Dinner With President Johnson | The Crown (Olivia Colman, Helena Bonham Carter, Clancy Brown)

Although Elizabeth (Olivia Colman) is tense and worried about Margaret's (Helena Bonham Carter) performance at the dinner with President Johnson (Clancy Brown), the Queen is surprised when Wilson (Jason Watkins) reveals that the dinner was, in fact, a great success.
From Season 3, Episode 2: Margaretology
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The Crown is based on Queen Elizabeth II as a young newlywed faced with leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. The British Empire is in decline, and the political world is in disarray, but a new era is dawning. Peter Morgan's masterfully researched scripts reveal the Queen's private journey behind the public façade with daring frankness. Prepare to see into the coveted world of power and privilege behind the locked doors of Westminster and Buckingham Palace.
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[@mick3405]

“You’ve made it this far.”

[@miriamvesela8461]

My favourite too! 🤣

[@guillermosemorile8563]

@@miriamvesela8461 SAME!!!

[@Robert-p5f4z]

So British!

[@marcokeller3575]

"You've made it this far" is one of my favourite lines

[@tomb7942]

Huge points for the PM and Ambassador for being able to remember everything from that night.

[@sarahcorbo3659]

Seeing how uncomfortable the PM was trying to recite the limericks, contrasted with Olivia Colman's iconic "you've made it this far" line made this all the more funny.

[@bobbynicole10]

Margaret was smart! She understood what Johnson was like

[@danydazed4314]

She also don’t have to hold herself to such strict standards as dear old Queenie.

[@maryk446]

LBJ was much more vulgar and downright weird than most people knew. Margaret only saw a small portion of what he was capable of.

[@pdruiz2005]

@@maryk446 Well, LBJ was also representing the United States of America to the United Kingdom. He couldn't be the completely vulgar, outrageous man he was behind closed doors with his closest advisors. He still had to have some decorum while wining and dining with a visiting royal from London. I imagine this was a state dinner? State dinners are the most formal, regal affairs organized by the White House.

[@tiffanygrever8092]

Our service men hated him I think the remaining vets still do.​@@maryk446

[@Padraig1974]

This also never happened. At least not the way it was presented in the series.

[@TechnologicallyTechnical]

Mr. Krabs as Lyndon Johnson is not something I ever thought I’d see

[@juliusnepos6013]

Yeah

[@ltdowney]

* The Kurgan

[@robertknuckles6813]

It’s always a joy to see Clancy Brown obviously having fun in his roles

[@pdruiz2005]

LBJ was a plain-spoken elementary school teacher who had gone up the greasy pole of Texas politics, which was very dirty and rough in the first half of the 20th century. He thus despised snobbery and elegance, especially of the type that festooned the royal court in London. He also low-key hated preppy JFK and his aristocratic, WASPy wife for those very same reasons. Princess Margaret did her homework--she clearly read about LBJ's life, imbibed what this man was about, and decided to chuck the airs of royalty and indulge her blunt manner and naughty humor. And it worked! LBJ was utterly charmed.

[@wickedwitchoftheeast88]

I don't think the Queen would be too bothered about this to be honest LBJ was their guest and as good British manners dictate your guests should be offered refreshments, entertained and given respect and politeness LBJ had a good time thanks to Margaret the Queen probably rolled her eyes and thought oh well it's happened and he had a good time a visit that went very well and no major scandals a job well done

[@pdruiz2005]

@@wickedwitchoftheeast88 Princess Margaret was sent specifically to get the U.S. President to disburse billions of U.S. dollars to help the British economy right itself. I remember this episode--the British diplomatic corps was fretful that LBJ, a known hater of aristocratic titles and royal families, would be a tough nut to crack after the easy time they had with JFK and his wife. The Queen was close to a panic, since she was getting a lot of pressure from the government to become "more easygoing" with LBJ, which was not in her nature. This was all done with one goal in mind--get the money and rescue the UK economy. But then the Queen couldn't make it to Washington for reasons I forget. So she very nervously sent Princess Margaret on this extremely important diplomatic mission, possibly the most important in her long career as Queen since it directly impacted the economic health of her nation. And Princess Margaret got the job done with flying colors--LBJ was more than happy to disburse the billions of dollars to the UK treasury right in the nick of time. Economic disaster was averted.

[@romancandle416]

"the greasy pole of Texas politics, which was very dirty and rough in the first half of the 20th century." It's very dirty and rough in the first half of the 21st century as well.

[@agenttheater5]

He still, from what I've heard, acted like a gentleman towards Jackie (whatever he may have felt about her) by refusing to leave her behind after JFK was shot, and letting her come on the first plane out even though it was now his and even though she was no longer a First Lady. Please no insults if I've got it wrong, just tell me.

[@pdruiz2005]

@@agenttheater5 I mean, LBJ was a decent human being. Of course he was going to act like a true gentleman to a woman who just saw her husband get shot in the head. You'd have to be a heartless psychopath to not treat a woman traumatized by such a sight with anything but compassion and respect. Yet before this terrible tragedy, he didn't much like her or JFK. He only ended up on JFK's ticket as VP out of political expediency and ambition--LBJ because he saw a way to become president by serving as VP, and JFK because he needed a strong arm in Congress to pass legislation he wanted (LBJ was notorious as a scary enforcer in Congress). But LBJ didn't like the guy or his wife.

[@twobearshomestead]

Why is no one talking about Clancy Brown? A totally underrated actor...

[@TheMelbournelad]

They always bust him down to private

[@michaelanatole9672]

There can be only one..... Clancy Brown.

[@PeteDavidson-yl3ps]

Mr. Hadley….. no matter what role Shawshank was excellent… Drink up Ladies…..the Colossal Prick….lol I agree under rated…..

[@D2attemp]

Even among 12th level intellects he is overqualified

[@gammadion]

The sponge cannot flip the spatula if you disable his hand, Dufresne.

[@agenttheater5]

Flashback to the rude limericks King George the Sixth came up with and enjoyed back in the very first episode.

[@wickedwitchoftheeast88]

If the rumours are true George VI had a naughty sense of humour and Margaret clearly inherited it. The Queen Mum had a dry sense of humour apparently when she and Noel Coward went past the guards and he stared at them the Queen Mum remarked "I wouldn't if I were you Noel they count them before they put them out" 😂

[@kevlonk]

Elizabeth: Where's the rest of it? Watkins: I beleive everyone thought it was long enough. Johnson: THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID

[@waynemay7327]

Do you mean Wilson?

[@MusicHandsAbrupt]

Mr. Krabs has become quite the actor.

[@FilmedbyEdmund]

Mr Krabs played almost 150 roles in his career

[@ashleighelizabeth5916]

Mr Krabs was a great actor all the way back in 1980s when he played the Kurgan in Highlander. "It's better to burn out, than to fade away!"

[@devanman7920]

Mr Krabs is an absolutely fantastic actor

[@gammadion]

He rose from a lowly fast food restaurant owner to become a corrupt prison guard, then when he got out of prison, he was press ganged into the Federation to fight the bug menace, and when he did his time, he decided to become a police officer and was stuck with an android partner.

[@balabanasireti]

Lazy

[@johnheppenstall4904]

Olivia Colman's 'Bravo?. Class acting.

[@Shortfilmsyou]

Actually pretty amazing they managed to remove the music. I couldn't have managed it. I would have inserted t rex roaring just to be comical with no explanation.

[@Ronni.M]

Margaret could really read a room! (Best scene in the entire series! LOL)

[@tl3139]

In other words, they had a great time.

[@TheLizKirkland]

1:56 Typical Mr. Krabs laugh

[@crookdude2000]

“I believe everyone thought that was long enough, as it were” 🤣🤣🤣

[@pwp8737]

If that conversation between the Queen and Harold Wilson ever took place it would be hands down the best briefing any monarch has ever had.

[@jonathaneugene2582]

It's one of my favorite scenes. Keep it coming with the crown videos. Please

[@garroncotham5595]

Both ladies were forces of nature in their own way, but who wouldn't want to party with Margaret?

[@SN-sz7kw]

Helena Bonham Carter is my favorite Margaret. One wonders if Margaret would agree. 🤔

[@robertwebb3546]

Evidently they met and Princess Margaret was rather rude and dismissive but HBC said she liked her and called her out on it.

[@Ravenclawjournalist]

I can’t help but hear the laugh of Bellatrix Lestrange when Helena’s character laughs here.

[@dydx8585]

IM SORRY THAT LAST ONE WAS VERY FUNNY 😂

[@Buckboy2024]

Agreed.

[@bearrnabas]

OMG I love everything about this scene within a scene! The retelling merging with the scene itself.... just perfect!

[@Taospark]

"As it were."

[@odysseusrex5908]

I wonder how historically accurate this scene is.

[@BroadwayBabyyy744]

From what I researched, this trip was spot on

[@Brend.0]

​@@BroadwayBabyyy744the events occurred. We don't know what was said during the event.

[@Taospark]

Given what we know about Johnson, this is toned down for him.

[@STho205]

Johnson was probably the most vulgar mouthed and rudest man ever to be President. There are some real contenders in that assembly...but Johnson would pull his Johnson out in meetings to prove he was the big man...even when his secretary was in the room.

[@reallyhappenings5597]

Exactly as filmed, from all I've read.

[@ytuser_3122]

I love seeing Clancy Brown share a scene with HBC

[@MiamiPush2theLimit]

Johnson was crass and so was Margaret. They got along great 😂

[@RoseRedd-k4b]

Helena Bonham Carter is so beautiful. I like Princess Margaret, she seems like so much fun. And why are these English Royals acting like they haven't heard a dirty joke or two, please.

[@tatata1543]

Margaret was a bitter alcoholic and a very nasty piece of work. “Fun” she was not.

[@brucetheloon]

Elizabeth definitely knew the dirty jokes, it was Harold Wilson who was embarrassed by telling her them. The "You've made it this far" line makes that pretty clear. Elizabeth was just trying to keep a stern face because Wilson expected it.

[@WillScarlet16]

Lex Luthor - "President? Do you know how much power I'd have to GIVE UP to be President?"

[@AzguardMike]

"I have cancer? This is all YOUR fault, Superman!"

[@justonecornetto80]

Margaret loved a good Johnson.

[@maryk446]

I'll bet. LOL

[@tackcolin6645]

Doesn’t everybody?? Lol

[@Buckboy2024]

Nice.

[@kinggoldark3853]

I guess this channel couldn't get the rights to the music at 2:53. It's like watching the ballet scene from "Amadeus."

[@PapagenoMF]

What was the music? Do you remember?

[@RoPiDe]

Great reference!!!

[@RoPiDe]

​@PapagenoMF wasnt it Comin' Home Baby by Mel Torme?

[@shyyou93]

I don't understand, is it modern?

[@moonlight_latte157]

4:27 Queen Elizabeth II was extremely dazzling

[@cyb-m]

all is well, that ends well. she got an assignment and she got it done. and that is all there is to it.

[@theevilascotcompany9255]

In my headcanon this is part of Highlander, and it's something the Kurgan was up to in the 1960s.

[@joshmccollen700]

I guess someone couldn't afford the copyright on the dance music.

[@elizabethfriedman3481]

I love Helena and Olivia. And I laugh every time I hear, You’ve made it this far.

[@makalism]

It’s so meta that the guy who voices Mr Krabs is in a British drama series, playing the President of the US

[@hubbali666]

Olivia Colman, Helena Bonham Carter are hot like fire !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@theelitemanticore151]

If you recall in S2, Jackie Kennedy insulted Queen Elizabeth when she visited Buckingham Palace (calling it a “provincial hotel”). Now, we have Princess Margaret throwing shade at the late President Kennedy with LBJ….the tables have turned. 🤭

[@sailboatgirl9628]

Bonham Carter was brilliant as Princess Margaret!

[@makhnothecossack4948]

Wilson is so sympathetic character, I felt bad for him watching him trying to tell Lizzie what happened.

[@aquilifergroup]

Woot? The queen reacting to everything

[@just-tess]

2:40 tbf that would've been pretty top tier improvisation

[@HorneATL]

2:50 “Bravo.”

[@1in6win]

Im sorry but those dance scenes without the music in them are SO weird. Lol

[@Dnrothx]

Nice to see Rawhide up and around again.

[@meloworx221]

It’s the dancing in a quiet room for me😂 silent disco 💃

[@robertyates9500]

One of the funniest parts of the crown, except for some reason the dance music is missing from the audio track in this clip.

[@ered203]

Bravo

[@lordalessan]

They got Dick Solomon playing Winston Churchcill, Dexter playing JFK, and then Mr. Krabs playing LBJ lol

[@jimmikulsky4810]

"Dinner With Savage Opress."

[@spacered]

Mr. Krabs becomes the president

[@NiVi192]

"Some of them, I'm afraid to say, a little off-colour!" understatement of the century! 😂😂😂 1:20

[@cristiandiaz8497]

President Johnson played by Mr. Krabs!

[@elizadoolittle7647]

This is hysterical 😂

[@Dabhach1]

There was a young lady named Manders, Who was had by the manhood of Flanders. By France and by Spain, Then Flanders again, And the Argyle and Southerland Highlanders.

[@KevinN-df8eo]

Brilliant, just brilliant!!

[@kathyshore1004]

Margaret was a hoot. I think she's hysterical. Too fun!

[@redstar7292]

This was just totaly hilarious! And the Queens droll reactions are epic. But im not sure if its true Margo went that far. There's a docmentary called The Princess and the Gangster. Its endlessly fascinating.

[@gregbillings]

Every "wahut?" is like "I am groot"...... ROFL. ............. and of course You've made it this far"

[@johannesnicolaas]

I really start to like princess Margaret....

[@toniesolomon]

princess margaret is spicy 😂 .

[@tomwheeler2012]

The Queen was lucky that she had Margaret to pull from her deck of cards that could pull off the near unlikely if not impossible task of charming the charmless LBJ. Margaret had enough charm to make the Texas thug charming...and making LBJ charming...that would be almost like making Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, Castro...charming. Granted LBJ wasnt that bad but he wasnt likeable or charming. LBJ had a truman like quality in that he spoke very directly (bluntly, callously, matter of factly, in-your face) but thats the only thing I can put Truman and LBJ in the same category.

[@mlgerab]

Johnson could be very charming, and also vulgar, brutal, gentle, greedy, generous, shallow and complex, all in the same half an hour.

[@arynrowland862]

LBJ was a hell of a guy, and you don’t get a landslide victory like he did in ‘64 without charm.

[@jt7638]

Historians and those who knew him describe LBJ as a blend of earthy and charming, fun and capable. When you work and lead groups of powerful people - you have different facets of your personality that you show different people from Northern liberals to Southern conservative Democrats. He got us Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, and the Great Society. An extraordinary domestic policy president.

[@MattWatts-kv8rh]

Bravo.

[@moonlight_latte157]

The stark difference between the British Prime Minister and the American President 🤣😆

[@AdaKizi248]

So that was supposed to be Lyndon Johnson? Thanks for clearing that up.

[@tatata1543]

Margaret was a deeply unpleasant person, she and Johnson were a good match.

[@adelucas4824]

She was a narcissist who hated being the permanent understudy to her sister. I have friends who knew her through events they managed and she was always horrible and self centered. She never once thought of the guests and it was always all about her. A deeply unpleasant woman in real life.

[@jt7638]

People have multiple aspects to their personalities. Johnson was earthy, crude, charming, and fun. He could be mean and vicious too. He would show different aspects of himself to different people. An extraordinary leader, an extraordinarily accomplished domestic policy president.

[@djslybacon]

“Long enough. As it were “ 🤣

[@Heifer2997]

Who knew that Princess Margaret knew Mr. Krabs

[@eddierascalhaskell4954]

Helena looks so good when shes not looking like a rag doll from the 1920s.

[@zombiTrout]

President Clancy Brown? Yes, indeed.

[@DakotaFord592]

Love this scene! ❤❤

[@satcher2001]

LBJ was a p!g in a human suit. And Lady bird was so slobberingly devoted Jackie once said the bird would run down the street naked if Lyndon asked her to. LOL

[@01Mary02]

The guy who's playing President Johnson....is that Biff from Back to the Future???

[@greentombdive]

“A brilliant cabbage.” Oh dear. Boil him in oil.

[@timothyleon558]

No telling what else they might find in Buckingham Palace! 🧐

[@devanman7920]

The Dallas one is pretty good tbf haha

[@wolfie854]

Margaret knew how to party. Her sister sadly hadn't a clue.

[@dylantennant6594]

President Johnson why are going to war in Vietnam when the Vietnamese just wanted a referudum to decide between communism and capitalism. Johnson: Money.

[@dianamartinsofc]

¡Hola, buenas tardes!

[@hellomoto2084]

Subhratri bandhu, good night brother.

[@PaulDonaldRoy]

Margaret was great, it was a high point in US/UK relations.

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

Limerick diplomacy.

[@ronwolek1228]

I thought LBJ was famously the only president the Queen never met.

[@Gabi.Dunkel]

I want a full Version of Margaret singing with johnson

[@agenttheater5]

Is she flirting with the president?

[@AnthonyJMurph]

LBJ was a big flirter

[@davidesguario2151]

Turns out the Kurgan is a cool dude once he gets to hang around some ladies and drinks

[@daviddaniel387]

Was blessed with an enormously large JOHNSON 😂😂😂😂ROLMO

[@beccamcdonald9846]

As a Delawarean, I honestly don’t understand the joke. She couldn’t have came up with anything better….🤷🏼‍♀️

[@hovz-zo8lf]

I wonder if Margaret got to meet "Jumbo". If you know, you know.

[@cardinalbob1]

Margaret, the diplomat. Charmed the President of the United States. 🇺🇸 Talk about foreign relations! 😎

[@DustyPurple24]

Clancy Brown as LBJ? This biopic needs to be made

[@Dabhach1]

Was that the Kurgan playing Johnson? Talk about typecasting...

[@wickedwitchoftheeast88]

Indeed it is the Kurgan

[@irisjanemay1903]

They should have worked in Margaret saying "Hi, I'm Candy," and him replying "Of course you are." That would have been hysterical. He was epic as Kurgan.

[@Sebastian-wz1wh]

Why was the soundtracks removed from the dancing scene

[@crs290]

No copyright strikes.

[@Venom-x7t]

Spitting into a bowl held by a servant, the British class is so virtuous compared to us crude Americans

[@jeannehall6546]

Seems like here LBJ and Margaret were 2 of a kind!

[@ellamaeloftus3493]

As an American and lived through LBJ years. He was a man who gave me the creeps and brash and crude

[@aquilifergroup]

Delicate, aren’t you? In a world where thugs run around you might sometimes need a thug on your side

[@jeep146]

Why didn't Johnson want to help the UK. They refused to help him in Vietnam. Johnson grew up in a area about a hour away from where I live. It's still a rural area, simple farming and ranching. He thought the North Vietnamese were just puppets of communist Russia and China. He felt he had to stop it just as cowboys would stop the outlaws in the old west. It was tragic because Kennedy had said he was pulling out of Vietnam after the election but was killed in Dallas.

[@faithlesshound5621]

Keeping the UK out of the Vietnam War was one of Harold Wilson's main achievements.

[@NoMadKid]

My favorite episode, it shows how the US was the sole superpower of the world while Europe was on it’s knees.

[@kaiblade760]

Where is the rest of it?