I have not seen the movie or read the book. But reading Kevin Mac Donnell's comments and Hal Bush's thoughts on it brings back a vivid chapter from Robert Caro's _The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate_, p. 888-89 in a chapter titled "The 'Working Up'". LBJ discusses a conversation with Gene Williams, his maid's husband, about Williams's reluctance to drive LBJ's car along with LBJ's beagle from Washington, DC back to Texas during the Senate recess. He quotes Williams, "a colored man's got enough trouble getting across the South on his own, without having a dog along." LBJ told several versions of such a incidents including another about his cook, a college graduate and her husband who drove the limousine of the Vice President of the United States back to Texas. "When they had to go to the bathroom, they would stop, pull off on a side road, and Zephyr Wright, the cook of the Vice President of the United States, would squat in the road to pee. ... That's wrong." The chapter is available on google books and the amazon search inside feature. Barb