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Article: Remembering Comet Lindsay.(The Providence Journal)
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- December 27, 2000
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WASHINGTON _ Late one evening, in the winter of 1966, Ed McMahon introduced ``The Tonight Show'' in his usual fashion: "Hee-eere's Johnny!" he exclaimed, as the stage curtains parted. But instead of Johnny Carson, out strode the new mayor of New York, 45-year-old John V. Lindsay. His delivery was slightly stilted, and the jokes no better than average; but viewers got the impression that a star, perhaps even a future president, had been born.
Lindsay was a tall, strikingly handsome, patrician Republican with a WASPish self-confidence not seen in New York politics since the days of Franklin Roosevelt. He had been elected mayor just a few months before in a ...