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104-561: 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. He was also a regular guest host of Good Morning America . Lindsay served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from January 1959 to December 1965 and as mayor of New York from January 1966 to December 1973. He switched from

208-674: A publicist and magazine editor before co-founding the Barton, Durstine & Osborn (BDO) advertising agency in 1919. Nine years later the agency merged with the George Batten agency to become Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn ( BBDO ). Barton replaced Roy S. Durstine as president of BBDO during 1939 and then headed the BBDO agency until 1961, all while helping his business partners and employees toward establishing Madison Avenue in New York City as

312-473: A "strong magnetic" executive businessman, similar to himself. In the 1925 edition of The Man Nobody Knows Barton incorporated controversial chapter titles leading into the exploration of Barton's Jesus-as-businessman themes, such as calling Jesus a modern "Executive", postulating that Jesus communicated effectively by "His Advertisements", and hailing Jesus as "The Founder of Modern Business" among others. In his autobiography, William L. Shirer characterizes

416-614: A brief and unsuccessful bid for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination . He attracted positive media attention and was a successful fundraiser. Lindsay did well in the early Arizona caucus , coming in second place behind Edmund Muskie of Maine and ahead of eventual nominee George McGovern of South Dakota . Then in the March 14 Florida primary, he placed a weak fifth place, behind George Wallace of Alabama , Muskie, Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota , and Scoop Jackson of Washington (though he did edge out McGovern). Among his difficulties

520-705: A child and he sold newspapers in his free time when he was just nine. Later on during his teenage years he served as the editor for his high school newspaper, and became a reporter for a local newspaper called the Oak Park Weekly. Barton also helped run his uncle's maple syrup business, which became successful with his contributions. Barton first enrolled in Berea College (where his father attended college) during 1903 and later transferred to Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he graduated in 1907. Barton worked as

624-442: A citizen majority board. After leaving office, Lindsay returned to the law, but remained in the public eye as a commentator and regular guest host for ABC's Good Morning America . In 1975, Lindsay made a surprise appearance on The Tony Awards telecast in which he, along with a troupe of celebrity male suitors in tuxedos, sang " Mame " to Angela Lansbury . He presented the award for Best Director Of A Play to John Dexter for

728-674: A depressed area". Lindsay voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 and 1964 , the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 . In 1965 , Lindsay was elected Mayor of New York City as a Republican with the support of the Liberal Party of New York in a three-way race. He defeated Democratic mayoral candidate Abraham D. Beame , then City Comptroller, as well as conservative thinker and National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. , who ran on

832-543: A drive through the Holland Tunnel from lower Manhattan toward New Jersey and 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. While narrowly losing Brooklyn and the Bronx due to Procaccino's entrenched support among ethnic, working class whites (with Marchi winning his native Staten Island ), Lindsay

936-503: A fun city", and walked four miles (6 km) from his hotel room to City Hall in a gesture to show it. Dick Schaap , then a columnist for the New York Herald Tribune , popularized the term in an article titled "Fun City". In the article, Schaap sardonically pointed out that it was not. In 1966, the settlement terms of the transit strike, combined with increased welfare costs and general economic decline, forced Lindsay to lobby

1040-439: A jury found Frances Wagner King guilty of blackmail. After Mrs. King had served two years, an appeal court reduced her sentence to three to six years. The attorney handling Mrs. King's slander suit against Barton had paid to typeset King's novel, arranged to have Barton arrested, and offered to rescind the slander lawsuit against Barton upon a settlement paid to King. King's attorney was disbarred in 1936. In 1925, Barton wrote

1144-411: A letter to 24 rich men who all replied with at least $ 1,000. Dear Mr. Blank , For the past three or four years things have been going pretty well at our house. We pay our bills, afford such luxuries as having the children's tonsils out, and still have something in the bank at the end of the year. So far as business is concerned, therefore, I have felt fairly well content. But there is another side to

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1248-458: A liberal voting record increasingly at odds with his own party. He was an early supporter of federal aid to education and Medicare ; and advocated the establishment of a federal United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and a National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities . He was called a maverick, casting the lone dissenting vote for a Republican-sponsored bill extending the power of

1352-474: A long story, I believe I have found the place. This letter is being mailed to 23 men besides yourself, twenty-five of us altogether. I honestly believe that it offers an opportunity to get a maximum amount of satisfaction for a minimum sum. Let me give you the background. Among the first comers to this country were some pure blooded English folks who settled in Virginia but, being more hardy and venturesome than

1456-652: 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 the Association for a Better New York , and as chairman of the Lincoln Center Theater . On his death, The New York Times credited Lindsay with a significant role in the rejuvenation of the theatre. Medical bills from his Parkinson's disease , heart attacks, and stroke depleted Lindsay's finances, as did

1560-586: A man, which every now and then gets restless. It says: "What good are you anyway? What influences have you set up, aside from your business, that would go on working if you were to shuffle off tomorrow?" Of course, we chip in to the Church and the Salvation Army , and dribble out a little money right along in response to all sorts of appeals. But there isn't much satisfaction in it. For one thing, it's too diffused and, for another, I'm never very sure in my own mind that

1664-981: A result, the Knapp Commission was 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. A 1993 survey of historians, political scientists and urban experts conducted by Melvin G. Holli of

1768-793: A retirement community in Hilton Head Island , South Carolina, in November 1999, where he died on December 19, 2000, at the age of 79 of complications from pneumonia and Parkinson's disease. 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, and in 2001, the East River Park was renamed in his memory. In December 2013, South Loop Drive in Manhattan's Central Park

1872-511: A say in their schools. The city's teachers union, the United Federation of Teachers , however, saw the breakup as a way of union 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 of Ocean Hill - Brownsville , one of

1976-603: A separate process for the mayor's removal without the involvement of the governor: a five-member "Inability Committee" is formed composed of the city's corporation counsel (head of the New York City Law Department ), the speaker of the New York City Council, a deputy mayor (the mayor gets to choose which one), the New York City comptroller , and the longest-serving borough president ; by a four-fifths vote,

2080-453: A seven-month period between May and November. The strike was tinged with racial and anti-Semitic overtones, pitting Black and Puerto Rican parents against Jewish teachers and supervisors. Many thought the mayor had made a bad situation worse by taking sides against the teachers. The episode left a legacy of tensions between African-Americans and Jews that went on for years, and Lindsay called it his greatest regret. That same year, 1968, also saw

2184-511: A special election. The New York City mayoralty has become known as the "second toughest job in America." It has been observed that politicians are rarely elected to any higher office after serving as mayor of New York City; the last mayor who later achieved higher office was John T. Hoffman , who became governor of New York in 1869. Former mayor Ed Koch said that the post was jinxed due to divine intervention, whereas Michael Bloomberg has called

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2288-432: A thousand dollars a year you can put ten boys or girls back into the mountains who will be a leavening influence in ten towns or counties, and their children will bear the imprint of your influence . Honestly, can you think of any other investment that would keep your life working in the world so long a time after you are gone? This is a long letter, and I could be writing a piece for the magazines and collecting for it in

2392-484: A three-day Broadway strike and a nine-day sanitation strike. Quality of life in the city reached a nadir during the sanitation strike as mounds of garbage caught fire and strong winds blew the filth through the streets. 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

2496-403: 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. Lindsay traveled to Queens, but his visit was not well received. His car could not make its way through Rego Park , and even in a four-wheel-drive truck, he had trouble getting around. In Kew Gardens Hills ,

2600-422: A year. You write me, using the enclosed envelope, that, if and when I get my other twenty-three men, you will send President Hutchins your check for $ 1,000. If you will do this I'll promise you the best time you have ever bought for a thousand dollars. Most of the activities to which we give in our lives stop when we stop. But our families go on; and young life goes on and matures and gives birth to other lives. For

2704-461: Is Eric Adams , who was elected on November 2, 2021, and took office shortly after midnight on January 1, 2022. In 1665, Governor Richard Nicolls appointed Thomas Willett as the first mayor of New York. For 156 years, the mayor was appointed and had limited power. Between 1783 and 1821 the mayor was appointed by the Council of Appointment in which the state's governor had the loudest voice. In 1821

2808-465: Is an ex-officio board member of the following organizations: According to the New York City Charter , the governor of New York has the power to remove the mayor from office in response to allegations of misconduct, but the governor must hear the mayor's defense of the allegations before doing so. The governor can suspend the mayor for 30 days while considering the allegations. In 2024, it

2912-441: Is on the mountain counties of five states; better homes, better food, better child health, better churches, better schools; no more feuds; lower death rates. Now we come to the hook. It costs this college, which is named Berea , $ 100 a year per student to carry on. She could, of course, turn away 1500 students each year and break even on the other 1500. Or she could charge $ 100 tuition. But then she would be just one more college for

3016-418: Is open to the public and serves as a small museum. The mayor is entitled to a salary of $ 258,750 a year. Michael Bloomberg , mayor of the city from 2002 to 2013 and one of the richest people in the world, declined the salary and instead was paid $ 1 yearly . In 2000, direct control of the city's public school system was transferred to the mayor's office. Thereafter, in 2003, the reorganization established

3120-530: Is studying. And so efficiently is the job done that – One boy walked in a hundred miles, leading a cow. He stabled the cow in the village, milked her night and morning, peddled the milk, and put himself through college. He is now a major in the United States Army . His brother, who owned half of the cow, is a missionary in Africa . Seventy-five percent of the graduates go back to the mountains, and their touch

3224-568: The 1957 Civil Rights Act . In 1958, with the backing of Brownell as well as Bruce Barton , John Aspinwall Roosevelt , and Edith Willkie , Lindsay won the Republican primary and went on to be elected to Congress as the representative of the " Silk Stocking " 17th district, exemplified by Manhattan 's Upper East Side but also encompassing the diverse Lower East Side and historically bohemian Greenwich Village . While in Congress, Lindsay established

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3328-611: The American Dream , based largely upon Barton's meshing of his own life as a "small town boy" and sectarian Christian beliefs in with his admiration of certain American business and industry leaders ("Service"). Barton had projected many Christian Biblical themes throughout his works completed within his varied writing career, due in part to his own strong religious convictions. One historian writes: "Barton believed incurably in material progress, in self-improvement, in individualism, and in

3432-520: The Buckley School , St. Paul's School , and Yale , where he was admitted to the class of 1944 and joined Scroll and Key . With the outbreak of World War II, Lindsay completed his studies early and in 1943 joined the United States Navy as a gunnery officer . He obtained the rank of lieutenant , earning five battle stars through action in the invasion of Sicily and a series of landings in

3536-536: The Conservative Party line. The unofficial motto of the campaign, taken from a Murray Kempton column, was "He is fresh and everyone else is tired". On his first day as mayor, January 1, 1966, the Transport Workers Union of America , led by Mike Quill , shut down the city with a complete halt of subway and bus service . As New Yorkers endured the transit strike, Lindsay remarked, "I still think it's

3640-575: The New York City Department of Education . Tammany Hall, which evolved from an organization of craftsmen into a Democratic political machine, was an American political organization founded in 1786 and incorporated on May 12, 1789. It became the main local political machine of the Democratic Party and played a major role in controlling New York City and New York State politics. The organization gained control of Democratic Party nominations in

3744-490: The Pacific theater . After the war, he spent a few months as a ski bum and a couple of months training as a bank clerk before returning to New Haven , where he received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1948, ahead of schedule. In 1949, he began his legal career at the law firm of Webster, Sheffield, Fleischmann, Hitchcock & Chrystie . Back in New York City, Lindsay met his future wife, Mary Anne Harrison (1926–2004), at

3848-469: The Postmaster General to impound obscene mail and one of only two dissenting votes for a bill allowing federal interception of mail from Communist countries. 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

3952-567: The Republican to the Democratic Party in 1971, and launched a brief and unsuccessful bid for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination , and later for the 1980 Democratic nomination for Senator from New York. Lindsay was born in New York City on West End Avenue to George Nelson Lindsay and the former Florence Eleanor Vliet. He grew up in an upper-middle-class family of English and Dutch descent. Lindsay's paternal grandfather migrated to

4056-636: The United States , totaling $ 100.7 billion in fiscal year 2021. The city employs 325,000 people, spends about $ 21 billion to educate more than 1.1 million students (the largest public school system in the United States), and levies $ 27 billion in taxes. It receives $ 14 billion from the state and federal governments. The mayor's office is located in New York City Hall ; it has jurisdiction over all five boroughs of New York City: Manhattan , Brooklyn ,

4160-533: The University of Illinois at Chicago ranked Lindsay as the sixteenth-worst American big-city mayor to have served between the years 1820 and 1993. Lindsay was mentioned as a Republican Vice Presidential possibility in 1968, but was found to be unacceptable by Southern conservatives, and Spiro Agnew was nominated instead. Lindsay’s original break with the Republican Party began immediately after he failed to win

4264-430: The "Lindsay Snowstorm,” prompted a political crisis that became "legendary in the annals of municipal politics" 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. In 1969, a backlash against Lindsay caused him to lose the Republican mayoral primary to state Senator John Marchi , who was enthusiastically supported by William F. Buckley and

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4368-444: The "cultural shift that encouraged the public display of spiritual allegiances that once belonged to the realm of private life", while amplifying the widely perceived public adoration of American business during the 1920s. In this book, Barton envisions Jesus as if he were alive as a man's man in the present day of the 1920s while criticizing the overly meek Jesus that people were used to during that time. Barton also depicts Jesus as

4472-417: The 1920s, such as Henry Ford , George Perkins , and Jim Jeffries. According to historian Otis Pease, through his careers in advertising, popular writing and Republican activism: Pease disagreed with that hostile portrayal and instead argued that Barton was a leader of the liberal wing of the Republican Party, urging that it broaden its appeal to reach the working man in the average voter. He helped secure

4576-473: The 1950s. As a staunch opponent of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal , Barton offered his public relations services to many Republican candidates over the years. Barton won a special election to fill the unexpired term of U.S. Representative Democrat Theodore A. Peyser , who died on August 8, 1937. Barton eventually served two terms (1937–1941) in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing

4680-514: 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 the Democratic 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." Lindsay then launched

4784-798: The 1980s and 1990s, mayors Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani appeared on Saturday Night Live on several occasions, sometimes mocking themselves in sketches. Giuliani and Mayor Michael Bloomberg have both appeared, as themselves in their mayoral capacities, on episodes of Law & Order . Giuliani also appeared as himself in an episode of Seinfeld , titled " The Non-Fat Yogurt ". Giuliani has made cameos in films such as The Out-of-Towners and Anger Management . Bloomberg has appeared on 30 Rock , Gossip Girl , Curb Your Enthusiasm and Horace and Pete . DCP City Planning CB Community boards BP Borough president CPC City Planning Commission CC City Council Mayor NYC Mayor Bruce Barton Barton

4888-475: The Bronx , Staten Island and Queens . The mayor appoints numerous officials, including deputy mayors and the commissioners who head city agencies and departments. The mayor's regulations are compiled in title 43 of the New York City Rules . According to current law, the mayor is limited to two consecutive four-year terms in office but may run again after a four-year break. The limit on consecutive terms

4992-476: The City of New York , is head of the executive branch of the government of New York City and the chief executive of New York City. The mayor 's office administers all city services, public property, police and fire protection, most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within New York City. The budget, overseen by New York City Mayor's Office of Management and Budget , is the largest municipal budget in

5096-526: The Common Council, which included elected members, gained the authority to choose the mayor. An amendment to the New York State Constitution in 1834 provided for the direct popular election of the mayor. Cornelius W. Lawrence , a Democrat , was elected that year. Gracie Mansion has been the official residence of the mayor since Fiorello La Guardia 's administration in 1942. Its main floor

5200-518: The Judeo-Christian ethic, and none of the profound crises through which his generation lived appreciably changed the tenor of his writings or their capacity to reflect what masses of Americans, optimists in the progressive tradition, apparently continued to want to hear." Barton's most famous book was, The Man Nobody Knows (1925), a " boosterish melding of religion with business" that coupled with "new communication and advertising media", provided

5304-554: The Kings $ 25,000 in hush money. Later, during a 1932 appointment with her attorney, Mrs. King informed Barton that she was suing him for slander and seeking damages of $ 250,000 based on an unfavorable work reference he had provided to a potential employer of King. Mrs. King also informed Barton she was working on a novel about an advertising man based loosely on Barton's own private and public life, but that she would not publish her work and would drop her slander lawsuit if Barton would settle

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5408-445: The Lindsay years, and to the new taxes that he imposed. 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." McFadden also credited him for reducing racial tensions, leading to the prevention of riots that plagued Detroit, Los Angeles, Newark and other cities. Mario Cuomo , Carl McCall , and Carter F. Bales were among

5512-494: The Manhattan house district and he later ran an unsuccessful 1940 campaign for election as U.S. Senator from New York . During his time in Congress, Barton was a staunch opponent of Franklin Roosevelt. As the author of many bestselling guidebooks, Barton also wrote literally hundreds of popular magazines articles and syndicated newspaper columns, offering his readers advice and inspiration for attaining Barton's own idealization of

5616-557: The Mecca for the advertising industry, advancing institutional advertising for American corporations, and developing BBDO into one of the major creative advertising firms operating in the United States. Among other famous BBDO campaigns, Barton created the character of Betty Crocker . He is also credited with naming General Motors and General Electric (and creating an early design of the circular GE corporate logo and catch phrase). Barton

5720-510: The New York State legislature for a new municipal income tax and higher water rates for city residents, plus a new commuter tax for 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

5824-535: The Republican nomination for liberal Wendell Willkie in 1940. His book on Jesus, wrote Pease, was silly when it said that Jesus was at heart an advertising expert and sales executive. However, Pease argued, the book was: Public attention was drawn to a sexual affair that Barton secretly conducted from 1928 to 1932 with BBDO employee Frances Wagner King. King had originally presented herself to Barton and others at BBDO as an unmarried woman. Her husband later threatened to sue Barton for alienation of affection. Barton paid

5928-489: The Republican nomination, Lindsay remained on the ballot as the candidate of the New 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." 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

6032-545: The United States in the 1880s from the Isle of Wight , and his mother was from an upper-middle-class family that had been in New York since the 1660s. His mother was a descendant of Dirck Jans van der Vliet (1612–1689) who settled in the then Dutch settlement of New Netherlands around 1659–1660 as son Henderick was born in what is now Livingston, New York . Lindsay's father was a successful lawyer and investment banker . Lindsay attended

6136-455: 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 on Central Park West , you were some kind of lesser being." Many experts traced the city's mid-1970s fiscal crisis to

6240-673: The average, pushed on west and settled in the mountains of Kentucky , Tennessee , North and South Carolina . They were stalwart lads and lassies. They fought the first battle against the British and shed the first blood. In the Revolution they won the battle of King's Mountain . Later, under Andy Jackson , they fought and won the only land victory that we managed to pull off in the War of 1812 . Although they lived in southern states they refused to secede in 1860. They broke off from Virginia and formed

6344-493: The book's asseverations about Jesus as "a great executive . . . whose parables were the most powerful advertisements of his time" as "idiotic ramblings" that in the U.S. in the 1920s were nevertheless "hailed by the country as gospel." In the much later 1956 edition of The Man Nobody Knows , editors at Bobbs-Merrill "heavily amended" Barton's text with his permission, cutting out such references to business and advertising along with excerpts featuring popular celebrities of

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6448-761: The boroughs outside Manhattan who had a similar educational background and "cosmopolitan" attitude, namely residents of solidly middle-class neighborhoods, including Forest Hills and Kew Gardens in Queens and Brooklyn Heights in Brooklyn. 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 one third party ballot line (see New York City Mayoral Elections ). On May 8, 1970, near

6552-519: The city government. The powers and duties, and even the number of deputy mayors, are not defined by the City Charter. The post was created by Fiorello La Guardia (who appointed Grover Whalen as deputy mayor) to handle ceremonial events that the mayor was too busy to attend. Since then, deputy mayors have been appointed with their areas of responsibility defined by the appointing mayor. There are currently five deputy mayors, all of whom report directly to

6656-435: 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 Speaker Peter Vallone , Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani appointed Lindsay to two largely ceremonial posts to make him eligible for municipal health insurance coverage. He and his wife, Mary, moved to

6760-534: The college, is out passing the hat and riding the rails from town to town. He can manage to get $ 50,000 or $ 70,000 a year. I want to lift part of his load by turning in $ 25,000. This is my proposition to you. Let me pick out ten boys, who are as sure blooded Americans as your own sons, and just as deserving of a chance. Let me send you their names and tell you in confidence, for we don't want to hurt their pride, where they come from and what they hope to do with their lives. Let me report to you on their progress three times

6864-518: The committee can refer allegations of misconduct or incapacity to the City Council, who can then by a two-thirds vote permanently remove the mayor from office, or temporarily suspend the mayor. This process has never been used. In the event the mayor dies, resigns or is removed from office, the order of succession is the public advocate of the City of New York , then the comptroller of the City of New York . The successor becomes interim mayor pending

6968-578: The handwriting is on the wall; Little Sheba better come home." After a poor showing in the April 5 Wisconsin primary, Lindsay formally abandoned the race. 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. By 1978, The New York Times called Lindsay "an exile in his own city". Lindsay's record remained controversial after he left politics. Conservative historian Fred Siegel , calling Lindsay

7072-403: The hat, a plant that takes care of 3000 students a year. It's the most wonderful manufacturing proposition you ever heard of. They raise their own food, can it in their own cannery ; milk their own cows; make brooms and weave rugs that are sold all over the country; do their own carpentry , painting , printing , horseshoeing , and everything, teaching every boy and girl a trade while he and she

7176-520: The inaction on inadequate preparations and "inconsistent directives" in the past from the mayor's office. 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." In 1970, The New York Times printed New York City Police Department Patrolman Frank Serpico 's claims of widespread police corruption . As

7280-693: The intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street and at New York City Hall , a riot started when about 200 construction workers mobilized by the New York State AFL–CIO labor federation attacked about 1,000 high school and college students and others protesting the Kent State shootings , the Cambodian Campaign , and the Vietnam War . Some attorneys, bankers, and investment analysts from nearby Wall Street investment firms tried to protect many of

7384-513: The many people who started their careers in public service in the Lindsay administration. Rev. Al Sharpton has said that he still remembers Lindsay having walked the streets of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem when these neighborhoods were doing poorly economically. Lindsay also fought to transform the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board from an internal police-run department, into a public-minded agency with

7488-405: The matter with a payment of $ 50,000 to King. The newspapers reported about the Barton and King sexual affair, and other King allegations of impropriety by Barton, after learning of Barton's arrest under a civil order from Mrs. King's slander suit. Barton filed a blackmail criminal charge against Mrs. King on April 17, 1933. Her criminal trial ran from July 18 to August 2, 1933. On August 2, 1933,

7592-517: The mayor to the Harlem crowd as "our blue-eyed soul brother." 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. Within a day, the mayor was criticized for giving favored treatment to Manhattan at the expense of the other boroughs. Charges were made that a city worker solicited a bribe to clean streets in Queens. Over

7696-424: The mayor was booed; one woman screamed, "You should be ashamed of yourself." In Fresh Meadows , a woman told the mayor: "Get away, you bum." 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. The blizzard, dubbed

7800-502: The mayor. The majority of agency commissioners and department heads report to one of the deputy mayors, giving the role a great deal of power within a mayoral administration. Deputy mayors do not have any right to succeed to the mayoralty in the case of vacancy or incapacity of the mayor. Under Eric Adams "The mayor has the power to appoint and remove the commissioners of more than 40 city agencies and members of City boards and commissions." These include: The mayor of New York City

7904-453: The mayor. 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." The summer of 1971 ushered in another devastating strike as over 8,000 workers belonging to AFSCME District Council 37 walked off their jobs for two days. The strikers included

8008-668: The nation "moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal" was consistent with his rhetoric. President Johnson ignored the report and rejected the Kerner Commission's recommendations. In April 1968, one month after the release of the Kerner report, rioting broke out in more than 100 cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. However, in New York City, Lindsay traveled directly into Harlem , telling Black residents that he regretted King's death and

8112-454: 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 without due process . When their demands were ignored, the UFT called the first of three strikes, leading ultimately to a protracted citywide teachers' strike that stretched over

8216-592: The operators of the city's drawbridges and sewage treatment plants . Drawbridges over the Harlem River were locked in the "up" position, barring automobile travel into Manhattan, and hundreds of thousands of gallons of raw sewage flowed into local waterways. Lindsay served on the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission , and was its vice chairman. This body

8320-491: The play Equus . Lindsay also tried his hand at acting, appearing in Otto Preminger 's Rosebud ; the following year his novel, The Edge , was published (Lindsay had earlier authored two non-fiction memoirs): The New 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." Attempting a political comeback in 1980, Lindsay made

8424-609: The raw material. Clean, sound timber – no knots, no wormholes; a great contrast to the imported stuff with which our social settlements have to work in New York and other cities. Now, away back in the Civil War days, a little college was started in the Kentucky mountains. It started with faith, hope, and sacrifice, and those three virtues are the only endowment it has ever had. Yet today it has accumulated, by little gifts picked up by passing

8528-484: The rest of the party's conservative wing. In the Democratic primary, the most conservative candidate, City Comptroller Mario Procaccino , defeated several more liberal contenders and won the nomination with only a plurality of the votes. "The more the Mario," he quipped. Procaccino, who ran to Lindsay's right, went on to coin the term " limousine liberal " to describe Lindsay and his wealthy Manhattan backers. Despite losing

8632-422: The state and city in 1861, and played a major role in New York City politics into the 1960s and was a dominant player from the mayoral victory of Fernando Wood in 1854 through the era of Robert Wagner (1954–1965). Its last political leader was an African American man named J. Raymond Jones . The mayor of New York City may appoint several deputy mayors to help oversee major offices within the executive branch of

8736-548: The state of West Virginia ; they kept Kentucky in the Union; and they sent a million men into the northern armies. It is not too much to say that they were the deciding factor in winning the struggle to keep these United States united. They have had a rotten deal from Fate. There are no roads into the mountains, no trains, no ways of making money. So our prosperity has circled all around them and left them pretty much untouched. They are great folks. The girls are as good looking as any in

8840-450: 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. The following day, Lindsay severely criticized the police for their lack of action. Police Department labor leaders later accused Lindsay of "undermining the confidence of the public in its Police Department" by his statements and blamed

8944-510: The supposed curse "a statistical fluke." Local tabloid newspapers often refer to the mayor as "Hizzoner", a corruption of the honorific style His Honor . Spin City , a 1990s TV sitcom , starred Michael J. Fox as a deputy mayor of New York under Barry Bostwick 's fictional Mayor Randall Winston. Several mayors have appeared in television and movies, as well as on Broadway , most notably in The Will Rogers Follies . In

9048-399: The thing I'm giving to is worth a hurrah and I don't have time to find out. A couple of years ago I said: "I'd like to discover the one place in the United States where a dollar does more net good than anywhere else." It was a rather thrilling idea, and I went at it in the same spirit in which our advertising agency conducts a market investigation for a manufacturer. Without bothering you with

9152-459: The wedding of Nancy Walker Bush (daughter of Connecticut 's Senator Prescott Bush and sister of future President George Herbert Walker Bush and aunt of George W. Bush & Jeb Bush ), where he was an usher and Harrison a bridesmaid . She was a graduate of Vassar College and a distant relative of William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison . They married in 1949. That same year Lindsay

9256-571: The well-to-do. Either plan would be a moral crime. The boys and girls in those one-room and two-room cabins deserve a chance. They are of the same stuff as Lincoln and Daniel Boone and Henry Clay ; they are the very best raw material that can be found in the United States. I have agreed to take ten boys and pay the deficit on their education each year, $ 1,000. I have agreed to do this if I can get twenty-four other men who will each take ten. The president, Dr. William J. Hutchins ( Yale 1892), who ought to be giving every minute of his time to running

9360-417: The world. Take one of them out of her two-roomed log cabin home, give her a stylish dress and a permanent wave, and she'd be a hit on Fifth Avenue . Take one of the boys, who maybe never saw a railroad train until he was 21: give him a few years of education and he goes back into the mountains as a teacher or doctor or lawyer or carpenter, and changes the life of a town or county. This gives you an idea of

9464-473: The worst New York City mayor of the 20th century, said "Lindsay wasn't incompetent or foolish or corrupt, but he was actively destructive". 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." Lindsay's budget aide Peter C. Goldmark, Jr. told historian Vincent Cannato that

9568-542: Was New York City's worsening problems, which Lindsay was accused of neglecting; a band of protesters from Forest 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. His poor showing in Florida effectively doomed his candidacy. Shortly thereafter, influential Brooklyn Democratic Party chairman Meade Esposito called for Lindsay to end his campaign: "I think

9672-474: 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, a Watts or Newark . 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

9776-505: Was able to vanquish his opponents with support from three distinct groups. First were the city's minorities, mostly African Americans and Puerto Ricans, who were concentrated in Harlem , the South Bronx and various Brooklyn neighborhoods, including Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville . Second were the white and economically secure residents of certain areas of Manhattan. Third were the whites in

9880-673: Was admitted to the bar, and rose to become a partner in his law firm four years later. They had three daughters and a son. Lindsay began gravitating toward politics as one of the founders of the Youth for Eisenhower club in 1951 and as president of the New York Young Republican Club in 1952. He went on to join the United States Department of Justice in 1955 as executive assistant to Attorney General Herbert Brownell . There he worked on civil liberties cases as well as

9984-596: Was also a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors from 1940 to 1942. Initially supporting progressive political policies as a young man, Barton later became an active supporter of the Republican Party in 1919, and he later served as an advisor for both the Republican Party and several Republican presidential candidates from the time of Calvin Coolidge during the 1920s to that of Dwight Eisenhower during

10088-499: Was an elementary school teacher who was descended from a number of colonial Connecticut leaders including Francis Bushnell, Robert Treat , and John Davenport . Barton's siblings were Charles William Barton (b. 1887), Helen (b. 1889), and Robert Shawmut Barton (b. 1894). Barton's parents also took in a boy by the name of Webster Betty, in addition to an African-American girl named Rebecca, whose mother had asked Barton's parents to take care of her. Journalism appealed to Barton even as

10192-534: 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

10296-623: Was born in Robbins, Tennessee in 1886, the son of a Congregational clergyman. He grew up in various places throughout the U.S., including the metro Chicago area. Barton was raised in Oak Park, Illinois , ten miles from downtown Chicago on the rail line. Bruce Barton's father, William E. Barton, was a prolific writer and a devout Christian pastor serving the First Congregational Church for over 20 years. Barton's mother, Esther Treat Bushnell,

10400-470: Was changed from two to three on October 23, 2008, when the New York City Council voted 29–22 in favor of passing the term limit extension into law. However, in 2010, a referendum reverting the limit to two terms passed overwhelmingly. The position of mayor of New York has been branded as the "second toughest job" in the United States of America, behind only the U.S. president. The current mayor

10504-450: Was renamed after Lindsay, to commemorate his support for a car-free Central Park. He was featured on a poster picture with Governor Nelson Rockefeller at the groundbreaking of the former World Trade Center in the city history section of the Museum of the City of New York at Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street. Mayor of New York City The mayor of New York City , officially mayor of

10608-466: Was reported that Governor Kathy Hochul was considering whether to use that process against Eric Adams after his indictment on federal corruption charges. Prior to 2024, the last New York governor to consider exercising this power was in 1932, when Franklin D. Roosevelt considered removing Jimmy Walker as mayor, who was accused of taking bribes from city contractors; however, Walker resigned before Roosevelt could remove him. The charter also provides

10712-435: 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." Lindsay showed his support for New York's African American community through his administration's sponsorship of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival , which is documented in the 2021 music film, Summer of Soul . The host of the festival, Tony Lawrence, introduces

10816-409: Was working against poverty. He is credited with averting riots in the city with this direct response, even as other major cities burned. David Garth, who accompanied Lindsay that night, recalled: "There was a wall of people coming across 125th 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

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