Word: lindsays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much the same tactic. There is even speculation in Washington that the President may call a special session of Congress in late summer or early fall to offer some reform and take the issue away from the Democrats. After getting around the country a bit in the primaries, John Lindsay advised: "What someone ought to do is organize a nationwide grassroots campaign for a total tax restructuring in this country by 1976, the bicentennial. Whoever does, will have a great political future...
...Wisconsin upset, the forces of Marshall McLuhan were in disarray. Edmund Muskie's media consultant, Robert Squier, resigned because he was no longer wanted; the candidate pronounced political TV spots an "abomination" and promised not to use them again in the campaign. After his badly mauled client John Lindsay quit the presidential race, Media Wizard, David Garth, confessed that TV is "highly overrated in importance. A multitude of commercials-good, bad or indifferent-will dilute all television influence." Overloaded, the big eye had blurred. The light had failed-at least for some...
...George S. McGovern, 1822, 74 per cent; Rep, Shirley Chisholm 282, 11 per cent; Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, 141, 6 Per cent; Gov. George C. Wallace, 67, 2 per cent; Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey 51, 2 per cent; Mayor John V. Lindsay, 48, 1 per cent; Eugene J. McCarthy, 36, 1 per cent; Sen. Henry Jackson, 28, 1 per cent...
...George Wallace-and Scoop Jackson shun the label. But the rest boast of their populist credentials whenever they can. Wallace plays up his poor-country-boy origins in the Deep South; Humphrey points to his populist record over the years. While he was still in the race, John Lindsay tried to project himself as an "urban populist." Ed Muskie held off for a while, but after doing badly in the Florida primary, he, too, converted to a populist position...
...dining room. He lingered at the table, telling stories well into the afternoon, then had Photographer Richard Avedon up to his Plaza Hotel suite for their second sitting (the first was 20 years ago, on the day Chaplin left America). Later he visited Gracie Mansion, where Mayor John V. Lindsay presented him with the city's highest cultural award, the Handel Medallion. "Smile!" yelled the photographers. "I'm afraid my teeth would fall out," cracked Chaplin, cupping a hand beneath his chin...