LBJ (2016)

This is a biopic that sticks pretty close to the story as I know it, starting just before the Democratic convention in 1960 through to the first address to Congress after Kennedy was assassinated.  Johnson's biography ran to six lengthy volumes and in it I am sure the various nuances of his enormous personality came to light.  In this, he plays a political lion who is declawed by the Kennedy boys when he settles in to being the Vice President.  He struggles to find something meaningful to do, and in trying to get the Equal Employment and Opportunity idea off the ground, he comes fist to cuffs with the Southern delegation, where he endures endless conversations about how everyone should have the freedom not to eat next to or sit next to or work next to someone that they don't want to, simple as that.  Well, once Kennedy has died, he says to his personal think tank, who are trying to dissuade him from pursuing Kennedy's agenda that his own cook, the personal cook to the Vice Presdient of the United States, cannot safely travel home to Texas through the American South.  She may be making his meal next week, but this week she has to pee by the side of the road because she can't find a bathroom.  He was going to put an end to that (more of less) and he did (again, more of less).