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John Lindsay
Lindsay in 1969
103rdMayor of New York City
In office
January 1, 1966 – December 31, 1973
Preceded byRobert F. Wagner Jr.
Succeeded byAbraham Beame
Member of theU.S. House of Representatives
from New York's17thdistrict
In office
January 3, 1959 – December 31, 1965
Preceded byFrederic Coudert
Succeeded byTheodore R. Kupferman
Personal details
Born
John Vliet Lindsay

(1921-11-24)November 24, 1921
New York City, U.S.
DiedDecember 19, 2000(2000-12-19)(aged 79)
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina,U.S.
Political partyDemocratic(after 1971)
Other political
affiliations		Republican(until 1971)
Spouse
Mary Harrison
​
(m.1949)​
EducationYale University(BA,LLB)
Military service
AllegianceUnited States
Branch/serviceUnited States Navy
Years of service1943–1946
RankLieutenant
Battles/wars

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, themayor of New York City,and a candidate for U.S. president. He was also a regular guest host ofGood Morning America.Lindsay served as a member of theUnited States House of Representativesfrom January 1959 to December 1965 and as mayor of New York from January 1966 to December 1973.

He switched from theRepublicanto theDemocratic Partyin 1971, and launched a brief and unsuccessful bid for the1972 Democratic presidential nomination,and later for the 1980 Democratic nomination for Senator from New York.

Early life[edit]

Lindsay was born in New York City onWest End Avenueto George Nelson Lindsay and the former Florence Eleanor Vliet.[1]He grew up in an upper-middle-class family ofEnglishandDutchdescent.[2]Lindsay's paternal grandfather migrated to the United States in the 1880s from theIsle of Wight,[1]and his mother was from an upper-middle-class family that had been in New York since the 1660s.[2]His mother was a descendant of Dirck Jans van der Vliet (1612–1689) who settled in the then Dutch settlement ofNew Netherlandsaround 1659–1660 as son Henderick was born in what is nowLivingston, New York.[3]Lindsay's father was a successful lawyer andinvestment banker.[1]Lindsay attended theBuckley School,St. Paul's School,andYale,[1]where he was admitted to the class of 1944 and joinedScroll and Key.[4]

Military service and legal career[edit]

With the outbreak of World War II, Lindsay completed his studies early and in 1943 joined theUnited States Navyas agunnery officer.He obtained the rank oflieutenant,earning fivebattle starsthrough action in theinvasion of Sicilyand a series of landings in thePacific theater.[5][6]After the war, he spent a few months as a ski bum[2]and a couple of months training as a bank clerk[2]before returning toNew Haven,where he received his law degree fromYale Law Schoolin 1948, ahead of schedule.[2]In 1949, he began his legal career at the law firm ofWebster, Sheffield, Fleischmann, Hitchcock & Chrystie.[7]

Marriage[edit]

Mary Harrison Lindsay and John Lindsay, at campaign event, between 1969 and 1977.

Back in New York City, Lindsay met his future wife, Mary Anne Harrison (1926–2004), at the wedding ofNancy Walker Bush(daughter ofConnecticut's SenatorPrescott Bushand sister of future PresidentGeorge Herbert Walker Bushand aunt ofGeorge W. Bush&Jeb Bush),[2]where he was anusherand Harrison abridesmaid.[2]She was a graduate ofVassar College[4]and a distant relative ofWilliam Henry HarrisonandBenjamin Harrison.[2]They married in 1949.[4]That same year Lindsay was admitted to the bar, and rose to become a partner in his law firm four years later.[6]They had three daughters and a son.[8]

U.S. Representative[edit]

Congressman Lindsay speaking at theNew York City Board of Estimatemeeting at City Hall in April 1963

Lindsay began gravitating toward politics as one of the founders of the Youth forEisenhowerclub in 1951 and as president of theNew York Young Republican Clubin 1952.[9]He went on to join theUnited States Department of Justicein 1955 as executive assistant toAttorney GeneralHerbert Brownell.There he worked oncivil libertiescases as well as the1957 Civil Rights Act.In 1958, with the backing of Brownell as well asBruce Barton,John Aspinwall Roosevelt,andEdith Willkie,[2]Lindsay won the Republican primary and went on to be elected to Congress as the representative of the "Silk Stocking"17th district, exemplified byManhattan'sUpper East Sidebut also encompassing the diverseLower East Sideand historically bohemianGreenwich Village.[9]

While in Congress, Lindsay established a liberal voting record increasingly at odds with his own party.[10]He was an early supporter of federal aid to education andMedicare;[2]and advocated the establishment of a federalUnited States Department of Housing and Urban Developmentand aNational Foundation for the Arts and Humanities.[2]He was called a maverick,[1]casting the lone dissenting vote for a Republican-sponsored bill extending the power of thePostmaster Generalto impound obscene mail[2]and one of only two dissenting votes for a bill allowing federal interception of mail fromCommunistcountries.[2]Also known for his wit, when asked by his party leaders why he opposed legislation to combat Communism and pornography, he replied that the two were the major industries of his district and if they were suppressed then "the 17th district would be a depressed area".[6]Lindsay voted in favor of theCivil Rights Act of 1960and1964,the24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitutionand theVoting Rights Act of 1965.[11][12][13][14]

Mayor of New York City[edit]

Main article:Mayoralty of John Lindsay
Lindsay as mayor with a physical copy of the city's budget, April 1966

In1965,Lindsay was electedMayor of New York Cityas a Republican with the support of theLiberal Party of New Yorkin a three-way race. He defeated Democratic mayoral candidateAbraham D. Beame,then City Comptroller, as well as conservative thinker andNational ReviewfounderWilliam F. Buckley Jr.,who ran on theConservative Partyline. The unofficial motto of the campaign, taken from aMurray Kemptoncolumn, was "He is fresh and everyone else is tired".[2][15]

Labor issues[edit]

Further information:1966 New York City transit strikeandNew York City teachers' strike of 1968
Lindsay speaking at City Hall in January 1966

On his first day as mayor, January 1, 1966, theTransport Workers Union of America,led byMike Quill,shut down the city with acomplete halt of subway and bus service.As New Yorkers endured the transit strike, Lindsay remarked, "I still think it's a fun city", and walked four miles (6 km) from his hotel room to City Hall in a gesture to show it.[16]Dick Schaap,then a columnist for theNew York Herald Tribune,popularized the term in an article titled "Fun City".[16][17]In the article, Schaap sardonically pointed out that it was not.[16][17]

In 1966, the settlement terms of the transit strike, combined with increased welfare costs and general economic decline, forced Lindsay to lobby the New York State legislature for a new municipalincome taxand higher water rates for city residents, plus a newcommuter taxfor people who worked in the city but resided elsewhere. The transit strike was the first of many labor struggles. In 1968, in an attempt to decentralize the city's school system, Lindsay granted three local school boards in the city complete control over their schools, in an effort to allow communities to have more of a say in their schools. The city's teachers union, theUnited Federation of Teachers,however, saw the breakup as a way ofunion busting,as a decentralized school system would force the union to negotiate with 33 separate school boards rather than with one centralized body. As a result, in May 1968 several teachers working in schools located in the neighborhood ofOcean Hill-Brownsville,one of the neighborhoods where the decentralization was being tested, were fired from their jobs by the community-run school board. The UFT demanded the reinstatement of the dismissed teachers, citing that the teachers had been fired withoutdue process.When their demands were ignored, the UFT called the first of three strikes, leading ultimately to aprotracted citywide teachers' strikethat stretched over a seven-month period between May and November.[18]The strike was tinged with racial and anti-Semitic overtones, pitting Black and Puerto Rican parents against Jewish teachers and supervisors.[19]Many thought the mayor had made a bad situation worse by taking sides against the teachers.[19]The episode left a legacy of tensions between African-Americans and Jews that went on for years,[1]and Lindsay called it his greatest regret.[1]

Scene from NYC sanitation strike, February 1968

That same year, 1968, also saw a three-day Broadway strike and a nine-daysanitationstrike.[20]Quality of life in the city reached a nadir during the sanitation strike as mounds ofgarbagecaught fire and strong winds blew the filth through the streets.[21]In June 1968, the New York City Police Department deployed snipers to protect Lindsay during a public ceremony, shortly after they detained a knife-wielding man who had demanded to meet the mayor.[22]With the schools shut down, police engaged in a slowdown, firefighters threatening job actions, the city awash in garbage, and racial and religious tensions breaking to the surface, Lindsay later called the last six months of 1968 "the worst of my public life."[1]

The summer of 1971 ushered in another devastating strike as over 8,000 workers belonging toAFSCMEDistrict Council 37 walked off their jobs for two days. The strikers included the operators of the city'sdrawbridgesandsewage treatment plants.Drawbridges over theHarlem Riverwere locked in the "up" position, barring automobile travel into Manhattan, and hundreds of thousands of gallons of raw sewage flowed into local waterways.

Racial and civil unrest[edit]

Lindsay meets with U.S. PresidentLyndon B. Johnsonin theOval Office,August 1967

Lindsay served on the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as theKerner Commission,and was its vice chairman. This body was appointed in 1967 by President Johnson after riots in urban centers of the US, including Newark and Detroit. Lindsay maximized publicity and coverage of his activities on the commission, and while other commissioners made inconspicuous visits to riot-damaged sites, Lindsay would alert the press before his fact-finding missions. Nonetheless, he was especially influential in producing the Kerner Report; its dramatic language of the nation "moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal" was consistent with his rhetoric.[23]

President Johnson ignored the report and rejected the Kerner Commission's recommendations.[24]In April 1968, one month after the release of the Kerner report, rioting broke out inmore than 100 citiesfollowing theassassination of Martin Luther King Jr.[25]However, in New York City, Lindsay traveled directly intoHarlem,telling Black residents that he regretted King's death and was working against poverty.[26]He is credited with averting riots in the city with this direct response, even as other major cities burned.[27][28]David Garth, who accompanied Lindsay that night, recalled: "There was a wall of people coming across125th Street,going from west to east... I thought we were dead. John raised his hands, said he was sorry. It was very quiet. My feeling was, his appearance there was very reassuring to people because it wasn't the first time they had seen him. He had gone there on a regular basis. That gave him credibility when it hit the fan. "[29]

Lindsay showed his support for New York's African American community through his administration's sponsorship of the 1969Harlem Cultural Festival,which is documented in the 2021 music film,Summer of Soul.[30]The host of the festival, Tony Lawrence, introduces the mayor to the Harlem crowd as "our blue-eyed soul brother."

Blizzard of 1969[edit]

See also:February 1969 nor'easter
A street in New York City during the storm. This scene is inManhattan,1969.

On February 10, 1969, New York City was pummeled with 15 inches (38 cm) of snow. On the first day alone, 14 people died and 68 were injured.[31]Within a day, the mayor was criticized for giving favored treatment to Manhattan at the expense of the other boroughs.[32]Charges were made that a city worker solicited a bribe to clean streets in Queens.[33]

Over a week later, streets in eastern Queens still remained unplowed by the city, enraging the borough's residents, many who felt that the city's other boroughs always took a back seat to Manhattan.[34]Lindsay traveled to Queens, but his visit was not well received. His car could not make its way throughRego Park,and even in a four-wheel-drive truck, he had trouble getting around.[35]InKew Gardens Hills,the mayor was booed; one woman screamed, "You should be ashamed of yourself."[35]InFresh Meadows,a woman told the mayor: "Get away, you bum."[35]Later during his walk through Fresh Meadows, another woman called him "a wonderful man," prompting the mayor to respond: "And you're a wonderful woman, not like those fat Jewish broads up there," pointing to women in a nearby building who had criticized him.[35]

The blizzard, dubbed the "Lindsay Snowstorm,”[36]prompted a political crisis that became "legendary in the annals of municipal politics"[35]as the scenes conveyed a message that the mayor of New York City was indifferent to the middle class and poor citizens of the city.[1]

Reelection[edit]

In 1969, a backlash against Lindsay caused him to lose the Republican mayoralprimarytostate SenatorJohn Marchi,who was enthusiastically supported by William F. Buckley and the rest of the party's conservative wing. In the Democratic primary, the most conservative candidate, City ComptrollerMario Procaccino,defeated several more liberal contenders and won the nomination with only apluralityof the votes. "The more the Mario," he quipped.[37]Procaccino, who ran to Lindsay's right, went on to coin the term "limousine liberal"to describe Lindsay and his wealthyManhattanbackers.

Despite losing the Republican nomination, Lindsay remained on the ballot as the candidate of theNew York Liberal Party.In his campaign he said "mistakes were made" and called being mayor of New York City "the second toughest job in America."[38][39]Two television advertisements described his position: In one he looked directly into the camera and said, "I guessed wrong on the weather before the city's biggest snowfall last winter. And that was a mistake. But I put 6,000 more cops on the streets. And that was no mistake. The school strike went on too long and we all made some mistakes. But I brought 225,000 more jobs to this town. And that was no mistake... And we did not have a Detroit, aWattsorNewark.And those were no mistakes. The things that go wrong are what make this the second toughest job in America. But the things that go right are those things that make me want it. "The second opened with a drive through theHolland Tunnelfrom lower Manhattan towardNew Jerseyand suggested that, "Every New Yorker should take this trip at least once before election day..." followed by video of Newark, New Jersey which had been devastated by race riots.[40]

While narrowly losingBrooklynandthe Bronxdue to Procaccino's entrenched support among ethnic, working class whites (with Marchi winning his nativeStaten Island), Lindsay was able to vanquish his opponents with support from three distinct groups.[41]First were the city's minorities, mostly African Americans and Puerto Ricans, who were concentrated inHarlem,theSouth Bronxand various Brooklyn neighborhoods, includingBedford-StuyvesantandBrownsville.[41][42]Second were the white and economically secure residents of certain areas of Manhattan.[41][42]Third were the whites in the boroughs outside Manhattan who had a similar educational background and "cosmopolitan" attitude, namely residents of solidly middle-class neighborhoods, includingForest HillsandKew GardensinQueensandBrooklyn Heightsin Brooklyn.[41]This third category included many traditionally Democratic Jewish Americans who were repelled by Procaccino's conservatism. This created a plurality coalition (42%) in Lindsay's second three-way race. His margin of victory rose from just over 100,000 more votes than his Democratic opponent in 1965 to over 180,000 votes over Procaccino in 1969, despite appearing on just onethird partyballot line (seeNew York City Mayoral Elections).[41][42]

Hard-hat riots[edit]

Main article:Hard Hat Riot
Lindsay speaking at a senior citizens rally in October 1965

On May 8, 1970, near the intersection ofWall StreetandBroad Streetand atNew York City Hall,a riot started when about 200construction workersmobilized by the New York StateAFL–CIOlabor federation attacked about 1,000 high school and college students and othersprotestingtheKent State shootings,theCambodian Campaign,and theVietnam War.Some attorneys, bankers, and investment analysts from nearby Wall Street investment firms tried to protect many of the students but were themselves attacked, and some onlookers reported that the police stood by and did nothing. Although more than 70 people were injured, including four policemen, only six people were arrested.[43][44][45]The following day, Lindsay severely criticized the police for their lack of action.[46]Police Department labor leaders later accused Lindsay of "undermining the confidence of the public in its Police Department" by his statements[47]and blamed the inaction on inadequate preparations and "inconsistent directives" in the past from the mayor's office.[48]Several thousand construction workers, longshoremen and white-collar workers protested against the mayor on May 11 and again on May 16. Protesters called Lindsay "the red mayor," "traitor," "Commie rat," and "bum." The mayor described the mood of the city as "taut."[49][50]

Police corruption[edit]

In 1970,The New York TimesprintedNew York City Police DepartmentPatrolmanFrank Serpico's claims of widespreadpolice corruption.As a result, theKnapp Commissionwas eventually formed that April by Lindsay, with investigations beginning in June, although public hearings did not start until October 18, 1971. Its preliminary report was not issued until August 1972, and final recommendations only released on December 27, 1972. Because of his forming of the Knapp Commission, many NYPD officers disliked him and didn't want him to attend their funerals in case they died on duty and heckled, hissed, jeered and booed him when he did appear. The wife of Rocco Laurie, one of two city police officers who were murdered by Black revolutionaries in 1972, specifically stated that she did not want Lindsay to attend her husband's funeral that year.

Assessments[edit]

A 1993 survey of historians, political scientists and urban experts conducted by Melvin G. Holli of theUniversity of Illinois at Chicagoranked Lindsay as the sixteenth-worst American big-city mayor to have served between the years 1820 and 1993.[51]

Party switch and presidential campaign[edit]

See also:1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries

Lindsay was mentioned as a Republican Vice Presidential possibility in 1968, but was found to be unacceptable by Southern conservatives, andSpiro Agnewwas nominated instead. Lindsay’s original break with the Republican Party began immediately after he failed to win the 1969 Republican mayoral primary, and his subsequent association with the New York Liberal Party for that election. In 1971, Lindsay and his wife cut ties with the Republican Party by registering with theDemocratic Party.Lindsay said, "In a sense, this step recognizes the failure of 20 years in progressive Republican politics. In another sense, it represents the renewed decision to fight for new national leadership."[52]Lindsay then launched a brief and unsuccessful bid for the1972 Democratic presidential nomination.He attracted positive media attention and was a successful fundraiser. Lindsay did well in the earlyArizonacaucus,coming in second place[53]behindEdmund MuskieofMaineand ahead of eventual nomineeGeorge McGovernofSouth Dakota.Then in the March 14 Florida primary, he placed a weak fifth place, behindGeorge WallaceofAlabama,Muskie,Hubert HumphreyofMinnesota,andScoop JacksonofWashington(though he did edge out McGovern).[54]Among his difficulties was New York City's worsening problems, which Lindsay was accused of neglecting; a band of protesters fromForest Hills, Queens,who were opposed to his support for a low income housing project in their neighborhood, followed Lindsay around his aborted campaign itinerary to jeer and heckle him.[55][56]His poor showing in Florida effectively doomed his candidacy. Shortly thereafter, influential Brooklyn Democratic Party chairmanMeade Espositocalled for Lindsay to end his campaign: "I think the handwriting is on the wall;Little Shebabetter come home. "[57]After a poor showing in the April 5Wisconsinprimary, Lindsay formally abandoned the race.

Assessment[edit]

Lindsay at the firstpublic hearingon proposed executive capital budget in February 1966

In a 1972 Gallup poll, 60% of New Yorkers felt Lindsay's administration was working poorly, nine percent rated it good, and not one person thought its performance excellent.[58]By 1978,The New York Timescalled Lindsay "an exile in his own city".[59]

Lindsay's record remained controversial after he left politics. Conservative historianFred Siegel,calling Lindsay the worst New York City mayor of the 20th century, said "Lindsay wasn't incompetent or foolish or corrupt, but he was actively destructive".[60]Journalist Steven Weisman observed "Lindsay's congressional career had taught him little of the need for subtle bureaucratic maneuvering, for understanding an opponent's self-interest, or for the great patience required in a sprawling government."[61]

Lindsay's budget aidePeter C. Goldmark, Jr.told historian Vincent Cannato that the administration "failed to come to grips with what a neighborhood is. We never realized that crime is something that happens to, and in, a community." Assistant Nancy Seifer said "There was a whole world out there that nobody in City Hall knew anything about... If you didn't live onCentral Park West,you were some kind of lesser being. "[62]Many experts traced the city's mid-1970s fiscal crisis to the Lindsay years, and to the new taxes that he imposed.[1]

An alternate assessment was made by journalist Robert McFadden who said that "By 1973, his last year in office, Mr. Lindsay had become a more seasoned, pragmatic mayor."[1]McFadden also credited him for reducing racial tensions, leading to the prevention of riots that plagued Detroit, Los Angeles, Newark and other cities.[1]

Legacy[edit]

Mario Cuomo,Carl McCall,andCarter F. Baleswere among the many people who started their careers in public service in the Lindsay administration.[63]Rev. Al Sharptonhas said that he still remembers Lindsay having walked the streets of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem when these neighborhoods were doing poorly economically.[63]

Lindsay also fought to transform theNew York City Civilian Complaint Review Boardfrom an internal police-run department, into a public-minded agency with a citizen majority board.[64]

Later life[edit]

Lindsay in his later years.

After leaving office, Lindsay returned to the law, but remained in the public eye as a commentator and regular guest host for ABC'sGood Morning America.In 1975, Lindsay made a surprise appearance onThe Tony Awardstelecast in which he, along with a troupe of celebrity male suitors in tuxedos, sang "Mame"toAngela Lansbury.He presented the award forBest Director Of A PlaytoJohn Dexterfor the playEquus.Lindsay also tried his hand at acting, appearing inOtto Preminger'sRosebud;[65]the following year his novel,The Edge,was published (Lindsay had earlier authored two non-fiction memoirs): theNew York Times,in its contemporary review of the novel, said it was "as dead-serious as a $100-a-plate dinner of gray meat and frozen candidates' smiles."[66]

Attempting a political comeback in 1980, Lindsay made a long-shot bid for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from New York, and finished third. He was also active in New York City charities, serving on the board of theAssociation for a Better New York,and as chairman of theLincoln Center Theater.On his death,New York Timescredited Lindsay with a significant role in the rejuvenation of the theatre.[1]

Medical bills from hisParkinson's disease,heart attacks, and stroke depleted Lindsay's finances, as did the collapse of two law firms where he worked, and he found himself without health insurance. Lindsay's eight years of service as mayor left him seven years short of qualifying for a city pension. In 1996, with support from City Council SpeakerPeter Vallone,MayorRudolph W. Giulianiappointed Lindsay to two largelyceremonial poststo make him eligible for municipal health insurance coverage.[67]He and his wife, Mary, moved to a retirement community inHilton Head Island,South Carolina, in November 1999, where he died on December 19, 2000, at the age of 79 of complications frompneumoniaand Parkinson's disease.[1]

In 2000, Yale Law School created a fellowship program named in Lindsay's honor. In 1998, a park in Brooklyn, Lindsay Triangle, was named in his honor,[68]and in 2001, theEast River Parkwas renamed in his memory.[69]In December 2013, South Loop Drive in Manhattan'sCentral Parkwas renamed after Lindsay, to commemorate his support for a car-free Central Park.[70]

He was featured on a poster picture with GovernorNelson Rockefellerat the groundbreaking of the formerWorld Trade Centerin the city history section of theMuseum of the City of New YorkatFifth Avenueand 103rd Street.

See also[edit]

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