MAYOR JOHN V. LINDSAY - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 10/20/1969 - HFSID 288090

JOHN LINDSAY
In a tight race for re-election, Lindsay exhorts a member of his campaign's finance committee to do more.
Typed Letter signed: "kind regards - John Lindsay" as Mayor, 1 page, 6x9. No place, 1969 October 20. On personal letterhead to Miller Moore, Bankers Trust Co., New York, N.Y. In full: "As we enter the final days of the campaign, I want to tell you how grateful I am to you for serving on the Finance Committee and for the work already done. We urgently need your continued help at this moment in order to do the job. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist your efforts. Sincerely". John Vliet Lindsay (1921-2000) was Mayor of New York City from 1966-1973. Lindsay, who had previously served as a U.S. Congressman from New York (1959-1965), representing Manhattan's "Silk Stocking" district, received one delegate vote on the first ballot at the 1968 Republican National Convention. He became a Democrat in 1971 and ran a short-lived campaign for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination. A veteran of WWII, Lindsay had practiced law before entering politics. Until shortly before this letter was written, Lindsay's prospects for re-election looked very poor. Plagued by major strikes by transit workers, garbage workers, teachers and teamsters during his term, and blamed for slow snow removal after a big blizzard, among other things, Lindsay was rated a good mayor by only 9% in a Gallup poll, and as excellent by 0%. He lost the Republican Primary, and was on the ballot only on the Liberal Party line. But Lindsay got the breaks, most importantly the World Series triumph of the Miracle Mets in the City's "Summer of Glove". Lindsay didn't like baseball, but he doused players with champagne at the clubhouse victory celebration and compared his own prospects to the Mets. He was re-elected. Lightly toned. Multiple mailing folds. Pencil note (unknown hand) near center. Otherwise, fine condition.