my apush book is funny (series)

from: Firsthand America: Chapter 15: Impeachment of Johnson: pg 493

"In August 1867 [Johnson] suspended Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, a close ally of the Radicals. There followed a comic opera in which Stanton barricaded himself in his office for two months while his successor periodically stood outside begging him to vacate."

isn't that a bit childish, for a grown man? really. that's a giggle-moment. :)