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[uplifting music builds slowly]
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{\an8}[man] In the 12th Congressional District
of New York,
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{\an8}a schoolteacher named
Mrs. Shirley Chisholm
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{\an8}was elected to Congress.
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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]
- ♪ A-one, a-two ♪
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♪ A-one, two, three, four ♪
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♪ Aw, shucks! ♪
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♪ Aw, baby, it's never less! ♪
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[trilling]
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- ♪ Come on ♪
- ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
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♪ Aw, yeah ♪
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♪ Like candy you buy at the corner store ♪
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♪ I keep coming for more ♪
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♪ Candy's sweet, girl, yes, it's true ♪
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♪ But not as sweet as you, now... ♪
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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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♪ Yeah ♪
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♪ All right, now, now, now, now ♪
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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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♪ All right, now, now, now, now ♪
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♪ Sugar ♪
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♪ Yeah ♪
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♪ Sugar ♪
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♪ Yeah ♪
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♪ Sugar ♪
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♪ I'm callin' your name out there, baby ♪
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♪ Sugar ♪
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♪ So sweet and... Yeah, baby ♪
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♪ Sugar ♪
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♪ Yeah ♪
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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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"Don't make a fuss,
and do as you're told."
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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 should 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 you think?
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A little late to be asking me now.
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But it's not too 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 would have to say
that the thing that I remember most,
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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.
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I appreciate it. I do.
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And I understand you're doing
some impressive things at Cornell.
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Elected to the Board of Regents.
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Yeah, I'm just a student representative.
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The first ever.
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Robert, a bit of advice?
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Don't be humble.
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Humility in successful people
comes off as its own kind of arrogance.
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I don't know that I'm a successful person.
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- Robert.
- [chuckling nervously]
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Okay. Yes.
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Yes. Understood.
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Hm.
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[takes a deep breath]
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So, I have something I want to tell you.
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I am running for president.
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Of the United States?
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Holy...
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That's... I mean, that's...
Right the hell on, Mrs. C.
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I mean, that's... that's great.
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You would be the most amazing president
that this country has ever seen.
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I mean, wow. That...
If there's anything I can do to help...
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Well, there is.
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I need you to be
my national student coordinator.
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I'm so... What?
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Overseeing all the student organizations
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affiliated with the campaign
in the states where I'm on the ballot.
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- Okay.
- Putting together campus rallies.
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Well, Mrs. C, um...
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I... I can't.
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I don't like the word "can't."
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Yes, I know. But I...
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Robert, this is the first year
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18-year-olds will be able to vote
in a national election.
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To get them to vote, they need to know
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that using their vote
can make a difference.
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National coordinator?
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I mean, I just turned 21.
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Old enough to be fighting
and dying in Vietnam.
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I mean, it's the middle
of the school year, and I can't...
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Mmm.
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Well, I mean, I... I...
I have to call the university.
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I mean... I mean, I gotta call my parents.
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[bell clinks]
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Should we maybe knock on the door
and tell Mrs. Chisholm I've arrived?
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She knows we're waiting.
We should let her finish her lunch.
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[Mac] New camera?
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Yeah, it's like new.
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[quietly] Thank you.
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Sorry to keep you waiting.
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Not at all.
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Shirley, Stanley Townsend.
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Stan.
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- How are you, Mrs. Chisholm?
- I'm feeling pretty well.
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You've met everybody? Conrad.
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Arthur, Robert Gottlieb,
my youth coordinator.
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He certainly fits the "youth" part.
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I'm old enough to be in Vietnam.
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Yes, you are.
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[Mac] Stan's a longtime
political operative.
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He's excited about the prospect
of working on the campaign.
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Very excited.
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Well, I think we all are.
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I can imagine. I will say,
we have a lot of ground to cover.
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So we need to decide
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how to most effectively position
your messaging.
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My position and my messaging
are very simple.
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I'm trying to give politics
back to the people.
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[Stan] Absolutely.
But you're running a national campaign.
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So how do we convey your message
to voters across America?
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By telling voters across America
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I'm trying to give politics
back to the people.
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A national campaign,
it's a little more challenging than that.
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But it needn't be.
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Mrs. Chisholm... I'm signing on
for an underfunded operation
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because who you are
and what you're about meet the moment.
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But you have to meet voters
where they live.
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All I ask is that you trust
I can help you accomplish that.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Well... [chuckles]
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- Let's get you elected president.
- All right.
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["I'm Coming Home"
by September Jones plays]
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♪ I'm coming home ♪
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♪ I'm coming home ♪
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♪ I'm coming home... ♪
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[Shirley] I stand before you today
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as a candidate
for the Democratic nomination
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for the presidency
of the United States of America.
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I am not the candidate of Black America,
although I am Black and proud.
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I am not the candidate
of the women's movement of this country,
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although I am a woman,
and I am equally proud of that.
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I am not the candidate
of any political bosses or fat cats
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or special interests.
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I stand here now without endorsements
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from any big-name politicians
or celebrities.
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I do not intend to offer
to you the tired and glib clichés
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which for too long have been
an accepted part of our political life.
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- [no audible applause or cheers]
- ["I'm Coming Home" intensifies]
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[song ends]
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I am the candidate
of the people of America.
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[cheers and applause]
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And my presence before you now symbolizes
a new era in American political history.
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I have faith in the American people.
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[audience] Yeah.
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I believe that we are intelligent enough
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to recognize the talent, energy,
and dedication which all Americans,
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including women and minorities,
have to offer.
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We are all God's children,
and the will of each of us
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is just as precious
as the will of the most powerful of us.
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Our will can create a new America in 1972.
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[audience] Yeah!
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One where there is freedom from violence
and war at home and abroad.
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[audience] Yeah!
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Where there is freedom
from poverty and discrimination.
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Where there exists at least a feeling
that we are making progress for everyone.
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[audience] Yes!
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All of you who share this vision,
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who have been neglected,
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left out, forgotten,
ignored, or shunned aside,
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join me in an effort to regain our society
and regain control of our destiny.
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As we go down the Chisholm Trail for 1972.
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- [cheers and applause]
- ["I'm Coming Home" resumes]
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♪ I'm coming home... ♪
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Shirley Chisholm is the only candidate
who is perfectly situated
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to have a dramatic effect
on politics in this country.
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I will encourage all of my constituents
throughout Oakland, throughout California...
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Frankly, voters across this country,
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when you are considering
the next president,
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there's one name
and only one name that you should speak.
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And that name... is Shirley Chisholm.
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[Shirley] Ron.
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[Ron] Shirley.
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Mmm.
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[song fades out]
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Thank you, Ron.
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For?
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The endorsement, early and strong.
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Oh, Shirley, if you in this race,
you in it to win.
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00:21:59,043 --> 00:22:01,209
Ron Dellums is not betting against you.
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[Shirley chuckles]
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00:22:04,918 --> 00:22:07,043
- You competing in California?
- Mmm.
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00:22:07,584 --> 00:22:08,459
[Ron] Mmm.
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You run in California,
I will put all my capital behind you.
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You carry the Bay Area,
Oakland, San Francisco--
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Ron, California is winner take all.
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I don't have the time
or resources to put into California,
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just so Muskie can take all the delegates.
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00:22:24,418 --> 00:22:26,376
Well... word of caution.
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Walter Fauntroy might be
a problem for you.
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[scoffs]
402
00:22:33,209 --> 00:22:35,168
Little Lord Fauntroy.
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00:22:35,251 --> 00:22:36,376
[Shirley chuckles]
404
00:22:36,459 --> 00:22:39,668
They want to run him as the favorite son
candidate in the district.
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It's gonna put you two in opposition.
406
00:22:43,834 --> 00:22:49,626
"Now, Ronald, I'm not in opposition
to Shirley, you understand?"
407
00:22:49,709 --> 00:22:55,126
"I'm simply asking that she be
a good little girl and wait her turn."
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00:22:55,209 --> 00:22:56,293
[chuckling] You...
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You got him down cold.
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00:22:57,709 --> 00:22:59,709
- [Ron laughs]
- Mmm...
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Ron, thank you for believing.
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00:23:03,834 --> 00:23:04,668
[sighs]
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00:23:04,751 --> 00:23:05,834
Shirley.
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00:23:06,584 --> 00:23:09,751
You are like a big sister to me.
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00:23:11,084 --> 00:23:15,376
However, this thing goes,
I'm with you till the end.
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00:23:19,876 --> 00:23:21,084
[quietly] Thank you.
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00:23:22,209 --> 00:23:24,084
- [quietly] Of course.
- [Shirley sighs]
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00:23:24,876 --> 00:23:27,918
I'm hungry. Go and get some McDonald's.
419
00:23:28,001 --> 00:23:29,501
You know that's my favorite.
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00:23:29,584 --> 00:23:32,459
- [Ron] May be able to go down the street.
- Strawberry shake.
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00:23:32,543 --> 00:23:33,501
[Ron] Strawberry...
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00:23:33,584 --> 00:23:35,709
- [both chuckling]
- ["Street Girl" playing]
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{\an8}The analysts are still analyzing,
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{\an8}and they don't understand that
something new is happening in America.
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{\an8}And this campaign,
the Shirley Chisholm campaign,
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is the note of the new politics.
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The rest of it
is just making tired old noises.
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{\an8}What I have said is very clear.
Shirley Chisholm views her candidacy
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{\an8}as a representation
of the right of a woman
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{\an8}and a Black to run
for the highest office in this land.
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00:23:59,751 --> 00:24:04,376
{\an8}I have considered Senator McGovern
the best white male candidate.
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I am sick and tired of
people asking the question,
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"Mrs. Chisholm, are you serious
about running for president?"
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00:24:14,168 --> 00:24:18,793
The fact that people,
even other women, feminists,
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can't take my campaign seriously
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is an indication of the prescribed role
this society has given to women.
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00:24:28,168 --> 00:24:32,126
We acknowledge racial politics,
ethnic politics,
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but we are just beginning to admit
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that this country has
a problem with gender politics.
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00:24:38,376 --> 00:24:44,459
We need to get over ourselves
and redirect the priorities of this nation
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to make it a haven
for all kinds of people,
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regardless of race, color, creed, or sex.
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[cheers and applause]
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00:24:55,001 --> 00:24:56,709
- Yeah.
- Yeah, Chisholm.
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00:24:59,334 --> 00:25:02,126
[funky instrumental music playing]
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00:25:05,418 --> 00:25:07,418
[no audible dialogue]
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00:25:26,959 --> 00:25:28,959
[music fades]
448
00:25:35,584 --> 00:25:37,584
[music rises]
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00:25:49,751 --> 00:25:51,126
[music ends]
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[young woman] I want
to be part of something.
451
00:25:53,876 --> 00:25:57,043
I see what's going on in the country.
Vietnam, all of it.
452
00:25:57,543 --> 00:25:58,626
It's... [sighs]
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00:25:59,126 --> 00:26:00,126
I'm tired.
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00:26:00,209 --> 00:26:03,584
I am barely 25,
and I am tired of the way things are.
455
00:26:04,376 --> 00:26:06,626
Tired of the men
that we're sending to Washington.
456
00:26:06,709 --> 00:26:10,084
Humphrey and Muskie, they are better
than Nixon, but is that the standard?
457
00:26:10,168 --> 00:26:13,043
- I hope not.
- To be better than the man that's corrupt?
458
00:26:14,168 --> 00:26:17,418
And I hear you talk about people
having the power to make change.
459
00:26:18,209 --> 00:26:19,959
And I don't know where to start.
460
00:26:20,043 --> 00:26:21,876
Are you registered to vote?
461
00:26:22,834 --> 00:26:24,709
Registered? No.
462
00:26:24,793 --> 00:26:28,709
Little girl, the first thing
you've got to do is vote.
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00:26:29,668 --> 00:26:32,584
That ain't my scene.
Voting's bourgeois politics.
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00:26:32,668 --> 00:26:35,334
If all you're doing
is outside yelling and screaming,
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that's all you're ever gonna be,
a yeller and a screamer.
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00:26:39,334 --> 00:26:41,418
You have to be part of the process.
467
00:26:41,918 --> 00:26:45,334
The process doesn't exist
in politics for Black women.
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00:26:46,293 --> 00:26:47,709
You're different.
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00:26:47,793 --> 00:26:50,459
I saw what needed to be done,
and I did it.
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00:26:51,126 --> 00:26:52,376
That's not different.
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00:26:52,459 --> 00:26:54,001
That's necessary.
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00:26:56,334 --> 00:26:58,084
I want you to come work for me.
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00:27:00,168 --> 00:27:01,126
On your campaign?
474
00:27:01,209 --> 00:27:03,709
Or is that too bourgeois for you?
475
00:27:03,793 --> 00:27:04,626
Hmm.
476
00:27:05,584 --> 00:27:07,834
I got a baby. I'm a single mother.
477
00:27:07,918 --> 00:27:09,293
- And I just need to--
- Ah.
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00:27:09,376 --> 00:27:12,668
Then you understand
what people are facing more than most.
479
00:27:12,751 --> 00:27:15,334
You don't have to work for us full-time.
480
00:27:15,418 --> 00:27:18,001
Just when you can, how you can.
481
00:27:19,084 --> 00:27:20,584
I don't have any experience.
482
00:27:20,668 --> 00:27:22,918
Well, I don't have any moola.
483
00:27:23,001 --> 00:27:24,126
[chuckling]
484
00:27:24,709 --> 00:27:29,209
But I can offer you
the opportunity to make a difference.
485
00:27:35,293 --> 00:27:37,626
[sighs] Okay.
486
00:27:38,251 --> 00:27:39,334
Okay.
487
00:27:39,959 --> 00:27:42,084
- Okay.
- [both chuckle softly]
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00:27:42,168 --> 00:27:44,459
[gentle music playing]
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00:27:51,001 --> 00:27:52,918
- Two signatures on the next page.
- Vote's Tuesday.
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00:27:53,001 --> 00:27:55,626
- Sign where?
- Two signatures on this page.
491
00:27:55,709 --> 00:27:58,793
- Shirley... come on.
- [overlapping chatter]
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00:27:58,876 --> 00:28:01,084
- [woman] You can't miss this flight.
- [Shirley] Yes.
493
00:28:01,168 --> 00:28:03,251
- Shirley.
- Bob Dole, Senator Dole.
494
00:28:03,334 --> 00:28:06,793
...first thing in the morning. You'll
get in late so I won't bother you tonight.
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00:28:06,876 --> 00:28:08,626
If you need anything, I'm heading home.
496
00:28:08,709 --> 00:28:10,709
[light instrumental music playing]
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00:29:17,251 --> 00:29:18,251
[driver] Ma'am.
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00:29:19,209 --> 00:29:20,209
We're here.
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00:29:22,834 --> 00:29:23,793
[clears throat]
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00:29:24,459 --> 00:29:26,459
[low monotone droning]
501
00:29:33,668 --> 00:29:34,876
[Shirley] Conrad?
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00:29:41,834 --> 00:29:42,959
Conrad.
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00:29:52,876 --> 00:29:54,459
[Conrad groans softly]
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00:29:54,543 --> 00:29:56,126
[Shirley] Sorry to wake you.
505
00:29:58,418 --> 00:29:59,543
You're late.
506
00:29:59,626 --> 00:30:01,168
[Shirley] Flight was delayed.
507
00:30:03,709 --> 00:30:05,418
Is there anything to eat?
508
00:30:06,668 --> 00:30:08,126
[Conrad] What's that?
509
00:30:08,209 --> 00:30:10,168
[Shirley] Do we have anything to eat?
510
00:30:11,084 --> 00:30:13,209
[Conrad] I think
there's something in the freezer.
511
00:30:13,293 --> 00:30:14,751
There's nothing warm?
512
00:30:17,584 --> 00:30:20,751
- I could run and get you something--
- From where? It's late.
513
00:30:21,793 --> 00:30:23,376
Everything's closed.
514
00:30:23,459 --> 00:30:24,459
Well...
515
00:30:27,334 --> 00:30:28,751
It's all right. I... I'll...
516
00:30:28,834 --> 00:30:30,418
I'll... I'll warm something.
517
00:30:31,168 --> 00:30:33,709
I have to get up early
and meet with Stanley.
518
00:30:35,959 --> 00:30:37,709
It's all right.
519
00:30:39,418 --> 00:30:40,668
It's all right.
520
00:31:32,459 --> 00:31:35,709
["I Don't Mind Doin' It"
by Jackie Lavant & The Fashions playing]
521
00:31:37,751 --> 00:31:39,084
[laughing]
522
00:31:41,376 --> 00:31:46,043
[newsman] The US has been holding
presidential elections nearly 200 years.
523
00:31:46,126 --> 00:31:49,043
Each one significant,
but the election this year
524
00:31:49,126 --> 00:31:53,168
has been more than a demonstration
of stability and continuity.
525
00:31:53,251 --> 00:31:57,376
A combination of factors,
reforms within the two major parties,
526
00:31:57,459 --> 00:31:59,876
a new law giving young people
the right to vote,
527
00:31:59,959 --> 00:32:03,584
and a new political awareness
on the part of groups previously inactive,
528
00:32:03,668 --> 00:32:09,168
have made 1972 a potential turning point
in American political history.
529
00:32:09,251 --> 00:32:13,126
[Stan] Reaching your base,
turning them on, getting them out to vote.
530
00:32:13,209 --> 00:32:15,376
That's what this campaign is all about.
531
00:32:15,459 --> 00:32:19,793
We need 1,500 delegates
to get the nomination for president.
532
00:32:19,876 --> 00:32:20,918
And...
533
00:32:22,293 --> 00:32:24,418
that's how many we currently have.
534
00:32:24,501 --> 00:32:25,918
So, we got six months
535
00:32:26,001 --> 00:32:29,543
from now until the last primaries
in June to rack up some numbers.
536
00:32:29,626 --> 00:32:33,168
- How are we gonna earn those delegates?
- I got national polling--
537
00:32:33,251 --> 00:32:36,251
[Stan] First two primaries are
New Hampshire and Florida on March 14th.
538
00:32:36,334 --> 00:32:38,043
Wouldn't be in the race without Florida.
539
00:32:38,126 --> 00:32:40,293
When asked,
"What do you know about Shirley Chisholm?"
540
00:32:40,376 --> 00:32:43,043
- [Stan] New Hampshire?
- Forget about New Hampshire.
541
00:32:43,126 --> 00:32:44,418
Muskie's got it sewn up.
542
00:32:44,501 --> 00:32:47,084
According to papers,
Muskie's got the nomination sewn up.
543
00:32:47,168 --> 00:32:50,209
46% of the respondents
knew that you were Black.
544
00:32:50,293 --> 00:32:51,626
38% knew you were a woman--
545
00:32:51,709 --> 00:32:54,126
38%? The name doesn't give it away?
546
00:32:54,209 --> 00:32:57,501
'Cause Shirley is one of those names
you see that goes either way.
547
00:32:57,584 --> 00:32:59,418
- Like Chris or Leslie.
- Alabama?
548
00:32:59,501 --> 00:33:01,709
- Shirley is not like Chris or Leslie.
- [Shirley] No.
549
00:33:01,793 --> 00:33:02,959
- [Stan] Arizona?
- Mm-mmm.
550
00:33:03,043 --> 00:33:06,876
Point is, a plurality of the electorate
doesn't even know who you are.
551
00:33:06,959 --> 00:33:07,834
[Stan] Ohio?
552
00:33:07,918 --> 00:33:10,918
Carl Stokes would attack me
to death if I get into Ohio.
553
00:33:11,001 --> 00:33:13,001
- Colorado?
- [Mac] May I finish my thought?
554
00:33:13,876 --> 00:33:16,126
Your lack of recognition is a challenge,
555
00:33:16,209 --> 00:33:18,959
but it also means voters
haven't formed an opinion yet--
556
00:33:19,043 --> 00:33:22,001
- Colorado?
- The reform wing is in the minority.
557
00:33:22,084 --> 00:33:24,501
- We should look to get on the ballot--
- [Conrad] Shirley.
558
00:33:24,584 --> 00:33:25,459
[camera clicks]
559
00:33:25,543 --> 00:33:27,918
We shouldn't actively campaign
in Colorado.
560
00:33:28,001 --> 00:33:30,251
Opinions about you
are going to be formed in debates.
561
00:33:30,334 --> 00:33:31,501
They're going to be critical.
562
00:33:31,584 --> 00:33:35,209
Shirley's a hell of a debater, man.
Ran circles around James Farmer.
563
00:33:35,293 --> 00:33:36,918
Farmer wasn't a career politician.
564
00:33:37,001 --> 00:33:39,876
The rest of these boys talk shit
faster than I can make it.
565
00:33:39,959 --> 00:33:42,584
- [Stan] California?
- [men laughing]
566
00:33:43,834 --> 00:33:44,668
[Arthur] Oh...
567
00:33:44,751 --> 00:33:45,876
California?
568
00:33:46,918 --> 00:33:48,584
- No.
- [all] Shirley!
569
00:33:48,668 --> 00:33:52,918
- Know how many colleges there are?
- California's a winner-take-all state.
570
00:33:53,001 --> 00:33:55,251
If we put our time
and energy into California,
571
00:33:55,334 --> 00:33:56,834
we'll walk away with nothing.
572
00:33:56,918 --> 00:34:00,459
It's a big, shiny object
that'll leave us distracted and defeated.
573
00:34:00,543 --> 00:34:01,418
No.
574
00:34:01,501 --> 00:34:05,418
Shirley, right now
your entire national campaign
575
00:34:05,501 --> 00:34:07,793
is built on one state, Florida.
576
00:34:21,126 --> 00:34:23,459
That's our campaign.
We'll build from there.
577
00:34:23,543 --> 00:34:26,209
["Let a Woman Be a Woman -
Let a Man Be a Man" plays]
578
00:34:26,959 --> 00:34:29,293
And they can talk shit all they want.
579
00:34:29,376 --> 00:34:32,834
[newsman] Why are more and more millions
of Americans turning to Governor Wallace?
580
00:34:32,918 --> 00:34:35,501
Take a walk in your street
or park tonight.
581
00:34:35,584 --> 00:34:37,376
- [gunshot]
- [glass shatters]
582
00:34:37,459 --> 00:34:40,418
{\an8}There's a lot of talk
these days about liberalism.
583
00:34:40,501 --> 00:34:43,834
{\an8}Well, what did liberalism do for America?
584
00:34:43,918 --> 00:34:48,709
{\an8}Brought us drug addiction in our streets,
brought a breakdown of law and order.
585
00:34:48,793 --> 00:34:53,251
{\an8}And now this idea they have of busing
our children to achieve racial balance.
586
00:34:53,334 --> 00:34:57,418
{\an8}That's their way of taking away your right
to raise your child how you see fit.
587
00:34:57,501 --> 00:35:01,251
{\an8}[newsman] Why are more and more millions
of Americans turning to Governor Wallace?
588
00:35:01,334 --> 00:35:03,959
Follow as your children
are bused across town.
589
00:35:04,043 --> 00:35:07,209
Busing is an ineffective solution
to school integration.
590
00:35:07,293 --> 00:35:10,793
It is a burden carried
by the same children we're trying to help.
591
00:35:10,876 --> 00:35:12,418
That is a great answer for Florida.
592
00:35:12,501 --> 00:35:14,168
- But you can't say...
-"Can't"?
593
00:35:14,251 --> 00:35:17,459
...that you don't support busing
in Massachusetts or New York.
594
00:35:17,543 --> 00:35:20,459
It does sound
like something Wallace would say.
595
00:35:20,543 --> 00:35:22,501
[Stan] What's your position on abortion?
596
00:35:22,584 --> 00:35:25,043
I am an ardent advocate
of family planning.
597
00:35:25,126 --> 00:35:26,793
- I am aware, however...
- Shirley--
598
00:35:26,876 --> 00:35:28,668
...that for a number of reasons...
599
00:35:28,751 --> 00:35:30,418
- Shirley--
- ...birth control is not enough.
600
00:35:30,501 --> 00:35:32,834
- Shirl--
- Contraceptive devices fail, and--
601
00:35:32,918 --> 00:35:34,668
Shirley, you can't say all that.
602
00:35:34,751 --> 00:35:37,876
- I'm sorry, Stanley. "Can't"?
- Too much nuance.
603
00:35:37,959 --> 00:35:39,543
- Mac.
- [Man] I'm being honest.
604
00:35:39,626 --> 00:35:42,459
Your answer needs to be more direct.
The same with busing.
605
00:35:42,543 --> 00:35:46,793
Well, that's my answer on one side
of the Mason-Dixon or the other.
606
00:35:46,876 --> 00:35:49,626
And I am not leaving out the nuance.
607
00:35:49,709 --> 00:35:52,043
Hey! Hot off the press.
608
00:35:52,126 --> 00:35:56,084
Before we do all that, can we please
just finish up what we've started here?
609
00:35:56,168 --> 00:35:57,293
[Conrad] These came out good.
610
00:35:57,376 --> 00:35:59,709
- [Shirley] They did.
- I'm leaving for Florida in the morning.
611
00:35:59,793 --> 00:36:02,626
By the time you all get there,
I'll have volunteers in place.
612
00:36:02,709 --> 00:36:04,376
I'll have all the venues booked.
613
00:36:04,459 --> 00:36:07,793
We're gonna be starting
with a speaking engagement at FSU.
614
00:36:07,876 --> 00:36:11,334
This trip has got to run
like a Swiss watch, son.
615
00:36:11,418 --> 00:36:13,334
We have to have
a strong showing in this primary.
616
00:36:13,418 --> 00:36:15,751
- I'll have it handled.
- [Shirley] Thank you, Robert.
617
00:36:16,668 --> 00:36:17,834
Of course.
618
00:36:17,918 --> 00:36:18,918
{\an8}All right.
619
00:36:19,668 --> 00:36:21,376
{\an8}- I'll see you in Florida.
- All right.
620
00:36:21,459 --> 00:36:23,459
[up-tempo instrumental music playing]
621
00:36:34,251 --> 00:36:36,293
- [music stops]
- [indistinct PA announcement]
622
00:36:51,876 --> 00:36:56,293
Twenty-two primaries still to go
in this campaign '72.
623
00:36:56,376 --> 00:37:00,209
The politicians now are shifting
their efforts from New Hampshire's snow
624
00:37:00,293 --> 00:37:01,751
to Florida's sand.
625
00:37:03,043 --> 00:37:06,834
You need to decide if you're going to
this National Black Political Convention
626
00:37:06,918 --> 00:37:10,084
in Gary, Indiana. There'll be leaders
from every cross-section.
627
00:37:10,168 --> 00:37:12,626
- Radical, faith-based, conservative--
- We'll see.
628
00:37:12,709 --> 00:37:16,209
I got an invitation for you to speak
down here at the Pearly Club.
629
00:37:16,293 --> 00:37:17,543
That's an exclusive club.
630
00:37:17,626 --> 00:37:19,001
Exclusive white?
631
00:37:19,084 --> 00:37:20,251
[Mac] Exclusive male.
632
00:37:20,334 --> 00:37:23,168
You'd be the first female speaker
they've ever had.
633
00:37:23,251 --> 00:37:25,001
A white men's club here in Florida?
634
00:37:25,084 --> 00:37:29,251
But you're not gonna attend
a Black political convention in Gary?
635
00:37:29,334 --> 00:37:32,001
Listen, why don't we just
table all the Gary talk
636
00:37:32,084 --> 00:37:34,001
and let her just get some sleep?
637
00:37:34,501 --> 00:37:36,251
We'll pick it up tomorrow.
638
00:37:37,251 --> 00:37:40,251
Hello. I'm calling on behalf
of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm.
639
00:37:40,334 --> 00:37:43,876
The congresswoman will be holding
events while campaigning in Florida...
640
00:37:43,959 --> 00:37:45,459
[woman] Your vote can change America.
641
00:37:45,543 --> 00:37:48,834
[man] These fundraisers are an opportunity
to meet Shirley face-to-face.
642
00:37:48,918 --> 00:37:50,168
[cheers and applause]
643
00:37:50,251 --> 00:37:53,334
And I call to you, the youth of America,
644
00:37:53,418 --> 00:37:56,209
to take part in the fight for the future.
645
00:37:56,293 --> 00:37:59,251
Those of you who are able to vote
for the very first time
646
00:37:59,334 --> 00:38:02,251
must use your voices
and let the politicians know
647
00:38:02,334 --> 00:38:05,084
that the government
belongs to all the people.
648
00:38:05,168 --> 00:38:07,001
- [young woman] Yes!
- [cheering]
649
00:38:07,084 --> 00:38:08,293
{\an8}Register to vote!
650
00:38:08,376 --> 00:38:11,001
{\an8}If all you are is on the outside
yelling and screaming,
651
00:38:11,084 --> 00:38:13,959
{\an8}then that's all you'll ever be,
a yeller and a screamer.
652
00:38:14,043 --> 00:38:15,334
Be a part of the process!
653
00:38:16,376 --> 00:38:19,001
US foreign policy
should avoid taking sides
654
00:38:19,084 --> 00:38:22,126
and focus on the humanitarian crisis
happening in the Middle East.
655
00:38:22,209 --> 00:38:24,334
What's your take on the Black Panthers?
656
00:38:24,418 --> 00:38:27,209
Well, it's a shame
the Black Panthers are necessary,
657
00:38:27,293 --> 00:38:29,501
but I understand why they are.
658
00:38:30,043 --> 00:38:33,001
But it's important for us
to get the vote out to young people.
659
00:38:33,084 --> 00:38:35,834
It's the first election
that people who are 18 get to vote.
660
00:38:35,918 --> 00:38:39,793
[in Spanish] This isn't just about
a fair wage. This is about our lives.
661
00:38:39,876 --> 00:38:40,793
[chanting]
662
00:38:40,876 --> 00:38:44,168
- [in English] You support busing.
- Are you asking me or telling me?
663
00:38:44,251 --> 00:38:45,209
[light laughter]
664
00:38:45,293 --> 00:38:47,543
My opponents is
twisting themselves into pretzels,
665
00:38:47,626 --> 00:38:49,668
trying to explain
where they stand on busing.
666
00:38:49,751 --> 00:38:51,126
I don't support busing.
667
00:38:51,209 --> 00:38:54,793
It's an artificial solution
to the segregation problem.
668
00:38:54,876 --> 00:38:57,251
Open housing is the real answer.
669
00:38:57,334 --> 00:38:59,584
But as long as the problem exists,
670
00:38:59,668 --> 00:39:02,126
an artificial solution
is better than none at all.
671
00:39:02,209 --> 00:39:05,084
[newsman] One of the most
active candidates of campaign '72
672
00:39:05,168 --> 00:39:07,126
is Shirley Chisholm of Brooklyn.
673
00:39:07,209 --> 00:39:08,126
I love you, Shirley!
674
00:39:08,209 --> 00:39:10,459
I don't need your love, darling.
I need your vote.
675
00:39:10,543 --> 00:39:13,168
I'm gonna vote for you.
You or George Wallace.
676
00:39:13,251 --> 00:39:14,751
All right. Well...
677
00:39:14,834 --> 00:39:17,793
I'll say this. Shirley Chisholm
is the only other candidate
678
00:39:17,876 --> 00:39:21,043
who says the same thing
in the South that she says in the North.
679
00:39:21,543 --> 00:39:24,459
[man 1] Shirley Chisholm
will never be president.
680
00:39:24,543 --> 00:39:26,376
This is America.
681
00:39:26,459 --> 00:39:28,626
{\an8}[man 2] That woman
needs to get out of the race.
682
00:39:28,709 --> 00:39:31,334
{\an8}[man 3] She bristles at the suggestion
she step aside,
683
00:39:31,418 --> 00:39:34,918
lest she draw liberal votes away
from other presidential contenders.
684
00:39:35,501 --> 00:39:38,793
[Shirley] Why is it that it has to
always be white males, white males,
685
00:39:38,876 --> 00:39:40,918
white males, white males, white males?
686
00:39:41,001 --> 00:39:42,376
[cheering]
687
00:39:43,418 --> 00:39:47,376
[Shirley] If you can't support me,
or you can't endorse me,
688
00:39:47,459 --> 00:39:48,793
get out of my way.
689
00:39:48,876 --> 00:39:51,084
You do your thing, and let me do mine.
690
00:39:51,168 --> 00:39:54,793
You go to hell, you Black bitch!
You fucking Black bitch! I'll kill you!
691
00:39:54,876 --> 00:39:57,501
You fucking Black bitch!
I'll fuckin' kill you!
692
00:39:57,584 --> 00:40:00,209
[echo fades to silence]
693
00:40:06,001 --> 00:40:07,584
[exhales shakily]
694
00:40:12,501 --> 00:40:14,501
- [tap squeaks]
- [water running]
695
00:40:25,126 --> 00:40:27,084
[breathing deeply]
696
00:40:39,168 --> 00:40:40,043
[tap squeaks]
697
00:40:59,834 --> 00:41:00,876
[door opens]
698
00:41:03,376 --> 00:41:04,376
[door shuts]
699
00:41:13,334 --> 00:41:14,459
Police got him.
700
00:41:16,626 --> 00:41:17,834
He was just some...
701
00:41:19,168 --> 00:41:20,543
some crazy.
702
00:41:22,168 --> 00:41:24,793
Hell of a world, eh?
[soft chuckle] People like that.
703
00:41:29,251 --> 00:41:31,918
Anyway, the police got him now.
704
00:41:33,584 --> 00:41:34,876
Where were you?
705
00:41:36,751 --> 00:41:39,168
He was that close to me.
706
00:41:41,584 --> 00:41:44,168
You're supposed to be my security.
707
00:41:45,501 --> 00:41:47,584
You're supposed to protect me.
708
00:41:48,459 --> 00:41:50,168
Where were you?
709
00:41:52,543 --> 00:41:56,668
I try as hard as I can
to be the man you want.
710
00:41:58,126 --> 00:42:01,043
Attentive, and mindful, and...
711
00:42:02,418 --> 00:42:05,418
But always... out of the way
and off to the side.
712
00:42:05,959 --> 00:42:07,209
I do it.
713
00:42:07,293 --> 00:42:10,793
I'm happy to do it because I know
how important all this is to you.
714
00:42:10,876 --> 00:42:12,293
It's not just for me.
715
00:42:12,376 --> 00:42:15,251
[Conrad] I know
all the good that you can do.
716
00:42:16,251 --> 00:42:17,668
So I'll be your shadow.
717
00:42:19,626 --> 00:42:25,626
Because I know, for whatever reason,
a shadow of a man is what you want.
718
00:42:28,043 --> 00:42:32,709
But don't get upset with me
when I'm a little too good at it.
719
00:42:40,918 --> 00:42:43,501
[classical tune playing on piano]
720
00:43:08,168 --> 00:43:11,251
[interviewer] It has been said,
"Behind every great man is a great woman."
721
00:43:11,334 --> 00:43:13,584
Behind Shirley Chisholm
is Conrad Chisholm,
722
00:43:13,668 --> 00:43:17,459
an investigator for the City Bureau
of Medical Services.
723
00:43:18,251 --> 00:43:20,334
You two have been married for 19 years.
724
00:43:20,918 --> 00:43:22,668
How would you describe each other?
725
00:43:22,751 --> 00:43:24,584
[chuckling]
726
00:43:25,584 --> 00:43:26,918
[Conrad] Well, I tell you.
727
00:43:27,959 --> 00:43:33,043
I remember a time when she was introduced
at a dinner by the MC.
728
00:43:33,126 --> 00:43:37,293
And it was very fitting, to me,
729
00:43:37,376 --> 00:43:42,126
that he described her
as 100 pounds of nuclear energy.
730
00:43:42,959 --> 00:43:45,126
And I think it was very appropriate.
731
00:43:46,126 --> 00:43:51,751
Well, I would describe my husband as
732
00:43:52,543 --> 00:43:54,543
200 pounds of patience.
733
00:43:54,626 --> 00:43:56,418
[both chuckle]
734
00:43:56,501 --> 00:43:59,001
My husband is a remarkable man.
735
00:43:59,959 --> 00:44:02,418
I can truthfully say
736
00:44:02,501 --> 00:44:07,459
that I would not have
been able to reach the top
737
00:44:07,543 --> 00:44:10,168
unless I had a very understanding mate.
738
00:44:11,501 --> 00:44:15,418
And indeed, I know it has been
most difficult for him, occasionally.
739
00:44:16,751 --> 00:44:21,418
Well... I've had to sacrifice quite a bit,
740
00:44:21,501 --> 00:44:27,293
but I enjoy sacrificing it
for what she's doing.
741
00:44:30,209 --> 00:44:32,084
[interviewer] Thank you both very much.
742
00:44:41,834 --> 00:44:43,293
[tape unspooling]
743
00:44:45,251 --> 00:44:49,668
- ["Last Night" by Neice Dezel plays]
- ♪ Let me tells you what happened to me ♪
744
00:44:50,293 --> 00:44:51,959
[Stan] It's an embarrassment.
745
00:44:52,876 --> 00:44:55,334
I mean, this is
what the campaign's come to,
746
00:44:55,418 --> 00:44:57,251
Shirley and Wallace.
747
00:44:57,334 --> 00:45:01,668
Shirley got blown out in Florida,
less than 1% of the vote in Illinois.
748
00:45:01,751 --> 00:45:03,043
Same in Wisconsin.
749
00:45:03,126 --> 00:45:05,334
Less than 1% of the vote.
750
00:45:06,209 --> 00:45:07,709
And no delegates.
751
00:45:07,793 --> 00:45:10,251
You can spare Shirley the numbers.
752
00:45:10,334 --> 00:45:13,626
Three months from the convention,
and we're moving backward.
753
00:45:13,709 --> 00:45:14,709
Shirley...
754
00:45:15,918 --> 00:45:20,001
I dig her... speaking-truth thing,
but that doesn't get you votes.
755
00:45:20,084 --> 00:45:22,793
Stanley, what do you want?
756
00:45:23,793 --> 00:45:27,168
I want you to help me help Shirley.
I can't manage from the bleachers.
757
00:45:28,334 --> 00:45:30,709
You want me to help you sideline Shirley?
758
00:45:30,793 --> 00:45:33,251
[Stan chuckles] Oh, hell no, Mac.
759
00:45:33,334 --> 00:45:34,918
You know me better.
760
00:45:35,001 --> 00:45:40,001
We just need to compartmentalize her...
so we can better guide the campaign.
761
00:45:40,084 --> 00:45:40,918
Just--
762
00:45:41,001 --> 00:45:43,918
Just guide it. Guide Shirley for Shirley.
763
00:45:45,418 --> 00:45:48,209
You know my history with Shirley?
764
00:45:48,876 --> 00:45:53,043
You knew her from, uh, when you formed
the Bedford-Stuyvesant Political League.
765
00:45:54,751 --> 00:45:57,209
She was still a senior
at Brooklyn College.
766
00:45:57,293 --> 00:46:00,459
Taught Shirley everything
I knew about politics.
767
00:46:00,543 --> 00:46:02,834
How to read people
and the games they play.
768
00:46:02,918 --> 00:46:05,418
How the system works,
how some people are kept out
769
00:46:05,501 --> 00:46:06,876
and others kept in.
770
00:46:07,834 --> 00:46:10,709
And after I taught Shirley all that,
771
00:46:11,751 --> 00:46:16,043
she turns around and runs against me
for president of my own league.
772
00:46:16,126 --> 00:46:17,626
You still work with her.
773
00:46:18,209 --> 00:46:19,584
[chuckles] You forgive her?
774
00:46:22,668 --> 00:46:24,043
Nothing to forgive.
775
00:46:26,209 --> 00:46:28,209
Shirley believes in the necessary.
776
00:46:29,251 --> 00:46:33,751
At the time, she thought
it was necessary for her to replace me.
777
00:46:36,126 --> 00:46:41,959
That's something to remember
when you talk about guiding Shirley.
778
00:46:45,668 --> 00:46:49,084
["Take Care of Your Own Business"
by Dave Hamilton playing]
779
00:46:55,293 --> 00:46:57,168
♪ You drink your whiskey ♪
780
00:46:59,084 --> 00:47:01,751
- ♪ I'll drink my wine... ♪
- Congresswoman Chisholm.
781
00:47:01,834 --> 00:47:04,251
- Walter.
- It sure is good to see you.
782
00:47:05,334 --> 00:47:07,376
May I get you a menu?
783
00:47:07,459 --> 00:47:10,709
No, I won't be staying that long.
784
00:47:10,793 --> 00:47:13,126
Oh... That's too bad.
785
00:47:13,918 --> 00:47:19,293
A meal is so much better...
when it's enjoyed with friends.
786
00:47:19,376 --> 00:47:20,251
Mmm.
787
00:47:21,168 --> 00:47:23,418
Well, Shirley.
788
00:47:25,834 --> 00:47:26,834
What can I say?
789
00:47:27,334 --> 00:47:30,001
It's a shame
you didn't do better in Florida.
790
00:47:30,084 --> 00:47:31,001
Hmm.
791
00:47:31,584 --> 00:47:34,543
But my, my. You did get 4% of the vote.
792
00:47:35,834 --> 00:47:38,251
Well, almost 4%.
793
00:47:39,501 --> 00:47:42,001
- Could have used a few more endorsements.
- Mmm.
794
00:47:42,584 --> 00:47:46,209
The whole Congressional Black Caucus,
and the only ones I have behind me
795
00:47:46,293 --> 00:47:47,918
are Mitchell, Conyers, and Dellums.
796
00:47:48,001 --> 00:47:48,959
[chuckles]
797
00:47:49,043 --> 00:47:51,626
I can hardly endorse you
when I'm running myself.
798
00:47:51,709 --> 00:47:56,459
As a favorite son candidate
in the district, that's it, Walter.
799
00:47:56,543 --> 00:47:58,709
You here, and Stokes in Ohio.
800
00:47:59,293 --> 00:48:00,751
That don't add up to much.
801
00:48:01,334 --> 00:48:06,418
But you want to tell the people,
our people, who should represent them.
802
00:48:07,126 --> 00:48:09,543
You're no better
than the fat cat white boys.
803
00:48:11,209 --> 00:48:12,209
Shirley.
804
00:48:15,668 --> 00:48:18,418
I made the march, Selma to Montgomery.
805
00:48:18,501 --> 00:48:21,418
I learned lessons of the flesh
on the front lines with Martin.
806
00:48:21,501 --> 00:48:25,918
So I'd appreciate
if you didn't suppose about me for me.
807
00:48:26,668 --> 00:48:28,459
How can I help you, Walter?
808
00:48:29,001 --> 00:48:31,668
I want you
to drop out of the primary in DC.
809
00:48:31,751 --> 00:48:32,959
[chuckles]
810
00:48:33,043 --> 00:48:36,043
- Ron warned me.
- Ron Dellums is a West Coast dilettante.
811
00:48:36,126 --> 00:48:39,001
Willie Brown is the power in California.
812
00:48:39,876 --> 00:48:41,501
Don't let Ron get in your head.
813
00:48:41,584 --> 00:48:44,084
Now, if you stay in the primary,
814
00:48:44,168 --> 00:48:46,834
you and me are only gonna
end up splitting the vote.
815
00:48:46,918 --> 00:48:49,793
Splitting the delegates
doesn't help you, doesn't help me.
816
00:48:49,876 --> 00:48:52,668
And the best way for me to help you
is for me to drop out?
817
00:48:52,751 --> 00:48:55,209
[Walter] Only in DC,
where I'm on the ballot.
818
00:48:55,293 --> 00:48:58,626
Now, you and me both know
the nomination for president
819
00:48:58,709 --> 00:49:02,043
isn't gonna be decided
in the first round at the convention.
820
00:49:03,001 --> 00:49:04,668
Now, after that first round,
821
00:49:05,209 --> 00:49:10,334
after I get my... pound of flesh
out of the Democratic Party,
822
00:49:10,918 --> 00:49:14,126
I will release all my delegates to you
with the instruction to vote
823
00:49:14,209 --> 00:49:15,543
as you tell them to vote.
824
00:49:15,626 --> 00:49:18,084
I swear to God, Walter.
825
00:49:18,168 --> 00:49:20,376
Just more backroom politics.
826
00:49:20,459 --> 00:49:22,793
Nothing wrong with politics
when you're a politician.
827
00:49:22,876 --> 00:49:23,793
[scoffs lightly]
828
00:49:29,459 --> 00:49:34,168
After the first round,
you will get all my delegates.
829
00:49:37,084 --> 00:49:40,834
{\an8}You literally have my word.
830
00:49:41,959 --> 00:49:43,626
Now, do I have yours?
831
00:49:47,876 --> 00:49:49,376
I said yes.
832
00:49:50,001 --> 00:49:52,459
What else was I supposed to say?
833
00:49:52,543 --> 00:49:54,668
He made sense. He gave me his word.
834
00:49:54,751 --> 00:49:56,834
I... just don't...
835
00:49:57,626 --> 00:50:00,043
[exhales] Look.
836
00:50:00,126 --> 00:50:01,959
Walter's a good man,
837
00:50:02,043 --> 00:50:05,251
but Walter's always going...
838
00:50:07,293 --> 00:50:09,043
So you think I made a mistake.
839
00:50:09,126 --> 00:50:13,501
Walter has a tendency to disappoint,
and when it happens, it happens.
840
00:50:13,584 --> 00:50:15,334
That's all. [chuckles]
841
00:50:17,001 --> 00:50:18,668
I got my ears open, Shirley.
842
00:50:18,751 --> 00:50:22,126
If I hear anything you should know,
I will be the first one to tell you.
843
00:50:22,209 --> 00:50:24,918
- [Shirley] Thank you, Ron.
- [Ron] Of course.
844
00:50:25,001 --> 00:50:26,293
Of course.
845
00:50:26,376 --> 00:50:29,084
You just worry
about being the next president.
846
00:50:29,918 --> 00:50:30,876
Hmm.
847
00:50:32,459 --> 00:50:34,001
[Robert] So I need to get out the vote.
848
00:50:34,084 --> 00:50:36,793
[Mac] If you want to mobilize students
on the campuses, you need to...
849
00:50:36,876 --> 00:50:39,543
- I'll tell you what my answer is.
- Before you say no--
850
00:50:39,626 --> 00:50:41,668
- [Shirley] I already said no.
- How many could we get?
851
00:50:41,751 --> 00:50:43,209
Well, how many do we need?
852
00:50:43,293 --> 00:50:46,293
- [Stan] You told me "I'll think about it."
- As many as we can get.
853
00:50:46,376 --> 00:50:48,459
And I thought about it.
854
00:50:48,543 --> 00:50:51,418
Jesse Jackson will be there.
Louis Farrakhan. Bobby Seale...
855
00:50:51,501 --> 00:50:53,959
- They weren't gonna endorse me.
- [Mac] How do you spell that?
856
00:50:54,043 --> 00:50:55,959
- P-O-M-O-N-A.
- [Shirley] They'll never endorse me.
857
00:50:56,043 --> 00:50:57,668
Shirley, you need some traction.
858
00:50:57,751 --> 00:51:00,793
You need to capitalize on your deal
with Walt Fauntroy.
859
00:51:00,876 --> 00:51:03,793
If you're looking for an endorsement,
when I get back to California,
860
00:51:03,876 --> 00:51:06,418
I could maybe talk
to the people with the Black Panthers.
861
00:51:06,501 --> 00:51:08,834
Oh Jesus. Yeah, let's bring
the radicals on board.
862
00:51:08,918 --> 00:51:10,918
That'll play great in the Midwest.
863
00:51:11,001 --> 00:51:12,043
- Shirley--
- Thank you.
864
00:51:12,126 --> 00:51:15,209
The guy who, um,
created Star Trek actually went there.
865
00:51:15,293 --> 00:51:16,459
Not-- Not even joking.
866
00:51:16,543 --> 00:51:19,584
- ...this event in Gary...
- Stanley, I am not going.
867
00:51:22,626 --> 00:51:23,709
[sighs deeply]
868
00:51:24,459 --> 00:51:25,918
- [door shuts]
- [phone ringing]
869
00:51:31,543 --> 00:51:32,959
Um, Barbara.
870
00:51:33,501 --> 00:51:35,418
Let her have her lunch, please.
871
00:51:36,168 --> 00:51:37,084
Please.
872
00:51:38,543 --> 00:51:39,668
[Robert] Yeah...
873
00:51:39,751 --> 00:51:43,001
- [Mac] You know what? So...
- [Robert] So, we're going to California.
874
00:51:44,293 --> 00:51:45,418
Five thousand.
875
00:51:46,918 --> 00:51:48,501
Barbara. Barbara. Barb--!
876
00:51:48,584 --> 00:51:52,168
- Shirley, I want to go to the convention.
- I told her you were eating.
877
00:51:52,751 --> 00:51:54,418
It's all right, Arthur.
878
00:51:55,668 --> 00:51:57,793
I want to go to the convention in Gary.
879
00:51:57,876 --> 00:52:01,084
- I can... I can be your representative.
- No.
880
00:52:01,168 --> 00:52:04,709
I want to do something big
for this campaign before I go to Oakland.
881
00:52:04,793 --> 00:52:08,751
- Stanley said that you have to be there.
- I don't have to do anything.
882
00:52:08,834 --> 00:52:11,126
Why don't you want to go?
What are you so afraid of?
883
00:52:11,959 --> 00:52:13,418
Little girl.
884
00:52:16,834 --> 00:52:18,001
Sit down.
885
00:52:21,001 --> 00:52:22,251
Sit down.
886
00:52:34,084 --> 00:52:37,543
Let me tell you something
about this convention.
887
00:52:37,626 --> 00:52:41,168
They don't have
one single Black woman invited to speak.
888
00:52:41,251 --> 00:52:43,293
Not one. Not Coretta.
889
00:52:43,959 --> 00:52:47,668
Betty Shabazz, they got her
introducing Jesse Jackson.
890
00:52:47,751 --> 00:52:52,126
They have made it clear they don't care
what Black women have to say.
891
00:52:52,793 --> 00:52:53,876
They just...
892
00:52:54,376 --> 00:52:57,084
- That's just how they are.
-"They"?
893
00:52:57,168 --> 00:52:59,876
Men, always plottin' and plannin'.
894
00:53:00,459 --> 00:53:02,959
I see these men and the games they play.
895
00:53:03,043 --> 00:53:06,751
Black, white, they're all nothing
but hard-mout goats.
896
00:53:08,418 --> 00:53:09,459
"Hard-mout"?
897
00:53:09,543 --> 00:53:10,501
Ah...
898
00:53:10,584 --> 00:53:13,543
I slip into my Bajan roots
when I lose my religion.
899
00:53:13,626 --> 00:53:15,418
[chuckles lightly]
900
00:53:18,876 --> 00:53:20,209
Politics makes you do that?
901
00:53:23,084 --> 00:53:24,126
Then...
902
00:53:25,418 --> 00:53:27,376
I don't think politics is for me.
903
00:53:31,834 --> 00:53:33,084
[Shirley exhales deeply]
904
00:53:36,126 --> 00:53:37,001
[Mac] Shirley!
905
00:53:37,876 --> 00:53:38,751
{\an8}We need to talk.
906
00:53:38,834 --> 00:53:40,959
{\an8}- She has to go on.
- We need to talk to Shirley.
907
00:53:41,043 --> 00:53:43,501
Mac, we've got
an auditorium full of students.
908
00:53:43,584 --> 00:53:46,084
Tell them she'll be out.
We need to talk to Shirley.
909
00:53:47,918 --> 00:53:48,918
[sighs softly]
910
00:53:50,584 --> 00:53:53,459
The networks just came out
with their debate schedules.
911
00:53:53,543 --> 00:53:55,168
You're not on them. None of them.
912
00:53:55,251 --> 00:53:57,043
They're saying
you don't meet the threshold--
913
00:53:57,126 --> 00:53:59,918
Whose threshold?
We were counting on these debates.
914
00:54:00,001 --> 00:54:01,209
They don't consider you--
915
00:54:01,293 --> 00:54:02,626
I filled out my paperwork.
916
00:54:02,709 --> 00:54:03,876
I've entered primaries.
917
00:54:03,959 --> 00:54:06,876
I'm polling above Lindsay,
McCarthy, Yorty.
918
00:54:06,959 --> 00:54:08,793
The networks don't care.
919
00:54:08,876 --> 00:54:11,459
- No other way to see it.
- Mrs. C, you have to go on.
920
00:54:11,543 --> 00:54:13,543
[light applause in distance]
921
00:54:23,793 --> 00:54:24,709
Sue them.
922
00:54:24,793 --> 00:54:26,793
[pensive music plays]
923
00:54:27,709 --> 00:54:28,918
Sue the networks?
924
00:54:29,001 --> 00:54:32,834
FCC mandates broadcasters
provide equal opportunity
925
00:54:32,918 --> 00:54:35,126
for any opposing political candidates.
926
00:54:35,209 --> 00:54:36,084
Any.
927
00:54:36,168 --> 00:54:38,668
So, you get a lawyer,
you get some paperwork,
928
00:54:38,751 --> 00:54:40,668
and you remind the networks
929
00:54:40,751 --> 00:54:43,168
that their licenses come
with a legal obligation.
930
00:54:43,251 --> 00:54:45,251
[whimsical instrumental music plays]
931
00:54:47,376 --> 00:54:51,209
We got no money for a campaign,
but we're gonna sue the networks.
932
00:54:51,293 --> 00:54:52,876
- [Shirley] Hello.
- [applause]
933
00:54:54,668 --> 00:54:57,793
- What's going on? What did I miss?
- [Shirley] Hello. Thank you.
934
00:54:58,709 --> 00:55:00,709
[Shirley speaking in distance]
935
00:55:02,459 --> 00:55:05,334
Aren't you a lawyer?
936
00:55:05,418 --> 00:55:08,126
I'm studying to be a lawyer. What? Why?
937
00:55:12,168 --> 00:55:14,418
- [man] You wanna sue the networks?
- [Robert] Yes.
938
00:55:14,501 --> 00:55:17,959
[man] The three pillars of
the Fourth Estate? ABC, NBC, CBS?
939
00:55:18,043 --> 00:55:21,376
Yeah. They're in violation
of their mandate, all three of them are.
940
00:55:21,459 --> 00:55:25,418
And them doing business as usual
just doesn't cut it. Not in this election.
941
00:55:28,084 --> 00:55:30,959
Look, you try to take on the big three,
942
00:55:31,043 --> 00:55:33,751
the money, the lawyers they have,
that whole scene,
943
00:55:33,834 --> 00:55:35,209
you're gonna lose in court,
944
00:55:35,793 --> 00:55:36,959
which is good.
945
00:55:37,584 --> 00:55:39,084
- That's good?
- It's good.
946
00:55:39,793 --> 00:55:42,376
No one's ever challenged
how the mandate's applied.
947
00:55:42,459 --> 00:55:44,584
If you lose, the case goes
to appellate court.
948
00:55:44,668 --> 00:55:47,626
You win there, if you can win there,
949
00:55:47,709 --> 00:55:50,501
you codify equal time as law, for like...
950
00:55:52,334 --> 00:55:53,876
[chuckling softly] Forever.
951
00:55:55,793 --> 00:55:59,626
But if we lose the appeal,
then nothing gets better,
952
00:55:59,709 --> 00:56:02,168
and we've made the whole situation worse.
953
00:56:02,251 --> 00:56:05,543
You'll have made it a lot worse. So...
954
00:56:07,251 --> 00:56:10,126
Before you take this to court,
make sure you've got a good case.
955
00:56:10,959 --> 00:56:13,334
You'd better make sure
you have a hell of a case.
956
00:56:16,668 --> 00:56:17,626
Okay.
957
00:56:18,876 --> 00:56:22,001
["Starving Child" by Musi-O-Tunya playing]
958
00:56:29,793 --> 00:56:33,001
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
959
00:56:38,834 --> 00:56:43,209
♪ Oh, I've seen this starving child
A day ago ♪
960
00:56:44,751 --> 00:56:48,084
♪ In my library ♪
961
00:56:48,668 --> 00:56:51,334
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
962
00:56:51,418 --> 00:56:53,126
[bell jangling at door]
963
00:56:53,209 --> 00:56:55,209
["Starving Child" continues faintly]
964
00:57:03,084 --> 00:57:04,126
I ordered you tea.
965
00:57:11,251 --> 00:57:14,834
The New York Times
is going to do a profile piece on me.
966
00:57:14,918 --> 00:57:17,126
They would like to speak to the family.
967
00:57:17,709 --> 00:57:19,876
They would like to know
that you support me.
968
00:57:19,959 --> 00:57:21,626
Some things go without saying.
969
00:57:22,668 --> 00:57:25,126
In politics, some things need to be said.
970
00:57:26,543 --> 00:57:27,834
[exhales deeply]
971
00:57:28,668 --> 00:57:30,834
What is it you're doing
with this campaign?
972
00:57:31,543 --> 00:57:34,168
All people do, Shirley,
they talk about you.
973
00:57:34,251 --> 00:57:35,501
They say you're crazy.
974
00:57:35,584 --> 00:57:37,251
I don't care what they say.
975
00:57:37,334 --> 00:57:39,751
Because you're not the one
that has to hear it.
976
00:57:39,834 --> 00:57:42,668
You're not the one people ask,
"What's wrong with your sister?"
977
00:57:42,751 --> 00:57:46,751
"How come your sister bad behave?"
We don't do these things, but you--
978
00:57:46,834 --> 00:57:48,209
-"We"?
- But you going--
979
00:57:48,293 --> 00:57:49,126
Black women?
980
00:57:49,209 --> 00:57:52,084
- You gonna humiliate yourself. Us.
- The St. Hill sisters?
981
00:57:54,043 --> 00:57:54,959
You just...
982
00:57:56,209 --> 00:57:58,043
It's just how Papa raised you.
983
00:57:58,126 --> 00:57:59,084
[scoffs, chuckles]
984
00:57:59,168 --> 00:58:01,251
- It's the truth.
- Hmm.
985
00:58:01,334 --> 00:58:02,626
So I don't blame you.
986
00:58:02,709 --> 00:58:05,084
No, you blame our father.
987
00:58:05,168 --> 00:58:06,501
He had four daughters.
988
00:58:07,126 --> 00:58:08,001
Four.
989
00:58:08,918 --> 00:58:11,751
But when he died,
he left you the little money he had.
990
00:58:11,834 --> 00:58:13,376
You were treated differently.
991
00:58:14,209 --> 00:58:15,376
And now you think...
992
00:58:15,959 --> 00:58:17,626
Now you think you're special.
993
00:58:19,168 --> 00:58:21,001
That's how Papa was with you.
994
00:58:21,084 --> 00:58:22,668
He made you believe things.
995
00:58:23,168 --> 00:58:24,418
They aren't true.
996
00:58:24,959 --> 00:58:28,251
He made me believe in myself.
Regardless of what people think--
997
00:58:28,334 --> 00:58:29,793
You have no regard?
998
00:58:29,876 --> 00:58:32,793
You don't care what
this campaign does to your friends?
999
00:58:32,876 --> 00:58:35,876
- I can do what is necessary.
- Family? That's what Papa would want?
1000
00:58:35,959 --> 00:58:38,043
You are pushing us away over nothing.
1001
00:58:39,293 --> 00:58:40,418
[scoffs]
1002
00:58:41,668 --> 00:58:44,959
Muriel, is that
what you think my campaign is?
1003
00:58:45,626 --> 00:58:47,251
Is that all it is to you?
1004
00:58:48,168 --> 00:58:49,209
Nothing?
1005
00:58:49,293 --> 00:58:53,084
Nothing is what you make
the rest of us feel like.
1006
00:58:59,584 --> 00:59:00,793
No, Shirley.
1007
00:59:02,626 --> 00:59:04,834
We won't be talking
to the newspaper people.
1008
00:59:10,584 --> 00:59:11,793
[bell jangling]
1009
00:59:14,251 --> 00:59:16,251
["Starving Child" continues faintly]
1010
00:59:28,501 --> 00:59:31,043
["Think (About It)"
by Lyn Collins playing]
1011
00:59:32,293 --> 00:59:33,584
♪ All right ♪
1012
00:59:33,668 --> 00:59:34,876
[overlapping chatter]
1013
00:59:34,959 --> 00:59:37,626
♪ I'm laying my cards on the table ♪
1014
00:59:39,334 --> 00:59:41,501
♪ When it comes to taking care of me ♪
1015
00:59:41,584 --> 00:59:43,251
♪ I know I'm able ♪
1016
00:59:43,834 --> 00:59:45,876
♪ You may not call it true... ♪
1017
00:59:47,959 --> 00:59:50,543
Come on, y'all. Don't be cheap.
This is for Shirley.
1018
00:59:50,626 --> 00:59:54,376
The next president
of these United goddamn States!
1019
00:59:54,459 --> 00:59:56,334
[all cheering]
1020
00:59:56,418 --> 00:59:59,334
♪ So think about the good things ♪
1021
00:59:59,418 --> 01:00:00,709
- ♪ Come on! ♪
- ♪ Come on ♪
1022
01:00:01,876 --> 01:00:04,084
- ♪ Hey, yeah ♪
- [song ends]
1023
01:00:04,168 --> 01:00:05,876
{\an8}[phones ringing]
1024
01:00:05,959 --> 01:00:09,418
{\an8}- [Shirley] How much did they get?
- About 1,800 altogether.
1025
01:00:09,918 --> 01:00:11,793
And it was all small donations.
1026
01:00:11,876 --> 01:00:13,168
Five dollars, two dollars.
1027
01:00:13,251 --> 01:00:15,959
They show up,
claim to be from the Chisholm campaign,
1028
01:00:16,043 --> 01:00:18,876
throw a party,
pour the liquor, steal the donations.
1029
01:00:19,668 --> 01:00:21,959
- [Mac] People want their money back.
- I don't blame them.
1030
01:00:22,043 --> 01:00:25,584
- They want their money back from us.
- [Robert] From the campaign?
1031
01:00:25,668 --> 01:00:27,043
We didn't steal the money.
1032
01:00:27,126 --> 01:00:29,668
Somebody did, but we're taking the blame.
1033
01:00:29,751 --> 01:00:30,751
[Stan] Jesus!
1034
01:00:31,793 --> 01:00:32,959
I'm done.
1035
01:00:33,043 --> 01:00:34,334
This isn't a campaign.
1036
01:00:34,418 --> 01:00:35,543
It's a joke.
1037
01:00:36,168 --> 01:00:38,834
You have no organization.
You have no infrastructure.
1038
01:00:38,918 --> 01:00:41,334
You got people stealing
out from under your noses.
1039
01:00:41,418 --> 01:00:42,668
Stanley, come on, now.
1040
01:00:42,751 --> 01:00:45,584
This magical voter coalition
doesn't exist.
1041
01:00:45,668 --> 01:00:48,418
When this blows all up,
the only thing anybody's gonna remember
1042
01:00:48,501 --> 01:00:52,584
is that there were a bunch of Black folks
who made fools of themselves.
1043
01:00:53,918 --> 01:00:55,959
Honest to God,
if you had any self-respect--
1044
01:00:56,043 --> 01:00:58,293
If you got with the program, instead of--
1045
01:00:58,376 --> 01:01:01,043
I don't need an Ivy League white boy
givin' me lip!
1046
01:01:01,126 --> 01:01:02,751
Wait a goddamn minute!
1047
01:01:02,834 --> 01:01:05,751
- Who the hell you think you talkin' to?
- It's not worth it!
1048
01:01:05,834 --> 01:01:07,168
- You're pathetic.
- Stanley.
1049
01:01:07,251 --> 01:01:09,501
- You're an embarrassment.
- Stanley. Stanley!
1050
01:01:09,584 --> 01:01:11,376
Can we talk, please?
1051
01:01:14,459 --> 01:01:15,334
Yeah.
1052
01:01:18,418 --> 01:01:19,668
Yeah, of course.
1053
01:01:20,709 --> 01:01:22,043
[quietly] I'm sorry.
1054
01:01:28,793 --> 01:01:32,501
Shirley, I am sorry, but somebody has
got to be the one to tell these people--
1055
01:01:32,584 --> 01:01:35,793
Who the hell do you think you are,
talking to my people like that?
1056
01:01:35,876 --> 01:01:37,751
They're not your servants.
1057
01:01:37,834 --> 01:01:39,168
They're giving their time.
1058
01:01:39,251 --> 01:01:41,793
You're drawing a check,
but you got too much mout
1059
01:01:41,876 --> 01:01:43,126
to do how you get paid.
1060
01:01:43,209 --> 01:01:45,626
Got plaster for every sore.
1061
01:01:45,709 --> 01:01:48,668
Well, since you can't do,
let me relieve your load.
1062
01:01:48,751 --> 01:01:49,626
You're done.
1063
01:01:51,709 --> 01:01:54,709
- Woman, you are your own worst--
- Enough! The dog dead!
1064
01:01:54,793 --> 01:01:55,834
Go!
1065
01:02:02,209 --> 01:02:03,793
[tuts, sucks teeth]
1066
01:02:04,501 --> 01:02:05,584
[exhales]
1067
01:02:08,543 --> 01:02:10,543
[somber music playing]
1068
01:02:19,209 --> 01:02:20,334
[soft knocking]
1069
01:02:31,626 --> 01:02:34,251
- [Shirley] Thank you.
- You're welcome. You all right?
1070
01:02:34,334 --> 01:02:35,501
[Shirley] I'm fine.
1071
01:02:38,793 --> 01:02:40,418
Where are they, Arthur?
1072
01:02:42,709 --> 01:02:44,543
I was there for white women.
1073
01:02:45,084 --> 01:02:47,084
Why can't they support me?
1074
01:02:47,709 --> 01:02:48,959
Same with Black men.
1075
01:02:49,543 --> 01:02:51,543
Where are they?
1076
01:02:51,626 --> 01:02:52,459
They'll come.
1077
01:02:53,084 --> 01:02:53,918
[scoffs]
1078
01:02:57,209 --> 01:02:59,793
Barely two months left to the convention.
1079
01:03:00,959 --> 01:03:03,043
I'm running out of time.
1080
01:03:06,751 --> 01:03:08,209
Too sentimental.
1081
01:03:09,001 --> 01:03:10,709
I really am. I...
1082
01:03:11,501 --> 01:03:14,751
just see what's going on
in the world, and it's...
1083
01:03:15,334 --> 01:03:18,668
The agony of people, it moves me.
1084
01:03:19,334 --> 01:03:20,709
It moves me.
1085
01:03:22,626 --> 01:03:26,876
I... Conrad says
I'm not gonna live to see 55.
1086
01:03:27,501 --> 01:03:31,168
Says I'm just too into this thing,
and I know I am.
1087
01:03:31,251 --> 01:03:32,501
He's right.
1088
01:03:33,293 --> 01:03:34,334
[sighs]
1089
01:03:34,918 --> 01:03:36,418
But it's deep with me.
1090
01:03:36,501 --> 01:03:38,043
It's intense. I...
1091
01:03:38,834 --> 01:03:41,543
[sighs] I see too much sufferin'.
1092
01:03:42,459 --> 01:03:46,543
And these politicians around here,
they... they don't care.
1093
01:03:47,043 --> 01:03:48,501
They don't care.
1094
01:03:48,584 --> 01:03:50,876
They just don't care.
1095
01:03:51,709 --> 01:03:53,959
And I don't know how to not try.
1096
01:03:54,501 --> 01:03:56,459
I believe in people. I do. I--
1097
01:03:57,001 --> 01:03:58,459
I'm not naive.
1098
01:04:00,043 --> 01:04:02,001
[Arthur] You're not realistic either.
1099
01:04:02,876 --> 01:04:04,084
If you thought that
1100
01:04:04,168 --> 01:04:07,293
everything you were gonna have to do
was gonna be easy...
1101
01:04:09,834 --> 01:04:11,293
I mean, what do you wanna do?
1102
01:04:12,043 --> 01:04:13,709
Wanna quit the campaign?
1103
01:04:15,793 --> 01:04:18,043
End of the day,
it comes down to one of two choices.
1104
01:04:18,126 --> 01:04:20,376
You either fight the fight
or quit the race.
1105
01:04:20,459 --> 01:04:22,334
And if you gonna quit the race,
1106
01:04:22,418 --> 01:04:25,126
get it done with,
and stop complaining about it.
1107
01:04:26,834 --> 01:04:27,834
[exhales]
1108
01:04:28,626 --> 01:04:30,668
Is this you being encouraging?
1109
01:04:32,793 --> 01:04:37,334
If you really are done
with... all of this mess,
1110
01:04:37,834 --> 01:04:40,959
I'm not gonna blame you,
and nobody else can.
1111
01:04:41,751 --> 01:04:43,918
People say I'm crazy.
1112
01:04:44,668 --> 01:04:46,459
Am I crazy?
1113
01:04:47,043 --> 01:04:48,209
[Arthur] Yes.
1114
01:04:48,293 --> 01:04:52,251
But maybe that's what it takes
to make a difference in this world.
1115
01:04:52,334 --> 01:04:56,043
And, by some slim chance,
you make it down in Miami,
1116
01:04:56,126 --> 01:04:58,168
I'mma be right there with you.
1117
01:04:58,793 --> 01:05:00,959
And I hope to God it happens.
1118
01:05:01,626 --> 01:05:03,626
[gentle music playing]
1119
01:05:08,168 --> 01:05:09,668
Thank you, Arthur.
1120
01:05:10,293 --> 01:05:14,209
Thank you... for making us believe.
1121
01:05:16,043 --> 01:05:17,501
That's what matters.
1122
01:05:23,709 --> 01:05:24,668
[door shuts]
1123
01:05:40,709 --> 01:05:43,959
- [Shirley] You all right?
- [Robert] Yeah, I'm just, you know, I'm...
1124
01:05:44,043 --> 01:05:46,918
I'm really worried about
this FCC ruling the court handed down.
1125
01:05:47,001 --> 01:05:49,501
Isn't that what your man said
is likely to happen?
1126
01:05:49,584 --> 01:05:52,584
That we'd lose in court,
and then we'd take it to an appeal.
1127
01:05:53,168 --> 01:05:56,334
Yeah. I mean, he also said that,
you know, if we lose the appeal,
1128
01:05:56,418 --> 01:05:58,418
then the whole thing gets worse.
1129
01:05:58,501 --> 01:06:01,084
Eh, what's going to happen
is going to happen.
1130
01:06:03,126 --> 01:06:04,584
- What?
- [chuckling] I'm...
1131
01:06:04,668 --> 01:06:07,168
Sorry. What's going to happen
is going to happen?
1132
01:06:07,251 --> 01:06:10,709
Mrs. C... that doesn't sound
anything like you.
1133
01:06:10,793 --> 01:06:12,209
I mean, you're the one...
1134
01:06:12,293 --> 01:06:16,084
You're the one who told me to
not accept things the way that they are.
1135
01:06:16,168 --> 01:06:17,126
And I meant it.
1136
01:06:17,209 --> 01:06:19,084
Yes. So everything makes a difference.
1137
01:06:19,168 --> 01:06:21,209
If I let you down,
if the appeal goes wrong...
1138
01:06:21,293 --> 01:06:23,543
- How are you letting me down?
- Not just you.
1139
01:06:23,626 --> 01:06:25,751
So many people are gonna be
massively impacted.
1140
01:06:25,834 --> 01:06:28,293
- You are putting in the work.
- It's not a small thing.
1141
01:06:28,376 --> 01:06:29,626
- [sirens wail]
- [tires screech]
1142
01:06:29,709 --> 01:06:31,626
- Shirley Chisholm?
- Don't move!
1143
01:06:31,709 --> 01:06:34,126
- Right there! Let me see your hands!
- What?
1144
01:06:34,209 --> 01:06:36,209
Do you understand me? Do not move!
1145
01:06:36,293 --> 01:06:38,168
Don't tell me... Do not tell me what to do.
1146
01:06:38,251 --> 01:06:41,376
I'm not talking to you.
I'm talking to him. Is he threatening you?
1147
01:06:41,459 --> 01:06:42,334
No!
1148
01:06:42,418 --> 01:06:44,834
No. He works with me.
Why are you asking me this?
1149
01:06:45,709 --> 01:06:48,459
Ma'am, they just shot George Wallace.
1150
01:06:50,251 --> 01:06:52,918
[somber music plays]
1151
01:06:53,001 --> 01:06:55,001
- [gunshots firing]
- [woman screaming]
1152
01:06:57,709 --> 01:07:01,293
Five shots, point-blank.
It was a white boy that shot him.
1153
01:07:01,376 --> 01:07:04,168
- Chickens come home to roost.
- And he lived.
1154
01:07:05,418 --> 01:07:07,584
Wallace is a tough son of a bitch.
1155
01:07:08,084 --> 01:07:10,209
[Mac] Nixon's going to visit him
in the hospital.
1156
01:07:10,709 --> 01:07:13,418
[Arthur] Nixon would make him
his vice president if he could.
1157
01:07:14,001 --> 01:07:15,793
[Mac] What makes you think he won't?
1158
01:07:16,584 --> 01:07:17,626
I want to go visit him.
1159
01:07:22,209 --> 01:07:23,959
I want to visit Wallace.
1160
01:07:25,126 --> 01:07:27,043
I don't think it's a good idea.
1161
01:07:27,126 --> 01:07:28,918
I know it's not a good idea.
1162
01:07:29,001 --> 01:07:31,168
Nixon is gonna visit him.
1163
01:07:31,251 --> 01:07:32,751
McGovern's going. Humphrey--
1164
01:07:32,834 --> 01:07:34,418
They're signifying.
1165
01:07:34,501 --> 01:07:37,376
White men who wouldn't mind
getting a few of Wallace's voters.
1166
01:07:39,168 --> 01:07:40,293
Shirley.
1167
01:07:41,668 --> 01:07:44,793
Don't you know what it would mean
for you to go visit that man?
1168
01:07:44,876 --> 01:07:47,834
I know what it means
to have somebody try to take your life.
1169
01:07:48,334 --> 01:07:49,543
I know that.
1170
01:07:49,626 --> 01:07:51,584
Do you know what it would mean
to your base?
1171
01:07:51,668 --> 01:07:53,584
To Blacks, young people, progressives?
1172
01:07:53,668 --> 01:07:56,543
- The man is a stone-cold racist!
-"Segregation now, segregation tomorrow."
1173
01:07:56,626 --> 01:07:58,751
What does it say about you
when you ignore that?
1174
01:07:58,834 --> 01:08:01,126
What does it say about me as a Christian?
1175
01:08:01,834 --> 01:08:04,334
You are not running for Pope.
1176
01:08:04,834 --> 01:08:06,209
You're running for president.
1177
01:08:06,293 --> 01:08:08,501
All this, everything we put together,
1178
01:08:08,584 --> 01:08:10,959
and you want to throw it away
over Wallace?
1179
01:08:13,001 --> 01:08:14,043
[sighs]
1180
01:08:20,209 --> 01:08:23,209
You hired me to be your advisor.
1181
01:08:25,668 --> 01:08:27,334
That's hard as hell to do
1182
01:08:27,418 --> 01:08:29,668
when you won't listen
to the advice I give.
1183
01:08:35,626 --> 01:08:38,501
But you are still
going to advise me, right?
1184
01:08:42,668 --> 01:08:43,709
Mac?
1185
01:08:47,584 --> 01:08:48,584
I'll talk to him.
1186
01:09:07,209 --> 01:09:09,209
[gentle music playing]
1187
01:09:17,959 --> 01:09:19,959
[notes playing softly]
1188
01:09:27,876 --> 01:09:30,084
[Shirley] What are the doctors saying?
1189
01:09:30,751 --> 01:09:33,334
Well... I'll live.
1190
01:09:33,834 --> 01:09:35,209
So there's that.
1191
01:09:36,376 --> 01:09:37,418
But, uh...
1192
01:09:39,543 --> 01:09:41,376
shot me in the spine.
1193
01:09:41,959 --> 01:09:45,584
I will spend the rest of my days
looking at the world from a wheelchair.
1194
01:09:47,043 --> 01:09:49,709
Where do these people come from, Shirley?
1195
01:09:51,209 --> 01:09:54,751
I suppose it's the hate that hate creates.
1196
01:09:55,834 --> 01:10:00,959
It is not fair to lecture a man
who has got nowhere to go to.
1197
01:10:01,043 --> 01:10:01,959
Oh... [sighs]
1198
01:10:02,043 --> 01:10:03,543
George... [sighs]
1199
01:10:04,251 --> 01:10:06,501
I wouldn't wish this on anyone.
1200
01:10:07,126 --> 01:10:08,126
Mm-mm.
1201
01:10:08,751 --> 01:10:10,293
I've been where you are.
1202
01:10:11,001 --> 01:10:13,376
Had somebody try and take my life.
1203
01:10:13,459 --> 01:10:16,084
So close to God calling me home.
1204
01:10:16,168 --> 01:10:20,168
But... I know he spared me for a reason.
1205
01:10:22,043 --> 01:10:23,751
And I believe the same for you.
1206
01:10:25,209 --> 01:10:28,834
Now, what that reason is... Why?
1207
01:10:28,918 --> 01:10:31,543
Maybe... Maybe he wanted you to...
1208
01:10:37,001 --> 01:10:38,626
It's not for me to say.
1209
01:10:40,168 --> 01:10:43,918
But you have an opportunity.
1210
01:10:44,751 --> 01:10:48,501
To keep on how you've been
or be more than what you were.
1211
01:10:49,751 --> 01:10:52,501
And you better figure it out quick.
1212
01:10:52,584 --> 01:10:55,501
'Cause the next time,
the good Lord may not be satisfied
1213
01:10:55,584 --> 01:10:57,584
with taking just half of you.
1214
01:11:06,418 --> 01:11:08,459
God is surrounding you.
1215
01:11:09,251 --> 01:11:15,001
May his light always guide you
and keep you safe in his arms.
1216
01:11:15,751 --> 01:11:17,293
In Jesus's name.
1217
01:11:17,876 --> 01:11:18,918
Amen.
1218
01:11:20,543 --> 01:11:22,251
[sobbing shakily] Well...
1219
01:11:23,043 --> 01:11:25,251
You keep praying for me, Shirley.
1220
01:11:27,584 --> 01:11:28,918
Always have.
1221
01:11:29,418 --> 01:11:31,834
[gentle music playing]
1222
01:11:35,126 --> 01:11:36,168
{\an8}[indistinct chatter]
1223
01:11:36,251 --> 01:11:38,584
{\an8}[newsman] George Wallace
had an unlikely visitor today,
1224
01:11:38,668 --> 01:11:40,459
political opponent Shirley Chisholm.
1225
01:11:40,543 --> 01:11:43,501
The New York congresswoman was
one of the most unexpected visitors
1226
01:11:43,584 --> 01:11:46,584
to pass through this morning
to visit the Alabama governor.
1227
01:11:46,668 --> 01:11:48,501
One of the bullets is still lodged...
1228
01:11:48,584 --> 01:11:52,626
You believe this shit?
And she's supposed to be Black.
1229
01:11:52,709 --> 01:11:56,376
...his staunch segregationist and
populist views, seems like the last person
1230
01:11:56,459 --> 01:11:59,584
the congresswoman
would want to offer condolences to.
1231
01:12:00,168 --> 01:12:02,334
[Mac] I think we've got to ask this point,
1232
01:12:02,834 --> 01:12:04,501
do we want to go on?
1233
01:12:06,209 --> 01:12:09,918
Well, the question really is,
can we go on?
1234
01:12:11,251 --> 01:12:13,459
I think we have to be realistic.
1235
01:12:14,043 --> 01:12:15,959
Two months left in the primaries,
1236
01:12:16,043 --> 01:12:19,626
Dr. Wallace, if he stays
in the race, and McGovern.
1237
01:12:20,334 --> 01:12:21,918
There's just, for us,
1238
01:12:23,334 --> 01:12:25,293
no path to the presidency.
1239
01:12:26,501 --> 01:12:28,126
My numbers are improving.
1240
01:12:28,209 --> 01:12:31,501
Less than 3% of the vote
in Maryland and Michigan.
1241
01:12:31,584 --> 01:12:33,668
Better than less than 1%
in Wisconsin, but--
1242
01:12:33,751 --> 01:12:36,376
If I can't get the nomination,
I can still get delegates.
1243
01:12:36,459 --> 01:12:37,293
[Mac] Shirley.
1244
01:12:37,376 --> 01:12:39,418
And if we can control
some of the delegates,
1245
01:12:39,501 --> 01:12:41,876
we can still force change
at the convention.
1246
01:12:41,959 --> 01:12:45,418
Get delegates from where?
All that's left on the map...
1247
01:12:45,918 --> 01:12:47,626
Oregon's for McGovern. We know that.
1248
01:12:47,709 --> 01:12:50,543
We're not even on the ballot
in Rhode Island, South Dakota--
1249
01:12:50,626 --> 01:12:52,543
But there is California.
1250
01:12:52,626 --> 01:12:54,334
California is winner take all.
1251
01:12:54,418 --> 01:12:56,459
But what if we win California?
1252
01:12:56,543 --> 01:12:59,793
[Mac] Shirley, you said yourself
it'd be a waste of time.
1253
01:13:00,293 --> 01:13:02,584
I'd do whatever it takes
to compete in California.
1254
01:13:02,668 --> 01:13:04,168
It takes money.
1255
01:13:04,251 --> 01:13:06,501
Do you have money? Because we need money.
1256
01:13:06,584 --> 01:13:08,709
- We can get money.
- [Mac] We... Jesus.
1257
01:13:08,793 --> 01:13:12,668
Look, even if we enter the primary,
how do we get traction?
1258
01:13:12,751 --> 01:13:14,209
Who wants to back you?
1259
01:13:14,293 --> 01:13:15,459
Now, come on, Mac.
1260
01:13:15,543 --> 01:13:18,251
- I am just being realistic.
- Yeah, I know. But come on.
1261
01:13:18,334 --> 01:13:19,501
[Mac sighs deeply]
1262
01:13:20,459 --> 01:13:21,626
You want to do this?
1263
01:13:21,709 --> 01:13:24,501
We'll... figure it out.
1264
01:13:24,584 --> 01:13:26,334
But at this point,
1265
01:13:27,584 --> 01:13:31,084
without something
that's going to make some noise...
1266
01:13:32,793 --> 01:13:35,543
[laughter on television]
1267
01:13:38,376 --> 01:13:41,459
Well, then, no, if that's it...
Were they colored?
1268
01:13:45,209 --> 01:13:47,376
- Yeah, white.
- [audience laughs]
1269
01:13:47,459 --> 01:13:52,209
[Shirley] Our total expenses
for the campaign have been $215,000.
1270
01:13:52,293 --> 01:13:54,168
Our liabilities,
1271
01:13:54,709 --> 01:13:58,376
outstanding debts... bills...
1272
01:13:59,876 --> 01:14:01,668
Twenty-six thousand.
1273
01:14:02,418 --> 01:14:06,376
Our payroll, if we keep it really tight,
1274
01:14:06,459 --> 01:14:08,043
2,000 a week.
1275
01:14:09,168 --> 01:14:10,709
Our cash on hand?
1276
01:14:11,209 --> 01:14:13,001
We don't have any cash on hand,
1277
01:14:13,084 --> 01:14:17,043
so to have enough money
to pay all our obligations
1278
01:14:17,126 --> 01:14:20,209
and keep the campaign going
throughout the California primary,
1279
01:14:20,293 --> 01:14:23,418
we need about $36,000.
1280
01:14:25,751 --> 01:14:29,293
Where are we supposed to get $36,000?
1281
01:14:29,793 --> 01:14:31,959
[Shirley] I have my congressional salary.
1282
01:14:33,168 --> 01:14:34,168
[Conrad sighs]
1283
01:14:36,001 --> 01:14:40,668
We already put in 20,000 of our own money.
1284
01:14:41,251 --> 01:14:44,418
Now you want to put in
another 36,000 on top?
1285
01:14:44,918 --> 01:14:48,251
Wh-- Why are you doing this?
Why go on? I don't understand what--
1286
01:14:48,334 --> 01:14:49,376
Conrad.
1287
01:14:49,459 --> 01:14:52,876
People walking out on you,
giving up on you.
1288
01:14:53,501 --> 01:14:57,209
I don't understand why you want
to keep going out there alone.
1289
01:14:57,293 --> 01:14:58,918
- Torturing yourself.
- I'm not alone.
1290
01:14:59,001 --> 01:15:02,418
There are people who put their blood
and sweat into what we're doing.
1291
01:15:02,501 --> 01:15:05,334
What would you have me tell them?
"Fight, but not too much?"
1292
01:15:05,418 --> 01:15:07,584
- Why do it?!
- Because it's my money!
1293
01:15:07,668 --> 01:15:08,834
It's my money!
1294
01:15:11,168 --> 01:15:13,168
[chatter on TV continues indistinctly]
1295
01:15:24,459 --> 01:15:26,459
[footsteps receding]
1296
01:15:29,501 --> 01:15:32,918
- [light clattering]
- [faint rustling]
1297
01:15:33,001 --> 01:15:35,001
[footsteps approaching]
1298
01:15:38,001 --> 01:15:38,834
[sighs]
1299
01:15:43,251 --> 01:15:44,418
[Conrad] You're right.
1300
01:15:46,126 --> 01:15:47,459
It is your money.
1301
01:15:48,876 --> 01:15:50,376
It's your campaign.
1302
01:15:53,543 --> 01:15:56,501
So, why even pretend to care
1303
01:15:57,793 --> 01:15:59,126
about what I think?
1304
01:16:10,084 --> 01:16:12,084
[audience laughing on television]
1305
01:16:34,376 --> 01:16:35,543
[exhales deeply]
1306
01:16:35,626 --> 01:16:37,626
[applause on television]
1307
01:16:37,709 --> 01:16:40,918
We sure appreciate you
getting the word out to everybody.
1308
01:16:41,001 --> 01:16:42,251
Do whatever I can.
1309
01:16:42,334 --> 01:16:43,751
Get the people to vote.
1310
01:16:43,834 --> 01:16:45,918
Every delegate coming to the convention,
1311
01:16:46,001 --> 01:16:48,751
that's a voice
for equal rights, civil rights.
1312
01:16:48,834 --> 01:16:50,293
That can't happen without you.
1313
01:16:50,376 --> 01:16:53,293
Fight the fight, Shirley. Finish the race.
1314
01:16:53,376 --> 01:16:54,626
- Thank you.
- Yes.
1315
01:16:54,709 --> 01:16:56,959
- God bless you.
- We gotta get you across town.
1316
01:16:57,043 --> 01:16:59,126
We got two more churches to get to
1317
01:16:59,209 --> 01:17:02,668
and a fundraiser that Mac and Conrad
have been greasing them
1318
01:17:02,751 --> 01:17:03,959
until we get you there.
1319
01:17:04,043 --> 01:17:06,251
Then you got
the rest of the day to yourself.
1320
01:17:06,334 --> 01:17:08,001
- Arthur.
- I'll get the cab.
1321
01:17:09,501 --> 01:17:10,334
Muriel!
1322
01:17:14,043 --> 01:17:15,793
[Muriel] Not staying for services?
1323
01:17:16,293 --> 01:17:18,418
Well, I have some campaigning to do.
1324
01:17:18,501 --> 01:17:20,376
You're staying in the race?
1325
01:17:20,459 --> 01:17:23,918
Well, I still think there are good things
we can do at the convention.
1326
01:17:26,709 --> 01:17:31,501
Muriel, I hate that you and Mother
have to listen to other people.
1327
01:17:31,584 --> 01:17:33,293
I don't want that for you.
1328
01:17:33,376 --> 01:17:34,918
I don't want that for anybody.
1329
01:17:35,626 --> 01:17:36,584
Sure.
1330
01:17:37,459 --> 01:17:38,584
Have a good Sunday.
1331
01:17:40,001 --> 01:17:42,376
Muriel, I don't think I'm special.
1332
01:17:44,293 --> 01:17:47,668
I don't. I'm just how I am.
1333
01:17:49,168 --> 01:17:51,418
And I don't know any other way to be.
1334
01:17:55,959 --> 01:17:57,168
I'm sorry.
1335
01:18:07,918 --> 01:18:08,918
[sighs softly]
1336
01:18:13,209 --> 01:18:14,043
Sh...
1337
01:18:17,376 --> 01:18:18,543
[sighs softly]
1338
01:18:19,126 --> 01:18:21,126
[somber music playing]
1339
01:18:45,918 --> 01:18:48,334
[Robert] Thank you so, so, so much.
1340
01:18:49,001 --> 01:18:50,001
Okay. Bye-bye.
1341
01:18:50,751 --> 01:18:52,751
[up-tempo music builds]
1342
01:18:55,418 --> 01:18:57,543
We got the judgment
from the appellate court.
1343
01:18:57,626 --> 01:18:58,834
They ruled in our favor.
1344
01:18:58,918 --> 01:19:02,293
ABC has to include you in the debate,
and because we missed the one on CBS,
1345
01:19:02,376 --> 01:19:04,626
they're giving you a half hour
on air to yourself.
1346
01:19:04,709 --> 01:19:06,376
- Hot diggity dog!
- [Mac laughs]
1347
01:19:06,459 --> 01:19:09,126
- You did it.
- Boy's gonna make a hell of a lawyer.
1348
01:19:09,209 --> 01:19:13,334
Wait, no. I didn't do this all by myself.
The folks over at the Media Access--
1349
01:19:13,418 --> 01:19:16,001
Robert, good job.
1350
01:19:16,501 --> 01:19:17,959
- [chuckles]
- Thank you.
1351
01:19:18,043 --> 01:19:19,543
[Shirley and Mac laughing]
1352
01:19:19,626 --> 01:19:20,793
Good work.
1353
01:19:20,876 --> 01:19:21,751
You did it.
1354
01:19:21,834 --> 01:19:25,501
What has kept me in this election
is that I am willing to fight the fight,
1355
01:19:25,584 --> 01:19:27,501
irrespective of the odds that I face.
1356
01:19:28,251 --> 01:19:30,209
The only reason I am sitting here now
1357
01:19:30,293 --> 01:19:34,209
is because I am unwilling
to... to accept the inequality
1358
01:19:34,293 --> 01:19:36,751
imposed by the so-called liberal media.
1359
01:19:37,334 --> 01:19:39,084
- It's Barbara Lee.
- Thank you.
1360
01:19:40,501 --> 01:19:41,543
Hello.
1361
01:19:44,293 --> 01:19:46,376
Yes. Barbara. How are you?
1362
01:19:46,459 --> 01:19:48,793
[Barbara] I'm all right. Saw you on TV.
1363
01:19:48,876 --> 01:19:51,209
Sounds like you're gonna
go through California.
1364
01:19:51,293 --> 01:19:54,418
Well, we're considering options.
1365
01:19:54,501 --> 01:19:57,876
[interviewer] Do you believe California
can make a difference for your campaign?
1366
01:19:57,959 --> 01:20:00,334
The largest delegate count of any state?
1367
01:20:00,918 --> 01:20:02,834
Of course it can make a difference.
1368
01:20:02,918 --> 01:20:06,126
[Barbara] Look, I told you that I wanted
to do something to help the campaign.
1369
01:20:06,209 --> 01:20:09,001
Something big. I spoke to Chairman Newton.
He wants to meet you.
1370
01:20:09,084 --> 01:20:12,209
Wait, little girl. Slow down.
1371
01:20:12,793 --> 01:20:15,084
Chairman Huey Newton
of the Black Panther Party.
1372
01:20:15,168 --> 01:20:17,918
He's willing to try to get
the Black Panther party to endorse you.
1373
01:20:18,001 --> 01:20:19,876
But the meeting
needs to be on neutral territory.
1374
01:20:19,959 --> 01:20:24,001
And what does he consider neutral
for a congresswoman and a Panther?
1375
01:20:24,709 --> 01:20:26,793
He'll do it at Diahann Carroll's house.
1376
01:20:26,876 --> 01:20:28,293
Diahann Carroll?
1377
01:20:28,376 --> 01:20:29,751
[hesitates] The actress?
1378
01:20:29,834 --> 01:20:32,709
She looks like an angel but she fights
like the devil for civil rights.
1379
01:20:32,793 --> 01:20:36,043
Huey thinks that he can get the BPP
to give you an endorsement.
1380
01:20:36,126 --> 01:20:39,959
When it comes to this election,
every voice deserves to be heard.
1381
01:20:40,043 --> 01:20:42,418
Not just some people, all of the people.
1382
01:20:43,001 --> 01:20:44,209
Right the hell on.
1383
01:20:44,293 --> 01:20:46,251
And after what you just did to the FCC,
1384
01:20:46,334 --> 01:20:47,959
a Panther endorsement?
1385
01:20:48,959 --> 01:20:50,418
People are gonna notice.
1386
01:20:51,543 --> 01:20:53,084
They're gonna have to notice.
1387
01:20:55,793 --> 01:20:56,626
Okay.
1388
01:20:57,293 --> 01:21:01,043
[Shirley] This will be the most open
Democratic Convention this country's seen.
1389
01:21:01,126 --> 01:21:03,501
Nobody's gonna get through
on the first ballot.
1390
01:21:03,584 --> 01:21:05,209
[yelping, laughing]
1391
01:21:05,293 --> 01:21:07,959
{\an8}["Four-Letter Words"
by Miriam Makeba playing]
1392
01:21:10,418 --> 01:21:11,834
- Barbara.
- [Barbara] Diahann.
1393
01:21:14,376 --> 01:21:15,251
- Mmm.
- Mm.
1394
01:21:15,334 --> 01:21:17,834
I would like you
to please meet Mrs. Shirley Chisholm.
1395
01:21:17,918 --> 01:21:18,959
Mrs. Chisholm.
1396
01:21:19,043 --> 01:21:20,709
Shirley, please.
1397
01:21:20,793 --> 01:21:23,043
It is an honor, Shirley.
1398
01:21:23,126 --> 01:21:24,626
Nothing short of an honor.
1399
01:21:24,709 --> 01:21:25,959
Likewise.
1400
01:21:26,043 --> 01:21:28,751
Come on. Let's wait out back.
Huey isn't here yet.
1401
01:21:28,834 --> 01:21:32,376
Really? Caught traffic.
Was afraid we'd keep you waiting.
1402
01:21:32,459 --> 01:21:37,043
Panthers, they run on CP time.
They'll be late to their own revolution.
1403
01:21:37,126 --> 01:21:38,418
[all chuckling]
1404
01:21:40,043 --> 01:21:41,918
She's funny. [chuckles]
1405
01:21:43,376 --> 01:21:44,418
Oh...
1406
01:21:46,418 --> 01:21:48,418
- Yes, let's get you out of the sun.
- Mmm.
1407
01:21:48,501 --> 01:21:49,501
[song ends]
1408
01:21:50,459 --> 01:21:51,501
[sighs]
1409
01:21:51,584 --> 01:21:52,751
Ms. Carroll--
1410
01:21:52,834 --> 01:21:55,043
If you're "Shirley," then I'm "Diahann."
1411
01:21:55,126 --> 01:21:58,001
I truly appreciate
you facilitating this meeting.
1412
01:21:58,084 --> 01:22:02,043
Darling, bringing together
the Black Panthers and Shirley Chisholm,
1413
01:22:02,668 --> 01:22:05,876
it's like marrying thunder and lightning.
1414
01:22:05,959 --> 01:22:07,251
[chuckles lightly]
1415
01:22:08,751 --> 01:22:10,751
[sighs] Oh... Hmm.
1416
01:22:10,834 --> 01:22:12,751
It is lovely here.
1417
01:22:12,834 --> 01:22:14,376
Beautiful house.
1418
01:22:14,459 --> 01:22:15,501
Thank you.
1419
01:22:16,334 --> 01:22:17,834
Certainly cost enough.
1420
01:22:17,918 --> 01:22:19,459
Money well spent.
1421
01:22:19,543 --> 01:22:21,834
Oh, it's not about the money.
1422
01:22:21,918 --> 01:22:24,126
In Hollywood,
they throw money at you for nothing.
1423
01:22:24,209 --> 01:22:25,876
The more money, the more nothing.
1424
01:22:27,251 --> 01:22:30,084
This house, I bought it after I did Julia.
1425
01:22:30,168 --> 01:22:33,251
Mmm... That was a remarkable program.
1426
01:22:33,334 --> 01:22:34,168
Hmm.
1427
01:22:35,334 --> 01:22:38,459
When I did that show, 1968,
1428
01:22:38,543 --> 01:22:42,293
the first Black woman to have
her own prime-time network program,
1429
01:22:42,376 --> 01:22:44,126
playing a nurse, a professional...
1430
01:22:44,209 --> 01:22:47,043
The letters that I used to get
from some folks.
1431
01:22:47,126 --> 01:22:49,084
Know what they hated the most?
1432
01:22:49,168 --> 01:22:51,001
There was no man in Julia's life.
1433
01:22:51,501 --> 01:22:52,584
[Shirley] Hmm.
1434
01:22:52,668 --> 01:22:54,209
She was on her own,
1435
01:22:54,293 --> 01:22:57,668
raising her son by herself,
and getting by.
1436
01:22:57,751 --> 01:22:58,751
Thriving.
1437
01:22:59,709 --> 01:23:03,584
And for a lot of men, when they see
a woman on her own, doing for herself--
1438
01:23:03,668 --> 01:23:06,293
I can't speak to your profession,
1439
01:23:06,376 --> 01:23:08,168
but in mine... [scoffs]
1440
01:23:08,668 --> 01:23:12,418
Men are so used to being in control
that equality, to them, feels like chaos.
1441
01:23:12,501 --> 01:23:13,876
[laughing]
1442
01:23:13,959 --> 01:23:15,668
Well, it is still a beautiful home.
1443
01:23:15,751 --> 01:23:17,418
- Oh... Isn't it, though?
- Mmm.
1444
01:23:18,001 --> 01:23:20,043
- Diahann.
- [Diahann] Hmm.
1445
01:23:21,168 --> 01:23:22,584
Get ready for a little chaos.
1446
01:23:25,418 --> 01:23:26,293
Huey.
1447
01:23:27,293 --> 01:23:28,501
Come on over.
1448
01:23:32,126 --> 01:23:35,668
I would like you to meet...
Mrs. Shirley Chisholm.
1449
01:23:44,501 --> 01:23:45,376
Shirley.
1450
01:23:45,959 --> 01:23:46,959
Huey.
1451
01:23:48,001 --> 01:23:50,543
Thunder and lightning.
1452
01:24:00,543 --> 01:24:01,668
[sighs softly]
1453
01:24:04,001 --> 01:24:05,001
Hmm.
1454
01:24:09,668 --> 01:24:10,876
[Shirley clears throat]
1455
01:24:16,168 --> 01:24:20,376
I've come to California
'cause I'm seeking your endorsement.
1456
01:24:20,959 --> 01:24:23,459
- Why?
- Why do I want your endorsement?
1457
01:24:23,543 --> 01:24:25,668
Why do you think we would give it?
1458
01:24:25,751 --> 01:24:30,793
What did you say about us? The, uh...
"The Black Panther Party is shameful."
1459
01:24:30,876 --> 01:24:32,459
[Shirley] That's not what I said.
1460
01:24:32,543 --> 01:24:35,626
I said, "It's a shame
the Black Panther Party is necessary,
1461
01:24:35,709 --> 01:24:37,668
but I understand why it's needed."
1462
01:24:37,751 --> 01:24:42,126
It is needed to stand against ofays like
George Wallace, who you broke bread with.
1463
01:24:42,209 --> 01:24:45,084
I'd break bread with the devil
if it made him more Christian.
1464
01:24:46,459 --> 01:24:48,959
You understand that there is
a revolution going on?
1465
01:24:49,459 --> 01:24:55,251
And... And that the government that runs
this system is an inherently corrupt one?
1466
01:24:55,334 --> 01:24:59,876
But if you burn down the empire,
all that's left to rule over are ashes.
1467
01:25:00,459 --> 01:25:04,543
Democracy works. If it didn't,
we wouldn't be having this conversation.
1468
01:25:04,626 --> 01:25:06,834
You call brothers and sisters
1469
01:25:06,918 --> 01:25:09,501
getting beat up, shot,
choked to death by the police--
1470
01:25:09,584 --> 01:25:12,918
Exactly. And they need
to be held accountable.
1471
01:25:13,001 --> 01:25:15,418
And I'm going to force all the politicians
1472
01:25:15,501 --> 01:25:20,251
to earn the vote that we secured
with our rent flesh and spilt blood.
1473
01:25:20,334 --> 01:25:22,543
From Birmingham
all the way up to Binghamton.
1474
01:25:22,626 --> 01:25:25,001
You gonna do all that?
Schoolteacher from Brooklyn.
1475
01:25:25,084 --> 01:25:26,543
[scoffs, chuckles softly]
1476
01:25:27,293 --> 01:25:31,251
Yes, I am just a schoolteacher
from Brooklyn.
1477
01:25:31,334 --> 01:25:33,376
And Harriet was just a slave.
1478
01:25:33,459 --> 01:25:35,459
Rosa was just a domestic.
1479
01:25:37,084 --> 01:25:39,626
What is it you do for a living again?
1480
01:25:40,543 --> 01:25:42,543
[percussive music playing]
1481
01:25:45,834 --> 01:25:48,334
The Black Panther Party
puts forth the call
1482
01:25:48,418 --> 01:25:52,418
to unite together to join
Sister Shirley Chisholm's campaign.
1483
01:25:53,376 --> 01:25:57,126
Shirley... has stood up
in the face to racism,
1484
01:25:57,668 --> 01:26:04,209
denouncing the sufferance of Black
and poor people at every opportunity.
1485
01:26:05,459 --> 01:26:07,376
Shirley deserves to be president.
1486
01:26:08,251 --> 01:26:09,668
And she will be.
1487
01:26:11,084 --> 01:26:13,293
When we deliver to her
the state of California.
1488
01:26:13,376 --> 01:26:16,834
[Willie Brown] A place like California,
where it's a winner-take-all operation,
1489
01:26:16,918 --> 01:26:20,418
{\an8}you're simply dissipating the potential
of Black delegate strength
1490
01:26:20,501 --> 01:26:22,584
{\an8}at the convention if you come here
1491
01:26:22,668 --> 01:26:26,209
{\an8}and try to run a Black
in a symbolic protest campaign,
1492
01:26:26,293 --> 01:26:28,918
and that's what Shirley Chisholm's
campaign will amount to.
1493
01:26:29,001 --> 01:26:32,751
[man 1] The winner-take-all votes, crucial
to the presidential nominating race.
1494
01:26:32,834 --> 01:26:36,209
[man 2] George McGovern won
California's Democratic primary.
1495
01:26:36,293 --> 01:26:38,418
He got 44% of the vote.
1496
01:26:38,501 --> 01:26:40,501
Hubert Humphrey got 39%.
1497
01:26:40,584 --> 01:26:42,334
And other candidates got the rest.
1498
01:26:42,418 --> 01:26:43,918
The others, Muskie, Jackson,
1499
01:26:44,001 --> 01:26:47,584
Chisholm, Wallace, Yorty,
got a scattering few percent each.
1500
01:26:47,668 --> 01:26:50,876
But that gave McGovern
all 271 delegate votes.
1501
01:26:50,959 --> 01:26:54,459
And it's put him well on the way
to a first ballot nomination in Miam--
1502
01:26:56,126 --> 01:26:57,543
[somber music plays]
1503
01:26:58,668 --> 01:26:59,543
[sighs]
1504
01:27:28,501 --> 01:27:31,668
Shirley, this is Oly Clark
with the Muskie campaign,
1505
01:27:31,751 --> 01:27:33,959
and Arnold Pinkney, with Senator Humphrey.
1506
01:27:34,043 --> 01:27:35,626
Ms. Chisholm, may we offer you...
1507
01:27:38,668 --> 01:27:41,084
Appreciate you coming in, Mrs. Chisholm.
1508
01:27:41,168 --> 01:27:42,668
How are you holding up?
1509
01:27:42,751 --> 01:27:45,543
I'm feeling pretty well.
Would have been better
1510
01:27:45,626 --> 01:27:48,834
if one of your candidates
had cared to drop out of the race.
1511
01:27:48,918 --> 01:27:50,543
We could say the same about you.
1512
01:27:50,626 --> 01:27:53,459
You run a good campaign, Mrs. Chisholm.
A real good one.
1513
01:27:53,543 --> 01:27:54,668
[Mac sighs]
1514
01:27:55,709 --> 01:27:59,376
Shirley, I think we're all disappointed
with the results in California.
1515
01:27:59,459 --> 01:28:01,918
- Not just McGovern winning--
- If you can call it winning.
1516
01:28:02,001 --> 01:28:04,376
He didn't carry the state,
but he gets all the delegates.
1517
01:28:04,459 --> 01:28:07,668
Winner take all.
Those were the rules before the primary.
1518
01:28:07,751 --> 01:28:09,793
They were the rules when the people voted.
1519
01:28:09,876 --> 01:28:12,376
Not sure there's much
that can be done about it.
1520
01:28:12,459 --> 01:28:14,584
We think that there is.
1521
01:28:14,668 --> 01:28:17,418
We think we can make the case
to the Credentials Committee
1522
01:28:17,501 --> 01:28:20,709
that what happened in California
was not a democratic process,
1523
01:28:20,793 --> 01:28:23,209
and that the delegates
be awarded proportionally.
1524
01:28:23,709 --> 01:28:26,501
And we would like your campaign
to join us in the motion.
1525
01:28:26,584 --> 01:28:27,876
[Shirley inhales deeply]
1526
01:28:27,959 --> 01:28:29,876
You all are killing me.
1527
01:28:30,459 --> 01:28:32,709
Now you're worried about being fair.
1528
01:28:33,543 --> 01:28:36,334
Vote doesn't go your way,
you just change the rules.
1529
01:28:36,418 --> 01:28:39,709
When you work on a skunk farm,
you can't complain when the shit stinks.
1530
01:28:39,793 --> 01:28:41,668
And right now, it stinks.
1531
01:28:41,751 --> 01:28:45,126
Do you want McGovern's campaign
to control the entire convention?
1532
01:28:45,209 --> 01:28:47,876
What exactly is the benefit to us?
1533
01:28:47,959 --> 01:28:49,959
[Oly] You came in fourth in California.
1534
01:28:50,043 --> 01:28:52,459
You should be entitled
to some of those delegates.
1535
01:28:52,543 --> 01:28:54,168
And with the 28 you already have--
1536
01:28:54,251 --> 01:28:56,001
Senator Humphrey has asked me to relay
1537
01:28:56,084 --> 01:28:58,834
that he'd be willing to have
his Black delegates defer to you.
1538
01:28:58,918 --> 01:29:03,001
I understand you have arrangements
with Walter Fauntroy and Ron Dellums.
1539
01:29:03,084 --> 01:29:08,168
[Oly] Altogether, you would go into the
convention controlling over 150 delegates.
1540
01:29:08,709 --> 01:29:13,834
McGovern only has 762 pledged delegates,
and he needs 1,500 to get the nomination.
1541
01:29:14,543 --> 01:29:15,584
I don't want to speak ill--
1542
01:29:15,668 --> 01:29:19,043
I would expect he would do
whatever it takes to get those delegates.
1543
01:29:19,626 --> 01:29:21,043
Whatever it takes.
1544
01:29:21,668 --> 01:29:25,668
[Oly] We work together, we can keep him
from getting it on the first ballot.
1545
01:29:25,751 --> 01:29:27,959
If I support your suit.
1546
01:29:32,876 --> 01:29:34,876
[pensive music plays]
1547
01:29:54,918 --> 01:29:56,543
[Mac] If you do this, Shirley,
1548
01:29:57,709 --> 01:29:59,418
if you take this to Miami,
1549
01:30:01,126 --> 01:30:02,668
they will come at you.
1550
01:30:05,459 --> 01:30:06,751
[exhales deeply]
1551
01:30:23,501 --> 01:30:26,876
{\an8}[man] Reporting from CBS News Convention
Headquarters in Miami Beach,
1552
01:30:26,959 --> 01:30:29,293
here is correspondent Walter Cronkite.
1553
01:30:29,751 --> 01:30:31,834
[Cronkite] The anti-McGovern
forces got together,
1554
01:30:31,918 --> 01:30:35,126
and they've challenged the legality
of the winner-take-all primary.
1555
01:30:35,209 --> 01:30:39,168
They claim that it, in effect,
denied all those millions
1556
01:30:39,251 --> 01:30:42,876
who voted for candidates other than
McGovern a voice in the convention.
1557
01:30:42,959 --> 01:30:46,834
So now, tonight, when Mrs. Pat Harris,
chairman of the Credentials Committee,
1558
01:30:46,918 --> 01:30:50,959
presents her report, there will be
a minority report on California.
1559
01:30:51,043 --> 01:30:54,168
That's a challenge to not seat
the Humphrey and other delegates,
1560
01:30:54,251 --> 01:30:57,584
but to give those 151 seats
back to McGovern's people.
1561
01:30:57,668 --> 01:31:01,043
{\an8}...with my 271-man delegation,
1562
01:31:01,126 --> 01:31:06,668
{\an8}and cast the votes
of that unanimous 271-man delegation.
1563
01:31:06,751 --> 01:31:08,668
{\an8}And I don't think I deserve any less!
1564
01:31:12,001 --> 01:31:13,709
We obeyed the law!
1565
01:31:14,209 --> 01:31:15,293
The first time!
1566
01:31:15,834 --> 01:31:17,209
Seat my delegation!
1567
01:31:17,293 --> 01:31:20,543
I did it for you in Mississippi in '64.
1568
01:31:20,626 --> 01:31:22,043
In Georgia in '68.
1569
01:31:22,126 --> 01:31:24,459
And it's now California in '72.
1570
01:31:24,543 --> 01:31:28,543
I deserve no less.
Give me back my delegation!
1571
01:31:28,626 --> 01:31:30,751
Willie Brown is going crazy.
1572
01:31:30,834 --> 01:31:33,584
What in the hell did McGovern promise him?
1573
01:31:34,084 --> 01:31:36,043
Secretary of Housing.
1574
01:31:36,126 --> 01:31:38,334
That's all they ever give Black folks.
1575
01:31:38,418 --> 01:31:41,043
- Secretary of Housing.
- Any word on McGovern's camp?
1576
01:31:41,126 --> 01:31:44,001
They're not interested
in making concessions at this time.
1577
01:31:44,084 --> 01:31:47,043
Why would McGovern make a deal
for delegates? He'll steal them.
1578
01:31:47,126 --> 01:31:49,293
Conrad, did you call down to maintenance?
1579
01:31:49,376 --> 01:31:51,709
They said there's nothing wrong
with the air conditioner.
1580
01:31:51,793 --> 01:31:55,418
Nothing wrong? They're all from Florida.
They don't know what good weather is.
1581
01:31:55,501 --> 01:31:57,584
[Mac] Shirley...
Willie Brown is playing games.
1582
01:31:57,668 --> 01:32:01,418
This luncheon for the Black delegates...
You've got a coalition, Shirley.
1583
01:32:01,501 --> 01:32:04,084
Your delegates, Muskie's,
Humphrey's, Fauntroy's.
1584
01:32:04,168 --> 01:32:06,751
But you've got to keep them
from breaking for McGovern.
1585
01:32:07,251 --> 01:32:10,543
You need to bring
the Black delegates to Jesus.
1586
01:32:10,626 --> 01:32:14,459
Get them together and hold them together.
1587
01:32:16,501 --> 01:32:17,543
Okay.
1588
01:32:21,501 --> 01:32:22,709
It's so warm.
1589
01:32:24,209 --> 01:32:26,251
[MC] Let's continue on with our program.
1590
01:32:27,126 --> 01:32:29,834
Our next speaker...
Well, hell, you all know her.
1591
01:32:31,084 --> 01:32:34,376
She is the only Black woman crazy enough
1592
01:32:34,459 --> 01:32:37,793
to run for president
of these United States.
1593
01:32:37,876 --> 01:32:42,501
Give a warm welcome
for Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm.
1594
01:32:42,584 --> 01:32:45,293
[scattered clapping]
1595
01:32:51,959 --> 01:32:53,334
[Shirley] Good afternoon.
1596
01:32:56,001 --> 01:32:59,168
Well... this is something.
1597
01:33:00,126 --> 01:33:01,043
Isn't it?
1598
01:33:01,126 --> 01:33:02,709
[hushed chattering]
1599
01:33:02,793 --> 01:33:04,709
[Shirley] Look around this room today.
1600
01:33:05,959 --> 01:33:08,459
Go ahead. Look around.
1601
01:33:09,793 --> 01:33:12,876
Four years ago, less than 2%
1602
01:33:12,959 --> 01:33:16,501
of the delegates
at the Democratic Convention were Black.
1603
01:33:17,209 --> 01:33:21,543
Today there are 452 of you.
1604
01:33:21,626 --> 01:33:23,293
[hushed chatter]
1605
01:33:23,376 --> 01:33:24,668
[sparse applause]
1606
01:33:27,293 --> 01:33:31,293
[Shirley] There are people here
promising you this, promising you that.
1607
01:33:31,918 --> 01:33:34,751
Well, my brothers and sisters,
1608
01:33:34,834 --> 01:33:39,376
let me tell it to you this afternoon
like it really is.
1609
01:33:39,459 --> 01:33:41,376
- [man 1] All right, now.
- [man 2] Right.
1610
01:33:42,251 --> 01:33:45,918
[Shirley] The only thing you have going,
my brothers and sisters...
1611
01:33:46,001 --> 01:33:48,209
There's only one thing you've got going.
1612
01:33:48,834 --> 01:33:52,751
Your... one... vote.
1613
01:33:52,834 --> 01:33:55,001
- [man 3] All right.
- [applause]
1614
01:33:55,084 --> 01:33:58,376
Don't sell that vote out!
1615
01:33:58,959 --> 01:34:03,168
The Black people of America
are watching us.
1616
01:34:03,876 --> 01:34:09,834
Find out what these candidates who
need our votes to get across the top
1617
01:34:09,918 --> 01:34:15,293
are going to do
for us concretely, not rhetorically.
1618
01:34:15,376 --> 01:34:16,793
[man 4] Yeah! All right!
1619
01:34:16,876 --> 01:34:18,876
- [excited chatter]
- [applause builds]
1620
01:34:23,043 --> 01:34:27,043
[Shirley] As I look at the faces
of the Black youth of this country
1621
01:34:27,126 --> 01:34:29,584
as I went from one place to another,
1622
01:34:30,543 --> 01:34:34,293
and they said, "Chisholm,
we know what you're going through."
1623
01:34:34,918 --> 01:34:37,751
"We know how rough and how tough,
1624
01:34:38,251 --> 01:34:40,459
but we know that you have the courage,
1625
01:34:40,543 --> 01:34:45,209
and the balls, and the audacity
to shake this system up
1626
01:34:45,293 --> 01:34:46,668
within the system."
1627
01:34:46,751 --> 01:34:49,793
- [audience] Yeah!
- But I need your help to do it.
1628
01:34:50,876 --> 01:34:53,126
Hold on to your vote.
1629
01:34:53,959 --> 01:34:55,876
Hold on to your vote!
1630
01:34:56,418 --> 01:34:57,959
[excited chatter]
1631
01:34:58,043 --> 01:35:00,501
- [cheering]
- [applause swells]
1632
01:35:00,584 --> 01:35:03,043
[bittersweet instrumental music plays]
1633
01:35:28,418 --> 01:35:31,501
- [music fades out]
- [woman] Sixty-one, 62, 63, 64, 65...
1634
01:35:31,584 --> 01:35:34,543
Twenty-one Louisiana delegates
are switching their pledge to you,
1635
01:35:34,626 --> 01:35:37,751
- Twelve from Mississippi.
- If they are switching, I'll take them.
1636
01:35:37,834 --> 01:35:40,418
I have 23 switching from Ohio,
nine from Pennsylvania,
1637
01:35:40,501 --> 01:35:43,418
and two from Florida.
They were originally pledged to Wallace.
1638
01:35:43,501 --> 01:35:46,126
Muskie's keeping his name
in the first round of balloting,
1639
01:35:46,209 --> 01:35:48,709
but he's directing
his Black delegates to vote for you.
1640
01:35:48,793 --> 01:35:50,084
Hey. Humphrey's dropping out.
1641
01:35:50,168 --> 01:35:51,709
- [Barbara] What?
- [Arthur] He withdrew?
1642
01:35:51,793 --> 01:35:53,751
He's dropping out
and releasing all his delegates.
1643
01:35:53,834 --> 01:35:55,043
To who? McGovern?
1644
01:35:55,126 --> 01:35:58,168
Like he promised, he's telling all
his Black delegates to vote for you.
1645
01:36:02,918 --> 01:36:08,043
With Humphrey's delegates,
California's, Fauntroy's, you have almost...
1646
01:36:10,834 --> 01:36:13,126
Two hundred and fifty delegates
pledged to you.
1647
01:36:14,126 --> 01:36:16,793
So McGovern can't get
the nomination in the first round.
1648
01:36:20,751 --> 01:36:22,834
- Ahh!
- [woman screams]
1649
01:36:22,918 --> 01:36:23,834
Yes!
1650
01:36:23,918 --> 01:36:25,918
[all cheering and clapping]
1651
01:36:26,001 --> 01:36:26,918
Yeah!
1652
01:36:27,001 --> 01:36:29,168
[man] Let's do this!
1653
01:36:29,251 --> 01:36:32,043
Robert! Robert, hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
1654
01:36:32,126 --> 01:36:35,793
We have not done anything yet.
You get on the phone to McGovern's people.
1655
01:36:35,876 --> 01:36:39,876
And you tell them if he wants my delegates
then he'd better start talking about
1656
01:36:39,959 --> 01:36:43,168
what's going into the platform,
who he's going to appoint,
1657
01:36:43,251 --> 01:36:44,959
to what cabinet positions.
1658
01:36:45,043 --> 01:36:46,043
Shirley.
1659
01:36:46,543 --> 01:36:47,543
[Shirley exhales]
1660
01:36:49,668 --> 01:36:50,626
Thank you.
1661
01:36:51,168 --> 01:36:53,209
I'm going to get something to eat.
1662
01:36:53,293 --> 01:36:55,543
Can't conquer the world
on an empty stomach!
1663
01:37:01,126 --> 01:37:02,334
[knocking on door]
1664
01:37:06,168 --> 01:37:07,251
Congressman.
1665
01:37:07,834 --> 01:37:09,876
Senator McGovern's
very excited to see you.
1666
01:37:11,209 --> 01:37:13,043
- Can I get you a drink?
- Thank you.
1667
01:37:16,084 --> 01:37:19,126
...and then to get 250 delegates
at the last moment?
1668
01:37:19,209 --> 01:37:20,709
- Whoo!
- [woman] What was he gonna do?
1669
01:37:20,793 --> 01:37:22,293
[Barbara] I did not expect him to keep...
1670
01:37:22,376 --> 01:37:24,376
[man on TV] Mr. Abernathy,
why are you on the floor?
1671
01:37:24,459 --> 01:37:28,043
[Abernathy] Well, we're out here
fighting the cause for poor people.
1672
01:37:28,126 --> 01:37:33,376
As you know, one fourth
of our people are poor in the country,
1673
01:37:33,459 --> 01:37:35,418
And I'm fighting that struggle...
1674
01:37:35,501 --> 01:37:37,501
Hello, it's Shirley.
1675
01:37:38,376 --> 01:37:39,793
I got your message.
1676
01:37:39,876 --> 01:37:41,876
[man on TV continues indistinctly]
1677
01:37:44,668 --> 01:37:47,709
Not that busy. Would've taken the call.
1678
01:37:51,126 --> 01:37:56,209
Well, we didn't quite get there,
but we did okay.
1679
01:37:56,293 --> 01:37:57,293
[gentle music plays]
1680
01:37:57,376 --> 01:37:59,251
We're gonna do some good things here.
1681
01:38:00,584 --> 01:38:02,668
Some really good things.
1682
01:38:03,376 --> 01:38:05,584
[Muriel] I'm proud
of the things you did do.
1683
01:38:06,459 --> 01:38:08,668
Mom and I are watching the news.
1684
01:38:09,876 --> 01:38:11,209
You done well, Shirley.
1685
01:38:11,918 --> 01:38:13,501
You done really well.
1686
01:38:16,959 --> 01:38:18,293
Pop was right.
1687
01:38:19,626 --> 01:38:20,751
You are special.
1688
01:38:27,709 --> 01:38:28,876
I love you.
1689
01:38:31,376 --> 01:38:32,334
I...
1690
01:38:35,626 --> 01:38:37,043
I love you too.
1691
01:38:37,834 --> 01:38:38,918
[exhales softly]
1692
01:38:39,001 --> 01:38:41,001
[gentle music continues]
1693
01:38:43,918 --> 01:38:45,668
- [sighs softly]
- [receiver clatters]
1694
01:38:47,876 --> 01:38:48,876
[receiver clatters]
1695
01:38:52,459 --> 01:38:53,584
[sighs softly]
1696
01:39:05,584 --> 01:39:07,584
[breathes deeply]
1697
01:39:10,293 --> 01:39:11,793
Shirley? Come here.
1698
01:39:15,459 --> 01:39:17,376
CBS News. They want a statement.
1699
01:39:17,459 --> 01:39:19,251
[Conrad] Now they want a statement.
1700
01:39:19,334 --> 01:39:21,543
They had seven months.
Now they want a statement.
1701
01:39:21,626 --> 01:39:23,459
- I have a statement for you!
- Conrad.
1702
01:39:23,543 --> 01:39:25,793
- I'll give you a statement!
- [laughter]
1703
01:39:27,251 --> 01:39:28,793
This is Congresswoman Chisholm.
1704
01:39:33,251 --> 01:39:35,001
And where did you hear that?
1705
01:39:37,209 --> 01:39:39,626
Then I would say
that your sources are wrong,
1706
01:39:39,709 --> 01:39:41,209
and I have no further comment.
1707
01:39:43,626 --> 01:39:44,626
[Mac] What?
1708
01:39:45,834 --> 01:39:48,251
They're asking for my response
1709
01:39:48,334 --> 01:39:51,751
on Walter Fauntroy
releasing his delegates to McGovern.
1710
01:39:51,834 --> 01:39:54,084
- What?
- Walter wouldn't release his delegates.
1711
01:39:54,168 --> 01:39:58,543
- That's McGovern's campaign trying to--
- It's not coming from McGovern's campaign.
1712
01:39:59,543 --> 01:40:01,751
There's more than one person saying it.
1713
01:40:05,918 --> 01:40:07,084
Find Walter.
1714
01:40:07,168 --> 01:40:08,251
[Shirley] Walter.
1715
01:40:09,418 --> 01:40:11,459
Are you releasing
your delegates to McGovern?
1716
01:40:11,543 --> 01:40:13,501
- Shirley, hold on--
- Answer me.
1717
01:40:14,209 --> 01:40:17,126
- Can you give us a minute?
- They don't need to go anywhere.
1718
01:40:17,209 --> 01:40:18,709
Yes or no?
1719
01:40:20,459 --> 01:40:22,834
Yes, I'm giving my delegates to McGovern.
1720
01:40:22,918 --> 01:40:24,834
- Backstabber.
- No need for all of that.
1721
01:40:24,918 --> 01:40:28,043
We had an agreement.
You promised your delegates to me.
1722
01:40:28,126 --> 01:40:31,959
I told you I'd give you my delegates if
the voting went beyond the first ballot.
1723
01:40:32,043 --> 01:40:35,793
McGovern's going to have all he needs.
He's getting my delegates, Willie's--
1724
01:40:35,876 --> 01:40:37,834
Ugh, you and Willie are weak.
1725
01:40:37,918 --> 01:40:40,251
Selling out your own
for scraps off the table.
1726
01:40:40,334 --> 01:40:42,584
Trying to make sure
we don't get four more years of Nixon.
1727
01:40:42,668 --> 01:40:44,709
McGovern can't win over the party.
1728
01:40:44,793 --> 01:40:47,251
What makes you think
he can win this election?
1729
01:40:47,751 --> 01:40:50,793
You can fold if you want,
but the rest of us, we're fightin'.
1730
01:40:50,876 --> 01:40:52,543
[Walter scoffs] Rest of who?
1731
01:40:52,626 --> 01:40:55,001
All the Black delegates
are going to McGovern.
1732
01:40:56,043 --> 01:40:58,834
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Your man, Ron Dellums.
1733
01:40:59,501 --> 01:41:02,543
He's telling all the Black delegates
to get behind McGovern.
1734
01:41:02,626 --> 01:41:04,084
- Yours too.
- [Shirley scoffs]
1735
01:41:06,501 --> 01:41:08,834
I tried to warn you about him, Shirley.
1736
01:41:08,918 --> 01:41:09,959
I tried!
1737
01:41:10,043 --> 01:41:13,334
The Black delegates
at this convention have a mandate
1738
01:41:13,418 --> 01:41:16,793
from their people
not to support Shirley Chisholm.
1739
01:41:16,876 --> 01:41:20,959
[man] Shirley Chisholm doesn't have
a chance. Blacks, on the first vote,
1740
01:41:21,043 --> 01:41:24,918
are going to vote in terms
of meaningful political responsibility.
1741
01:41:25,001 --> 01:41:26,751
- [newsman] So the reaction was...
- Sentimental.
1742
01:41:26,834 --> 01:41:30,001
- [newsman] Will not have political effect?
- No political effect whatever.
1743
01:41:31,126 --> 01:41:34,293
- [Conrad] I'm looking for Ron Dellums.
- I'm looking for Congressman Ron Dellums.
1744
01:41:34,376 --> 01:41:36,626
Congressman Ronald Dellums.
1745
01:41:36,709 --> 01:41:39,543
- I need to find Ron.
- I need you to find Ron Dellums.
1746
01:41:39,626 --> 01:41:41,834
- [overlapping chatter]
- I asked for Congressman Dellums.
1747
01:41:41,918 --> 01:41:44,709
- You told me...
- ...to Shirley, and now going to McGovern.
1748
01:41:45,918 --> 01:41:47,501
- Mrs. C.
- Did you find Ron?
1749
01:41:47,584 --> 01:41:49,834
I looked everywhere I could think,
but nobody's seen him.
1750
01:41:49,918 --> 01:41:52,168
- Did you check McGovern's suite?
- They wouldn't let me in.
1751
01:41:52,251 --> 01:41:53,376
Go back down there.
1752
01:41:53,459 --> 01:41:55,293
No, I tried, but they wouldn't let me in.
1753
01:41:55,376 --> 01:41:57,834
You go back down there.
You get in the room.
1754
01:41:57,918 --> 01:41:59,459
Kick in the door if you have to.
1755
01:41:59,543 --> 01:42:01,626
Shirley, Ronald's on TV.
1756
01:42:01,709 --> 01:42:04,959
[Ron] Frankly, no other candidate
running for president could have.
1757
01:42:05,543 --> 01:42:08,668
It's through his vision for this party
that we've seen the beginnings
1758
01:42:08,751 --> 01:42:11,126
of a very powerful movement
in this country.
1759
01:42:11,876 --> 01:42:16,001
A movement that has
just realized its potential power.
1760
01:42:17,084 --> 01:42:20,959
Yet, at this moment... cynical,
1761
01:42:22,334 --> 01:42:27,834
even diabolical forces are moving to stop
the candidacy of Senator George McGovern.
1762
01:42:28,751 --> 01:42:32,126
Now, we have to ignore
the dreamers and the fools,
1763
01:42:32,918 --> 01:42:34,251
and get behind a candidate
1764
01:42:34,334 --> 01:42:38,043
who actually has the ability
to win the election in November.
1765
01:42:39,501 --> 01:42:42,876
That is why I am giving
my full endorsement
1766
01:42:43,626 --> 01:42:45,293
to Senator George McGovern.
1767
01:42:45,376 --> 01:42:46,709
[sighs deeply]
1768
01:42:48,876 --> 01:42:50,793
[somber music playing]
1769
01:42:50,876 --> 01:42:56,376
A man who has the extraordinary ability
to lead this party into the future.
1770
01:42:57,043 --> 01:42:58,959
Start working the phones.
1771
01:42:59,043 --> 01:43:01,584
Get to every delegate you can.
They cannot break away.
1772
01:43:01,668 --> 01:43:04,418
I don't care what McGovern's
promising Dellums. He can't.
1773
01:43:04,501 --> 01:43:06,001
- Go!
- Put out a statement.
1774
01:43:06,084 --> 01:43:10,043
- Ronald's got another thing coming.
- I need you to put out a statement.
1775
01:43:10,126 --> 01:43:13,084
And... release my delegates.
1776
01:43:13,168 --> 01:43:14,793
- No. Don't do this.
- Release?
1777
01:43:14,876 --> 01:43:17,626
- Shirley. No, we can still find a way--
- No. Mac.
1778
01:43:17,709 --> 01:43:18,834
Mac!
1779
01:43:19,709 --> 01:43:21,751
I owe you everything.
1780
01:43:21,834 --> 01:43:25,251
But right now, I need you to do as I ask.
1781
01:43:26,834 --> 01:43:28,501
Put out a statement.
1782
01:43:29,126 --> 01:43:30,793
Release my delegates.
1783
01:43:33,084 --> 01:43:34,293
Please.
1784
01:43:37,876 --> 01:43:39,168
I'll call the DNC.
1785
01:43:49,084 --> 01:43:50,168
[sighs]
1786
01:43:57,209 --> 01:43:58,168
[exhales]
1787
01:44:05,418 --> 01:44:06,584
[exhales deeply]
1788
01:44:22,209 --> 01:44:24,209
[somber music faces out]
1789
01:44:52,626 --> 01:44:53,793
[Barbara sobs softly]
1790
01:44:53,876 --> 01:44:57,084
Well... we had something.
1791
01:44:58,376 --> 01:45:00,251
Maybe just for a second, but...
1792
01:45:01,459 --> 01:45:02,668
we had something.
1793
01:45:07,168 --> 01:45:08,584
- I hate him.
- Mmm.
1794
01:45:08,668 --> 01:45:10,543
- I hate Dellums.
- No.
1795
01:45:12,293 --> 01:45:14,709
Ron was just doing what he had to do.
1796
01:45:16,584 --> 01:45:18,918
[crying] I'm not mad at him.
1797
01:45:24,126 --> 01:45:29,834
I understand the pressures
and everything that man was going through.
1798
01:45:30,626 --> 01:45:33,626
He stood out for so long.
1799
01:45:35,001 --> 01:45:40,043
And for me, when everybody
was ridiculing him and what have you, and...
1800
01:45:40,126 --> 01:45:42,126
[breathes deeply]
1801
01:45:46,043 --> 01:45:48,168
I want you all to know
1802
01:45:49,793 --> 01:45:51,501
there are no bad feelings.
1803
01:45:54,751 --> 01:45:58,626
You find Ron,
and you tell him to come home to Shirley.
1804
01:46:00,918 --> 01:46:02,084
Okay?
1805
01:46:03,334 --> 01:46:05,251
You don't owe him a thing.
1806
01:46:07,293 --> 01:46:09,293
I owe him forgiveness.
1807
01:46:12,751 --> 01:46:13,668
Mm-hmm.
1808
01:46:14,543 --> 01:46:17,251
You find him,
and you tell him to come home.
1809
01:46:21,376 --> 01:46:22,418
[exhales shakily]
1810
01:46:28,043 --> 01:46:28,918
[sighs]
1811
01:46:30,543 --> 01:46:34,293
I dragged you kids
all the way down to Florida.
1812
01:46:35,043 --> 01:46:36,501
[chuckles softly]
1813
01:46:39,001 --> 01:46:40,751
[Barbara] It wasn't for nothing.
1814
01:46:45,334 --> 01:46:48,543
All the reasons that any of us had
to come down to this convention,
1815
01:46:48,626 --> 01:46:50,876
we all came for the best one. [inhales]
1816
01:46:52,584 --> 01:46:53,751
[crying] We came for you.
1817
01:46:56,251 --> 01:46:57,543
[quietly] Then keep on.
1818
01:46:57,626 --> 01:46:59,626
[gentle music plays]
1819
01:47:00,376 --> 01:47:02,584
If I can't get there today,
1820
01:47:02,668 --> 01:47:05,793
you have to believe
you can get there tomorrow.
1821
01:47:11,501 --> 01:47:18,251
And if the best I was able to do
is to remind people what's possible...
1822
01:47:20,876 --> 01:47:22,709
then I'm thankful.
1823
01:47:28,584 --> 01:47:30,959
[breathes deeply]
1824
01:47:31,043 --> 01:47:32,459
[crying] Thank you, Shirley.
1825
01:47:33,918 --> 01:47:35,543
Thank you so much.
1826
01:47:36,501 --> 01:47:37,668
[Shirley] Thank you.
1827
01:47:40,626 --> 01:47:41,501
[sniffles]
1828
01:47:44,293 --> 01:47:45,376
[chuckling sob]
1829
01:47:46,293 --> 01:47:49,168
Chairman O'Brien is on the extension.
1830
01:47:49,834 --> 01:47:50,876
[exhales]
1831
01:47:57,751 --> 01:47:58,918
Okay.
1832
01:48:00,001 --> 01:48:01,168
[inhales]
1833
01:48:02,168 --> 01:48:03,376
[exhales deeply]
1834
01:48:14,376 --> 01:48:16,001
This is Shirley Chisholm.
1835
01:48:16,959 --> 01:48:18,376
I'm going to make a statement
1836
01:48:18,459 --> 01:48:21,126
that I'd like for you to give
to my pledged delegates.
1837
01:48:21,209 --> 01:48:23,918
My intention over the last seven months
1838
01:48:24,001 --> 01:48:29,209
has been to remind people
that politics in America belongs to them.
1839
01:48:30,126 --> 01:48:36,084
I have wanted to be nothing more,
nothing less, than a catalyst for change.
1840
01:48:38,334 --> 01:48:40,959
[gentle music fades out]
1841
01:48:41,043 --> 01:48:42,751
[uplifting music playing]
1842
01:48:42,834 --> 01:48:45,751
[woman] Shirley Chisholm,
she opened the door for all of us.
1843
01:48:45,834 --> 01:48:48,334
For women of color,
and especially for Black women.
1844
01:48:48,418 --> 01:48:51,543
She opened that door for everybody,
1845
01:48:51,626 --> 01:48:54,084
and she gave everybody the confidence
1846
01:48:54,168 --> 01:48:57,251
that they too could run
and that they too had a voice.
1847
01:49:00,376 --> 01:49:01,918
My name is Barbara Lee.
1848
01:49:02,001 --> 01:49:05,293
I represent the 13th
Congressional District of California,
1849
01:49:05,376 --> 01:49:06,751
as a member of Congress.
1850
01:49:06,834 --> 01:49:09,959
What Shirley Chisholm
tried to do was teach us
1851
01:49:10,043 --> 01:49:12,459
not only do you have to fight
to help people now,
1852
01:49:12,543 --> 01:49:14,793
but you have to fight
to change this madness.
1853
01:49:14,876 --> 01:49:17,959
Her legacy is directly connected to today.
1854
01:49:18,043 --> 01:49:23,418
And so many of us have felt like
we could take that baton and keep running.
1855
01:49:23,501 --> 01:49:24,501
♪ Fight! ♪
1856
01:49:24,584 --> 01:49:26,418
["Why I'm Here" by Samara Joy plays]
1857
01:49:26,501 --> 01:49:27,501
{\an8}♪ Fight! ♪
1858
01:49:29,418 --> 01:49:30,418
{\an8}♪ Fight! ♪
1859
01:49:32,334 --> 01:49:33,334
{\an8}♪ Fight! ♪
1860
01:49:35,209 --> 01:49:37,959
{\an8}♪ Bending ♪
1861
01:49:38,043 --> 01:49:40,751
{\an8}♪ But never broken ♪
1862
01:49:40,834 --> 01:49:43,834
♪ Knocked down ♪
1863
01:49:43,918 --> 01:49:46,876
♪ But I keep going ♪
1864
01:49:46,959 --> 01:49:49,834
♪ I decided to stand my ground ♪
1865
01:49:49,918 --> 01:49:52,834
♪ I will not be moved ♪
1866
01:49:53,751 --> 01:49:57,668
{\an8}♪ And I have no fear ♪
1867
01:49:59,418 --> 01:50:04,459
{\an8}♪ I know why I'm here ♪
1868
01:50:04,543 --> 01:50:05,668
{\an8}♪ Fight! ♪
1869
01:50:07,084 --> 01:50:09,959
{\an8}♪ An easy road ♪
1870
01:50:10,043 --> 01:50:12,959
{\an8}♪ Was never promised ♪
1871
01:50:13,043 --> 01:50:15,751
{\an8}♪ And so much ♪
1872
01:50:15,834 --> 01:50:18,918
{\an8}♪ Has been taken from us ♪
1873
01:50:19,001 --> 01:50:25,001
{\an8}♪ But I won't stop
No matter how much I have to go through ♪
1874
01:50:25,709 --> 01:50:30,751
{\an8}♪ I won't shed one tear ♪
1875
01:50:31,709 --> 01:50:36,626
{\an8}♪ I know why I'm here ♪
1876
01:50:36,709 --> 01:50:37,834
{\an8}♪ Fight! ♪
1877
01:50:39,251 --> 01:50:43,418
{\an8}♪ The future is in our hands ♪
1878
01:50:43,501 --> 01:50:46,001
♪ Now's the time to stand ♪
1879
01:50:46,084 --> 01:50:50,293
♪ Together we'll pave the way ♪
1880
01:50:51,251 --> 01:50:55,126
{\an8}♪ Those who walk by faith ♪
1881
01:50:55,209 --> 01:50:58,084
{\an8}♪ With their heads held high ♪
1882
01:50:58,168 --> 01:51:02,501
{\an8}♪ Have the power to change ♪
1883
01:51:02,584 --> 01:51:06,001
{\an8}♪ Oh-whoa ♪
1884
01:51:06,084 --> 01:51:08,334
♪ Bending ♪
1885
01:51:08,418 --> 01:51:11,209
♪ But I can't be broken ♪
1886
01:51:11,293 --> 01:51:14,418
♪ I've been knocked down ♪
1887
01:51:14,501 --> 01:51:17,543
♪ But I choose to keep going ♪
1888
01:51:17,626 --> 01:51:20,543
♪ I decided to stand my ground ♪
1889
01:51:20,626 --> 01:51:26,959
♪ I will not be moved ♪
1890
01:51:28,834 --> 01:51:33,543
♪ And I have no fear ♪
1891
01:51:34,501 --> 01:51:39,584
♪ So, don't you shed one tear ♪
1892
01:51:40,126 --> 01:51:45,168
♪ 'Cause I know why ♪
1893
01:51:45,251 --> 01:51:50,584
♪ I'm here ♪
1894
01:51:50,668 --> 01:51:57,668
[vocalizing]
1895
01:52:01,918 --> 01:52:02,918
{\an8}♪ Fight! ♪
1896
01:52:04,834 --> 01:52:05,834
♪ Fight! ♪
1897
01:52:07,751 --> 01:52:08,751
♪ Fight! ♪
1898
01:52:10,668 --> 01:52:11,668
♪ Fight! ♪
1899
01:52:13,626 --> 01:52:15,626
{\an8}["Why I'm Here" instrumental continues]
1900
01:52:45,876 --> 01:52:47,876
[choir vocalizing]
1901
01:53:12,126 --> 01:53:13,126
♪ Fight! ♪
1902
01:53:15,043 --> 01:53:16,043
♪ Fight! ♪
1903
01:53:18,001 --> 01:53:22,209
[choir singing] ♪ Ooh, in our hands ♪
1904
01:53:22,293 --> 01:53:25,251
♪ Time to stand ♪
1905
01:53:25,334 --> 01:53:26,668
♪ Ooh-oooh ♪
1906
01:53:26,751 --> 01:53:27,751
♪ Fight! ♪
1907
01:53:29,626 --> 01:53:34,001
♪ Those who walk by faith ♪
1908
01:53:34,084 --> 01:53:36,709
♪ Heads held high ♪
1909
01:53:36,793 --> 01:53:41,168
♪ The power to change ♪
1910
01:53:41,251 --> 01:53:44,251
♪ The world ♪
1911
01:53:44,334 --> 01:53:47,168
♪ Bending ♪
1912
01:53:47,251 --> 01:53:50,084
♪ Can't be broken ♪
1913
01:53:50,168 --> 01:53:52,959
♪ Knocked down ♪
1914
01:53:53,043 --> 01:53:55,918
♪ I keep going ♪
1915
01:53:56,001 --> 01:53:58,876
♪ I decided to stand my ground ♪
1916
01:53:58,959 --> 01:54:04,751
♪ I will not be moved ♪
1917
01:54:06,334 --> 01:54:08,334
[choir vocalizing]
1918
01:54:23,876 --> 01:54:25,876
["Why I'm Here" instrumental playing]
1919
01:54:35,918 --> 01:54:37,918
[pensive percussive music playing]
1920
01:56:27,043 --> 01:56:29,126
[music peaks and fades out]