Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lords. The anti-Wagner coalition is composed of city and county Democratic bosses whom Wagner antagonized in 1961 by his celebrated and rather sudden stance of fighting for reform and against boss rule. These war lords include Charles Buckley of The Bronx, Peter Crotty of Buffalo and Stanley Steingut of Brooklyn. Last fall this coalition forced Wagner to accept Bobby Kennedy's candidacy for the Senate...
...Wagner is fighting for his political future. If he loses this fight, he will still have a chance to serve a fourth term as mayor, but he would have little or no chance should he want the nomi nation for Governor in 1966, the only other office potentially open to him since Kennedy won the Senate seat. Nelson Rockefeller will probably run again, but the Democrats think he is distinctly beatable, and so the gubernatorial nomination looks worthwhile...
Bobby assured one and all that he was not involved in the fight, and as a U.S. Senator couldn't "really do very much directly." Of course he did not have to do very much-directly. But it was Kennedy nevertheless who gave the anti-Wagner forces their determination and their purpose...
Best Friends. Two weeks ago, declaring himself pained by the disarray in the party, Kennedy proposed that the leadership issue be taken up by the legislators in a secret ballot; voting in secret, they would presumably be free of their various overlords' control and break the deadlock. Wagner was pressured into accepting the plan publicly, and even signed a statement calling for such a vote. But when he thought it over, he realized that-secrecy or no secrecy-he simply didn't have the votes...
...Wagner was widely accused of hypocrisy; as mayor of New York, in charge of one of the largest patronage domains in the U.S., he has indulged in his share of political deals and purposeful appointments. But while Wagner's air of outraged purity might strike a lot of people as ludicrous, there was a remarkable degree of cynicism and complacency in the widespread notion that this is the way things are in politics. Reported the New York Times: "Even the mayor's best friends here concede that, if the charges are true, he broke one of the inviolable...