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John Vliet Lindsay (/ v l iː t /; November 24, 1921 – December 19, 2000) was an American politician and lawyer. During his political career, Lindsay was a U.S. congressman, the mayor of New York City , and a candidate for U.S. president.
Campaign poster for John Lindsay from the 1965 mayoral election. Lindsay announced on March 1, 1965, that he would not run for Mayor of New York City in the 1965 election, but later announced on May 13, that he would seek the mayoralty.
Oct 26, 2015 · Fifty years ago, John V. Lindsay was elected Mayor of New York City. He was a liberal Republican, a species not uncommon in the Northeast after the Second World War. But Lindsay was one of the last, already bucking a trend: he would not get the Republican nomination when he ran for re-election in 1969.
John Vliet Lindsay ( / vliːt /; November 24, 1921 – December 19, 2000) was an American politician and lawyer. During his political career, Lindsay was a U.S. congressman, the mayor of New York City, and a candidate for U.S. president. He was also a regular guest host of Good Morning America.
America’s Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York examines the dramatic times and controversial tenure (1966-1973) of New York’s 103rd mayor. The exhibition presents Lindsay’s efforts to lead a city amid the political and social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s; it also highlights Mayor Lindsay’s ambitious initiatives to ...
Dec 21, 2000 · John V. Lindsay, the debonair political irregular who represented Manhattan's Silk Stocking district on the East Side for seven years in Congress and was a two-term mayor of New York during the...
Apr 30, 2014 · The history, policies, and legacy of John Lindsay, mayor of New York City from 1966 to 1973. Summer in the City takes a clear look at John Lindsay’s tenure as mayor of New York City during the...
May 13, 2010 · On the magazine cover, each crease in his face is labeled with a supposed cause: the sanitation strike, the Tombs riots, the presidential debacle, the school strike, the transit strike, the long...
Three decades before Rudolph Giuliani was dubbed “America’s Mayor,” John V. Lindsay was, for a time, the urban leader to whom the whole nation looked. Young, energetic, and idealistic, he campaigned on a platform of change and optimism.
Dec 20, 2000 · As a Member of Congress, and later as mayor, John Lindsay built a remarkable rapport with the people of New York City—people of every race, in every neighborhood, in every walk of life. In times of great change, John Lindsay was a progressive yet pragmatic force for the public interest.
