Comments on: Lindsay for Mayor

By: RH

RH — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:35:42 +0000

1965 was the year I was born. This is the first time in a long time I’m actually feeling young.

By: Bob Marvin

Bob Marvin — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:05:15 +0000

After reading the post on Fading Ad Blog I stand corrected–this was Lindsay’s 1965 first run, not ’69.

By: Bob Marvin

Bob Marvin — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:03:27 +0000

Prior to Nixon’s “southern strategy” there were liberals and conservatives in both parties. I, along with many liberal Democrats, wished that the Democrats would become more “purely” liberal, with the other party becoming conservative. Watch out what you wish for!

By: RH

RH — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:06:44 +0000

That’s funny, my “hippie” cousin told me that he volunteered for Lindsay. Guess there WAS such a thing as a decent Republican back then.

By: Bob Marvin

Bob Marvin — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:53:58 +0000

BTW, that sign must be from the 1969 Republican Primary. Lindsay lost that to a Republican right-winger, but went on to win a second term on the Liberal Party line (back when the Liberal Party, which ended it’s life as a virtual criminal enterprise, was both liberal and a party).

By: Bob Marvin

Bob Marvin — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:47:50 +0000

I voted for John Lindsay in 1965, a few days after I turned 21; the only Republican I ever voted for. I got my start in City government in 1966, as grad student, in the Urban Corps program that he started. A few years later I started working for the City, something I’d never have considered had anyone else been mayor. I fondly recall attending an anti (Vietnam) war rally led by Lindsay in Foley Square. IMO he was the last great mayor we had.