Bo Foxworth as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. 
Jeff Doucette as Senator James Eastland. Melissa Leo as First Lady Lady Bird Johnson. Anthony Mackie as Martin Luther King Jr. Text info about the Vietnam War, the Great Society programs against poverty, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the continuing loss of the South to the Republicans is displayed at the end. Johnson wins the election conclusively, but the Democratic Party loses the states of the Deep South. Martin Luther King wins the Nobel Peace Prize Hoover, still distrusting King, sends him an insulting, anonymous letter demanding King commit suicide, which is ignored. Johnson's aide and friend Walter Jenkins is arrested for "disorderly conduct" after he is found in a tryst with another man in a public restroom Johnson has an uncomfortable conversation with Hoover on how this fact slipped by security screening. Johnson hits Goldwater hard in the election, portraying him as a dangerous fanatic who will destroy the world, but is worried. Johnson, in a bid to save the South, offers the MFDP a compromise that satisfies neither side the Mississippi delegation walks out, and the MFDP is unhappy with the two at-large delegates offered to them. The state of Mississippi also sends two delegations to the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City: the "normal" delegation from the Dixiecrat wing, which threatened to walk out on Johnson, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, a renegade wing supported by the Civil Rights Movement, but vehemently opposed by other Southerners. Edgar Hoover to investigate the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Mississippi. This is complicated by the Freedom Summer movement and pulls between the northern liberal wing and Southern Dixiecrat wing of the Democratic Party. The Gulf of Tonkin incident causes Johnson to ask Congress for a resolution endorsing a reprisal against North Vietnam, wary of being outflanked on the issue by the Republicans.Īfter successful passage of the Civil Rights Act over a filibuster, Johnson contends for election against Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election. At the same time, Johnson wants to declare a War on Poverty. of Georgia oppose the bill so much that they may abandon the Democratic Party if the bill passes, and Republicans and Democrats on the fence offer amendments opposed by the liberals and the Civil Rights activists. pressures Johnson to pass the bill without amendments that would defang it Southern Democrats such as Richard Russell Jr. 
Johnson enters the White House but soon must work on the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
Kennedy assassination, assisted and advised by his wife Lady Bird. Lyndon Baines Johnson becomes President of the United States after the John F.
#ALL THE WAY MOVIE#
It was nominated for eight Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Television Movie as well as acting nominations for Cranston and Leo. It has been nominated for a Television Critics Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries and Specials, with Cranston also nominated for Individual Achievement in Drama for his work on the film. The film was well received by critics, with Cranston's portrayal of Johnson garnering praise. The film was broadcast on HBO on Saturday, May 21, 2016. Directed by Jay Roach and adapted by Robert Schenkkan from his 2012 play with the same title, the film stars Bryan Cranston, who reprises his role as Johnson from the play's 2014 Broadway production, opposite Melissa Leo as First Lady Lady Bird Johnson Anthony Mackie as Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr. All the Way is a 2016 American biographical television drama film based on events during the first term of President Lyndon B.
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