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  John Lindsay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lindsay's paternal grandfather emigrated to the United States in the 1880s from the Isle of Wight, and his mother was from an upper-middle class family that had been in New York since the 1660s.
John's father was a successful lawyer and investment banker, and was able to send his son to the prestigious Buckley School, St.
Lindsay had ordered that all flags on City buildings be lowered to half mast in recognition of the Kent State shootings, a measure to which the construction workers were overwhelmingly opposed.
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 John V. Lindsay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Lindsay, whose movie-star looks and can-do attitude briefly made him a presidential candidate, was seen as a figure who transcended social, party and racial lines to reinvigorate the nation's largest city.
Lindsay lost in the GOP primary during his 1969 re-election bid but ran in the general election as the candidate of the Liberal Party and won.
John Vliet Lindsay and a twin brother were born Nov. 24, 1921, in Manhattan, two of five children of an investment banker.
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 obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for John V. Lindsay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Lindsay's election to New York City's mayorship marked him as one of the youngest men to ascend to the office, and the first Republican to be elected since 1941.
Lindsay's efforts in office included programs to make the city government more accessible to the people, and he was as noted for making sojourns, sans guards, through riot-torn Harlem after the assassination of civil rights leader Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King as he was for his ski trips with actor Robert Redford.
Lindsay published two volumes of memoirs and penned a novel, "The Edge", but his later years were darkened by poor health and financial upheaval, having failed to qualify for a New York State Pension by several years, and left without insurance or benefits when his employing law firm went bankrupt in the early 1990s.
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 Mary Lindsay, 77; adviser, spouse to former N.Y. mayor - The Boston Globe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Lindsay, who was described as bringing elegance, energy, and political acumen to her husband's campaigns, lived in Hilton Head, S.C. John V. Lindsay was mayor of New York from 1966 to 1973.
Lindsay held countless coffee hours during her husband's campaigns and was a devoted mother to their four children while protecting her husband's time and peace of mind.
John Lindsay asked her to marry him in 1948 in the kitchen of her parents' home.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/03/11/mary_lindsay_77_adviser_spouse_to_former_ny_mayor   (452 words)

  
 Archives of Rudolph W. Giuliani - Memorial Service for Mayor John V. Lindsay
To John Lindsay's wife Mary; his daughters Margy, Anne, and Kathy, his son Johnny, and brother Robert; and to all his grandchildren and extended family members: the thoughts are prayers of all New Yorkers are with you this day and always.
John Lindsay was born in New York City, served as a gunnery officer during World War II, and entered politics after working in the Justice Department, during the Eisenhower Administration.
John Lindsay also took special pride in the expansion and improvement of our City's parks; and that's why it is appropriate to rename East River Park for John Lindsay.
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 Commentary Magazine - John V. Lindsay: A Political Portrait   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
...Lindsay in a yarmulke may be no more convincing than Calvin Coolidge in a Sioux warbonnet, but the spectacle carries a message even to those who would seem long ago to have hardened their hearts against the old political symbols of synthetic group membership...
...Lindsay himself seems most nearly at home in the company of people of the theater, whose lives also confer on them the power to choose their role rather than to have it imposed on them by birth...
...John Dollard, author of Caste and Class in a Southern Town, a brilliant pioneering work in American sociology, was working in the Institute of Human Relations, where Mark May and his associates were completing their long study of frustration and aggression in human affairs...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V49I2P27-1.htm   (17322 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Local / R.I. / Mary Lindsay, wife of former NYC mayor, dies in Palm Beach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Lindsay, who was described as bringing elegance, energy and political acumen to her husband's campaigns, lived in Hilton Head, S.C. She was born in Richmond, Va.
John V. Lindsay was mayor of New York from 1966 to 1973.
Lindsay held countless coffee hours during her husband's campaigns and served as a devoted mother to their four children while protecting her husband's time and peace of mind.
www.boston.com /news/local/rhode_island/articles/2004/03/10/mary_lindsay_wife_of_former_nyc_mayor_dies_in_palm_beach   (476 words)

  
 Mary Lindsay | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Mary Lindsay, who as John V. Lindsay's accomplished, blue-blood wife brought casual elegance and political acumen to his campaigns for New York City mayor and other offices while fiercely protecting the family's limited privacy, died Tuesday in Palm Beach, Fla. She was 77.
Lindsay lived in Hilton Head, S.C. John Lindsay, who was mayor from 1966 to 1973, died Dec. 19, 2000, at age 79.
Lindsay, whose energy was suggested by her vigorous bicycle rides in Central Park and the countless coffee hours she held during her husband's campaigns, was her husband's most trusted adviser.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040316/news_1m16lindsay.html   (482 words)

  
 Press Release Archives # 389 -01 - MAYOR GIULIANI SIGNS BILL RENAMING MANHATTAN'S EAST RIVER PARK "JOHN V. LINDSAY/EAST ...
John V. Lindsay, the 103rd Mayor of our City, was born in Manhattan on November 24, 1921.
It is little wonder that Lindsay was the Mayor who first called his job "the second toughest in America." In spite of it all, John Lindsay remained a sign of optimism for all New Yorkers.
In view, then, of John Lindsay's many years of service to the people of the City of New York, as a Congressman and as their Mayor, I am pleased to rename East River Park, a part of his congressional district, in his honor.
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 Commentary Magazine - Lindsay's Promise: The Dream that Failed, by Woody Klein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
John V. Lindsay, perhaps more than any other figure in public life, has made of the "urban crisis" a platform upon which to build his career.
...Giving Lindsay the benefit of the doubt, one could, of course, ascribe his failures not to personal shortcomings but to the faults of "the system"-the enormity of the job, the niggardliness of the state legislature, imperfections in the federal system, lack of proper "national priorities," and so forth...
...Lindsay, according to his pronouncements, is but awaiting the proper opportunity to take them on, and to rescue that larger urban area called the nation...
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 Former NYC Mayor John Lindsay dies at 79 - December 20, 2000
Lindsay died Tuesday night at the Hilton Head Medical Center and Clinics in Hilton Head, South Carolina, of complications from pneumonia and Parkinson's disease, said hospital spokeswoman Sue James.
Lindsay became a national figure as he reached across social and racial lines to guide the nation's largest city through an era of division and discontent.
Lindsay was defeated in the 1969 Republican mayoral primary.
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 FrontPage magazine.com :: Kerry Identifies the Enemy: The United States by John Podhoretz
The group John Kerry and his associates were protesting was The National Guard Association, which had its 1970 convention in New York at the Americana Hotel (now the New York Sheraton) from Sept. 13 to Sept. 17.
Despite that fact, John Kerry and his organization thought that it was acceptable and desirable to tar the reputations of 500,000 American servicemen by assigning collective guilt to the "campus murders" the flyer decries.
Thus was John Kerry a key midwife in the birthing of one of of the worst myths ever fostered in this country: The myth of the crazed, violent, dangerous Vietnam vet who had come back to America to wreak the same kind of devastation here he had wreaked in Southeast Asia.
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 The death of former New York Mayor John Lindsay and the passing of liberalism
John V. Lindsay, who died last month at the age of 79, was mayor of New York City from 1966 to 1973, a period of social and political upheaval.
Lindsay won the election, despite the heavy majority of Democratic voters in New York, on the basis of an unlikely electoral coalition including the liberal middle class, large numbers of minority voters, and the Republican establishment.
Lindsay's essential task was to appease the working class and keep the lid on growing discontent, while at the same time serving the interests of the ruling establishment to which he was bound by birth and political allegiance.
www.wsws.org /articles/2001/jan2001/obit-j06_prn.shtml   (2356 words)

  
 John V. Lindsay -- Urbane N.Y. Mayor In a Turbulent Time
Lindsay, who moved last year to a retirement community on Hilton Head Island, had been in failing health for years, suffering from Parkinson's disease, heart problems and the effects of two strokes that had left his speech slurred and impaired his capacity to read and walk.
Lindsay, who was often unsavvy about the political realities of the city where he had grown up.
Lindsay invited trouble by failing to back up his own tough talk with hard bargaining, his administration was beset with strikes and slowdowns by transit workers, teachers, police officers, firefighters and sanitation workers.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/12/21/MN174028.DTL   (618 words)

  
 WASHINGTON TALK: BRIEFING; Lindsay Elected - New York Times
Lindsay was recently elected to a one-term term as president of the United States Association of Former Members of Congress.
Lindsay represented Manhattan's 17th Congressional District from 1959 until he began the first of two terms as Mayor of New York in 1966.
Lindsay, who is now a lawyer in private practice, is the first New Yorker and the first person who lives outside the Washington area to be elected president of the association.
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 Mayor Lindsay, I knew him well
I have always felt sorry for Mayor Lindsay (1921-2000), because he was maligned, attacked, vilified, and yet he tried his best to be a good mayor, much more than the corrupt and incompetent who proceeded him and who followed him.
In 1966, Mayor Lindsay was sworn into office at the stroke of midnight, an unusual step, and only one minute later, Mike Quill, who we now know was a member of the Communist Party, took his transit workers out on strike.
Later, when the city teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, it was Lindsay’s capitulation to the demands of the transit workers which received the blame.
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 CC Chapter 5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Lindsay faced an obstacle in the accumulated power of Robert Moses, who continued to wear several different hats, not the least of which was Chairman of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority (TBTA).
Lindsay had wooed minority voters by campaigning for the empowerment of local communities and had won the support of both of the minority Borough Presidents of the Bronx and Manhattan (Herman Badillo and Percy Sutton, respectively); the other three Borough Presidents opposed him.
Lindsay's strategy was to encourage middle-class whites to remain in an area even though middle-class non-whites moved in, so that property values would not be forced down.
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 CNN.com - Former New York Mayor John Lindsay dies - December 20, 2000
Lindsay, who suffered from Parkinson's disease and had two heart attacks and two strokes in recent years, died Tuesday night at a local hospital.
Lindsay was a paradox -- a liberal Republican, a WASP graduate of Yale who had warm relations with the fl community.
Lindsay had represented New York's 17th Congressional District -- known as the "Silk Stocking District" because of its Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue wards -- for seven years when he ran for mayor in 1965.
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 Lindsay, John Vliet - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
LINDSAY, JOHN VLIET [Lindsay, John Vliet], 1921-2000, American politician, mayor of New York City (1966-73), b.
In 1972, Lindsay entered several Democratic presidential primaries, but he withdrew from the running after finishing sixth in the Wisconsin primary.
John Lindsay, N.Y. mayor in the `60s and `70s, dies at 79.(New York Daily News)
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 Mayor Lindsay, a contrary view
When Lindsay was elected in Nov. 1965, he refused to talk to the Transit Workers Union until he took office on Jan. 1, 1966, the same day the union was to strike if they had no contract.
Lindsay had been playing the race card to fight teachers and others by saying he was needed as protection from them, as if they were animals.
Lindsay spent city money to use firefighting personnel to deliver food to his meetings - and then the next mayor had to let firefighters go due to the budget crunch.
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 S.V.A. 1994 Supporters - N.Y.C. Mayor John V. Lindsay
John V. Lindsay ("JVL") was elected Mayor of the City of New York in 1965 on the Republican and Liberal political party lines.
Prior to being mayor, JVL served in the New York City Council.
Mayor Lindsay was re-elected Mayor of New York City in November of 1969 several months after the Stonewall Rebellion.
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 John William Ryan v Lindsay John Gessner and Noel Stanley Gessner [1984] 4 AIPO (21 March 1984)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Application No. 528335, relating to a plough shank, was lodged on 7 August, 1978 by John William Ryan (hereinafter referred to as the applicant) and became open to public inspection on 14 February, 1980.
A Notice of Opposition was subsequently lodged on 18 October, 1983 in the names of Lindsay John Gessner and Noel Stanley Gessner "trading as Gessner Bros.".
The Notice of Opposition and the application for extension of time are both in the same name, and I do not think there is any doubt that Lindsay John Gessner and Noel Stanley Gassner, individually or trading as Gessner Bros., are persons interested within the terms of section 59 of the Patents Act.
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 Congressman Major Owens -- Rap Poem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
John Lindsay was a highly visible and articulate idealist and advocate for greater inclusion of minorities in the American dream.
With ignorance and incompetence, the people on the bottom sometimes betrayed their mayoral advocate; however, it was the lack of vision and the resistance within the ranks of the city's organized machine Democrats which blocked the realization of a new progressive base for the governing of New York City.
After serving as a commissioner appointed by John Lindsay, I was elected to the New York State Senate in 1974.
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 Former NYC Mayor Lindsay Dead At 79 - CBS News
Lindsay was a paradox - a liberal Republican, a WASP graduate of Yale who had warm relations with the fl community.
Lindsay had represented New York's 17th Congressional District - known as the "Silk Stocking District" because of its Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue wards - for seven years when he ran for mayor in 1965.
Lindsay's time as mayor was full of crises: strikes by transit workers, teachers, garbagemen, cabdrivers, bridge operators, newspapers and even policemen.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2000/12/20/national/main258576.shtml   (842 words)

  
 Office of Public Affairs at Yale - News Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Fellowship is named to honor John V. Lindsay, a member of the Yale College Class of 1944 and the Yale Law School Class of 1948, who was mayor of New York from 1965 to 1973.
The Lindsay Fellowship honors the commitment to public service exhibited by John V. Lindsay throughout his life, not only as a member of Congress and as mayor of the City of New York, but also as a private citizen involved in numerous charitable concerns and nonprofit organizations.
Lindsay Fellows will be appointed to take positions in a variety of New York City government and public agencies, and in public interest law.
www.yale.edu /opa/newsr/00-09-14-01.all.html   (623 words)

  
 Paid Notice: Deaths LINDSAY, JOHN V. - New York Times
He led the theater with energy and enthusiasm to a previously unknown stability, and the theater's current sixteenth season is a living tribute to John Lindsay and the devoted people he gathered around him to insure that a permanent theater of artistic distinction be securely established at Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts.
John's mere presence in our clubhouse was always an event of great joy and celebration.
LINDSAY-John V. The members of The Lotos Club mourn the loss of their distinguished colleague and longtime friend, John V. Lindsay, and send condolences to his family.
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 Article | The Blunders of ‘66
The costly, two-week transit strike, which began the morning John V. Lindsay took office as mayor, inevitably was recalled among the low points of his tenure when he died last month.
The income tax was part of a $521 million tax-hike package (equivalent to more than $2.3 billion in 2000 dollars) that Lindsay proposed soon after taking office to close a budget gap inherited from his predecessor, Robert Wagner.
Lindsay and Rockefeller are now both gone, but some of their policies will haunt New York for many years to come.
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 John Vliet Lindsay
Lindsay, a liberal Republican, returned to New York City and won election to Congress in Manhattan's heavily Democratic 17th District.
After serving out his second term as mayor of New York City, Lindsay returned to private life in 1973, working at his law practice, authoring books, and serving as a television commentator.
The message that was delivered at the memorial service for John Vliet Lindsay, on Friday, January 26, 2001 by New York City Mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, states most of what needs to be said.
www.clanlindsay.com /john_vliet_lindsay.htm   (1620 words)

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