Word: lindsays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Javits said that the progressives in the Republican Party have an "infinitely better chance" today than twenty years ago. He said the election of John P. Lindsay in New York and of moderate Republicans to the governor-ship in Maryland and Virginia and to the Senate GOP leadership are "encouraging signs...
EVERY December prior to the enactment of the New York State budget, John Lindsay has trekked to Albany to bang his head on the legislative wall. This past year he pleaded for help with his expected "gap in the budget" of over $500 million. Governor Rockefeller, "although expressing sympathy for New York City's fiscal problems," said he could not help Mr. Lindsay, for he too had a gap in his budget-$700 million...
Revenue sharing is Richard Nixon's version of tossing pennies in a fountain and making a wish... that John Lindsay and his urban problems go away...
Fortunately for urban America, John V. Lindsay won't go away... at least voluntarily. Now that he has been re-elected without Republican ties, the cities are his only constituency. We can be sure that he will persist in reminding the Administration of its urban obligations. But if the Administration is unresponsive, and if New York City's fiscal problems are as acute as they seem, Lindsay's victory will only be a "thumb-in-a-bursting-dike" holding action for New York...
...have visions of John Lindsay, downtrodden and in rags, standing before the main gate of the Pentagon accosting the President as he enters and leaves: "Pardon me, Sir. Could you spare a little change... just a billion or two. My city is starving...