carl sanders, in one of the conversations, you can hear, and john conley, called lyndon johnson saying if you let those two symbolic seats there, the whole south will walk out of this convention because you will be turning the democratic party over to the negroes and letting martin luther king decide who can be a democrat. johnson almost has a breakdown on the phone there, and he basically went to bed for several days saying i'm going to quit, i can't handle this. i'm trying to turn the democratic party slowly towards a party that will represent the people, and he told carl sanders, he said, you and i cannot survive in our modern life, virtual exact quote, you and i cannot survive in our modern political life eating these folks for breakfast to win elections. we got to let them vote. we got to let them eat. we got to let them shave. these folks don't do it. he thought he was going to quit. if i'm no good in the south, and what good am i? i passed the bill, and it looks like i can't do anything. what i'm saying is that race without any public acknowledgement then or largely in history d

and he told carl sanders that you and i cannot survive in our modern life. you and i cannot survive to win this election. we have to let them vote and eat and these folks don't do it. he said what good am i? i have passed this bill, and it looks like it can do anything. what i am saying is that race without any public acknowledgment, either them or largely in history today turned the partisan structure of the united states upside down in one summer. it is still that way, it is still not talked about. what i am saying that what i have learned from studying this movement all this time against my will, because the power jacks into its, for frederick douglass to martin luther king, to barack obama today, magnificent progress that is going forward. we changed, we are more accepting, it is still largely on their terms. the people on the other side was to accommodate. including barack obama come he can't talk about race because the voters will find some reason to be on tenterhooks about that. he can pay enormous dividends and to me it is vital that we get a sense o

luther king couldn't defeat -- and the story really was that the kennedy administration wanted carl sanders to win in 1962 and there was a federal injunction that was placed on martin luther king. so we weren't up against lori pritchett in georgia. we really had to take on the federal government and we chose not to do that. jack always seemed to understand that we were not a problem. i used to quarrel with the new york times quite a bit because i think they were being polluted by information they rear getting, distorted information they were getting and they would come to talk to us like we were the ones that created all these problems. jack never did that. jack understood where the problem was and i always saw him as a friend. anything he ever asked me, i knew i could answer him candidly and truthfully and there would be no downside to it and there were quite a few, actually those days were rough on reporters. in 1964 in mississippi the abc reporter who was the first one to suggests -- the story was these three civil-rights workers were in hiding and the students were doing this just to ge

carl sanders in one of the conversations you can hear and john connolly called lyndon johnson and told him if you even let those two symbolics keep that, the whole south will walk out of this convention because you'll be turning the democratic party over to the negro's and letting martin luther king decide who can be a democrat. and johnson almost as a breakdown on the phone and basically went to bed and said i'm going to quit. i can't handle this. i'm trying to turn the democratic party slowly toward a party that will represent the people. you and i cannot survive in modern life, virtually the exact quote. you and i cannot survive in modern political life eating these folks for breakfast to win election. we have got to let them vote, got to let them eat, got to let them shave and these folks don't do it. and he thought he was going to quit. i am no good in the south and what good am i? have this bill and it looks like i can't do anything. what i am saying is that race without any public acknowledgment either event or largely in history today turned the partisans structure of the unite

he told carl sanders, he said, you and i cannot survive in our modern life, virtual exact quote, you and i cannot survive in our modern political life eating these folks for breakfast to win elections. we got to let them vote. we got to let them eat. we got to let them shave, and these folks don't do it. he thought he was going to quit. he said i'm no good. if i'm no good in the south, and what good am i? i've passed this bill, and it looks like i can't do anything. what i'm saying is that race without any public acknowledgement, either them or largely in history today, turn the partisan structure of the united states upside down in one summer. it's still that way, and it's still not talked about. what i'm saying is that what i've learned from studying this movement, all this time against my will because its power dragged me into it, and i'm sure glad it did, is that from frederick douglass to martin luther king to barack obama today, that magnificent progress that's gone forward, we've changed, more accepting, we have a lot more blessings, we have a black man in the white house, but

and he told carl sanders that you and i cannot survive in our modern life. you and i cannot survive to win this election. we have to let them vote and eat and these folks don't do it. he said what good am i? i have passed this bill, and it looks like it can do anything. what i am saying is that race without any public acknowledgment, either them or largely in history today turned the partisan structure of the united states upside down in one summer. it is still that way, it is still not talked about. what i am saying that what i have learned from studying this movement all this time against my will, because the power jacks into its, for frederick douglass to martin luther king, to barack obama today, magnificent progress that is going forward. we changed, we are more accepting, it is still largely on their terms. the people on the other side was to accommodate. including barack obama come he can't talk about race because the voters will find some reason to be on tenterhooks about that. he can pay enormous dividends and to me it is vital that we get a sense o