By 1972, John Lindsay was tired, so he ran for president. After a decent showing in the Arizona primary, Lindsay headed to Florida, where he never gained any traction and finished in fifth place.

Lindsay has challenged this Irish barony in behalf of the city’s two fastest-growing and most disadvantaged minorities, the 1.1 million Negroes and the 730,000 Puerto Ricans.

John Lindsay and family. Wife Is Next in Line “It was the amendments that took up all the time,” the candidate explained to his wife, Mary, who was awaiting her turn.

Lindsay decentralized the school system; Bloomberg brought it back under mayoral control. And it’s hard to imagine Mayor Mike wading into a throng of black protesters in Canarsie and getting ...

Lindsay pushed for integrated housing in white neighborhoods, only to spark a firestorm of protest. When he switched to the Democratic Party and ran for president in 1972, the mayor drew little ...

The files not only cover John Lindsay's time working for the DOJ in the mid-1950s, but also his time as Congressman, mayor of New York from 1966 through 1973, and his failed 1972 presidential bid.

America’s Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York, ed. Sam Roberts (Columbia University Press, 256 pp., $49.95) America’s Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York, Museum ...

The reform mayor John Vliet Lindsay burst on the stage in 1965, determined to slay whatever dragons were plaguing New York. He departed eight years later, a symbol of unfulfilled promise.

John V. Lindsay, the debonair political irregular who represented New York City's "silk stocking district" on the East Side for seven years in Congress and was a two-term mayor of New York ...

He was John V. Lindsay, the liberal Republican congressman from New York's Upper East Side who was elected mayor of New York in 1965.

Patrick Vecchio recalls attending a birthday party for then-Mayor John Lindsay about 30 years ago. At the function were Johnny Carson, Robert Redford and a host of other show-biz giants.