LBJ: Is that you, Edgar?

JEH: It's me, Mr. President.

LBJ: That goddamn march. It's all over the news.

JEH: I've read the announcements. They've fulfilled my very worst fears and apprehensions.

LBJ: That son-of-a-bitch is bringing an army to protest me, after all I've done for the Negro people.

JEH: The march will unleash a bloodbath.

LBJ: I asked him to call it off, but the son-of-a-bitch refused. He's killing my chance to get reelected. He's in cahoots with that spoon-fed cocksucker, Bobby Kennedy.

JEH: I will let you in on a little-known fact, Mr. President. Bobby allowed me to tap and bug King himself, back in '63. He has forgotten his initial misgivings in his rush to embrace that Communist.

LBJ: The cocksucker wants my job. King's creating the fucking dissent that will get it for him.

JEH: I'm putting 44 agents on King. They will disseminate derogatory data nationwide. I will do everything in my power to subvert this march.

LBJ: Edgar, was there ever a better friend to the Negro people than me?

JEH: No, Mr. President.

LBJ: Edgar, has my legislation improved the lot of the Negro people?

JEH: Yes, Mr. President.

LBJ: Edgar, have I been a friend to Martin Luther King?

JEH: Yes, Mr. President.

LBJ: Then why is that cocksucker trying to cornhole me when I've bent over backwards to befriend him?

JEH: I don't know, Mr. President.

LBJ: He's a worse bane to my fucking existence than this fucking war I'm fucking knee-deep in.

JEH: I'm going to plant a Negro in the SCLC. He used to work as my chauffeur.

LBJ: Tell him to chauffeur King off a cliff JEH: I understand your frustration, Sir.

LBJ: I'm getting fucked from two flanks. I'm fighting a two-front war against a King and a fucking Kennedy.

JEH: Yes, Mr. President.

LBJ: You're a good man, Edgar.

JEH: Thank you, Mr. President.

LBJ: Do what you can on this, all right?

JEH: I will, Sir.

LBJ: Goodbye, Edgar.

JEH: Goodbye, Mr. President.

DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/7/67. Los Angeles Examiner subhead:

BUSINESS COMMUNITY ATTACKS KING FOR "POOR PEOPLE'S MARCH".

DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/9/67. Dallas Morning News subhead:

SPRING MARCH ON WASHINGTON "SOCIALISTIC,".

BUSINESS LEADERS CHARGE.

DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/17/67. Chicago Tribune headline and subhead:

NIXON IN '68?.

EX-VEEP TO ANNOUNCE CANDIDACY?.

DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/17/67. Miami Herald headline and subhead:

CLERGYMEN ON WASHINGTON MARCH:.

"A CALL TO ANARCHY AND RIOTS".

DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/18/67. Chicago Sun-Times subhead:

RFK PRAISES WASHINGTON MARCH.

MUM ON WHITE HOUSE PLANS.

DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/18/67. Denver Post-Dispatch headline and subhead:

WILL HE OR WON'T HE?.

PUNDITS ASSESS LBJ'S REELECTION PLANS.

DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/20/6 7. Boston Globe subhead:

KING CALLS FOR WAR PROTESTERS TO EMBRACE POOR PEOPLE'S MARCH.

DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/21/67. Sacramento Bee subhead:

EXPECT NIXON TO RUN, GOP INSIDERS SAY.

DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/22/67. Los Angeles Times subhead:

RFK, HUMPHREY PLAYING COY?.

AWAITING LBJ'S DECISION?.

DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/23/67. Kansas City Star subhead:

ROTARY PRESIDENT CALLS.

KING MARCH "COMMUNIST INSPIRED".

DOCUMENT INSERT: 12/28/67. Las Vegas Sun headline and subhead: