Word: gated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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None of the people sitting down was arrested. "As far as I'm concerned, they can stay here all night," commented John E. Winters, deputy chief of police. "But if the White House wants to use this gate." he said, "the White House will...
...White House apparently did not want to use the gate, but only a handful of demonstrators stayed to find out. At 6 p.m., the time at which the day's activities were scheduled to end, leaders of the demonstration recommended ending the sit-in. "We have made our point," said Muste. "What we have done has come to the attention of the President...
...think sitting here does any good," counseled folksinger Joan Baes, who was among the sit-in demonstrators. "I don't think they are going to make any arrests, I don't think they are going to use this gate, and I don't think the President gives much of a damn," she declared...
Fourteen demonstrators continued the sit-in, and most of them were still at the gate early Saturday. They left later in the day to join-peace workshops that were conducted on the grounds of the Washington Monument, but returned Saturday night...
...always cradled the misery of the poor peoples. We were, as President Johnson said, the "vital shield of freedom," but we were the only ones to believe that and finally this shield was only covered with blood and mud. We were also, as he said, "the guardians at the gate" against the communist aggression; but what kind of aggression is it when the Vietnamese people are in their own country, arbitrarily divided, when the only foreigners in Vietnam are the troops of a western people, who also defend the feudal structure of the local society, the oppression of peasants...