assassinated. >> you know you have our support and backing. we know what a difficult period this is. >> it's just an impossible period. we've got a budget coming up. we've got nothing to do with, it's practically already made and we've got a civil rights bill that hasn't even passed the house and it's november and hubert humphrey told me yesterday everybody wanted to go home. we've got a tax bill that they haven't touched and we've just got to not let up on any of them and keep going. i guess they'll say i'm repudiated but i'm going to ask the congress wednesday to stay there to pass them all. they won't do it but we'll keep them there next year until they do and won't give up an inch. >> but his ability to hammer out deals in congress was key to getting a civil rights bill passed. for 57 days the civil rights act faced the longest filibuster in senate history. to get the 67 votes that were required then to break it, johnson needed help from the senate's 33 republicans. and to get their help, he needed to win over one man, their