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Article: Obituary - John Lindsay, RIP.(Obituary)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- January 22, 2001
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John lindsay died many years after history was done with him. In the late Fifties and in the Sixties he was the primary young star of liberal Republicanism. He edged into victory as mayor of New York and harbinger of enlightened Republicanism in a race in which Conservative Party candidate William F. Buckley resonantly cleared his throat, challenging Mr. Lindsay's political agenda and insisting that in the order of political reality, he belonged not with Republican gatekeepers of overweening government, but with Democrats. Four years later he lost the Republican nomination and ran (and won) on the Liberal ticket. Two years after that he left the GOP and joined the ...
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