> 00:23:45,583
is the note of the new politics.

427
00:23:45,666 --> 00:23:48,541
The rest of it
is just making tired old noises.

428
00:23:48,625 --> 00:23:54,000
{\an8}What I have said is very clear.
Shirley Chisholm views her candidacy

429
00:23:54,083 --> 00:23:56,875
{\an8}as a representation
of the right of a woman

430
00:23:56,958 --> 00:23:59,625
{\an8}and a Black to run
for the highest office in this land.

431
00:23:59,708 --> 00:24:04,333
{\an8}I have considered Senator McGovern
the best white male candidate.

432
00:24:04,416 --> 00:24:08,750
I am sick and tired of
people asking the question,

433
00:24:08,833 --> 00:24:13,541
"Mrs. Chisholm, are you serious
about running for president?"

434
00:24:14,125 --> 00:24:18,750
The fact that people,
even other women, feminists,

435
00:24:18,833 --> 00:24:21,750
can't take my campaign seriously

436
00:24:21,833 --> 00:24:27,166
is an indication of the prescribed role
this society has given to women.

437
00:24:28,125 --> 00:24:32,083
We acknowledge racial politics,
ethnic politics,

438
00:24:32,166 --> 00:24:34,500
but we are just beginning to admit

439
00:24:34,583 --> 00:24:37,583
that this country has
a problem with gender politics.

440
00:24:38,333 --> 00:24:44,416
We need to get over ourselves
and redirect the priorities of this nation

441
00:24:44,500 --> 00:24:47,083
to make it a haven
for all kinds of people,

442
00:24:47,166 --> 00:24:50,458
regardless of race, color, creed, or sex.

443
00:24:50,541 --> 00:24:52,458
[cheers and applause]

444
00:24:54,958 --> 00:24:56,666
- Yeah.
- Yeah, Chisholm.

445
00:24:59,291 --> 00:25:02,083
[funky instrumental music playing]

446
00:25:05,375 --> 00:25:07,375
[no audible dialogue]

447
00:25:26,916 --> 00:25:28,916
[music fades]

448
00:25:35,541 --> 00:25:37,541
[music rises]

449
00:25:49,708 --> 00:25:51,083
[music ends]

450
00:25:51,166 --> 00:25:53,750
[young woman] I want
to be part of something.

451
00:25:53,833 --> 00:25:57,000
I see what's going on in the country.
Vietnam, all of it.

452
00:25:57,500 --> 00:25:58,583
It's... [sighs]

453
00:25:59,083 --> 00:26:00,083
I'm tired.

454
00:26:00,166 --> 00:26:03,541
I am barely 25,
and I am tired of the way things are.

455
00:26:04,333 --> 00:26:06,583
Tired of the men
that we're sending to Washington.

456
00:26:06,666 --> 00:26:10,041
Humphrey and Muskie, they are better
than Nixon, but is that the standard?

457
00:26:10,125 --> 00:26:13,000
- I hope not.
- To be better than the man that's corrupt?

458
00:26:14,125 --> 00:26:17,375
And I hear you talk about people
having the power to make change.

459
00:26:18,166 --> 00:26:19,916
And I don't know where to start.

460
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,833
Are you registered to vote?

461
00:26:22,791 --> 00:26:24,666
Registered? No.

462
00:26:24,750 --> 00:26:28,666
Little girl, the first thing
you've got to do is vote.

463
00:26:29,625 --> 00:26:32,541
That ain't my scene.
Voting's bourgeois politics.

464
00:26:32,625 --> 00:26:35,291
If all you're doing
is outside yelling and screaming,

465
00:26:35,375 --> 00:26:39,208
that's all you're ever gonna be,
a yeller and a screamer.

466
00:26:39,291 --> 00:26:41,375
You have to be part of the process.

467
00:26:41,875 --> 00:26:45,291
The process doesn't exist
in politics for Black women.

468
00:26:46,250 --> 00:26:47,666
You're different.

469
00:26:47,750 --> 00:26:50,416
I saw what needed to be done,
and I did it.

470
00:26:51,083 --> 00:26:52,333
That's not different.

471
00:26:52,416 --> 00:26:53,958
That's necessary.

472
00:26:56,291 --> 00:26:58,041
I want you to come work for me.

473
00:27:00,125 --> 00:27:01,125
On your campaign?

474
00:27:01,166 --> 00:27:03,666
Or is that too bourgeois for you?

475
00:27:03,750 --> 00:27:04,750
Hmm.

476
00:27:05,541 --> 00:27:07,791
I got a baby. I'm a single mother.

477
00:27:07,875 --> 00:27:09,250
- And I just need to...
- Ah.

478
00:27:09,333 --> 00:27:12,625
Then you understand
what people are facing more than most.

479
00:27:12,708 --> 00:27:15,291
You don't have to work for us full-time.

480
00:27:15,375 --> 00:27:17,958
Just when you can, how you can.

481
00:27:19,041 --> 00:27:20,541
I don't have any experience.

482
00:27:20,625 --> 00:27:22,875
Well, I don't have any moola.

483
00:27:22,958 --> 00:27:24,083
[chuckling]

484
00:27:24,666 --> 00:27:29,166
But I can offer you
the opportunity to make a difference.

485
00:27:35,250 --> 00:27:37,583
[sighs] Okay.

486
00:27:38,208 --> 00:27:39,291
Okay.

487
00:27:39,916 --> 00:27:42,041
- Okay.
- [both chuckle softly]

488
00:27:42,125 --> 00:27:44,416
[gentle music playing]

489
00:27:50,958 --> 00:27:52,934
- Two signatures on the next page.
- Vote's Tuesday.

490
00:27:52,958 --> 00:27:55,583
- Sign where?
- Two signatures on this page.

491
00:27:55,666 --> 00:27:58,750
- Shirley... come on.
- [overlapping chatter]

492
00:27:58,833 --> 00:28:01,041
- [woman] You can't miss this flight.
- [Shirley] Yes.

493
00:28:01,125 --> 00:28:03,208
- Shirley.
- Bob Dole, Senator Dole.

494
00:28:03,291 --> 00:28:06,750
...first thing in the morning. You'll
get in late so I won't bother you tonight.

495
00:28:06,833 --> 00:28:08,583
If you need anything, I'm heading home.

496
00:28:08,666 --> 00:28:10,666
[light instrumental music playing]

497
00:29:17,208 --> 00:29:18,208
[driver] Ma'am.

498
00:29:19,166 --> 00:29:20,166
We're here.

499
00:29:22,791 --> 00:29:23,791
[clears throat]

500
00:29:24,416 --> 00:29:26,416
[low monotone droning]

501
00:29:33,625 --> 00:29:34,833
[Shirley] Conrad?

502
00:29:41,791 --> 00:29:42,916
Conrad.

503
00:29:52,833 --> 00:29:54,416
[Conrad groans softly]

504
00:29:54,500 --> 00:29:56,083
[Shirley] Sorry to wake you.

505
00:29:58,375 --> 00:29:59,500
You're late.

506
00:29:59,583 --> 00:30:01,125
[Shirley] Flight was delayed.

507
00:30:03,666 --> 00:30:05,375
Is there anything to eat?

508
00:30:06,625 --> 00:30:08,083
[Conrad] What's that?

509
00:30:08,166 --> 00:30:10,125
[Shirley] Do we have anything to eat?

510
00:30:11,041 --> 00:30:13,166
[Conrad] I think
there's something in the freezer.

511
00:30:13,250 --> 00:30:14,708
There's nothing warm?

512
00:30:17,541 --> 00:30:20,708
- I could run and get you something...
- From where? It's late.

513
00:30:21,750 --> 00:30:23,333
Everything's closed.

514
00:30:23,416 --> 00:30:24,416
Well...

515
00:30:27,291 --> 00:30:28,708
It's all right. I... I'll...

516
00:30:28,791 --> 00:30:30,375
I'll... I'll warm something.

517
00:30:31,125 --> 00:30:33,666
I have to get up early
and meet with Stanley.

518
00:30:35,916 --> 00:30:37,666
It's all right.

519
00:30:39,375 --> 00:30:40,625
It's all right.

520
00:31:32,416 --> 00:31:35,666
["I Don't Mind Doin' It"
by Jackie Lavant & The Fashions playing]

521
00:31:37,708 --> 00:31:39,041
[laughing]

522
00:31:41,333 --> 00:31:46,000
[newsman] <i>The US has been holding
presidential elections nearly 200 years.</i>

523
00:31:46,083 --> 00:31:49,000
<i>Each one significant,
but the election this year</i>

524
00:31:49,083 --> 00:31:53,125
<i>has been more than a demonstration
of stability and continuity.</i>

525
00:31:53,208 --> 00:31:57,333
<i>A combination of factors,
reforms within the two major parties,</i>

526
00:31:57,416 --> 00:31:59,833
<i>a new law giving young people
the right to vote,</i>

527
00:31:59,916 --> 00:32:03,541
<i>and a new political awareness
on the part of groups previously inactive,</i>

528
00:32:03,625 --> 00:32:09,125
<i>have made 1972 a potential turning point
in American political history.</i>

529
00:32:09,208 --> 00:32:13,083
[Stan] Reaching your base,
turning them on, getting them out to vote.

530
00:32:13,166 --> 00:32:15,333
That's what this campaign is all about.

531
00:32:15,416 --> 00:32:19,750
We need 1,500 delegates
to get the nomination for president.

532
00:32:19,833 --> 00:32:20,875
And...

533
00:32:22,250 --> 00:32:24,375
that's how many we currently have.

534
00:32:24,458 --> 00:32:25,875
So, we got six months

535
00:32:25,958 --> 00:32:29,500
from now until the last primaries
in June to rack up some numbers.

536
00:32:29,583 --> 00:32:33,125
- How are we gonna earn those delegates?
- I got national polling...

537
00:32:33,208 --> 00:32:36,208
[Stan] First two primaries are
New Hampshire and Florida on March 14th.

538
00:32:36,291 --> 00:32:38,000
Wouldn't be in the race without Florida.

539
00:32:38,083 --> 00:32:40,250
When asked,
"What do you know about Shirley Chisholm?"

540
00:32:40,333 --> 00:32:43,000
- [Stan] New Hampshire?
- Forget about New Hampshire.

541
00:32:43,083 --> 00:32:44,375
Muskie's got it sewn up.

542
00:32:44,458 --> 00:32:47,041
According to papers,
Muskie's got the nomination sewn up.

543
00:32:47,125 --> 00:32:50,166
46% of the respondents
knew that you were Black.

544
00:32:50,250 --> 00:32:51,583
38% knew you were a woman...

545
00:32:51,666 --> 00:32:54,083
38%? The name doesn't give it away?

546
00:32:54,166 --> 00:32:57,458
'Cause Shirley is one of those names
you see that goes either way.

547
00:32:57,541 --> 00:32:59,375
- Like Chris or Leslie.
- Alabama?

548
00:32:59,458 --> 00:33:01,666
- Shirley is not like Chris or Leslie.
- [Shirley] No.

549
00:33:01,750 --> 00:33:02,916
- [Stan] Arizona?
- Mm-mmm.

550
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,833
Point is, a plurality of the electorate
doesn't even know who you are.

551
00:33:06,916 --> 00:33:07,791
[Stan] Ohio?

552
00:33:07,875 --> 00:33:10,875
Carl Stokes would attack me
to death if I get into Ohio.

553
00:33:10,958 --> 00:33:12,958
- Colorado?
- [Mac] May I finish my thought?

554
00:33:13,833 --> 00:33:16,083
Your lack of recognition is a challenge,

555
00:33:16,166 --> 00:33:18,916
but it also means voters
haven't formed an opinion yet...

556
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,958
- Colorado?
- The reform wing is in the minority.

557
00:33:22,041 --> 00:33:24,458
- We should look to get on the ballot...
- [Conrad] Shirley.

558
00:33:24,541 --> 00:33:25,416
[camera clicks]

559
00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:27,875
We shouldn't actively campaign
in Colorado.

560
00:33:27,958 --> 00:33:30,208
Opinions about you
are going to be formed in debates.

561
00:33:30,291 --> 00:33:31,458
They're going to be critical.

562
00:33:31,541 --> 00:33:35,166
Shirley's a hell of a debater, man.
Ran circles around James Farmer.

563
00:33:35,250 --> 00:33:36,875
Farmer wasn't a career politician.

564
00:33:36,958 --> 00:33:39,833
The rest of these boys talk shit
faster than I can make it.

565
00:33:39,916 --> 00:33:42,541
- [Stan] California?
- [men laughing]

566
00:33:43,791 --> 00:33:44,625
[Arthur] Oh...

567
00:33:44,708 --> 00:33:45,833
California?

568
00:33:46,875 --> 00:33:48,541
- No.
- [all] Shirley!

569
00:33:48,625 --> 00:33:52,875
- Know how many colleges there are?
- California's a winner-take-all state.

570
00:33:52,958 --> 00:33:55,208
If we put our time
and energy into California,

571
00:33:55,291 --> 00:33:56,791
we'll walk away with nothing.

572
00:33:56,875 --> 00:34:00,416
It's a big, shiny object
that'll leave us distracted and defeated.

573
00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:01,375
No.

574
00:34:01,458 --> 00:34:05,375
Shirley, right now
your entire national campaign

575
00:34:05,458 --> 00:34:07,750
is built on one state, Florida.

576
00:34:21,083 --> 00:34:23,416
That's our campaign.
We'll build from there.

577
00:34:23,500 --> 00:34:26,166
["Let a Woman Be a Woman -
Let a Man Be a Man" plays]

578
00:34:26,916 --> 00:34:29,250
And they can talk shit all they want.

579
00:34:29,333 --> 00:34:32,791
[newsman] <i>Why are more and more millions
of Americans turning to Governor Wallace?</i>

580
00:34:32,875 --> 00:34:35,458
<i>Take a walk in your street
or park tonight.</i>

581
00:34:35,541 --> 00:34:37,333
- [gunshot]
- [glass shatters]

582
00:34:37,416 --> 00:34:40,375
{\an8}There's a lot of talk
these days about liberalism.

583
00:34:40,458 --> 00:34:43,791
{\an8}Well, what did liberalism do for America?

584
00:34:43,875 --> 00:34:48,666
{\an8}Brought us drug addiction in our streets,
brought a breakdown of law and order.

585
00:34:48,750 --> 00:34:53,208
{\an8}And now this idea they have of busing
our children to achieve racial balance.

586
00:34:53,291 --> 00:34:57,375
{\an8}That's their way of taking away your right
to raise your child how you see fit.

587
00:34:57,458 --> 00:35:01,208
{\an8}[newsman] <i>Why are more and more millions
of Americans turning to Governor Wallace?</i>

588
00:35:01,291 --> 00:35:03,916
<i>Follow as your children
are bused across town.</i>

589
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,166
Busing is an ineffective solution
to school integration.

590
00:35:07,250 --> 00:35:10,750
It is a burden carried
by the same children we're trying to help.

591
00:35:10,833 --> 00:35:12,375
That is a great answer for Florida.

592
00:35:12,458 --> 00:35:14,125
- But you can't say...
- "Can't"?

593
00:35:14,208 --> 00:35:17,416
...that you don't support busing
in Massachusetts or New York.

594
00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:20,416
It does sound
like something Wallace would say.

595
00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:22,458
[Stan] What's your position on abortion?

596
00:35:22,541 --> 00:35:25,000
I am an ardent advocate
of family planning.

597
00:35:25,083 --> 00:35:26,750
- I am aware, however...
- Shirley...

598
00:35:26,833 --> 00:35:28,625
...that for a number of reasons...

599
00:35:28,708 --> 00:35:30,434
- Shirley...
- ...birth control is not enough.

600
00:35:30,458 --> 00:35:32,791
- Shirl...
- Contraceptive devices fail, and...

601
00:35:32,875 --> 00:35:34,625
Shirley, you can't say all that.

602
00:35:34,708 --> 00:35:37,833
- I'm sorry, Stanley. "Can't"?
- Too much nuance.

603
00:35:37,916 --> 00:35:39,500
- Mac.
- [Man] I'm being honest.

604
00:35:39,583 --> 00:35:42,416
Your answer needs to be more direct.
The same with busing.

605
00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:46,750
Well, that's my answer on one side
of the Mason-Dixon or the other.

606
00:35:46,833 --> 00:35:49,583
And I am not leaving out the nuance.

607
00:35:49,666 --> 00:35:52,000
Hey! Hot off the press.

608
00:35:52,083 --> 00:35:56,041
Before we do all that, can we please
just finish up what we've started here?

609
00:35:56,125 --> 00:35:57,285
[Conrad] These came out good.

610
00:35:57,333 --> 00:35:59,726
- [Shirley] They did.
- I'm leaving for Florida in the morning.

611
00:35:59,750 --> 00:36:02,583
By the time you all get there,
I'll have volunteers in place.

612
00:36:02,666 --> 00:36:04,333
I'll have all the venues booked.

613
00:36:04,416 --> 00:36:07,750
We're gonna be starting
with a speaking engagement at FSU.

614
00:36:07,833 --> 00:36:11,291
This trip has got to run
like a Swiss watch, son.

615
00:36:11,375 --> 00:36:13,295
We have to have
a strong showing in this primary.

616
00:36:13,375 --> 00:36:15,708
- I'll have it handled.
- [Shirley] Thank you, Robert.

617
00:36:16,625 --> 00:36:17,791
Of course.

618
00:36:17,875 --> 00:36:18,875
{\an8}All right.

619
00:36:19,625 --> 00:36:21,333
{\an8}- I'll see you in Florida.
- All right.

620
00:36:21,416 --> 00:36:23,416
[up-tempo instrumental music playing]

621
00:36:34,208 --> 00:36:36,250
- [music stops]
- [indistinct PA announcement]

622
00:36:51,833 --> 00:36:56,250
Twenty-two primaries still to go
in this campaign '72.

623
00:36:56,333 --> 00:37:00,166
The politicians now are shifting
their efforts from New Hampshire's snow

624
00:37:00,250 --> 00:37:01,708
to Florida's sand.

625
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,791
You need to decide if you're going to
this National Black Political Convention

626
00:37:06,875 --> 00:37:10,041
in Gary, Indiana. There'll be leaders
from every cross-section.

627
00:37:10,125 --> 00:37:12,583
- Radical, faith-based, conservative...
- We'll see.

628
00:37:12,666 --> 00:37:16,166
I got an invitation for you to speak
down here at the Pearly Club.

629
00:37:16,250 --> 00:37:17,500
That's an exclusive club.

630
00:37:17,583 --> 00:37:18,958
Exclusive white?

631
00:37:19,041 --> 00:37:20,208
[Mac] Exclusive male.

632
00:37:20,291 --> 00:37:23,125
You'd be the first female speaker
they've ever had.

633
00:37:23,208 --> 00:37:24,958
A white men's club here in Florida?

634
00:37:25,041 --> 00:37:29,208
But you're not gonna attend
a Black political convention in Gary?

635
00:37:29,291 --> 00:37:31,958
Listen, why don't we just
table all the Gary talk

636
00:37:32,041 --> 00:37:33,958
and let her just get some sleep?

637
00:37:34,458 --> 00:37:36,208
We'll pick it up tomorrow.

638
00:37:37,208 --> 00:37:40,208
Hello. I'm calling on behalf
of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm.

639
00:37:40,291 --> 00:37:43,833
The congresswoman will be holding
events while campaigning in Florida...

640
00:37:43,916 --> 00:37:45,416
[woman] <i>Your vote can change America.</i>

641
00:37:45,500 --> 00:37:48,791
[man] <i>These fundraisers are an opportunity
to meet Shirley face-to-face.</i>

642
00:37:48,875 --> 00:37:50,125
[cheers and applause]

643
00:37:50,208 --> 00:37:53,291
And I call to you, the youth of America,

644
00:37:53,375 --> 00:37:56,166
to take part in the fight for the future.

645
00:37:56,250 --> 00:37:59,208
Those of you who are able to vote
for the very first time

646
00:37:59,291 --> 00:38:02,208
must use your voices
and let the politicians know

647
00:38:02,291 --> 00:38:05,041
that the government
belongs to all the people.

648
00:38:05,125 --> 00:38:06,958
- [young woman] Yes!
- [cheering]

649
00:38:07,041 --> 00:38:08,250
{\an8}Register to vote!

650
00:38:08,333 --> 00:38:10,958
{\an8}If all you are is on the outside
yelling and screaming,

651
00:38:11,041 --> 00:38:13,916
{\an8}then that's all you'll ever be,
a yeller and a screamer.

652
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:15,291
Be a part of the process!

653
00:38:16,333 --> 00:38:18,958
US foreign policy
should avoid taking sides

654
00:38:19,041 --> 00:38:22,083
and focus on the humanitarian crisis
happening in the Middle East.

655
00:38:22,166 --> 00:38:24,291
What's your take on the Black Panthers?

656
00:38:24,375 --> 00:38:27,166
Well, it's a shame
the Black Panthers are necessary,

657
00:38:27,250 --> 00:38:29,458
but I understand why they are.

658
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,958
But it's important for us
to get the vote out to young people.

659
00:38:33,041 --> 00:38:35,791
It's the first election
that people who are 18 get to vote.

660
00:38:35,875 --> 00:38:39,750
[in Spanish] This isn't just about
a fair wage. This is about our lives.

661
00:38:39,833 --> 00:38:40,750
[chanting]

662
00:38:40,833 --> 00:38:44,125
- [in English] You support busing.
- Are you asking me or telling me?

663
00:38:44,208 --> 00:38:45,208
[light laughter]

664
00:38:45,250 --> 00:38:47,500
My opponents is
twisting themselves into pretzels,

665
00:38:47,583 --> 00:38:49,625
trying to explain
where they stand on busing.

666
00:38:49,708 --> 00:38:51,083
I don't support busing.

667
00:38:51,166 --> 00:38:54,750
It's an artificial solution
to the segregation problem.

668
00:38:54,833 --> 00:38:57,208
Open housing is the real answer.

669
00:38:57,291 --> 00:38:59,541
But as long as the problem exists,

670
00:38:59,625 --> 00:39:02,083
an artificial solution
is better than none at all.

671
00:39:02,166 --> 00:39:05,041
[newsman] <i>One of the most
active candidates of campaign '72</i>

672
00:39:05,125 --> 00:39:07,083
<i>is Shirley Chisholm of Brooklyn.</i>

673
00:39:07,166 --> 00:39:08,083
I love you, Shirley!

674
00:39:08,166 --> 00:39:10,416
I don't need your love, darling.
I need your vote.

675
00:39:10,500 --> 00:39:13,125
I'm gonna vote for you.
You or George Wallace.

676
00:39:13,208 --> 00:39:14,708
All right. Well...

677
00:39:14,791 --> 00:39:17,750
I'll say this. Shirley Chisholm
is the only other candidate

678
00:39:17,833 --> 00:39:21,000
who says the same thing
in the South that she says in the North.

679
00:39:21,500 --> 00:39:24,416
[man 1] <i>Shirley Chisholm
will never be president.</i>

680
00:39:24,500 --> 00:39:26,333
<i>This is America.</i>

681
00:39:26,416 --> 00:39:28,583
{\an8}[man 2] <i>That woman
needs to get out of the race.</i>

682
00:39:28,666 --> 00:39:31,291
{\an8}[man 3] <i>She bristles at the suggestion
she step aside,</i>

683
00:39:31,375 --> 00:39:34,875
<i>lest she draw liberal votes away
from other presidential contenders.</i>

684
00:39:35,458 --> 00:39:38,750
[Shirley] <i>Why is it that it has to
always be white males, white males,</i>

685
00:39:38,833 --> 00:39:40,875
<i>white males, white males, white males?</i>

686
00:39:40,958 --> 00:39:42,333
[cheering]

687
00:39:43,375 --> 00:39:47,333
[Shirley] <i>If you can't support me,
or you can't endorse me,</i>

688
00:39:47,416 --> 00:39:48,750
<i>get out of my way.</i>

689
00:39:48,833 --> 00:39:51,041
<i>You do your thing, and let me do mine.</i>

690
00:39:51,125 --> 00:39:54,750
You go to hell, you Black bitch!
You fucking Black bitch! I'll kill you!

691
00:39:54,833 --> 00:39:57,458
You fucking Black bitch!
I'll fuckin' kill you!

692
00:39:57,541 --> 00:40:00,166
[echo fades to silence]

693
00:40:05,958 --> 00:40:07,541
[exhales shakily]

694
00:40:12,458 --> 00:40:14,458
- [tap squeaks]
- [water running]

695
00:40:25,083 --> 00:40:27,041
[breathing deeply]

696
00:40:39,125 --> 00:40:40,125
[tap squeaks]

697
00:40:59,791 --> 00:41:00,833
[door opens]

698
00:41:03,333 --> 00:41:04,333
[door shuts]

699
00:41:13,291 --> 00:41:14,416
Police got him.

700
00:41:16,583 --> 00:41:17,791
He was just some...

701
00:41:19,125 --> 00:41:20,500
some crazy.

702
00:41:22,125 --> 00:41:24,750
Hell of a world, eh?
[soft chuckle] People like that.

703
00:41:29,208 --> 00:41:31,875
Anyway, the police got him now.

704
00:41:33,541 --> 00:41:34,833
Where were you?

705
00:41:36,708 --> 00:41:39,125
He was that close to me.

706
00:41:41,541 --> 00:41:44,125
You're supposed to be my security.

707
00:41:45,458 --> 00:41:47,541
You're supposed to protect me.

708
00:41:48,416 --> 00:41:50,125
Where were you?

709
00:41:52,500 --> 00:41:56,625
I try as hard as I can
to be the man you want.

710
00:41:58,083 --> 00:42:01,000
Attentive, and mindful, and...

711
00:42:02,375 --> 00:42:05,375
But always... out of the way
and off to the side.

712
00:42:05,916 --> 00:42:07,166
I do it.

713
00:42:07,250 --> 00:42:10,750
I'm happy to do it because I know
how important all this is to you.

714
00:42:10,833 --> 00:42:12,250
It's not just for me.

715
00:42:12,333 --> 00:42:15,208
[Conrad] I know
all the good that you can do.

716
00:42:16,208 --> 00:42:17,625
So I'll be your shadow.

717
00:42:19,583 --> 00:42:25,583
Because I know, for whatever reason,
a shadow of a man is what you want.

718
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:32,666
But don't get upset with me
when I'm a little too good at it.

719
00:42:40,875 --> 00:42:43,458
[classical tune playing on piano]

720
00:43:08,125 --> 00:43:11,208
[interviewer] <i>It has been said,
"Behind every great man is a great woman."</i>

721
00:43:11,291 --> 00:43:13,541
<i>Behind Shirley Chisholm
is Conrad Chisholm,</i>

722
00:43:13,625 --> 00:43:17,416
an investigator for the City Bureau
of Medical Services.

723
00:43:18,208 --> 00:43:20,291
You two have been married for 19 years.

724
00:43:20,875 --> 00:43:22,625
How would you describe each other?

725
00:43:22,708 --> 00:43:24,541
[chuckling]

726
00:43:25,541 --> 00:43:26,875
[Conrad] Well, I tell you.

727
00:43:27,916 --> 00:43:33,000
I remember a time when she was introduced
at a dinner by the MC.

728
00:43:33,083 --> 00:43:37,250
And it was very fitting, to me,

729
00:43:37,333 --> 00:43:42,083
that he described her
as 100 pounds of nuclear energy.

730
00:43:42,916 --> 00:43:45,083
And I think it was very appropriate.

731
00:43:46,083 --> 00:43:51,708
Well, I would describe my husband as

732
00:43:52,500 --> 00:43:54,500
200 pounds of patience.

733
00:43:54,583 --> 00:43:56,375
[both chuckle]

734
00:43:56,458 --> 00:43:58,958
My husband is a remarkable man.

735
00:43:59,916 --> 00:44:02,375
I can truthfully say

736
00:44:02,458 --> 00:44:07,416
that I would not have
been able to reach the top

737
00:44:07,500 --> 00:44:10,125
unless I had a very understanding mate.

738
00:44:11,458 --> 00:44:15,375
And indeed, I know it has been
most difficult for him, occasionally.

739
00:44:16,708 --> 00:44:21,375
Well... I've had to sacrifice quite a bit,

740
00:44:21,458 --> 00:44:27,250
but I enjoy sacrificing it
for what she's doing.

741
00:44:30,166 --> 00:44:32,041
[interviewer] Thank you both very much.

742
00:44:41,791 --> 00:44:43,250
[tape unspooling]

743
00:44:45,208 --> 00:44:49,625
- ["Last Night" by Neice Dezel plays]
<i>- ♪ Let me tells you what happened to me ♪</i>

744
00:44:50,250 --> 00:44:51,916
[Stan] It's an embarrassment.

745
00:44:52,833 --> 00:44:55,291
I mean, this is
what the campaign's come to,

746
00:44:55,375 --> 00:44:57,208
Shirley and Wallace.

747
00:44:57,291 --> 00:45:01,625
Shirley got blown out in Florida,
less than 1% of the vote in Illinois.

748
00:45:01,708 --> 00:45:03,000
Same in Wisconsin.

749
00:45:03,083 --> 00:45:05,291
Less than 1% of the vote.

750
00:45:06,166 --> 00:45:07,666
And no delegates.

751
00:45:07,750 --> 00:45:10,208
You can spare Shirley the numbers.

752
00:45:10,291 --> 00:45:13,583
Three months from the convention,
and we're moving backward.

753
00:45:13,666 --> 00:45:14,666
Shirley...

754
00:45:15,875 --> 00:45:19,958
I dig her... speaking-truth thing,
but that doesn't get you votes.

755
00:45:20,041 --> 00:45:22,750
Stanley, what do you want?

756
00:45:23,750 --> 00:45:27,125
I want you to help me help Shirley.
I can't manage from the bleachers.

757
00:45:28,291 --> 00:45:30,666
You want me to help you sideline Shirley?

758
00:45:30,750 --> 00:45:33,208
[Stan chuckles] Oh, hell no, Mac.

759
00:45:33,291 --> 00:45:34,875
You know me better.

760
00:45:34,958 --> 00:45:39,958
We just need to compartmentalize her...
so we can better guide the campaign.

761
00:45:40,041 --> 00:45:40,875
Just...

762
00:45:40,958 --> 00:45:43,875
Just guide it. Guide Shirley <i>for</i> Shirley.

763
00:45:45,375 --> 00:45:48,166
You know my history with Shirley?

764
00:45:48,833 --> 00:45:53,000
You knew her from, uh, when you formed
the Bedford-Stuyvesant Political League.

765
00:45:54,708 --> 00:45:57,166
She was still a senior
at Brooklyn College.

766
00:45:57,250 --> 00:46:00,416
Taught Shirley everything
I knew about politics.

767
00:46:00,500 --> 00:46:02,791
How to read people
and the games they play.

768
00:46:02,875 --> 00:46:05,375
How the system works,
how some people are kept out

769
00:46:05,458 --> 00:46:06,833
and others kept in.

770
00:46:07,791 --> 00:46:10,666
And after I taught Shirley all that,

771
00:46:11,708 --> 00:46:16,000
she turns around and runs against me
for president of my own league.

772
00:46:16,083 --> 00:46:17,583
You still work with her.

773
00:46:18,166 --> 00:46:19,541
[chuckles] You forgive her?

774
00:46:22,625 --> 00:46:24,000
Nothing to forgive.

775
00:46:26,166 --> 00:46:28,166
Shirley believes in the necessary.

776
00:46:29,208 --> 00:46:33,708
At the time, she thought
it was necessary for her to replace me.

777
00:46:36,083 --> 00:46:41,916
That's something to remember
when you talk about guiding Shirley.

778
00:46:45,625 --> 00:46:49,041
["Take Care of Your Own Business"
by Dave Hamilton playing]

779
00:46:55,250 --> 00:46:57,125
<i>♪ You drink your whiskey ♪</i>

780
00:46:59,041 --> 00:47:01,708
<i>- ♪ I'll drink my wine... ♪</i>
- Congresswoman Chisholm.

781
00:47:01,791 --> 00:47:04,208
- Walter.
- It sure is good to see you.

782
00:47:05,291 --> 00:47:07,333
May I get you a menu?

783
00:47:07,416 --> 00:47:10,666
No, I won't be staying that long.

784
00:47:10,750 --> 00:47:13,083
Oh... That's too bad.

785
00:47:13,875 --> 00:47:19,250
A meal is so much better...
when it's enjoyed with friends.

786
00:47:19,333 --> 00:47:20,333
Mmm.

787
00:47:21,125 --> 00:47:23,375
Well, Shirley.

788
00:47:25,791 --> 00:47:26,791
What can I say?

789
00:47:27,291 --> 00:47:29,958
It's a shame
you didn't do better in Florida.

790
00:47:30,041 --> 00:47:31,041
Hmm.

791
00:47:31,541 --> 00:47:34,500
But my, my. You did get 4% of the vote.

792
00:47:35,791 --> 00:47:38,208
Well, almost 4%.

793
00:47:39,458 --> 00:47:41,958
- Could have used a few more endorsements.
- Mmm.

794
00:47:42,541 --> 00:47:46,166
The whole Congressional Black Caucus,
and the only ones I have behind me

795
00:47:46,250 --> 00:47:47,875
are Mitchell, Conyers, and Dellums.

796
00:47:47,958 --> 00:47:48,958
[chuckles]

797
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,583
I can hardly endorse you
when I'm running myself.

798
00:47:51,666 --> 00:47:56,416
As a favorite son candidate
in the district, that's it, Walter.

799
00:47:56,500 --> 00:47:58,666
You here, and Stokes in Ohio.

800
00:47:59,250 --> 00:48:00,708
That don't add up to much.

801
00:48:01,291 --> 00:48:06,375
But you want to tell the people,
our people, who should represent them.

802
00:48:07,083 --> 00:48:09,500
You're no better
than the fat cat white boys.

803
00:48:11,166 --> 00:48:12,166
Shirley.

804
00:48:15,625 --> 00:48:18,375
I made the march, Selma to Montgomery.

805
00:48:18,458 --> 00:48:21,375
I learned lessons of the flesh
on the front lines with Martin.

806
00:48:21,458 --> 00:48:25,875
So I'd appreciate
if you didn't suppose <i>about</i> me <i>for</i> me.

807
00:48:26,625 --> 00:48:28,416
How can I help you, Walter?

808
00:48:28,958 --> 00:48:31,625
I want you
to drop out of the primary in DC.

809
00:48:31,708 --> 00:48:32,916
[chuckles]

810
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,000
- Ron warned me.
- Ron Dellums is a West Coast dilettante.

811
00:48:36,083 --> 00:48:38,958
Willie Brown is the power in California.

812
00:48:39,833 --> 00:48:41,458
Don't let Ron get in your head.

813
00:48:41,541 --> 00:48:44,041
Now, if you stay in the primary,

814
00:48:44,125 --> 00:48:46,791
you and me are only gonna
end up splitting the vote.

815
00:48:46,875 --> 00:48:49,750
Splitting the delegates
doesn't help you, doesn't help me.

816
00:48:49,833 --> 00:48:52,625
And the best way for me to help you
is for me to drop out?

817
00:48:52,708 --> 00:48:55,166
[Walter] Only in DC,
where I'm on the ballot.

818
00:48:55,250 --> 00:48:58,583
Now, you and me both know
the nomination for president

819
00:48:58,666 --> 00:49:02,000
isn't gonna be decided
in the first round at the convention.

820
00:49:02,958 --> 00:49:04,625
Now, after that first round,

821
00:49:05,166 --> 00:49:10,291
after I get my... pound of flesh
out of the Democratic Party,

822
00:49:10,875 --> 00:49:14,083
I will release all my delegates to you
with the instruction to vote

823
00:49:14,166 --> 00:49:15,500
as <i>you</i> tell them to vote.

824
00:49:15,583 --> 00:49:18,041
I swear to God, Walter.

825
00:49:18,125 --> 00:49:20,333
Just more backroom politics.

826
00:49:20,416 --> 00:49:22,750
Nothing wrong with politics
when you're a politician.

827
00:49:22,833 --> 00:49:23,833
[scoffs lightly]

828
00:49:29,416 --> 00:49:34,125
After the first round,
you will get all my delegates.

829
00:49:37,041 --> 00:49:40,791
{\an8}You literally have my word.

830
00:49:41,916 --> 00:49:43,583
Now, do I have yours?

831
00:49:47,833 --> 00:49:49,333
I said yes.

832
00:49:49,958 --> 00:49:52,416
What else was I supposed to say?

833
00:49:52,500 --> 00:49:54,625
He made sense. He gave me his word.

834
00:49:54,708 --> 00:49:56,791
I... just don't...

835
00:49:57,583 --> 00:50:00,000
[exhales] Look.

836
00:50:00,083 --> 00:50:01,916
Walter's a good man,

837
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:05,208
but Walter's always going...

838
00:50:07,250 --> 00:50:09,000
So you think I made a mistake.

839
00:50:09,083 --> 00:50:13,458
Walter has a tendency to disappoint,
and when it happens, it happens.

840
00:50:13,541 --> 00:50:15,291
That's all. [chuckles]

841
00:50:16,958 --> 00:50:18,625
<i>I got my ears open, Shirley.</i>

842
00:50:18,708 --> 00:50:22,083
<i>If I hear anything you should know,
I will be the first one to tell you.</i>

843
00:50:22,166 --> 00:50:24,875
- [Shirley] <i>Thank you, Ron.</i>
- [Ron] <i>Of course.</i>

844
00:50:24,958 --> 00:50:26,250
<i>Of course.</i>

845
00:50:26,333 --> 00:50:29,041
<i>You just worry
about being the next president.</i>

846
00:50:29,875 --> 00:50:30,875
Hmm.

847
00:50:32,416 --> 00:50:33,976
[Robert] So I need to get out the vote.

848
00:50:34,041 --> 00:50:36,802
[Mac] If you want to mobilize students
on the campuses, you need to...

849
00:50:36,833 --> 00:50:39,500
- I'll tell you what my answer is.
- Before you say no...

850
00:50:39,583 --> 00:50:41,684
- [Shirley] I already said no.
- How many could we get?

851
00:50:41,708 --> 00:50:43,166
Well, how many do we need?

852
00:50:43,250 --> 00:50:46,250
- [Stan] You told me "I'll think about it."
- As many as we can get.

853
00:50:46,333 --> 00:50:48,416
And I thought about it.

854
00:50:48,500 --> 00:50:51,375
Jesse Jackson will be there.
Louis Farrakhan. Bobby Seale...

855
00:50:51,458 --> 00:50:53,938
- They weren't gonna endorse me.
- [Mac] How do you spell that?

856
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:55,976
- P-O-M-O-N-A.
- [Shirley] They'll never endorse me.

857
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:57,625
Shirley, you need some traction.

858
00:50:57,708 --> 00:51:00,750
You need to capitalize on your deal
with Walt Fauntroy.

859
00:51:00,833 --> 00:51:03,750
If you're looking for an endorsement,
when I get back to California,

860
00:51:03,833 --> 00:51:06,375
I could maybe talk
to the people with the Black Panthers.

861
00:51:06,458 --> 00:51:08,791
Oh Jesus. Yeah, let's bring
the radicals on board.

862
00:51:08,875 --> 00:51:10,875
That'll play great in the Midwest.

863
00:51:10,958 --> 00:51:12,000
- Shirley...
- Thank you.

864
00:51:12,083 --> 00:51:15,166
The guy who, um,
created <i>Star Trek</i> actually went there.

865
00:51:15,250 --> 00:51:16,416
Not... Not even joking.

866
00:51:16,500 --> 00:51:19,541
- ...this event in Gary...
- Stanley, I am not going.

867
00:51:22,583 --> 00:51:23,666
[sighs deeply]

868
00:51:24,416 --> 00:51:25,875
- [door shuts]
- [phone ringing]

869
00:51:31,500 --> 00:51:32,916
Um, Barbara.

870
00:51:33,458 --> 00:51:35,375
Let her have her lunch, please.

871
00:51:36,125 --> 00:51:37,125
Please.

872
00:51:38,500 --> 00:51:39,625
[Robert] Yeah...

873
00:51:39,708 --> 00:51:42,958
- [Mac] You know what? So...
- [Robert] So, we're going to California.

874
00:51:44,250 --> 00:51:45,375
Five thousand.

875
00:51:46,875 --> 00:51:48,458
Barbara. Barbara. Barb...!

876
00:51:48,541 --> 00:51:52,125
- Shirley, I want to go to the convention.
- I told her you were eating.

877
00:51:52,708 --> 00:51:54,375
It's all right, Arthur.

878
00:51:55,625 --> 00:51:57,750
I want to go to the convention in Gary.

879
00:51:57,833 --> 00:52:01,041
- I can... I can be your representative.
- No.

880
00:52:01,125 --> 00:52:04,666
I want to do something big
for this campaign before I go to Oakland.

881
00:52:04,750 --> 00:52:08,708
- Stanley said that you have to be there.
- I don't <i>have to</i> do anything.

882
00:52:08,791 --> 00:52:11,083
Why don't you want to go?
What are you so afraid of?

883
00:52:11,916 --> 00:52:13,375
Little girl.

884
00:52:16,791 --> 00:52:17,958
Sit down.

885
00:52:20,958 --> 00:52:22,208
Sit down.

886
00:52:34,041 --> 00:52:37,500
Let me tell you something
about this convention.

887
00:52:37,583 --> 00:52:41,125
They don't have
one single Black woman invited to speak.

888
00:52:41,208 --> 00:52:43,250
Not one. Not Coretta.

889
00:52:43,916 --> 00:52:47,625
Betty Shabazz, they got her
introducing Jesse Jackson.

890
00:52:47,708 --> 00:52:52,083
They have made it clear they don't care
what Black women have to say.

891
00:52:52,750 --> 00:52:53,833
They just...

892
00:52:54,333 --> 00:52:57,041
- That's just how they are.
- "They"?

893
00:52:57,125 --> 00:52:59,833
Men, always plottin' and plannin'.

894
00:53:00,416 --> 00:53:02,916
I see these men and the games they play.

895
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:06,708
Black, white, they're all nothing
but hard-mout goats.

896
00:53:08,375 --> 00:53:09,416
"Hard-mout"?

897
00:53:09,500 --> 00:53:10,500
Ah...

898
00:53:10,541 --> 00:53:13,500
I slip into my Bajan roots
when I lose my religion.

899
00:53:13,583 --> 00:53:15,375
[chuckles lightly]

900
00:53:18,833 --> 00:53:20,166
Politics makes you do that?

901
00:53:23,041 --> 00:53:24,083
Then...

902
00:53:25,375 --> 00:53:27,333
I don't think politics is for me.

903
00:53:31,791 --> 00:53:33,041
[Shirley exhales deeply]

904
00:53:36,083 --> 00:53:37,083
[Mac] <i>Shirley!</i>

905
00:53:37,833 --> 00:53:38,708
{\an8}We need to talk.

906
00:53:38,791 --> 00:53:40,916
{\an8}- She has to go on.
- We need to talk to Shirley.

907
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:43,458
Mac, we've got
an auditorium full of students.

908
00:53:43,541 --> 00:53:46,041
Tell them she'll be out.
We need to talk to Shirley.

909
00:53:47,875 --> 00:53:48,875
[sighs softly]

910
00:53:50,541 --> 00:53:53,416
The networks just came out
with their debate schedules.

911
00:53:53,500 --> 00:53:55,125
You're not on them. None of them.

912
00:53:55,208 --> 00:53:57,008
They're saying
you don't meet the threshold...

913
00:53:57,083 --> 00:53:59,875
Whose threshold?
We were counting on these debates.

914
00:53:59,958 --> 00:54:01,166
They don't consider you...

915
00:54:01,250 --> 00:54:02,583
I filled out my paperwork.

916
00:54:02,666 --> 00:54:03,833
I've entered primaries.

917
00:54:03,916 --> 00:54:06,833
I'm polling above Lindsay,
McCarthy, Yorty.

918
00:54:06,916 --> 00:54:08,750
The networks don't care.

919
00:54:08,833 --> 00:54:11,416
- No other way to see it.
- Mrs. C, you have to go on.

920
00:54:11,500 --> 00:54:13,500
[light applause in distance]

921
00:54:23,750 --> 00:54:24,666
Sue them.

922
00:54:24,750 --> 00:54:26,750
[pensive music plays]

923
00:54:27,666 --> 00:54:28,875
Sue the networks?

924
00:54:28,958 --> 00:54:32,791
FCC mandates broadcasters
provide equal opportunity

925
00:54:32,875 --> 00:54:35,083
for any opposing political candidates.

926
00:54:35,166 --> 00:54:36,041
Any.

927
00:54:36,125 --> 00:54:38,625
So, you get a lawyer,
you get some paperwork,

928
00:54:38,708 --> 00:54:40,625
and you remind the networks

929
00:54:40,708 --> 00:54:43,125
that their licenses come
with a legal obligation.

930
00:54:43,208 --> 00:54:45,208
[whimsical instrumental music plays]

931
00:54:47,333 --> 00:54:51,166
We got no money for a campaign,
but we're gonna sue the networks.

932
00:54:51,250 --> 00:54:52,833
- [Shirley] Hello.
- [applause]

933
00:54:54,625 --> 00:54:57,750
- What's going on? What did I miss?
- [Shirley] Hello. Thank you.

934
00:54:58,666 --> 00:55:00,666
[Shirley speaking in distance]

935
00:55:02,416 --> 00:55:05,291
Aren't you a lawyer?

936
00:55:05,375 --> 00:55:08,083
I'm studying to be a lawyer. What? Why?

937
00:55:12,125 --> 00:55:14,375
- [man] You wanna sue the networks?
- [Robert] Yes.

938
00:55:14,458 --> 00:55:17,916
[man] The three pillars of
the Fourth Estate? ABC, NBC, CBS?

939
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:21,333
Yeah. They're in violation
of their mandate, all three of them are.

940
00:55:21,416 --> 00:55:25,375
And them doing business as usual
just doesn't cut it. Not in this election.

941
00:55:28,041 --> 00:55:30,916
Look, you try to take on the big three,

942
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,708
the money, the lawyers they have,
that whole scene,

943
00:55:33,791 --> 00:55:35,166
you're gonna lose in court,

944
00:55:35,750 --> 00:55:36,916
which is good.

945
00:55:37,541 --> 00:55:39,041
- That's good?
- It's good.

946
00:55:39,750 --> 00:55:42,333
No one's ever challenged
how the mandate's applied.

947
00:55:42,416 --> 00:55:44,541
If you lose, the case goes
to appellate court.

948
00:55:44,625 --> 00:55:47,583
You win there, if you can win there,

949
00:55:47,666 --> 00:55:50,458
you codify equal time as law, for like...

950
00:55:52,291 --> 00:55:53,833
[chuckling softly] Forever.

951
00:55:55,750 --> 00:55:59,583
But if we lose the appeal,
then nothing gets better,

952
00:55:59,666 --> 00:56:02,125
and we've made the whole situation worse.

953
00:56:02,208 --> 00:56:05,500
You'll have made it a lot worse. So...

954
00:56:07,208 --> 00:56:10,083
Before you take this to court,
make sure you've got a good case.

955
00:56:10,916 --> 00:56:13,291
You'd better make sure
you have a hell of a case.

956
00:56:16,625 --> 00:56:17,625
Okay.

957
00:56:18,833 --> 00:56:21,958
["Starving Child" by Musi-O-Tunya playing]

958
00:56:29,750 --> 00:56:32,958
<i>♪ Yeah, yeah ♪</i>

959
00:56:38,791 --> 00:56:43,166
<i>♪ Oh, I've seen this starving child
A day ago ♪</i>

960
00:56:44,708 --> 00:56:48,041
<i>♪ In my library ♪</i>

961
00:56:48,625 --> 00:56:51,291
<i>♪ Yeah, yeah ♪</i>

962
00:56:51,375 --> 00:56:53,083
[bell jangling at door]

963
00:56:53,166 --> 00:56:55,166
["Starving Child" continues faintly]

964
00:57:03,041 --> 00:57:04,083
I ordered you tea.

965
00:57:11,208 --> 00:57:14,791
<i>The New York Times</i>
is going to do a profile piece on me.

966
00:57:14,875 --> 00:57:17,083
They would like to speak to the family.

967
00:57:17,666 --> 00:57:19,833
They would like to know
that you support me.

968
00:57:19,916 --> 00:57:21,583
Some things go without saying.

969
00:57:22,625 --> 00:57:25,083
In politics, some things need to be said.

970
00:57:26,500 --> 00:57:27,791
[exhales deeply]

971
00:57:28,625 --> 00:57:30,791
What is it you're doing
with this campaign?

972
00:57:31,500 --> 00:57:34,125
All people do, Shirley,
they talk about you.

973
00:57:34,208 --> 00:57:35,458
They say you're crazy.

974
00:57:35,541 --> 00:57:37,208
I don't care what <i>they</i> say.

975
00:57:37,291 --> 00:57:39,708
Because you're not the one
that has to hear it.

976
00:57:39,791 --> 00:57:42,625
You're not the one people ask,
"What's wrong with your sister?"

977
00:57:42,708 --> 00:57:46,708
"How come your sister bad behave?"
We don't do these things, but you...

978
00:57:46,791 --> 00:57:48,166
- "We"?
- But you going...

979
00:57:48,250 --> 00:57:49,083
Black women?

980
00:57:49,166 --> 00:57:52,041
- You gonna humiliate yourself. Us.
- The St. Hill sisters?

981
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:55,000
You just...

982
00:57:56,166 --> 00:57:58,000
It's just how Papa raised you.

983
00:57:58,083 --> 00:57:59,083
[scoffs, chuckles]

984
00:57:59,125 --> 00:58:01,208
- It's the truth.
- Hmm.

985
00:58:01,291 --> 00:58:02,583
So I don't blame you.

986
00:58:02,666 --> 00:58:05,041
No, you blame our father.

987
00:58:05,125 --> 00:58:06,458
He had four daughters.

988
00:58:07,083 --> 00:58:08,083
Four.

989
00:58:08,875 --> 00:58:11,708
But when he died,
he left you the little money he had.

990
00:58:11,791 --> 00:58:13,333
You were treated differently.

991
00:58:14,166 --> 00:58:15,333
And now you think...

992
00:58:15,916 --> 00:58:17,583
Now you think you're special.

993
00:58:19,125 --> 00:58:20,958
That's how Papa was with you.

994
00:58:21,041 --> 00:58:22,625
He made you believe things.

995
00:58:23,125 --> 00:58:24,375
They aren't true.

996
00:58:24,916 --> 00:58:28,208
He made me believe in myself.
Regardless of what people think...

997
00:58:28,291 --> 00:58:29,750
You have no regard?

998
00:58:29,833 --> 00:58:32,750
You don't care what
this campaign does to your friends?

999
00:58:32,833 --> 00:58:35,833
- I can do what is necessary.
- Family? That's what Papa would want?

1000
00:58:35,916 --> 00:58:38,000
You are pushing us away over nothing.

1001
00:58:39,250 --> 00:58:40,375
[scoffs]

1002
00:58:41,625 --> 00:58:44,916
Muriel, is that
what you think my campaign is?

1003
00:58:45,583 --> 00:58:47,208
Is that all it is to you?

1004
00:58:48,125 --> 00:58:49,166
Nothing?

1005
00:58:49,250 --> 00:58:53,041
Nothing is what you make
the rest of us feel like.

1006
00:58:59,541 --> 00:59:00,750
No, Shirley.

1007
00:59:02,583 --> 00:59:04,791
We won't be talking
to the newspaper people.

1008
00:59:10,541 --> 00:59:11,750
[bell jangling]

1009
00:59:14,208 --> 00:59:16,208
["Starving Child" continues faintly]

1010
00:59:28,458 --> 00:59:31,000
["Think (About It)"
by Lyn Collins playing]

1011
00:59:32,250 --> 00:59:33,541
<i>♪ All right ♪</i>

1012
00:59:33,625 --> 00:59:34,833
[overlapping chatter]

1013
00:59:34,916 --> 00:59:37,583
<i>♪ I'm laying my cards on the table ♪</i>

1014
00:59:39,291 --> 00:59:41,458
<i>♪ When it comes to taking care of me ♪</i>

1015
00:59:41,541 --> 00:59:43,208
<i>♪ I know I'm able ♪</i>

1016
00:59:43,791 --> 00:59:45,833
<i>♪ You may not call it true... ♪</i>

1017
00:59:47,916 --> 00:59:50,500
Come on, y'all. Don't be cheap.
This is for Shirley.

1018
00:59:50,583 --> 00:59:54,333
The next president
of these United goddamn States!

1019
00:59:54,416 --> 00:59:56,291
[all cheering]

1020
00:59:56,375 --> 00:59:59,291
<i>♪ So think about the good things ♪</i>

1021
00:59:59,375 --> 01:00:00,666
<i>- ♪ Come on! ♪
- ♪ Come on ♪</i>

1022
01:00:01,833 --> 01:00:04,041
<i>- ♪ Hey, yeah ♪</i>
- [song ends]

1023
01:00:04,125 --> 01:00:05,833
{\an8}[phones ringing]

1024
01:00:05,916 --> 01:00:09,375
{\an8}- [Shirley] How much did they get?
- About 1,800 altogether.

1025
01:00:09,875 --> 01:00:11,750
And it was all small donations.

1026
01:00:11,833 --> 01:00:13,125
Five dollars, two dollars.

1027
01:00:13,208 --> 01:00:15,916
They show up,
claim to be from the Chisholm campaign,

1028
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:18,833
throw a party,
pour the liquor, steal the donations.

1029
01:00:19,625 --> 01:00:21,945
- [Mac] People want their money back.
- I don't blame them.

1030
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:25,541
- They want their money back from <i>us.</i>
- [Robert] From the campaign?

1031
01:00:25,625 --> 01:00:27,000
We didn't steal the money.

1032
01:00:27,083 --> 01:00:29,625
Somebody did, but we're taking the blame.

1033
01:00:29,708 --> 01:00:30,708
[Stan] Jesus!

1034
01:00:31,750 --> 01:00:32,916
I'm done.

1035
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:34,291
This isn't a campaign.

1036
01:00:34,375 --> 01:00:35,500
It's a joke.

1037
01:00:36,125 --> 01:00:38,791
You have no organization.
You have no infrastructure.

1038
01:00:38,875 --> 01:00:41,291
You got people stealing
out from under your noses.

1039
01:00:41,375 --> 01:00:42,625
Stanley, come on, now.

1040
01:00:42,708 --> 01:00:45,541
This magical voter coalition
doesn't exist.

1041
01:00:45,625 --> 01:00:48,375
When this blows all up,
the only thing anybody's gonna remember

1042
01:00:48,458 --> 01:00:52,541
is that there were a bunch of Black folks
who made fools of themselves.

1043
01:00:53,875 --> 01:00:55,916
Honest to God,
if you had any self-respect...

1044
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:58,250
If you got with the program, instead of...

1045
01:00:58,333 --> 01:01:01,000
I don't need an Ivy League white boy
givin' me lip!

1046
01:01:01,083 --> 01:01:02,708
Wait a goddamn minute!

1047
01:01:02,791 --> 01:01:05,708
- Who the hell you think you talkin' to?
- It's not worth it!

1048
01:01:05,791 --> 01:01:07,125
- You're pathetic.
- Stanley.

1049
01:01:07,208 --> 01:01:09,458
- You're an embarrassment.
- Stanley. Stanley!

1050
01:01:09,541 --> 01:01:11,333
Can we talk, please?

1051
01:01:14,416 --> 01:01:15,416
Yeah.

1052
01:01:18,375 --> 01:01:19,625
Yeah, of course.

1053
01:01:20,666 --> 01:01:22,000
[quietly] I'm sorry.

1054
01:01:28,750 --> 01:01:32,458
Shirley, I am sorry, but somebody has
got to be the one to tell these people...

1055
01:01:32,541 --> 01:01:35,750
Who the hell do you think you are,
talking to my people like that?

1056
01:01:35,833 --> 01:01:37,708
They're not your servants.

1057
01:01:37,791 --> 01:01:39,125
They're giving their time.

1058
01:01:39,208 --> 01:01:41,750
You're drawing a check,
but you got too much mout

1059
01:01:41,833 --> 01:01:43,083
to do how you get paid.

1060
01:01:43,166 --> 01:01:45,583
Got plaster for every sore.

1061
01:01:45,666 --> 01:01:48,625
Well, since you can't do,
let me relieve your load.

1062
01:01:48,708 --> 01:01:49,708
You're done.

1063
01:01:51,666 --> 01:01:54,666
- Woman, you are your own worst...
- Enough! The dog dead!

1064
01:01:54,750 --> 01:01:55,791
Go!

1065
01:02:02,166 --> 01:02:03,750
[tuts, sucks teeth]

1066
01:02:04,458 --> 01:02:05,541
[exhales]

1067
01:02:08,500 --> 01:02:10,500
[somber music playing]

1068
01:02:19,166 --> 01:02:20,291
[soft knocking]

1069
01:02:31,583 --> 01:02:34,208
- [Shirley] Thank you.
- You're welcome. You all right?

1070
01:02:34,291 --> 01:02:35,458
[Shirley] I'm fine.

1071
01:02:38,750 --> 01:02:40,375
Where are they, Arthur?

1072
01:02:42,666 --> 01:02:44,500
I was there for white women.

1073
01:02:45,041 --> 01:02:47,041
Why can't they support <i>me?</i>

1074
01:02:47,666 --> 01:02:48,916
Same with Black men.

1075
01:02:49,500 --> 01:02:51,500
Where are they?

1076
01:02:51,583 --> 01:02:52,583
They'll come.

1077
01:02:53,041 --> 01:02:54,041
[scoffs]

1078
01:02:57,166 --> 01:02:59,750
Barely two months left to the convention.

1079
01:03:00,916 --> 01:03:03,000
I'm running out of time.

1080
01:03:06,708 --> 01:03:08,166
Too sentimental.

1081
01:03:08,958 --> 01:03:10,666
I really am. I...

1082
01:03:11,458 --> 01:03:14,708
just see what's going on
in the world, and it's...

1083
01:03:15,291 --> 01:03:18,625
The agony of people, it moves me.

1084
01:03:19,291 --> 01:03:20,666
It moves me.

1085
01:03:22,583 --> 01:03:26,833
I... Conrad says
I'm not gonna live to see 55.

1086
01:03:27,458 --> 01:03:31,125
Says I'm just too into this thing,
and I know I am.

1087
01:03:31,208 --> 01:03:32,458
He's right.

1088
01:03:33,250 --> 01:03:34,291
[sighs]

1089
01:03:34,875 --> 01:03:36,375
But it's deep with me.

1090
01:03:36,458 --> 01:03:38,000
It's intense. I...

1091
01:03:38,791 --> 01:03:41,500
[sighs] I see too much sufferin'.

1092
01:03:42,416 --> 01:03:46,500
And these politicians around here,
they... they don't care.

1093
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:48,458
They don't care.

1094
01:03:48,541 --> 01:03:50,833
They just don't care.

1095
01:03:51,666 --> 01:03:53,916
And I don't know how to not try.

1096
01:03:54,458 --> 01:03:56,416
I believe in people. I do. I...

1097
01:03:56,958 --> 01:03:58,416
I'm not naive.

1098
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:01,958
[Arthur] You're not realistic either.

1099
01:04:02,833 --> 01:04:04,041
If you thought that

1100
01:04:04,125 --> 01:04:07,250
everything you were gonna have to do
was gonna be easy...

1101
01:04:09,791 --> 01:04:11,250
I mean, what do you wanna do?

1102
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:13,666
Wanna quit the campaign?

1103
01:04:15,750 --> 01:04:18,000
End of the day,
it comes down to one of two choices.

1104
01:04:18,083 --> 01:04:20,333
You either fight the fight
or quit the race.

1105
01:04:20,416 --> 01:04:22,291
And if you gonna quit the race,

1106
01:04:22,375 --> 01:04:25,083
get it done with,
and stop complaining about it.

1107
01:04:26,791 --> 01:04:27,791
[exhales]

1108
01:04:28,583 --> 01:04:30,625
Is this you being encouraging?

1109
01:04:32,750 --> 01:04:37,291
If you really are done
with... all of this mess,

1110
01:04:37,791 --> 01:04:40,916
I'm not gonna blame you,
and nobody else can.

1111
01:04:41,708 --> 01:04:43,875
People say I'm crazy.

1112
01:04:44,625 --> 01:04:46,416
<i>Am I crazy?</i>

1113
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:48,166
[Arthur] Yes.

1114
01:04:48,250 --> 01:04:52,208
But maybe that's what it takes
to make a difference in this world.

1115
01:04:52,291 --> 01:04:56,000
And, by some slim chance,
you make it down in Miami,

1116
01:04:56,083 --> 01:04:58,125
I'mma be right there with you.

1117
01:04:58,750 --> 01:05:00,916
And I hope to God it happens.

1118
01:05:01,583 --> 01:05:03,583
[gentle music playing]

1119
01:05:08,125 --> 01:05:09,625
Thank you, Arthur.

1120
01:05:10,250 --> 01:05:14,166
Thank you... for making us believe.

1121
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:17,458
That's what matters.

1122
01:05:23,666 --> 01:05:24,666
[door shuts]

1123
01:05:40,666 --> 01:05:43,916
- [Shirley] You all right?
- [Robert] Yeah, I'm just, you know, I'm...

1124
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:46,875
I'm really worried about
this FCC ruling the court handed down.

1125
01:05:46,958 --> 01:05:49,458
Isn't that what your man said
is likely to happen?

1126
01:05:49,541 --> 01:05:52,541
That we'd lose in court,
and then we'd take it to an appeal.

1127
01:05:53,125 --> 01:05:56,291
Yeah. I mean, he also said that,
you know, if we lose the appeal,

1128
01:05:56,375 --> 01:05:58,375
then the whole thing gets worse.

1129
01:05:58,458 --> 01:06:01,041
Eh, what's going to happen
is going to happen.

1130
01:06:03,083 --> 01:06:04,541
- What?
- [chuckling] I'm...

1131
01:06:04,625 --> 01:06:07,125
Sorry. What's going to happen
is going to happen?

1132
01:06:07,208 --> 01:06:10,666
Mrs. C... that doesn't sound
anything like you.

1133
01:06:10,750 --> 01:06:12,166
I mean, you're the one...

1134
01:06:12,250 --> 01:06:16,041
You're the one who told me to
not accept things the way that they are.

1135
01:06:16,125 --> 01:06:17,125
And I meant it.

1136
01:06:17,166 --> 01:06:19,041
Yes. So everything makes a difference.

1137
01:06:19,125 --> 01:06:21,166
If I let you down,
if the appeal goes wrong...

1138
01:06:21,250 --> 01:06:23,500
- How are you letting me down?
- Not just you.

1139
01:06:23,583 --> 01:06:25,708
So many people are gonna be
massively impacted.

1140
01:06:25,791 --> 01:06:28,250
- You are putting in the work.
- It's not a small thing.

1141
01:06:28,333 --> 01:06:29,613
- [sirens wail]
- [tires screech]

1142
01:06:29,666 --> 01:06:31,583
- Shirley Chisholm?
- Don't move!

1143
01:06:31,666 --> 01:06:34,083
- Right there! Let me see your hands!
- What?

1144
01:06:34,166 --> 01:06:36,166
Do you understand me? Do not move!

1145
01:06:36,250 --> 01:06:38,125
Don't tell me... Do not tell me what to do.

1146
01:06:38,208 --> 01:06:41,333
I'm not talking to you.
I'm talking to him. Is he threatening you?

1147
01:06:41,416 --> 01:06:42,291
No!

1148
01:06:42,375 --> 01:06:44,791
No. He works with me.
Why are you asking me this?

1149
01:06:45,666 --> 01:06:48,416
Ma'am, they just shot George Wallace.

1150
01:06:50,208 --> 01:06:52,875
[somber music plays]

1151
01:06:52,958 --> 01:06:54,958
- [gunshots firing]
- [woman screaming]

1152
01:06:57,666 --> 01:07:01,250
Five shots, point-blank.
It was a white boy that shot him.

1153
01:07:01,333 --> 01:07:04,125
- Chickens come home to roost.
- And he lived.

1154
01:07:05,375 --> 01:07:07,541
Wallace is a tough son of a bitch.

1155
01:07:08,041 --> 01:07:10,166
[Mac] Nixon's going to visit him
in the hospital.

1156
01:07:10,666 --> 01:07:13,375
[Arthur] Nixon would make him
his vice president if he could.

1157
01:07:13,958 --> 01:07:15,750
[Mac] What makes you think he won't?

1158
01:07:16,541 --> 01:07:17,583
I want to go visit him.

1159
01:07:22,166 --> 01:07:23,916
I want to visit Wallace.

1160
01:07:25,083 --> 01:07:27,000
I don't think it's a good idea.

1161
01:07:27,083 --> 01:07:28,875
I <i>know</i> it's not a good idea.

1162
01:07:28,958 --> 01:07:31,125
Nixon is gonna visit him.

1163
01:07:31,208 --> 01:07:32,708
McGovern's going. Humphrey...

1164
01:07:32,791 --> 01:07:34,375
They're signifying.

1165
01:07:34,458 --> 01:07:37,333
White men who wouldn't mind
getting a few of Wallace's voters.

1166
01:07:39,125 --> 01:07:40,250
Shirley.

1167
01:07:41,625 --> 01:07:44,750
Don't you know what it would mean
for you to go visit that man?

1168
01:07:44,833 --> 01:07:47,791
I know what it means
to have somebody try to take your life.

1169
01:07:48,291 --> 01:07:49,500
I know that.

1170
01:07:49,583 --> 01:07:51,541
Do you know what it would mean
to your base?

1171
01:07:51,625 --> 01:07:53,541
To Blacks, young people, progressives?

1172
01:07:53,625 --> 01:07:56,559
- The man is a stone-cold racist!
- "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow."

1173
01:07:56,583 --> 01:07:58,708
What does it say about you
when you ignore that?

1174
01:07:58,791 --> 01:08:01,083
What does it say about me as a Christian?

1175
01:08:01,791 --> 01:08:04,291
You are not running for Pope.

1176
01:08:04,791 --> 01:08:06,166
You're running for president.

1177
01:08:06,250 --> 01:08:08,458
All this, everything we put together,

1178
01:08:08,541 --> 01:08:10,916
and you want to throw it away
over Wallace?

1179
01:08:12,958 --> 01:08:14,000
[sighs]

1180
01:08:20,166 --> 01:08:23,166
You hired me to be your advisor.

1181
01:08:25,625 --> 01:08:27,291
That's hard as hell to do

1182
01:08:27,375 --> 01:08:29,625
when you won't listen
to the advice I give.

1183
01:08:35,583 --> 01:08:38,458
But you <i>are still</i>
going to advise me, right?

1184
01:08:42,625 --> 01:08:43,666
Mac?

1185
01:08:47,541 --> 01:08:48,541
I'll talk to him.

1186
01:09:07,166 --> 01:09:09,166
[gentle music playing]

1187
01:09:17,916 --> 01:09:19,916
[notes playing softly]

1188
01:09:27,833 --> 01:09:30,041
[Shirley] <i>What are the doctors saying?</i>

1189
01:09:30,708 --> 01:09:33,291
Well... I'll live.

1190
01:09:33,791 --> 01:09:35,166
So there's that.

1191
01:09:36,333 --> 01:09:37,375
But, uh...

1192
01:09:39,500 --> 01:09:41,333
shot me in the spine.

1193
01:09:41,916 --> 01:09:45,541
I will spend the rest of my days
looking at the world from a wheelchair.

1194
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:49,666
Where do these people come from, Shirley?

1195
01:09:51,166 --> 01:09:54,708
I suppose it's the hate that hate creates.

1196
01:09:55,791 --> 01:10:00,916
It is not fair to lecture a man
who has got nowhere to go to.

1197
01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:01,916
Oh... [sighs]

1198
01:10:02,000 --> 01:10:03,500
George... [sighs]

1199
01:10:04,208 --> 01:10:06,458
I wouldn't wish this on anyone.

1200
01:10:07,083 --> 01:10:08,083
Mm-mm.

1201
01:10:08,708 --> 01:10:10,250
I've been where you are.

1202
01:10:10,958 --> 01:10:13,333
Had somebody try and take my life.

1203
01:10:13,416 --> 01:10:16,041
So close to God calling me home.

1204
01:10:16,125 --> 01:10:20,125
But... I know he spared me for a reason.

1205
01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:23,708
And I believe the same for you.

1206
01:10:25,166 --> 01:10:28,791
Now, what that reason is... Why?

1207
01:10:28,875 --> 01:10:31,500
Maybe... Maybe he wanted you to...

1208
01:10:36,958 --> 01:10:38,583
It's not for me to say.

1209
01:10:40,125 --> 01:10:43,875
But you have an opportunity.

1210
01:10:44,708 --> 01:10:48,458
To keep on how you've been
or be more than what you were.

1211
01:10:49,708 --> 01:10:52,458
And you better figure it out quick.

1212
01:10:52,541 --> 01:10:55,458
'Cause the next time,
the good Lord may not be satisfied

1213
01:10:55,541 --> 01:10:57,541
with taking just half of you.

1214
01:11:06,375 --> 01:11:08,416
God is surrounding you.

1215
01:11:09,208 --> 01:11:14,958
May his light always guide you
and keep you safe in his arms.

1216
01:11:15,708 --> 01:11:17,250
In Jesus's name.

1217
01:11:17,833 --> 01:11:18,875
Amen.

1218
01:11:20,500 --> 01:11:22,208
[sobbing shakily] Well...

1219
01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:25,208
You keep praying for me, Shirley.

1220
01:11:27,541 --> 01:11:28,875
Always have.

1221
01:11:29,375 --> 01:11:31,791
[gentle music playing]

1222
01:11:35,083 --> 01:11:36,125
{\an8}[indistinct chatter]

1223
01:11:36,208 --> 01:11:38,541
{\an8}[newsman] <i>George Wallace
had an unlikely visitor today,</i>

1224
01:11:38,625 --> 01:11:40,416
<i>political opponent Shirley Chisholm.</i>

1225
01:11:40,500 --> 01:11:43,458
<i>The New York congresswoman was
one of the most unexpected visitors</i>

1226
01:11:43,541 --> 01:11:46,541
<i>to pass through this morning
to visit the Alabama governor.</i>

1227
01:11:46,625 --> 01:11:48,458
<i>One of the bullets is still lodged...</i>

1228
01:11:48,541 --> 01:11:52,583
You believe this shit?
And she's supposed to be Black.

1229
01:11:52,666 --> 01:11:56,333
<i>...his staunch segregationist and
populist views, seems like the last person</i>

1230
01:11:56,416 --> 01:11:59,541
<i>the congresswoman
would want to offer condolences to.</i>

1231
01:12:00,125 --> 01:12:02,291
[Mac] <i>I think we've got to ask this point,</i>

1232
01:12:02,791 --> 01:12:04,458
<i>do we want to go on?</i>

1233
01:12:06,166 --> 01:12:09,875
Well, the question really is,
can we go on?

1234
01:12:11,208 --> 01:12:13,416
I think we have to be realistic.

1235
01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:15,916
Two months left in the primaries,

1236
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:19,583
Dr. Wallace, if he stays
in the race, and McGovern.

1237
01:12:20,291 --> 01:12:21,875
There's just, for us,

1238
01:12:23,291 --> 01:12:25,250
no path to the presidency.

1239
01:12:26,458 --> 01:12:28,083
My numbers are improving.

1240
01:12:28,166 --> 01:12:31,458
Less than 3% of the vote
in Maryland and Michigan.

1241
01:12:31,541 --> 01:12:33,625
Better than less than 1%
in Wisconsin, but...

1242
01:12:33,708 --> 01:12:36,333
If I can't get the nomination,
I can still get delegates.

1243
01:12:36,416 --> 01:12:37,250
[Mac] Shirley.

1244
01:12:37,333 --> 01:12:39,375
And if we can control
some of the delegates,

1245
01:12:39,458 --> 01:12:41,833
we can still force change
at the convention.

1246
01:12:41,916 --> 01:12:45,375
Get delegates from where?
All that's left on the map...

1247
01:12:45,875 --> 01:12:47,583
Oregon's for McGovern. We know that.

1248
01:12:47,666 --> 01:12:50,500
We're not even on the ballot
in Rhode Island, South Dakota...

1249
01:12:50,583 --> 01:12:52,500
But there is California.

1250
01:12:52,583 --> 01:12:54,291
California is winner take all.

1251
01:12:54,375 --> 01:12:56,416
But what if we win California?

1252
01:12:56,500 --> 01:12:59,750
[Mac] Shirley, you said yourself
it'd be a waste of time.

1253
01:13:00,250 --> 01:13:02,541
I'd do whatever it takes
to compete in California.

1254
01:13:02,625 --> 01:13:04,125
It takes money.

1255
01:13:04,208 --> 01:13:06,458
Do you have money? Because we need money.

1256
01:13:06,541 --> 01:13:08,666
- We can get money.
- [Mac] We... Jesus.

1257
01:13:08,750 --> 01:13:12,625
Look, even if we enter the primary,
how do we get traction?

1258
01:13:12,708 --> 01:13:14,166
Who wants to back you?

1259
01:13:14,250 --> 01:13:15,416
Now, come on, Mac.

1260
01:13:15,500 --> 01:13:18,208
- I am just being realistic.
- Yeah, I know. But come on.

1261
01:13:18,291 --> 01:13:19,458
[Mac sighs deeply]

1262
01:13:20,416 --> 01:13:21,583
You want to do this?

1263
01:13:21,666 --> 01:13:24,458
We'll... figure it out.

1264
01:13:24,541 --> 01:13:26,291
But at this point,

1265
01:13:27,541 --> 01:13:31,041
without something
that's going to make some noise...

1266
01:13:32,750 --> 01:13:35,500
[laughter on television]

1267
01:13:38,333 --> 01:13:41,416
<i>Well, then, no, if that's it...
Were they colored?</i>

1268
01:13:45,166 --> 01:13:47,333
<i>- Yeah, white.</i>
- [audience laughs]

1269
01:13:47,416 --> 01:13:52,166
[Shirley] Our total expenses
for the campaign have been $215,000.

1270
01:13:52,250 --> 01:13:54,125
Our liabilities,

1271
01:13:54,666 --> 01:13:58,333
outstanding debts... bills...

1272
01:13:59,833 --> 01:14:01,625
Twenty-six thousand.

1273
01:14:02,375 --> 01:14:06,333
Our payroll, if we keep it really tight,

1274
01:14:06,416 --> 01:14:08,000
2,000 a week.

1275
01:14:09,125 --> 01:14:10,666
Our cash on hand?

1276
01:14:11,166 --> 01:14:12,958
We don't have any cash on hand,

1277
01:14:13,041 --> 01:14:17,000
so to have enough money
to pay all our obligations

1278
01:14:17,083 --> 01:14:20,166
and keep the campaign going
throughout the California primary,

1279
01:14:20,250 --> 01:14:23,375
we need about $36,000.

1280
01:14:25,708 --> 01:14:29,250
Where are we supposed to get $36,000?

1281
01:14:29,750 --> 01:14:31,916
[Shirley] I have my congressional salary.

1282
01:14:33,125 --> 01:14:34,125
[Conrad sighs]

1283
01:14:35,958 --> 01:14:40,625
We already put in 20,000 of our own money.

1284
01:14:41,208 --> 01:14:44,375
Now you want to put in
another 36,000 on top?

1285
01:14:44,875 --> 01:14:48,208
Wh... Why are you doing this?
Why go on? I don't understand what...

1286
01:14:48,291 --> 01:14:49,333
Conrad.

1287
01:14:49,416 --> 01:14:52,833
People walking out on you,
giving up on you.

1288
01:14:53,458 --> 01:14:57,166
I don't understand why you want
to keep going out there alone.

1289
01:14:57,250 --> 01:14:58,875
- Torturing yourself.
- I'm not alone.

1290
01:14:58,958 --> 01:15:02,375
There are people who put their blood
and sweat into what we're doing.

1291
01:15:02,458 --> 01:15:05,291
What would you have me tell them?
"Fight, but not too much?"

1292
01:15:05,375 --> 01:15:07,541
- Why do it?!
- Because it's my money!

1293
01:15:07,625 --> 01:15:08,791
It's my money!

1294
01:15:11,125 --> 01:15:13,125
[chatter on TV continues indistinctly]

1295
01:15:24,416 --> 01:15:26,416
[footsteps receding]

1296
01:15:29,458 --> 01:15:32,875
- [light clattering]
- [faint rustling]

1297
01:15:32,958 --> 01:15:34,958
[footsteps approaching]

1298
01:15:37,958 --> 01:15:38,958
[sighs]

1299
01:15:43,208 --> 01:15:44,375
[Conrad] You're right.

1300
01:15:46,083 --> 01:15:47,416
It <i>is</i> your money.

1301
01:15:48,833 --> 01:15:50,333
It's <i>your</i> campaign.

1302
01:15:53,500 --> 01:15:56,458
So, why even pretend to care

1303
01:15:57,750 --> 01:15:59,083
about what I think?

1304
01:16:10,041 --> 01:16:12,041
[audience laughing on television]

1305
01:16:34,333 --> 01:16:35,500
[exhales deeply]

1306
01:16:35,583 --> 01:16:37,583
[applause on television]

1307
01:16:37,666 --> 01:16:40,875
We sure appreciate you
getting the word out to everybody.

1308
01:16:40,958 --> 01:16:42,208
Do whatever I can.

1309
01:16:42,291 --> 01:16:43,708
Get the people to vote.

1310
01:16:43,791 --> 01:16:45,875
Every delegate coming to the convention,

1311
01:16:45,958 --> 01:16:48,708
that's a voice
for equal rights, civil rights.

1312
01:16:48,791 --> 01:16:50,250
That can't happen without you.

1313
01:16:50,333 --> 01:16:53,250
Fight the fight, Shirley. Finish the race.

1314
01:16:53,333 --> 01:16:54,583
- Thank you.
- Yes.

1315
01:16:54,666 --> 01:16:56,916
- God bless you.
- We gotta get you across town.

1316
01:16:57,000 --> 01:16:59,083
We got two more churches to get to

1317
01:16:59,166 --> 01:17:02,625
and a fundraiser that Mac and Conrad
have been greasing them

1318
01:17:02,708 --> 01:17:03,916
until we get you there.

1319
01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:06,208
Then you got
the rest of the day to yourself.

1320
01:17:06,291 --> 01:17:07,958
- Arthur.
- I'll get the cab.

1321
01:17:09,458 --> 01:17:10,458
Muriel!

1322
01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:15,750
[Muriel] Not staying for services?

1323
01:17:16,250 --> 01:17:18,375
Well, I have some campaigning to do.

1324
01:17:18,458 --> 01:17:20,333
You're staying in the race?

1325
01:17:20,416 --> 01:17:23,875
Well, I still think there are good things
we can do at the convention.

1326
01:17:26,666 --> 01:17:31,458
Muriel, I hate that you and Mother
have to listen to other people.

1327
01:17:31,541 --> 01:17:33,250
I don't want that for you.

1328
01:17:33,333 --> 01:17:34,875
I don't want that for anybody.

1329
01:17:35,583 --> 01:17:36,583
Sure.

1330
01:17:37,416 --> 01:17:38,541
Have a good Sunday.

1331
01:17:39,958 --> 01:17:42,333
Muriel, I don't think I'm special.

1332
01:17:44,250 --> 01:17:47,625
I don't. I'm just how I am.

1333
01:17:49,125 --> 01:17:51,375
And I don't know any other way to be.

1334
01:17:55,916 --> 01:17:57,125
I'm sorry.

1335
01:18:07,875 --> 01:18:08,875
[sighs softly]

1336
01:18:13,166 --> 01:18:14,166
Sh...

1337
01:18:17,333 --> 01:18:18,500
[sighs softly]

1338
01:18:19,083 --> 01:18:21,083
[somber music playing]

1339
01:18:45,875 --> 01:18:48,291
[Robert] Thank you so, so, so much.

1340
01:18:48,958 --> 01:18:49,958
Okay. Bye-bye.

1341
01:18:50,708 --> 01:18:52,708
[up-tempo music builds]

1342
01:18:55,375 --> 01:18:57,500
We got the judgment
from the appellate court.

1343
01:18:57,583 --> 01:18:58,791
They ruled in our favor.

1344
01:18:58,875 --> 01:19:02,250
ABC has to include you in the debate,
and because we missed the one on CBS,

1345
01:19:02,333 --> 01:19:04,583
they're giving you a half hour
on air to yourself.

1346
01:19:04,666 --> 01:19:06,333
- Hot diggity dog!
- [Mac laughs]

1347
01:19:06,416 --> 01:19:09,083
- You did it.
- Boy's gonna make a hell of a lawyer.

1348
01:19:09,166 --> 01:19:13,291
Wait, no. I didn't do this all by myself.
The folks over at the Media Access...

1349
01:19:13,375 --> 01:19:15,958
Robert, good job.

1350
01:19:16,458 --> 01:19:17,916
- [chuckles]
- Thank you.

1351
01:19:18,000 --> 01:19:19,500
[Shirley and Mac laughing]

1352
01:19:19,583 --> 01:19:20,750
Good work.

1353
01:19:20,833 --> 01:19:21,708
You did it.

1354
01:19:21,791 --> 01:19:25,458
<i>What has kept me in this election
is that I am willing to fight the fight,</i>

1355
01:19:25,541 --> 01:19:27,458
<i>irrespective of the odds that I face.</i>

1356
01:19:28,208 --> 01:19:30,166
The only reason I am sitting here now

1357
01:19:30,250 --> 01:19:34,166
is because I am unwilling
to... to accept the inequality

1358
01:19:34,250 --> 01:19:36,708
imposed by the so-called liberal media.

1359
01:19:37,291 --> 01:19:39,041
- It's Barbara Lee.
- Thank you.

1360
01:19:40,458 --> 01:19:41,500
Hello.

1361
01:19:44,250 --> 01:19:46,333
Yes. Barbara. How are you?

1362
01:19:46,416 --> 01:19:48,750
[Barbara] <i>I'm all right. Saw you on TV.</i>

1363
01:19:48,833 --> 01:19:51,166
<i>Sounds like you're gonna
go through California.</i>

1364
01:19:51,250 --> 01:19:54,375
Well, we're considering options.

1365
01:19:54,458 --> 01:19:57,833
[interviewer] Do you believe California
can make a difference for your campaign?

1366
01:19:57,916 --> 01:20:00,291
The largest delegate count of any state?

1367
01:20:00,875 --> 01:20:02,791
Of course it can make a difference.

1368
01:20:02,875 --> 01:20:06,083
[Barbara] <i>Look, I told you that I wanted
to do something to help the campaign.</i>

1369
01:20:06,166 --> 01:20:08,958
Something big. I spoke to Chairman Newton.
He wants to meet you.

1370
01:20:09,041 --> 01:20:12,166
Wait, little girl. Slow down.

1371
01:20:12,750 --> 01:20:15,041
Chairman Huey Newton
of the Black Panther Party.

1372
01:20:15,125 --> 01:20:17,875
He's willing to try to get
the Black Panther party to endorse you.

1373
01:20:17,958 --> 01:20:19,878
But the meeting
needs to be on neutral territory.

1374
01:20:19,916 --> 01:20:23,958
And what does he consider neutral
for a congresswoman and a Panther?

1375
01:20:24,666 --> 01:20:26,750
He'll do it at Diahann Carroll's house.

1376
01:20:26,833 --> 01:20:28,250
Diahann Carroll?

1377
01:20:28,333 --> 01:20:29,708
[hesitates] The actress?

1378
01:20:29,791 --> 01:20:32,666
She looks like an angel but she fights
like the devil for civil rights.

1379
01:20:32,750 --> 01:20:36,000
Huey thinks that he can get the BPP
to give you an endorsement.

1380
01:20:36,083 --> 01:20:39,916
When it comes to this election,
every voice deserves to be heard.

1381
01:20:40,000 --> 01:20:42,375
Not just some people, <i>all</i> of the people.

1382
01:20:42,958 --> 01:20:44,166
Right the hell on.

1383
01:20:44,250 --> 01:20:46,208
<i>And after what you just did to the FCC,</i>

1384
01:20:46,291 --> 01:20:47,916
a Panther endorsement?

1385
01:20:48,916 --> 01:20:50,375
People are gonna notice.

1386
01:20:51,500 --> 01:20:53,041
They're gonna have to notice.

1387
01:20:55,750 --> 01:20:56,750
Okay.

1388
01:20:57,250 --> 01:21:01,000
[Shirley] <i>This will be the most open
Democratic Convention this country's seen.</i>

1389
01:21:01,083 --> 01:21:03,458
Nobody's gonna get through
on the first ballot.

1390
01:21:03,541 --> 01:21:05,166
[yelping, laughing]

1391
01:21:05,250 --> 01:21:07,916
{\an8}["Four-Letter Words"
by Miriam Makeba playing]

1392
01:21:10,375 --> 01:21:11,791
- Barbara.
- [Barbara] Diahann.

1393
01:21:14,333 --> 01:21:15,208
- Mmm.
- Mm.

1394
01:21:15,291 --> 01:21:17,791
I would like you
to please meet Mrs. Shirley Chisholm.

1395
01:21:17,875 --> 01:21:18,916
Mrs. Chisholm.

1396
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:20,666
Shirley, please.

1397
01:21:20,750 --> 01:21:23,000
It is an honor, Shirley.

1398
01:21:23,083 --> 01:21:24,583
Nothing short of an honor.

1399
01:21:24,666 --> 01:21:25,916
Likewise.

1400
01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:28,708
Come on. Let's wait out back.
Huey isn't here yet.

1401
01:21:28,791 --> 01:21:32,333
Really? Caught traffic.
Was afraid we'd keep you waiting.

1402
01:21:32,416 --> 01:21:37,000
Panthers, they run on CP time.
They'll be late to their own revolution.

1403
01:21:37,083 --> 01:21:38,375
[all chuckling]

1404
01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:41,875
She's funny. [chuckles]

1405
01:21:43,333 --> 01:21:44,375
Oh...

1406
01:21:46,375 --> 01:21:48,375
- Yes, let's get you out of the sun.
- Mmm.

1407
01:21:48,458 --> 01:21:49,458
[song ends]

1408
01:21:50,416 --> 01:21:51,458
[sighs]

1409
01:21:51,541 --> 01:21:52,708
Ms. Carroll...

1410
01:21:52,791 --> 01:21:55,000
If you're "Shirley," then I'm "Diahann."

1411
01:21:55,083 --> 01:21:57,958
I truly appreciate
you facilitating this meeting.

1412
01:21:58,041 --> 01:22:02,000
Darling, bringing together
the Black Panthers and Shirley Chisholm,

1413
01:22:02,625 --> 01:22:05,833
it's like marrying thunder and lightning.

1414
01:22:05,916 --> 01:22:07,208
[chuckles lightly]

1415
01:22:08,708 --> 01:22:10,708
[sighs] Oh... Hmm.

1416
01:22:10,791 --> 01:22:12,708
It is lovely here.

1417
01:22:12,791 --> 01:22:14,333
Beautiful house.

1418
01:22:14,416 --> 01:22:15,458
Thank you.

1419
01:22:16,291 --> 01:22:17,791
Certainly cost enough.

1420
01:22:17,875 --> 01:22:19,416
Money well spent.

1421
01:22:19,500 --> 01:22:21,791
Oh, it's not about the money.

1422
01:22:21,875 --> 01:22:24,083
In Hollywood,
they throw money at you for nothing.

1423
01:22:24,166 --> 01:22:25,833
The more money, the more nothing.

1424
01:22:27,208 --> 01:22:30,041
This house, I bought it after I did <i>Julia.</i>

1425
01:22:30,125 --> 01:22:33,208
Mmm... That was a remarkable program.

1426
01:22:33,291 --> 01:22:34,291
Hmm.

1427
01:22:35,291 --> 01:22:38,416
When I did that show, 1968,

1428
01:22:38,500 --> 01:22:42,250
the first Black woman to have
her own prime-time network program,

1429
01:22:42,333 --> 01:22:44,083
playing a nurse, a professional...

1430
01:22:44,166 --> 01:22:47,000
The letters that I used to get
from some folks.

1431
01:22:47,083 --> 01:22:49,041
Know what they hated the most?

1432
01:22:49,125 --> 01:22:50,958
There was no man in Julia's life.

1433
01:22:51,458 --> 01:22:52,541
[Shirley] Hmm.

1434
01:22:52,625 --> 01:22:54,166
She was on her own,

1435
01:22:54,250 --> 01:22:57,625
raising her son by herself,
and getting by.

1436
01:22:57,708 --> 01:22:58,708
Thriving.

1437
01:22:59,666 --> 01:23:03,541
And for a lot of men, when they see
a woman on her own, doing for herself...

1438
01:23:03,625 --> 01:23:06,250
I can't speak to your profession,

1439
01:23:06,333 --> 01:23:08,125
but in mine... [scoffs]

1440
01:23:08,625 --> 01:23:12,375
Men are so used to being in control
that equality, to them, feels like chaos.

1441
01:23:12,458 --> 01:23:13,833
[laughing]

1442
01:23:13,916 --> 01:23:15,625
Well, it is still a beautiful home.

1443
01:23:15,708 --> 01:23:17,375
- Oh... Isn't it, though?
- Mmm.

1444
01:23:17,958 --> 01:23:20,000
- Diahann.
- [Diahann] Hmm.

1445
01:23:21,125 --> 01:23:22,541
Get ready for a little chaos.

1446
01:23:25,375 --> 01:23:26,375
Huey.

1447
01:23:27,250 --> 01:23:28,458
Come on over.

1448
01:23:32,083 --> 01:23:35,625
I would like you to meet...
Mrs. Shirley Chisholm.

1449
01:23:44,458 --> 01:23:45,458
Shirley.

1450
01:23:45,916 --> 01:23:46,916
Huey.

1451
01:23:47,958 --> 01:23:50,500
Thunder and lightning.

1452
01:24:00,500 --> 01:24:01,625
[sighs softly]

1453
01:24:03,958 --> 01:24:04,958
Hmm.

1454
01:24:09,625 --> 01:24:10,833
[Shirley clears throat]

1455
01:24:16,125 --> 01:24:20,333
I've come to California
'cause I'm seeking your endorsement.

1456
01:24:20,916 --> 01:24:23,416
- Why?
- Why do I want your endorsement?

1457
01:24:23,500 --> 01:24:25,625
Why do you think we would give it?

1458
01:24:25,708 --> 01:24:30,750
What did you say about us? The, uh...
"The Black Panther Party is shameful."

1459
01:24:30,833 --> 01:24:32,416
[Shirley] That's not what I said.

1460
01:24:32,500 --> 01:24:35,583
I said, "It's a shame
the Black Panther Party is necessary,

1461
01:24:35,666 --> 01:24:37,625
but I understand why it's needed."

1462
01:24:37,708 --> 01:24:42,083
It is needed to stand against ofays like
George Wallace, who you broke bread with.

1463
01:24:42,166 --> 01:24:45,041
I'd break bread with the devil
if it made him more Christian.

1464
01:24:46,416 --> 01:24:48,916
You understand that there is
a revolution going on?

1465
01:24:49,416 --> 01:24:55,208
And... And that the government that runs
this system is an inherently corrupt one?

1466
01:24:55,291 --> 01:24:59,833
But if you burn down the empire,
all that's left to rule over are ashes.

1467
01:25:00,416 --> 01:25:04,500
Democracy works. If it didn't,
we wouldn't be having this conversation.

1468
01:25:04,583 --> 01:25:06,791
You call brothers and sisters

1469
01:25:06,875 --> 01:25:09,458
getting beat up, shot,
choked to death by the police...

1470
01:25:09,541 --> 01:25:12,875
Exactly. And they need
to be held accountable.

1471
01:25:12,958 --> 01:25:15,375
And I'm going to force all the politicians

1472
01:25:15,458 --> 01:25:20,208
to <i>earn</i> the vote that we secured
with our rent flesh and spilt blood.

1473
01:25:20,291 --> 01:25:22,500
From Birmingham
all the way up to Binghamton.

1474
01:25:22,583 --> 01:25:24,958
You gonna do all that?
Schoolteacher from Brooklyn.

1475
01:25:25,041 --> 01:25:26,500
[scoffs, chuckles softly]

1476
01:25:27,250 --> 01:25:31,208
Yes, I am just a schoolteacher
from Brooklyn.

1477
01:25:31,291 --> 01:25:33,333
And Harriet was just a slave.

1478
01:25:33,416 --> 01:25:35,416
Rosa was just a domestic.

1479
01:25:37,041 --> 01:25:39,583
What is it you do for a living again?

1480
01:25:40,500 --> 01:25:42,500
[percussive music playing]

1481
01:25:45,791 --> 01:25:48,291
The Black Panther Party
puts forth the call

1482
01:25:48,375 --> 01:25:52,375
to unite together to join
Sister Shirley Chisholm's campaign.

1483
01:25:53,333 --> 01:25:57,083
Shirley... has stood up
in the face to racism,

1484
01:25:57,625 --> 01:26:04,166
denouncing the sufferance of Black
and poor people at every opportunity.

1485
01:26:05,416 --> 01:26:07,333
Shirley deserves to be president.

1486
01:26:08,208 --> 01:26:09,625
And she will be.

1487
01:26:11,041 --> 01:26:13,250
When we deliver to her
the state of California.

1488
01:26:13,333 --> 01:26:16,791
[Willie Brown] <i>A place like California,
where it's a winner-take-all operation,</i>

1489
01:26:16,875 --> 01:26:20,375
{\an8}you're simply dissipating the potential
of Black delegate strength

1490
01:26:20,458 --> 01:26:22,541
{\an8}at the convention if you come here

1491
01:26:22,625 --> 01:26:26,166
{\an8}and try to run a Black
in a symbolic protest campaign,

1492
01:26:26,250 --> 01:26:28,875
and that's what Shirley Chisholm's
campaign will amount to.

1493
01:26:28,958 --> 01:26:32,708
[man 1] <i>The winner-take-all votes, crucial
to the presidential nominating race.</i>

1494
01:26:32,791 --> 01:26:36,166
[man 2] <i>George McGovern won
California's Democratic primary.</i>

1495
01:26:36,250 --> 01:26:38,375
<i>He got 44% of the vote.</i>

1496
01:26:38,458 --> 01:26:40,458
<i>Hubert Humphrey got 39%.</i>

1497
01:26:40,541 --> 01:26:42,291
<i>And other candidates got the rest.</i>

1498
01:26:42,375 --> 01:26:43,875
<i>The others, Muskie, Jackson,</i>

1499
01:26:43,958 --> 01:26:47,541
<i>Chisholm, Wallace, Yorty,
got a scattering few percent each.</i>

1500
01:26:47,625 --> 01:26:50,833
<i>But that gave McGovern
all 271 delegate votes.</i>

1501
01:26:50,916 --> 01:26:54,416
<i>And it's put him well on the way
to a first ballot nomination in Miam...</i>

1502
01:26:56,083 --> 01:26:57,500
[somber music plays]

1503
01:26:58,625 --> 01:26:59,625
[sighs]

1504
01:27:28,458 --> 01:27:31,625
Shirley, this is Oly Clark
with the Muskie campaign,

1505
01:27:31,708 --> 01:27:33,916
and Arnold Pinkney, with Senator Humphrey.

1506
01:27:34,000 --> 01:27:35,583
Ms. Chisholm, may we offer you...

1507
01:27:38,625 --> 01:27:41,041
Appreciate you coming in, Mrs. Chisholm.

1508
01:27:41,125 --> 01:27:42,625
How are you holding up?

1509
01:27:42,708 --> 01:27:45,500
I'm feeling pretty well.
Would have been better

1510
01:27:45,583 --> 01:27:48,791
if one of your candidates
had cared to drop out of the race.

1511
01:27:48,875 --> 01:27:50,500
We could say the same about you.

1512
01:27:50,583 --> 01:27:53,416
You run a good campaign, Mrs. Chisholm.
A real good one.

1513
01:27:53,500 --> 01:27:54,625
[Mac sighs]

1514
01:27:55,666 --> 01:27:59,333
Shirley, I think we're all disappointed
with the results in California.

1515
01:27:59,416 --> 01:28:01,875
- Not just McGovern winning...
- If you can call it winning.

1516
01:28:01,958 --> 01:28:04,333
He didn't carry the state,
but he gets all the delegates.

1517
01:28:04,416 --> 01:28:07,625
Winner take all.
Those were the rules before the primary.

1518
01:28:07,708 --> 01:28:09,750
They were the rules when the people voted.

1519
01:28:09,833 --> 01:28:12,333
Not sure there's much
that can be done about it.

1520
01:28:12,416 --> 01:28:14,541
We think that there is.

1521
01:28:14,625 --> 01:28:17,375
We think we can make the case
to the Credentials Committee

1522
01:28:17,458 --> 01:28:20,666
that what happened in California
was not a democratic process,

1523
01:28:20,750 --> 01:28:23,166
and that the delegates
be awarded proportionally.

1524
01:28:23,666 --> 01:28:26,458
And we would like your campaign
to join us in the motion.

1525
01:28:26,541 --> 01:28:27,833
[Shirley inhales deeply]

1526
01:28:27,916 --> 01:28:29,833
You all are killing me.

1527
01:28:30,416 --> 01:28:32,666
Now you're worried about being fair.

1528
01:28:33,500 --> 01:28:36,291
Vote doesn't go your way,
you just change the rules.

1529
01:28:36,375 --> 01:28:39,666
When you work on a skunk farm,
you can't complain when the shit stinks.

1530
01:28:39,750 --> 01:28:41,625
And right now, it stinks.

1531
01:28:41,708 --> 01:28:45,083
Do you want McGovern's campaign
to control the entire convention?

1532
01:28:45,166 --> 01:28:47,833
What exactly is the benefit to us?

1533
01:28:47,916 --> 01:28:49,916
[Oly] You came in fourth in California.

1534
01:28:50,000 --> 01:28:52,416
You should be entitled
to some of those delegates.

1535
01:28:52,500 --> 01:28:54,125
And with the 28 you already have...

1536
01:28:54,208 --> 01:28:55,958
Senator Humphrey has asked me to relay

1537
01:28:56,041 --> 01:28:58,791
that he'd be willing to have
his Black delegates defer to you.

1538
01:28:58,875 --> 01:29:02,958
I understand you have arrangements
with Walter Fauntroy and Ron Dellums.

1539
01:29:03,041 --> 01:29:08,125
[Oly] Altogether, you would go into the
convention controlling over 150 delegates.

1540
01:29:08,666 --> 01:29:13,791
McGovern only has 762 pledged delegates,
and he needs 1,500 to get the nomination.

1541
01:29:14,500 --> 01:29:15,601
I don't want to speak ill...

1542
01:29:15,625 --> 01:29:19,000
I would expect he would do
whatever it takes to get those delegates.

1543
01:29:19,583 --> 01:29:21,000
Whatever it takes.

1544
01:29:21,625 --> 01:29:25,625
[Oly] We work together, we can keep him
from getting it on the first ballot.

1545
01:29:25,708 --> 01:29:27,916
If I support your suit.

1546
01:29:32,833 --> 01:29:34,833
[pensive music plays]

1547
01:29:54,875 --> 01:29:56,500
[Mac] If you do this, Shirley,

1548
01:29:57,666 --> 01:29:59,375
if you take this to Miami,

1549
01:30:01,083 --> 01:30:02,625
they will come at you.

1550
01:30:05,416 --> 01:30:06,708
[exhales deeply]

1551
01:30:23,458 --> 01:30:26,833
{\an8}[man] <i>Reporting from CBS News Convention
Headquarters in Miami Beach,</i>

1552
01:30:26,916 --> 01:30:29,250
<i>here is correspondent Walter Cronkite.</i>

1553
01:30:29,708 --> 01:30:31,791
[Cronkite] The anti-McGovern
forces got together,

1554
01:30:31,875 --> 01:30:35,083
and they've challenged the legality
of the winner-take-all primary.

1555
01:30:35,166 --> 01:30:39,125
They claim that it, in effect,
denied all those millions

1556
01:30:39,208 --> 01:30:42,833
who voted for candidates other than
McGovern a voice in the convention.

1557
01:30:42,916 --> 01:30:46,791
So now, tonight, when Mrs. Pat Harris,
chairman of the Credentials Committee,

1558
01:30:46,875 --> 01:30:50,916
presents her report, there will be
a minority report on California.

1559
01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:54,125
That's a challenge to not seat
the Humphrey and other delegates,

1560
01:30:54,208 --> 01:30:57,541
but to give those 151 seats
back to McGovern's people.

1561
01:30:57,625 --> 01:31:01,000
{\an8}...with my 271-man delegation,

1562
01:31:01,083 --> 01:31:06,625
{\an8}and cast the votes
of that unanimous 271-man delegation.

1563
01:31:06,708 --> 01:31:08,625
{\an8}And I don't think I deserve any less!

1564
01:31:11,958 --> 01:31:13,666
<i>We obeyed the law!</i>

1565
01:31:14,166 --> 01:31:15,250
<i>The first time!</i>

1566
01:31:15,791 --> 01:31:17,166
<i>Seat my delegation!</i>

1567
01:31:17,250 --> 01:31:20,500
<i>I did it for you in Mississippi in '64.</i>

1568
01:31:20,583 --> 01:31:22,000
<i>In Georgia in '68.</i>

1569
01:31:22,083 --> 01:31:24,416
<i>And it's now California in '72.</i>

1570
01:31:24,500 --> 01:31:28,500
<i>I deserve no less.
Give me back my delegation!</i>

1571
01:31:28,583 --> 01:31:30,708
Willie Brown is going crazy.

1572
01:31:30,791 --> 01:31:33,541
What in the hell did McGovern promise him?

1573
01:31:34,041 --> 01:31:36,000
Secretary of Housing.

1574
01:31:36,083 --> 01:31:38,291
That's all they ever give Black folks.

1575
01:31:38,375 --> 01:31:41,000
- Secretary of Housing.
- Any word on McGovern's camp?

1576
01:31:41,083 --> 01:31:43,958
They're not interested
in making concessions at this time.

1577
01:31:44,041 --> 01:31:47,000
Why would McGovern make a deal
for delegates? He'll steal them.

1578
01:31:47,083 --> 01:31:49,250
Conrad, did you call down to maintenance?

1579
01:31:49,333 --> 01:31:51,666
They said there's nothing wrong
with the air conditioner.

1580
01:31:51,750 --> 01:31:55,375
Nothing wrong? They're all from Florida.
They don't know what good weather is.

1581
01:31:55,458 --> 01:31:57,541
[Mac] Shirley...
Willie Brown is playing games.

1582
01:31:57,625 --> 01:32:01,375
This luncheon for the Black delegates...
You've got a coalition, Shirley.

1583
01:32:01,458 --> 01:32:04,041
Your delegates, Muskie's,
Humphrey's, Fauntroy's.

1584
01:32:04,125 --> 01:32:06,708
But you've got to keep them
from breaking for McGovern.

1585
01:32:07,208 --> 01:32:10,500
You need to bring
the Black delegates to Jesus.

1586
01:32:10,583 --> 01:32:14,416
Get them together and hold them together.

1587
01:32:16,458 --> 01:32:17,500
Okay.

1588
01:32:21,458 --> 01:32:22,666
It's so warm.

1589
01:32:24,166 --> 01:32:26,208
[MC] <i>Let's continue on with our program.</i>

1590
01:32:27,083 --> 01:32:29,791
Our next speaker...
Well, hell, you all know her.

1591
01:32:31,041 --> 01:32:34,333
She is the only Black woman crazy enough

1592
01:32:34,416 --> 01:32:37,750
to run for president
of these United States.

1593
01:32:37,833 --> 01:32:42,458
Give a warm welcome
for Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm.

1594
01:32:42,541 --> 01:32:45,250
[scattered clapping]

1595
01:32:51,916 --> 01:32:53,291
[Shirley] Good afternoon.

1596
01:32:55,958 --> 01:32:59,125
Well... this is something.

1597
01:33:00,083 --> 01:33:01,000
Isn't it?

1598
01:33:01,083 --> 01:33:02,666
[hushed chattering]

1599
01:33:02,750 --> 01:33:04,666
[Shirley] Look around this room today.

1600
01:33:05,916 --> 01:33:08,416
Go ahead. Look around.

1601
01:33:09,750 --> 01:33:12,833
Four years ago, less than 2%

1602
01:33:12,916 --> 01:33:16,458
of the delegates
at the Democratic Convention were Black.

1603
01:33:17,166 --> 01:33:21,500
Today there are 452 of you.

1604
01:33:21,583 --> 01:33:23,250
[hushed chatter]

1605
01:33:23,333 --> 01:33:24,625
[sparse applause]

1606
01:33:27,250 --> 01:33:31,250
[Shirley] There are people here
promising you this, promising you that.

1607
01:33:31,875 --> 01:33:34,708
Well, my brothers and sisters,

1608
01:33:34,791 --> 01:33:39,333
let me tell it to you this afternoon
like it really is.

1609
01:33:39,416 --> 01:33:41,333
- [man 1] All right, now.
- [man 2] Right.

1610
01:33:42,208 --> 01:33:45,875
[Shirley] The only thing you have going,
my brothers and sisters...

1611
01:33:45,958 --> 01:33:48,166
There's only one thing you've got going.

1612
01:33:48,791 --> 01:33:52,708
Your... one... vote.

1613
01:33:52,791 --> 01:33:54,958
- [man 3] All right.
- [applause]

1614
01:33:55,041 --> 01:33:58,333
Don't sell that vote out!

1615
01:33:58,916 --> 01:34:03,125
The Black people of America
are watching us.

1616
01:34:03,833 --> 01:34:09,791
Find out what these candidates who
need our votes to get across the top

1617
01:34:09,875 --> 01:34:15,250
are going to do
for us concretely, not rhetorically.

1618
01:34:15,333 --> 01:34:16,750
[man 4] Yeah! All right!

1619
01:34:16,833 --> 01:34:18,833
- [excited chatter]
- [applause builds]

1620
01:34:23,000 --> 01:34:27,000
[Shirley] As I look at the faces
of the Black youth of this country

1621
01:34:27,083 --> 01:34:29,541
as I went from one place to another,

1622
01:34:30,500 --> 01:34:34,250
and they said, "Chisholm,
we know what you're going through."

1623
01:34:34,875 --> 01:34:37,708
"We know how rough and how tough,

1624
01:34:38,208 --> 01:34:40,416
but we know that you have the courage,

1625
01:34:40,500 --> 01:34:45,166
and the balls, and the audacity
to shake this system up

1626
01:34:45,250 --> 01:34:46,625
within the system."

1627
01:34:46,708 --> 01:34:49,750
- [audience] Yeah!
- But I need your help to do it.

1628
01:34:50,833 --> 01:34:53,083
Hold on to your vote.

1629
01:34:53,916 --> 01:34:55,833
Hold on to your vote!

1630
01:34:56,375 --> 01:34:57,916
[excited chatter]

1631
01:34:58,000 --> 01:35:00,458
- [cheering]
- [applause swells]

1632
01:35:00,541 --> 01:35:03,000
[bittersweet instrumental music plays]

1633
01:35:28,375 --> 01:35:31,458
- [music fades out]
- [woman] Sixty-one, 62, 63, 64, 65...

1634
01:35:31,541 --> 01:35:34,500
Twenty-one Louisiana delegates
are switching their pledge to you,

1635
01:35:34,583 --> 01:35:37,708
- Twelve from Mississippi.
- If they are switching, I'll take them.

1636
01:35:37,791 --> 01:35:40,375
I have 23 switching from Ohio,
nine from Pennsylvania,

1637
01:35:40,458 --> 01:35:43,375
and two from Florida.
They were originally pledged to Wallace.

1638
01:35:43,458 --> 01:35:46,083
Muskie's keeping his name
in the first round of balloting,

1639
01:35:46,166 --> 01:35:48,666
but he's directing
his Black delegates to vote for you.

1640
01:35:48,750 --> 01:35:50,041
Hey. Humphrey's dropping out.

1641
01:35:50,125 --> 01:35:51,725
- [Barbara] What?
- [Arthur] He withdrew?

1642
01:35:51,750 --> 01:35:53,710
He's dropping out
and releasing all his delegates.

1643
01:35:53,791 --> 01:35:55,000
To who? McGovern?

1644
01:35:55,083 --> 01:35:58,125
Like he promised, he's telling all
his Black delegates to vote for you.

1645
01:36:02,875 --> 01:36:08,000
With Humphrey's delegates,
California's, Fauntroy's, you have almost...

1646
01:36:10,791 --> 01:36:13,083
Two hundred and fifty delegates
pledged to you.

1647
01:36:14,083 --> 01:36:16,750
So McGovern can't get
the nomination in the first round.

1648
01:36:20,708 --> 01:36:22,791
- Ahh!
- [woman screams]

1649
01:36:22,875 --> 01:36:23,791
Yes!

1650
01:36:23,875 --> 01:36:25,875
[all cheering and clapping]

1651
01:36:25,958 --> 01:36:26,875
Yeah!

1652
01:36:26,958 --> 01:36:29,125
[man] Let's do this!

1653
01:36:29,208 --> 01:36:32,000
Robert! Robert, hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

1654
01:36:32,083 --> 01:36:35,750
We have not done anything yet.
You get on the phone to McGovern's people.

1655
01:36:35,833 --> 01:36:39,833
And you tell them if he wants my delegates
then he'd better start talking about

1656
01:36:39,916 --> 01:36:43,125
what's going into the platform,
who he's going to appoint,

1657
01:36:43,208 --> 01:36:44,916
to what cabinet positions.

1658
01:36:45,000 --> 01:36:46,000
Shirley.

1659
01:36:46,500 --> 01:36:47,500
[Shirley exhales]

1660
01:36:49,625 --> 01:36:50,625
Thank you.

1661
01:36:51,125 --> 01:36:53,166
I'm going to get something to eat.

1662
01:36:53,250 --> 01:36:55,500
Can't conquer the world
on an empty stomach!

1663
01:37:01,083 --> 01:37:02,291
[knocking on door]

1664
01:37:06,125 --> 01:37:07,208
Congressman.

1665
01:37:07,791 --> 01:37:09,833
Senator McGovern's
very excited to see you.

1666
01:37:11,166 --> 01:37:13,000
- Can I get you a drink?
- Thank you.

1667
01:37:16,041 --> 01:37:19,083
...and then to get 250 delegates
at the last moment?

1668
01:37:19,166 --> 01:37:20,686
- Whoo!
- [woman] What was he gonna do?

1669
01:37:20,750 --> 01:37:22,309
[Barbara] I did not expect him to keep...

1670
01:37:22,333 --> 01:37:24,373
[man on TV] <i>Mr. Abernathy,
why are you on the floor?</i>

1671
01:37:24,416 --> 01:37:28,000
[Abernathy] <i>Well, we're out here
fighting the cause for poor people.</i>

1672
01:37:28,083 --> 01:37:33,333
<i>As you know, one fourth
of our people are poor in the country,</i>

1673
01:37:33,416 --> 01:37:35,375
<i>And I'm fighting that struggle...</i>

1674
01:37:35,458 --> 01:37:37,458
Hello, it's Shirley.

1675
01:37:38,333 --> 01:37:39,750
I got your message.

1676
01:37:39,833 --> 01:37:41,833
[man on TV continues indistinctly]

1677
01:37:44,625 --> 01:37:47,666
Not that busy. Would've taken the call.

1678
01:37:51,083 --> 01:37:56,166
Well, we didn't quite get there,
but we did okay.

1679
01:37:56,250 --> 01:37:57,250
[gentle music plays]

1680
01:37:57,333 --> 01:37:59,208
We're gonna do some good things here.

1681
01:38:00,541 --> 01:38:02,625
Some really good things.

1682
01:38:03,333 --> 01:38:05,541
[Muriel] I'm proud
of the things you <i>did</i> do.

1683
01:38:06,416 --> 01:38:08,625
Mom and I are watching the news.

1684
01:38:09,833 --> 01:38:11,166
You done well, Shirley.

1685
01:38:11,875 --> 01:38:13,458
You done really well.

1686
01:38:16,916 --> 01:38:18,250
Pop was right.

1687
01:38:19,583 --> 01:38:20,708
You <i>are</i> special.

1688
01:38:27,666 --> 01:38:28,833
I love you.

1689
01:38:31,333 --> 01:38:32,333
I...

1690
01:38:35,583 --> 01:38:37,000
I love you too.

1691
01:38:37,791 --> 01:38:38,875
[exhales softly]

1692
01:38:38,958 --> 01:38:40,958
[gentle music continues]

1693
01:38:43,875 --> 01:38:45,625
- [sighs softly]
- [receiver clatters]

1694
01:38:47,833 --> 01:38:48,833
[receiver clatters]

1695
01:38:52,416 --> 01:38:53,541
[sighs softly]

1696
01:39:05,541 --> 01:39:07,541
[breathes deeply]

1697
01:39:10,250 --> 01:39:11,750
Shirley? Come here.

1698
01:39:15,416 --> 01:39:17,333
CBS News. They want a statement.

1699
01:39:17,416 --> 01:39:19,208
[Conrad] Now they want a statement.

1700
01:39:19,291 --> 01:39:21,500
They had seven months.
Now they want a statement.

1701
01:39:21,583 --> 01:39:23,416
- I have a statement for you!
- Conrad.

1702
01:39:23,500 --> 01:39:25,750
- I'll give you a statement!
- [laughter]

1703
01:39:27,208 --> 01:39:28,750
This is Congresswoman Chisholm.

1704
01:39:33,208 --> 01:39:34,958
And where did you hear that?

1705
01:39:37,166 --> 01:39:39,583
Then I would say
that your sources are wrong,

1706
01:39:39,666 --> 01:39:41,166
and I have no further comment.

1707
01:39:43,583 --> 01:39:44,583
[Mac] What?

1708
01:39:45,791 --> 01:39:48,208
They're asking for my response

1709
01:39:48,291 --> 01:39:51,708
on Walter Fauntroy
releasing his delegates to McGovern.

1710
01:39:51,791 --> 01:39:54,041
- What?
- Walter wouldn't release his delegates.

1711
01:39:54,125 --> 01:39:58,500
- That's McGovern's campaign trying to...
- It's not coming from McGovern's campaign.

1712
01:39:59,500 --> 01:40:01,708
There's more than one person saying it.

1713
01:40:05,875 --> 01:40:07,041
Find Walter.

1714
01:40:07,125 --> 01:40:08,208
[Shirley] Walter.

1715
01:40:09,375 --> 01:40:11,416
Are you releasing
your delegates to McGovern?

1716
01:40:11,500 --> 01:40:13,458
- Shirley, hold on...
- Answer me.

1717
01:40:14,166 --> 01:40:17,083
- Can you give us a minute?
- They don't need to go anywhere.

1718
01:40:17,166 --> 01:40:18,666
Yes or no?

1719
01:40:20,416 --> 01:40:22,791
Yes, I'm giving my delegates to McGovern.

1720
01:40:22,875 --> 01:40:24,791
- Backstabber.
- No need for all of that.

1721
01:40:24,875 --> 01:40:28,000
We had an agreement.
You promised your delegates to me.

1722
01:40:28,083 --> 01:40:31,916
I told you I'd give you my delegates <i>if</i>
the voting went beyond the first ballot.

1723
01:40:32,000 --> 01:40:35,750
McGovern's going to have all he needs.
He's getting my delegates, Willie's...

1724
01:40:35,833 --> 01:40:37,791
Ugh, you and Willie are weak.

1725
01:40:37,875 --> 01:40:40,208
Selling out your own
for scraps off the table.

1726
01:40:40,291 --> 01:40:42,572
Trying to make sure
we don't get four more years of Nixon.

1727
01:40:42,625 --> 01:40:44,666
McGovern can't win over the party.

1728
01:40:44,750 --> 01:40:47,208
What makes you think
he can win this election?

1729
01:40:47,708 --> 01:40:50,750
You can fold if you want,
but the rest of us, we're fightin'.

1730
01:40:50,833 --> 01:40:52,500
[Walter scoffs] Rest of who?

1731
01:40:52,583 --> 01:40:54,958
All the Black delegates
are going to McGovern.

1732
01:40:56,000 --> 01:40:58,791
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Your man, Ron Dellums.

1733
01:40:59,458 --> 01:41:02,500
He's telling all the Black delegates
to get behind McGovern.

1734
01:41:02,583 --> 01:41:04,041
- Yours too.
- [Shirley scoffs]

1735
01:41:06,458 --> 01:41:08,791
I tried to warn you about him, Shirley.

1736
01:41:08,875 --> 01:41:09,916
I tried!

1737
01:41:10,000 --> 01:41:13,291
The Black delegates
at this convention have a mandate

1738
01:41:13,375 --> 01:41:16,750
<i>from their people
not to support Shirley Chisholm.</i>

1739
01:41:16,833 --> 01:41:20,916
[man] <i>Shirley Chisholm doesn't have
a chance. Blacks, on the first vote,</i>

1740
01:41:21,000 --> 01:41:24,875
are going to vote in terms
of meaningful political responsibility.

1741
01:41:24,958 --> 01:41:26,767
- [newsman] <i>So the reaction was...
- Sentimental.</i>

1742
01:41:26,791 --> 01:41:29,958
- [newsman] <i>Will not have political effect?
- No political effect whatever.</i>

1743
01:41:31,083 --> 01:41:34,309
- [Conrad] I'm looking for Ron Dellums.
- I'm looking for Congressman Ron Dellums.

1744
01:41:34,333 --> 01:41:36,583
Congressman Ronald Dellums.

1745
01:41:36,666 --> 01:41:39,500
- I need to find Ron.
- I need you to find Ron Dellums.

1746
01:41:39,583 --> 01:41:41,851
- [overlapping chatter]
- I asked for Congressman Dellums.

1747
01:41:41,875 --> 01:41:44,666
- You told me...
- ...to Shirley, and now going to McGovern.

1748
01:41:45,875 --> 01:41:47,458
- Mrs. C.
- Did you find Ron?

1749
01:41:47,541 --> 01:41:49,791
I looked everywhere I could think,
but nobody's seen him.

1750
01:41:49,875 --> 01:41:52,184
- Did you check McGovern's suite?
- They wouldn't let me in.

1751
01:41:52,208 --> 01:41:53,333
Go back down there.

1752
01:41:53,416 --> 01:41:55,250
No, I tried, but they wouldn't let me in.

1753
01:41:55,333 --> 01:41:57,791
You go back down there.
You get in the room.

1754
01:41:57,875 --> 01:41:59,416
Kick in the door if you have to.

1755
01:41:59,500 --> 01:42:01,583
Shirley, Ronald's on TV.

1756
01:42:01,666 --> 01:42:04,916
[Ron] <i>Frankly, no other candidate
running for president could have.</i>

1757
01:42:05,500 --> 01:42:08,625
<i>It's through his vision for this party
that we've seen the beginnings</i>

1758
01:42:08,708 --> 01:42:11,083
<i>of a very powerful movement
in this country.</i>

1759
01:42:11,833 --> 01:42:15,958
<i>A movement that has
just realized its potential power.</i>

1760
01:42:17,041 --> 01:42:20,916
<i>Yet, at this moment... cynical,</i>

1761
01:42:22,291 --> 01:42:27,791
<i>even diabolical forces are moving to stop
the candidacy of Senator George McGovern.</i>

1762
01:42:28,708 --> 01:42:32,083
<i>Now, we have to ignore
the dreamers and the fools,</i>

1763
01:42:32,875 --> 01:42:34,208
<i>and get behind a candidate</i>

1764
01:42:34,291 --> 01:42:38,000
<i>who actually has the ability
to win the election in November.</i>

1765
01:42:39,458 --> 01:42:42,833
<i>That is why I am giving
my full endorsement</i>

1766
01:42:43,583 --> 01:42:45,250
<i>to Senator George McGovern.</i>

1767
01:42:45,333 --> 01:42:46,666
[sighs deeply]

1768
01:42:48,833 --> 01:42:50,750
[somber music playing]

1769
01:42:50,833 --> 01:42:56,333
<i>A man who has the extraordinary ability
to lead this party into the future.</i>

1770
01:42:57,000 --> 01:42:58,916
Start working the phones.

1771
01:42:59,000 --> 01:43:01,541
Get to every delegate you can.
They cannot break away.

1772
01:43:01,625 --> 01:43:04,375
I don't care what McGovern's
promising Dellums. He can't.

1773
01:43:04,458 --> 01:43:05,958
- Go!
- Put out a statement.

1774
01:43:06,041 --> 01:43:10,000
- Ronald's got another thing coming.
- I need you to put out a statement.

1775
01:43:10,083 --> 01:43:13,041
And... release my delegates.

1776
01:43:13,125 --> 01:43:14,750
- No. Don't do this.
- Release?

1777
01:43:14,833 --> 01:43:17,583
- Shirley. No, we can still find a way...
- No. Mac.

1778
01:43:17,666 --> 01:43:18,791
Mac!

1779
01:43:19,666 --> 01:43:21,708
I owe you everything.

1780
01:43:21,791 --> 01:43:25,208
But right now, I need you to do as I ask.

1781
01:43:26,791 --> 01:43:28,458
Put out a statement.

1782
01:43:29,083 --> 01:43:30,750
Release my delegates.

1783
01:43:33,041 --> 01:43:34,250
Please.

1784
01:43:37,833 --> 01:43:39,125
I'll call the DNC.

1785
01:43:49,041 --> 01:43:50,125
[sighs]

1786
01:43:57,166 --> 01:43:58,166
[exhales]

1787
01:44:05,375 --> 01:44:06,541
[exhales deeply]

1788
01:44:22,166 --> 01:44:24,166
[somber music faces out]

1789
01:44:52,583 --> 01:44:53,750
[Barbara sobs softly]

1790
01:44:53,833 --> 01:44:57,041
Well... we had something.

1791
01:44:58,333 --> 01:45:00,208
Maybe just for a second, but...

1792
01:45:01,416 --> 01:45:02,625
we had something.

1793
01:45:07,125 --> 01:45:08,541
- I hate him.
- Mmm.

1794
01:45:08,625 --> 01:45:10,500
- I hate Dellums.
- No.

1795
01:45:12,250 --> 01:45:14,666
Ron was just doing what he had to do.

1796
01:45:16,541 --> 01:45:18,875
[crying] I'm not mad at him.

1797
01:45:24,083 --> 01:45:29,791
I understand the pressures
and everything that man was going through.

1798
01:45:30,583 --> 01:45:33,583
He stood out for so long.

1799
01:45:34,958 --> 01:45:40,000
And for me, when everybody
was ridiculing him and what have you, and...

1800
01:45:40,083 --> 01:45:42,083
[breathes deeply]

1801
01:45:46,000 --> 01:45:48,125
I want you all to know

1802
01:45:49,750 --> 01:45:51,458
there are no bad feelings.

1803
01:45:54,708 --> 01:45:58,583
You find Ron,
and you tell him to come home to Shirley.

1804
01:46:00,875 --> 01:46:02,041
Okay?

1805
01:46:03,291 --> 01:46:05,208
You don't owe him a thing.

1806
01:46:07,250 --> 01:46:09,250
I owe him forgiveness.

1807
01:46:12,708 --> 01:46:13,708
Mm-hmm.

1808
01:46:14,500 --> 01:46:17,208
You find him,
and you tell him to come home.

1809
01:46:21,333 --> 01:46:22,375
[exhales shakily]

1810
01:46:28,000 --> 01:46:29,000
[sighs]

1811
01:46:30,500 --> 01:46:34,250
I dragged you kids
all the way down to Florida.

1812
01:46:35,000 --> 01:46:36,458
[chuckles softly]

1813
01:46:38,958 --> 01:46:40,708
[Barbara] It wasn't for nothing.

1814
01:46:45,291 --> 01:46:48,500
All the reasons that any of us had
to come down to this convention,

1815
01:46:48,583 --> 01:46:50,833
we all came for the best one. [inhales]

1816
01:46:52,541 --> 01:46:53,708
[crying] We came for you.

1817
01:46:56,208 --> 01:46:57,500
[quietly] Then keep on.

1818
01:46:57,583 --> 01:46:59,583
[gentle music plays]

1819
01:47:00,333 --> 01:47:02,541
If I can't get there today,

1820
01:47:02,625 --> 01:47:05,750
you have to believe
you can get there tomorrow.

1821
01:47:11,458 --> 01:47:18,208
And if the best I was able to do
is to remind people what's possible...

1822
01:47:20,833 --> 01:47:22,666
then I'm thankful.

1823
01:47:28,541 --> 01:47:30,916
[breathes deeply]

1824
01:47:31,000 --> 01:47:32,416
[crying] Thank you, Shirley.

1825
01:47:33,875 --> 01:47:35,500
Thank you so much.

1826
01:47:36,458 --> 01:47:37,625
[Shirley] Thank you.

1827
01:47:40,583 --> 01:47:41,583
[sniffles]

1828
01:47:44,250 --> 01:47:45,333
[chuckling sob]

1829
01:47:46,250 --> 01:47:49,125
Chairman O'Brien is on the extension.

1830
01:47:49,791 --> 01:47:50,833
[exhales]

1831
01:47:57,708 --> 01:47:58,875
Okay.

1832
01:47:59,958 --> 01:48:01,125
[inhales]

1833
01:48:02,125 --> 01:48:03,333
[exhales deeply]

1834
01:48:14,333 --> 01:48:15,958
This is Shirley Chisholm.

1835
01:48:16,916 --> 01:48:18,333
I'm going to make a statement

1836
01:48:18,416 --> 01:48:21,083
that I'd like for you to give
to my pledged delegates.

1837
01:48:21,166 --> 01:48:23,875
My intention over the last seven months

1838
01:48:23,958 --> 01:48:29,166
has been to remind people
that politics in America belongs to them.

1839
01:48:30,083 --> 01:48:36,041
I have wanted to be nothing more,
nothing less, than a catalyst for change.

1840
01:48:38,291 --> 01:48:40,916
[gentle music fades out]

1841
01:48:41,000 --> 01:48:42,708
[uplifting music playing]

1842
01:48:42,791 --> 01:48:45,708
[woman] <i>Shirley Chisholm,
she opened the door for all of us.</i>

1843
01:48:45,791 --> 01:48:48,291
<i>For women of color,
and especially for Black women.</i>

1844
01:48:48,375 --> 01:48:51,500
<i>She opened that door for everybody,</i>

1845
01:48:51,583 --> 01:48:54,041
<i>and she gave everybody the confidence</i>

1846
01:48:54,125 --> 01:48:57,208
<i>that they too could run
and that they too had a voice.</i>

1847
01:49:00,333 --> 01:49:01,875
My name is Barbara Lee.

1848
01:49:01,958 --> 01:49:05,250
I represent the 13th
Congressional District of California,

1849
01:49:05,333 --> 01:49:06,708
as a member of Congress.

1850
01:49:06,791 --> 01:49:09,916
What Shirley Chisholm
tried to do was teach us

1851
01:49:10,000 --> 01:49:12,416
not only do you have to fight
to help people now,

1852
01:49:12,500 --> 01:49:14,750
but you have to fight
to change this madness.

1853
01:49:14,833 --> 01:49:17,916
Her legacy is directly connected to today.

1854
01:49:18,000 --> 01:49:23,375
And so many of us have felt like
we could take that baton and keep running.

1855
01:49:23,458 --> 01:49:24,458
<i>♪ Fight! ♪</i>

1856
01:49:24,541 --> 01:49:26,375
["Why I'm Here" by Samara Joy plays]

1857
01:49:26,458 --> 01:49:27,458
{\an8}<i>♪ Fight! ♪</i>

1858
01:49:29,375 --> 01:49:30,375
{\an8}<i>♪ Fight! ♪</i>

1859
01:49:32,291 --> 01:49:33,291
{\an8}<i>♪ Fight! ♪</i>

1860
01:49:35,166 --> 01:49:37,916
{\an8}<i>♪ Bending ♪</i>

1861
01:49:38,000 --> 01:49:40,708
{\an8}<i>♪ But never broken ♪</i>

1862
01:49:40,791 --> 01:49:43,791
<i>♪ Knocked down ♪</i>

1863
01:49:43,875 --> 01:49:46,833
<i>♪ But I keep going ♪</i>

1864
01:49:46,916 --> 01:49:49,791
<i>♪ I decided to stand my ground ♪</i>

1865
01:49:49,875 --> 01:49:52,791
<i>♪ I will not be moved ♪</i>

1866
01:49:53,708 --> 01:49:57,625
{\an8}<i>♪ And I have no fear ♪</i>

1867
01:49:59,375 --> 01:50:04,416
{\an8}<i>♪ I know why I'm here ♪</i>

1868
01:50:04,500 --> 01:50:05,625
{\an8}<i>♪ Fight! ♪</i>

1869
01:50:07,041 --> 01:50:09,916
{\an8}<i>♪ An easy road ♪</i>

1870
01:50:10,000 --> 01:50:12,916
{\an8}<i>♪ Was never promised ♪</i>

1871
01:50:13,000 --> 01:50:15,708
{\an8}<i>♪ And so much ♪</i>

1872
01:50:15,791 --> 01:50:18,875
{\an8}<i>♪ Has been taken from us ♪</i>

1873
01:50:18,958 --> 01:50:24,958
{\an8}<i>♪ But I won't stop
No matter how much I have to go through ♪</i>

1874
01:50:25,666 --> 01:50:30,708
{\an8}<i>♪ I won't shed one tear ♪</i>

1875
01:50:31,666 --> 01:50:36,583
{\an8}<i>♪ I know why I'm here ♪</i>

1876
01:50:36,666 --> 01:50:37,791
{\an8}<i>♪ Fight! ♪</i>

1877
01:50:39,208 --> 01:50:43,375
{\an8}<i>♪ The future is in our hands ♪</i>

1878
01:50:43,458 --> 01:50:45,958
<i>♪ Now's the time to stand ♪</i>

1879
01:50:46,041 --> 01:50:50,250
<i>♪ Together we'll pave the way ♪</i>

1880
01:50:51,208 --> 01:50:55,083
{\an8}<i>♪ Those who walk by faith ♪</i>

1881
01:50:55,166 --> 01:50:58,041
{\an8}<i>♪ With their heads held high ♪</i>

1882
01:50:58,125 --> 01:51:02,458
{\an8}<i>♪ Have the power to change ♪</i>

1883
01:51:02,541 --> 01:51:05,958
{\an8}<i>♪ Oh-whoa ♪</i>

1884
01:51:06,041 --> 01:51:08,291
<i>♪ Bending ♪</i>

1885
01:51:08,375 --> 01:51:11,166
<i>♪ But I can't be broken ♪</i>

1886
01:51:11,250 --> 01:51:14,375
<i>♪ I've been knocked down ♪</i>

1887
01:51:14,458 --> 01:51:17,500
<i>♪ But I choose to keep going ♪</i>

1888
01:51:17,583 --> 01:51:20,500
<i>♪ I decided to stand my ground ♪</i>

1889
01:51:20,583 --> 01:51:26,916
<i>♪ I will not be moved ♪</i>

1890
01:51:28,791 --> 01:51:33,500
<i>♪ And I have no fear ♪</i>

1891
01:51:34,458 --> 01:51:39,541
<i>♪ So, don't you shed one tear ♪</i>

1892
01:51:40,083 --> 01:51:45,125
<i>♪ 'Cause I know why ♪</i>

1893
01:51:45,208 --> 01:51:50,541
<i>♪ I'm here ♪</i>

1894
01:51:50,625 --> 01:51:57,625
[vocalizing]

1895
01:52:01,875 --> 01:52:02,875
{\an8}<i>♪ Fight! ♪</i>

1896
01:52:04,791 --> 01:52:05,791
<i>♪ Fight! ♪</i>

1897
01:52:07,708 --> 01:52:08,708
<i>♪ Fight! ♪</i>

1898
01:52:10,625 --> 01:52:11,625
<i>♪ Fight! ♪</i>

1899
01:52:13,583 --> 01:52:15,583
{\an8}["Why I'm Here" instrumental continues]

1900
01:52:45,833 --> 01:52:47,833
[choir vocalizing]

1901
01:53:12,083 --> 01:53:13,083
<i>♪ Fight! ♪</i>

1902
01:53:15,000 --> 01:53:16,000
<i>♪ Fight! ♪</i>

1903
01:53:17,958 --> 01:53:22,166
[choir singing] <i>♪ Ooh, in our hands ♪</i>

1904
01:53:22,250 --> 01:53:25,208
<i>♪ Time to stand ♪</i>

1905
01:53:25,291 --> 01:53:26,625
<i>♪ Ooh-oooh ♪</i>

1906
01:53:26,708 --> 01:53:27,708
<i>♪ Fight! ♪</i>

1907
01:53:29,583 --> 01:53:33,958
<i>♪ Those who walk by faith ♪</i>

1908
01:53:34,041 --> 01:53:36,666
<i>♪ Heads held high ♪</i>

1909
01:53:36,750 --> 01:53:41,125
<i>♪ The power to change ♪</i>

1910
01:53:41,208 --> 01:53:44,208
<i>♪ The world ♪</i>

1911
01:53:44,291 --> 01:53:47,125
<i>♪ Bending ♪</i>

1912
01:53:47,208 --> 01:53:50,041
<i>♪ Can't be broken ♪</i>

1913
01:53:50,125 --> 01:53:52,916
<i>♪ Knocked down ♪</i>

1914
01:53:53,000 --> 01:53:55,875
<i>♪ I keep going ♪</i>

1915
01:53:55,958 --> 01:53:58,833
<i>♪ I decided to stand my ground ♪</i>

1916
01:53:58,916 --> 01:54:04,708
<i>♪ I will not be moved ♪</i>

1917
01:54:06,291 --> 01:54:08,291
[choir vocalizing]

1918
01:54:23,833 --> 01:54:25,833
["Why I'm Here" instrumental playing]

1919
01:54:35,875 --> 01:54:37,875
[pensive percussive music playing]

1920
01:56:27,000 --> 01:56:29,083
[music peaks and fades out]