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...Complained Brooklyn Democrat Bertram Podell: "He had the votes right in his pocket-the fellow down in city hall. It's a disgrace." Shouted another: "What you Republicans are doing is evil! It's wrong! It's immoral!" When Travia ascended to the speaker's rostrum, many anti-Wagner Democrats turned their backs on him; his main rival, Brooklyn's Stanley Steingut, stalked out without pausing to offer congratulations...
...Agree." With equal determination and solemnity, his fists clenched, President Johnson leaned across a rostrum in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel and addressed some 400 civil rights and Negro leaders at a Community Action Assembly called by the National Urban League. "One of the Presidents I admire most signed the Emancipation Proclamation 100 years ago," he said. "But emancipation was a proclamation and was not a fact. It shall be my purpose, and it is my duty, to make it a fact." With that, his audience rose and flooded the hall with a torrent of applause...
...Belgrade were surprised to be admitted to all sessions of the Congress, which had never happened before. They felt, perhaps ungratefully, that the occasion left some thing to be desired -there was simply nothing to compare to the famed "Sex Congress" of 1952, when one delegate took the rostrum to accuse another of having stolen his wife's affections...
...Thousands of students responded by staging a protest that trapped a police car summoned to arrest a defiant recruiter. While police and their prisoner huddled for 32 hours inside the patrol car, students and off-campus agitators battered it, rocked it, used the roof as a speaker's rostrum. Stunned, the university vacillated over its next move, then suspended eight ringleaders of the demonstration...
...rostrum, Johnson rhapsodized about U.S. prosperity, world peace and "the great society." Said he in Raleigh: "There are so many more things that unite us than divide us. There are so many more people in the world that love instead of hate-and we ought to be a nation of lovers, not of haters." In the same speech, Lyndon declared: "I hear those who are frantic and who sometimes are hysterical. But every day, as I go abroad in this land, I see, by the hundreds of thousands, men, women and children who love freedom and know they have...