Word: lindsays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...others in the running-John Lindsay, Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty and Republican Representative Paul McCloskey-only Yorty has received a number of substantial individual gifts. His main supporter is his campaign manager, Sam Bretzfield, a Los Angeles garment manufacturer. Charles Luckman, the architectural mogul, is another big contributor. Lindsay, on the other hand, is running out of pocket and wooing New York moneyed liberal Republicans; he has deserted their party, but Lindsay aides are still counting on their support...
...that it was about to go to Humphrey or Jackson, on the theory that either man would ensure a breakaway fourth-party movement on the left, thereby guaranteeing Nixon's reelection. Others maintain that Kennedy would have to try for the nomination if he saw New York's John Lindsay descending on the prize; better for Ted to head Lindsay off in 1972 than risk the New Yorker's becoming the party's glamorous leader...
...President Agnew, who told a story about how the Democratic presidential hopefuls went to Miami, where they got lost and wound up in Disney World. "They really put a new look on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," said Agnew. "Now they are known as Grumpy, Sneezy, Dopey, Hubie, Lindsay, Muskie and Teddy...
...cliché is the hat in the ring, but last week Democrat John Lindsay tossed in his political right hand, Deputy Mayor Richard Aurelio. Aurelio, the mayor announced, will leave city hall next month to explore further the prospects of a Lindsay presidential nomination. He will set up an office with a small staff and travel continually. Lindsay's decision whether to run, expected early next year, will be based largely on Aurelio's soundings...
Though not a formal declaration the move, Lindsay admitted, was "clearly a step toward candidacy." It was also a sign that the mayor has discovered enough backing throughout the country to warrant a stepped-up effort. On Aurelio's agenda will be Florida and Indiana, two important early-primary states where Lindsay trial balloons were well received, and probably California, which the pros judge an excellent political climate for a Lindsay TV campaign. One advantage to Aurelio's reassignment is that Lindsay risks little. If response is poor, he can gracefully withdraw, rather than drop out with...