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...Democrats were outraged at what they considered to be Halleck's betrayal. Majority Leader Carl Albert charged that the G.O.P. was staging a sitdown strike. A White House aide, with more ardor than accuracy, said the whole affair was "an attempt by the Midwest isolationist wing of the Republican Party, headed by Mr. Halleck, to seize control of the party and impose its will on the foreign policy of the United States." President Johnson delayed his Christmas trip back to Texas, wrote in a memorandum to Speaker McCormack: "It is not difficult to imagine the reaction of the rest...
...certain sort of book, like a certain sort of party, is not expected to begin on time; if you make the mistake of arriving in the first chapter, you find the author still polishing ashtrays and setting out dishes of salted nuts. But Irish farce is not a sitdown affair; it is the falling-down kind, and must begin on time or a little earlier. It is Good Intentions missing his tram and improving the hour by having a few innocent drinks with his fine friends Sedition and Salvation, and ending up, all amaze, knee-walking in the dark...
Students now feel rushed in many of the dorm dining rooms. At the breakfast and lunch buffets, food is served for only half an hour. At the "sitdown" dinners, served by student waitresses, all students must begin the meal at the same time--and finish it about half an hour later...
More important, perhaps, were the signs of objection to the new brand of Negro militancy that began to appear in the moderate press. When pickets from a local organization called the Joint Committee on Equal Opportunity began a prolonged sitdown demonstration in the corridor just outside Mayor Robert Wagner's office, the civil-rights-minded New York Times was sorely disturbed. "Demonstrators," said the Times, "cannot be allowed to interfere with government (city, state or national)," and the committee, "by these tactics that go beyond the bounds of legitimate picketing, is building up resistance against achievement of the just...
...balloting sessions, each Socialist member gets up slowly as his name is called, shuffles toward the rostrum with the shortest steps possible. Where it takes 230 conservatives only 15 minutes to vote, 120 Socialists consume as much as an hour and a half. Cow-walking is combined with sitdown strikes in Diet corridors, deliberate traffic jams, boycotts, and picketing to prevent the Speaker from taking his seat. Through these tactics, the Socialists force all-night sessions, hoping that the worn-out government men will have to give in somewhere along the line...