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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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