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Three weeks ago New York City's Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner, challenged for a fourth term by Republican Congressman John Lindsay, let it be known that he might not even try for reelection. Hardly anyone believed him -but almost everyone agreed that the mayor's prolonged period of indecision was fine publicity; it certainly had the effect of pushing Candidate Lindsay off Page...
Last week Bob Wagner, 55, summoned newsmen to City Hall to announce his plans. And to the astonishment of all, he said that he would not run again for mayor. Declared he: "My decision is final and irrevocable." Brushing tears from his eyes, he recalled that he had promised his wife Susan, during his 1961 campaign, that his next term as mayor would be his last. Susan's death from cancer last year, Wagner said, had reinforced his determination to spend more time with his two sons, one "on the very threshold of manhood, the other soon approaching that...
...Onion. Wagner also expressed the fear that he might go stale in another four years. With considerable candor, he acknowledged that "perhaps it is time for a change-for me as well as for the city." He confessed: "Some of the more routine duties which were once tolerable enough now became drudgery. While I continued to respond to each day's major challenges, I caught myself feeling that four more years would be four more years of the same thing." Earlier in the week, Wagner had described the demands of the job: "The working hours run from dawn...
Within hours after Wagner's announcement, the line of applicants started forming. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., boosted by the endorsement of Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell, said he was available-"if the right people ask me." Behind Roosevelt stood City Council President Paul R. Screvane, Comptroller Abraham D. Beame, Queens District Attorney Frank D. O'Connor and Manhattan District Attorney Frank S. Hogan...
Past the Point. The effect of Wagner's withdrawal upon the candidacy of Republican Lindsay was open to conjecture. No longer would Lindsay have tired Bob Wagner to use as a whipping boy and his administration as a target. Still, New York City Democrats, who outnumber Republicans by more than 3 to 1, have grown accustomed to Wagner, and most of them undoubtedly would have voted for him again. Richard Nixon, just at a guess, figured that Wagner's decision increased Lindsay's chances...