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A follow-up, ''The Great Society'' (covering the Johnson presidency from 1964-1968), opened at the 2014 Oregon Shakespeare festival, again directed by Rauch and starring Jack Willis. It opened on Broadway in fall 2019, with Creator/BryanCox taking over the role of LBJ.
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''All the Way'' is a drama play written by UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize-winning playwright Richard Schenkkan. It covers the first year in the Presidency of UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson, as he is thrust into power following the assassination of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy and struggles to solidify his legitimacy and ensure reelection. This means maintaining the Vietnam War, and most importantly, passing the Civil Rights Act. To do so, we see him charming, threatening, and manipulating such figures as J. Edgar Hoover, Martin Luther King, Jr., George Wallace, and UsefulNotes/HubertHumphrey. The play has been praised as an engaging and ambitious look at the toll being in politics can take on one's soul.
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''All the Way'' is a drama play written by UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize-winning playwright Richard Schenkkan. It covers the first year in the Presidency of UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson, as he is thrust into power following the assassination of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy and struggles to solidify his legitimacy and ensure reelection. This means maintaining the Vietnam War, and most importantly, passing the Civil Rights Act. To do so, we see him charming, threatening, and manipulating such figures as J. Edgar Hoover, Martin Luther King, Jr., UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr, George Wallace, and UsefulNotes/HubertHumphrey. The play has been praised as an engaging and ambitious look at the toll being in politics can take on one's soul.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Johnson is quite annoyed after giving a stirring speech at his ranch about firsthand encounters with racism as a teacher that all they focus on is him pulling his dog by the ears.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are more than 40 characters in the play.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: And how for the Gulf of Tonkin incident. [=McNamara=] comes to Johnson and while admitting that his evidence is not rock solid insists on retaliation while the more level-headed Humphrey urges to only respond after he has strong evidence. Unfortunately, [=McNamara=] is able to exploit that there was a media leak, and now Johnson will face being perceived as "weak". An exasperated Johnson orders retaliation. All but escalating the Vietnam War for political perception.
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* WartsAndAll: Martin Luther King is portrayed as the stirring idealist, noble pacifist and firm believer in integration and equality. He also must stomach compromising to appease moderate whites, and more radical African Americans who demand more immediate progress. He also is cheating on his wife with members of his congregation. Though LBJ upon discovering this immediately brushes it off as typical behavior of a Southern preacher.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. LBJ's InnerMonologue makes it very clear from the beginning that he is mainly driven by his burning ambition to become President in his own right and he pulls no punches during the 1964 Presidential Elections. Still, he uses the power of the office to pursue politics which greatly benefit the disadvantaged and the racial minorities and change his country for the better.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: During LBJ's victory party at the end an aide approaches him with an urgent message from the US Embassy in Saigon. When he looks at it his expression immediately changes from one of satisfaction to a worried one. [[ForegoneConclusion As the modern viewer knows all too well]], dealing with UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar will progressively consume and eventually destroy his presidency.
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* TheGhost: Bobby Kennedy in ''All the Way''. He later appears in a supporting role in ''The Great Society''.
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* TheGhost: Bobby Kennedy TheGhost:
** UsefulNotes/BarryGoldwater, the Republican candidate for President in 1964.
** UsefulNotes/RobertFKennedy in ''All the Way''. He later appears in a supporting role in the sequel, ''The Great Society''.
** UsefulNotes/BarryGoldwater, the Republican candidate for President in 1964.
** UsefulNotes/RobertFKennedy in ''All the Way''. He later appears in a supporting role in the sequel, ''The Great Society''.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Barry Goldwater is TheGhost, and yet he is implied to be as much of a Segregationist who uses the camouflage of the "Constitution" and "states rights" in his objections. In reality Goldwater, the father of 20th Century American Conservatism was genuinely a strict Constitutionalist that only objected to the Civil Rights Act on the terms of Federal Encroachment. Even in 1964 several prominent Black leaders openly emphasized that they sincerely did not believe Goldwater was himself a racist but his policies were inherently wrong for the Civil Rights movement. Goldwater personally was opposed to segregation and in later life was regarded as progressive for his support of Gay men in the military.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Barry Goldwater UsefulNotes/BarryGoldwater is TheGhost, and yet he is implied to be as much of a Segregationist who uses the camouflage of the "Constitution" and "states rights" in his objections. In reality Goldwater, the father of 20th Century American Conservatism was genuinely a strict Constitutionalist that only objected to the Civil Rights Act on the terms of Federal Encroachment. Even in 1964 several prominent Black leaders openly emphasized that they sincerely did not believe Goldwater was himself a racist but his policies were inherently wrong for the Civil Rights movement. Goldwater personally was opposed to segregation and in later life was regarded as progressive for his support of Gay men in the military.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Master blackmailer J. Edgar Hoover is just ''shocked'' that LBJ wants to use the FBI for political gain.
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** Master blackmailer J. Edgar Hoover is just ''shocked'' that LBJ wants to use the FBI for political gain.
** Master blackmailer J. Edgar Hoover is just ''shocked'' that LBJ wants to use the FBI for political gain.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Barry Goldwater is TheGhost, and yet he is implied to be as much of a Segregationist who uses the camouflage of the "Constitution" and "states rights" in his objections. In reality Goldwater, the father of 20th Century American Conservatism was genuinely a strict Constitutionalist that only objected to the Civil Rights Act on the terms of Federal Encroachment. Even in 1964 several prominent Black leaders openly emphasized that they sincerely did not believe Goldwater was himself a racist but his policies were inherently wrong for the Civil Rights movement. Goldwater personally was opposed to segregation and in later life was regarded as progressive for his support of Gay men in the military.
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* TheGhost: Bobby Kennedy in ''All the Way''. He later appears in a supporting role in ''Thr Great Society''.
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* TheGhost: Bobby Kennedy in ''All the Way''. He later appears in a supporting role in ''Thr ''The Great Society''.
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** Johnson himself is an adulterer. Ladybird accepts it because she's the one he comes home to.
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** Hoover picks up the sounds of King while having sex with a woman who isn't his wife. Johnson waves off Hoover's disgust by saying that all Southern preachers do it.
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* PyrrhicVictory: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Senator Russel twice, after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 1964 United States presidential election. Both were huge victories for LBJ, but the Democratic Party lost its most reliable constituency as a consequence.
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A follow-up, ''The Great Society'' (covering the Johnson presidency from 1964-1968), opened at the 2014 Oregon Shakespeare festival, again directed by Rauch and starring Jack Willis. It is set to open opened on Broadway in fall 2019, with Creator/BryanCox taking over the role of LBJ.
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* {{Determinator}}: LBJ '''will''' get the Civil Rights Act through Congress, no matter what. He '''will''' win the 1964 US Presidential Elections, whatever it takes.
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* SurpassedTheTeacher: Senator Russell taught LBJ most of what he knows about Senate rules and procedure and is not happy when he uses the knowledge to pass the bill through Congress.
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* SurpassedTheTeacher: Senator Russell taught LBJ most of what he knows about Senate rules and procedure and is not happy when he uses the knowledge to pass push the bill Civil Rights Act through Congress.
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* NumberTwo: Hubert Humphrey acts as Johnson's strongest ally in the Senate, which foreshadows him eventually becoming Vice-President in Johnson's second term.
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* EnemyMine: As in real life, Johnson and the pro-Civil Rights Democrats reach out to Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen to secure Republican votes for the Civil Rights Act, allowing a bypass of the Dixiecrats' filibuster.
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* EnemyMine: As in real life, Johnson and the pro-Civil Rights Democrats reach out to Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen to secure Republican votes for the Civil Rights Act, allowing a bypass of the Dixiecrats' filibuster.filibuster led by Russell and the other Dixiecrat Senators.
