stanley nelson had a wonderful movie about the 50th anniversary of the summer of 1964 when the threel rights activists, james chaney, making shorter, others were killed. it was the summer of organizing in mississippi. it was the summer of the mississippi freedom democratic party. you were the press secretary of lyndon johnson. --t was elected be there what was it like to be there? voice, thewant that voice that wanted to integrate, to be heard. what a dramatic and traumatic moment it was, a riveting moment. by the way, i did not become secretary -- press secretary for two years. that year i was the domestic policy advisor, working on politics. it was a dramatic and unfortunate moment because, i wish in retrospect, we had hamer,d fannie lou realized that that was where the future of the democratic party lay. >> could it be like north carolina democrat today? >> yes. his predicament was he wanted to carry as many southern states as he could. he wanted to bring progressive moderate democrats along with him in his campaign. had he embraced fannie lou hemmer, a moral thing to do, he thoug