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John Vliet Lindsay ( / vliːt /; 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.
Dec 20, 2000 · John V. Lindsay, the shirt-sleeved Ivy Leaguer who led New York City as mayor through the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s, is dead at 79.
John Lindsay served as the 103rd Mayor of New York City from January 1, 1966, to January 1, 1974. His mayoralty presided over a rising budget from below $5 billion to almost $10 billion, high deficit spending, the reorganization of the city's government, a corruption investigation ( Knapp Commission) into the New York City Police Department ...
Dec 21, 2000 · John V. Lindsay, the debonair political irregular who represented Manhattan's Silk Stocking district on the East Side for seven years in Congress and was a two-term mayor of New York during...
Jan 1, 2001 · Former New York City mayor John V. Lindsay was an unforgettable, charismatic figure on Gotham’s political stage. His passing late last year, at the age of 79, evoked in many New Yorkers nostalgic memories of the days when the debonair mayor strode confidently about the city in shirtsleeves, jacket slung casually, but with elegance, over […]
May 13, 2010 · Mayor John V. Lindsay of New York arriving at the groundbreaking for the Flatlands Industrial Park in Brooklyn in 1966, the year after his initial election. Neal Boenzi/The New York Times.
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Oct 26, 2015 · Fifty years ago, John V. Lindsay was elected Mayor of New York City. He was a liberal Republican, a species not uncommon in the Northeast after the Second World War. But Lindsay was one of the last, already bucking a trend: he would not get the Republican nomination when he ran for re-election in 1969.
