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Questions for John Lindsay. 4 pgs.
Wednesday, June 03, 2015
Page 1 of 1
QUESTIONS FOR JOHN LINDSAY
Mr. Mayor: You have been campaigning throughout the
country citing your record on air pollution in New York and
telling audiences you have been doing well in this area. Last
week, a report found that the air in New York was 7% dirtier
today than it was in 1969. Will you tell your audiences this
fact about air pollution in New York?
Mr. Mayor: You have repeatedly said that the only way to
get back American POW's is to set a date and get out of
Vietnam. The North Vietnamese have expressly rejected
this, countering that the U.S. must overthrow the Thieu regime
before progress can be made := and the war. you in
favor of overthrowing the government in Saigon and in favor
of the communist government that the enemy seems to be
demanding?
Mr. Mayor: Senator McGovern's representatives complained
that your supporters, for example during the Arizona precinct
elections, were "rude, pushy and arrogant. " Do you condone this
activity by your workers?
Page 2
Mr. Mayor: In Florida two weeks ago, you told a Cuban audience
that "the ultimate goal is normalization of relations between
the two countries. 11 Does that mean if elected President you
will recognize the government of Fidel Castro?
Mr. Mayor: You have said busing is "an extremely appropriate
tool for integration, among other tools. 11 Yet your children
go to private schools. Don't you feel strange calling for
millions of Americans to have their children bussed to
different schools while your children go to private schools?
Mr. Mayor: The police force in New York City is larger than
the armv of Denmark. Whv do people of New York not feel
safe to walk its streets at night?
Mr. Mayor: Police corruption has become quite an issue
in New York City. There is strong evidence that you knew
about widespread police corruption in 1967, your assistant,
Jay Kriegal having been told about it by two policemen. Even
Time magazine wondered why you were "so tardy in exercising
control" when you received word of corruption. Why did you
wait four years to do something?
Mr. Mayor: How would you characterize Senator Muskie's
ruling a black man off his presidential ticket?
Mr. Mayor: On April 30, 1970 at the University of
Pennsylvania, you said that you felt "unending admiration"
for those who refused to serve in Vietnam? You also called
men who would not serve, "heroic. 11 Why do you feel that
way about draft-dodgers?
Mr. Mayor: Bruce Llewellyn, president of the FEDCO Foods
Corporation, the country's largest minority-owned supermarket
chain, said of your actions: "I think Harlem is a disaster area
compared with five years ago. " Other blacks in New York have
you you continue to cay that you
have strong black support. How do you square this contradiction?
Mr. Mayor: Your fellow Democrat in New York, Matthew Troy,
called your administration: "inefficient, extravagant and in
some instances incompetent. " Does this indicate lack of
support in your own back yard?
Mr. Mayor: Why do you think that George Meany feels, as he
says, "completely negative" about you, and that if you are the
Democratic nominee, he will vote for Mr. Nixon? He said you
were not doing a good job as Mayor.
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Mr. Mayor: A prominent Democratic leader in New York,
Edward Costikyan, said: "it is irresponsible for New Yorkers
to mislead the American people into believing that Mayor
Lindsay is capable of performing the duties of the Presidency.
Certainly his stewardship of the city give$no evidence of such
capacity. 11 Just why do literally dozens of people give you
such poor marks as Mayor ?