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| Name | Joshua Leinsdorf |
| Address | 60 Bayside Dr.
Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey , United States |
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| Info | Joshua Leinsdorf
Met Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson in March, 1963. Johnson had gotten Josh's father's immigration papers in order when he fled Europe in 1937.
During a limousine ride with Lyndon, Lady Bird, Josh's mother and sister, the Vice-president said, "If they want to get you, there's nothing you can do about it." This was 8 months before Kennedy was assassinated.
In 1964, Josh worked in the Press office of the Massachusetts State House.
In 1966, Josh marched in the first organized anti-Vietnam war march in New York City.
In 1968, Josh left Columbia to work on Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign. He became national travel coordinator for the Senator and the traveling press corps. At that time, the Press Secretary was Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh.
Josh was in Chicago for the Democratic Convention in 1968. The reason no one was killed by the Chicago police is because the Secret Service details covering McCarthy and Humphrey called the White House and said that the police were out of control and that the National Guard better be sent in or someone was going to get killed.
After the campaign, Josh went to work doing polling for the Mayoral Campaign of John V. Lindsay of New York.
After Lindsay lost the Republican nomination to State Senator John Marchi, Josh helped to secure an independent line on the ballot for Mayor Lindsay.
During that petition drive, Josh met Robert B. Brady and Blossom G. Saxe, two lawyers who did much of the petition work for the Brooklyn Democratic Organization. Over the next nine years, Josh would work with Brady and Saxe, learning how to get candidates on the ballot, throw candidates off the ballot, and reapportioning the City Council of New York. Bob, a veteran of the submarine service in World War II and a hero of the Coconut Grove fire in Boston, died of an aneurism in 1978. He didn't have health insurance, so the doctors didn't try too hard to save him. Bee lived to be 95 and just died in January, 1999.
In 1970, Josh was elected to Community School Board #3 in Manhattan.
In 1973, after discovering that the school were run in the state legislatures, Josh decided that getting a life was more important than a political career. He met and married (5 years later) Kathy Blohm and they moved to a little house in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey.
In 1978, Josh ran a walk through campaign as an independent for Monmouth County Freeholder. This campaign taught him that it is possible to influence policy even when running losing campaigns. The 1978 campaign brought cable television to Monmouth County.
In 1980, President Jimmy Carter conceded defeat before the polls in California had closed. As a result, the New York Times didn't give the virtually complete returns on the Thursday or Friday after the election, as it had in prior years.
Out of curiosity, I wrote all 50 Secretaries of State plus the District of Columbia asking for the election results. The information that came back in the mail made me realize that the people's voice is being ignored in political analysis. This started me analyzing election results, the fruits of which are on the website.
There is more, much more, but it will have to wait until I can find someone willing to publish my book EVERY VOTE COUNTS.
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