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A Campaign to Remember: The Mixed Legacy of John V. Lindsay's 1965 Race for Mayor
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| Contributor | User 13 |
| Last Edited | User 13 Oct 09, 2005 03:24pm |
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| Category | Election Guide |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Sunday, October 9, 2005 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In 1965, he was fresh, and everyone else was tired. Forty years later, the dashing congressman who personified the politics of the possible is dead, and many of the fresh young faces he inspired to join his children's crusade are nearly retired.
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It has been years since a New York City mayoral candidate claimed the mantle of John V. Lindsay. (During the 1989 campaign, both David N. Dinkins and Rudolph W. Giuliani did.) And virtually nobody admits to being an unreconstructed liberal any more.
But the legacy of that 1965 campaign - involving Lindsay, the Republican-Liberal; Abraham D. Beame, the Democrat; and William F. Buckley Jr., the Conservative candidate - still lingers in muted debates about the bounds of mayoral power and the city's dependence on Albany and Washington, in the absence of typical Republican trappings in a Democratic town, and most of all, in the gauzy memories and idealism of campaign workers who were young 40 years ago. (To be sure, plenty of others remember the race less fondly, since it heralded an administration that, as the local version of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society, epitomized the government overreaching that would lead to the city's fiscal crisis in the 1970's.) |
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