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 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.

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.

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 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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Thank you, John Lindsay. Robert Shrum, political consultant and USC professor; Lindsay speechwriter: In the fall of 1970, inmates seized the city’s jails, and guards were held hostage.

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 ...

"But he threw Israel under the bus." As John Lindsay would call Ocean Hill/Brownsville his biggest mistake as mayor, Koch would later say closing Sydenham Hospital was one of his biggest blunders.