Word: lindsay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JOHN V. LINDSAY...
...should try to avoid becoming mayor of New York. William F. Buckley Jr. was lucky. He lost his 1965 campaign and has since had plenty of time to tend to his twitting-in articles, books of nonfiction, the National Review and on TV's Firing Line. John V. Lindsay was not so fortunate. He not only won first prize in 1965 (four years as mayor) but, as things turned out, second prize (four more years). Because of Lindsay's self-evident weariness, this battle of the books between old antagonists is a decided mismatch...
...Lindsay's prose, by comparison, seems set down by the numbers: "Mayor James Carr sat heavily in his big leather chair behind his littered desk in the handsome office in downtown San Marco." If Buckley has written Frank Merriwell Joins the CIA, Lindsay's lumbering parable could be subtitled Seven Years in May. The time is the not too distant future. Runaway unemployment and racial strife have brought about two years of martial law in America. Before Congress is a "Special Powers" bill that will eliminate virtually all civil liberties. "There may be," a Justice Department official concedes...
...interests, including what he now refers to as "the oil-and-gas crowd." But gradually he moved left, partly under the influence of the Kennedy family and then as a member of the Kerner commission on civil disorders. He was a principal author, along with New York Mayor John Lindsay, of the report's conclusion that America was heading toward two nations-one black, one white. Hoping to be on the ticket with Hubert Humphrey in 1968, Harris was given the consolation prize of Democratic National Committee chairman. He played a key role in making the procedural changes that...
...have this country believe that he's concerned about New York's spending policies, yet his own record in the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee and as president, show that these concerns are cast aside for enormous overruns on taxpayer-funded defense contracts. In his actions, as John Lindsay pointed out, there "were none of Mr. Ford's critical concern for waste, mismanagement or policy...