The Ultimate Troubling Question: Will you Campaign and Vote for Bloomberg against Trump? (Nose-holding permissable)
I was at a celebration of The City College (CCNY) at the Center for Jewish History, a packed auditorium, panels about the college from the 30’s to the 60’s, and, Sid Davidoff, one of the closest advisors to former mayor John Lindsay was one of the panelists. I started to talk with him and led off by saying we crossed path during the teacher strike in ’68; he turned away and rushed down the hallway. It was the teacher union that derailed Lindsay’s run for the White House in 1972.
John Lindsay, a progressive, Rockefeller Republican, btw, an extinct breed, was both exalted and despised as mayor (1965-73).
Lindsay was elected mayor to 1965, cities were on fire!! Riots in Los Angeles, Detroit and Newark, troops and tanks in the streets, the nation seemed on the verge of another civil war.
The Watts riots in Los Angeles (August 11 to 16, 1965); 34 deaths and 1.032 injuries.
The Detroit riot, known as the “Detroit Rebellion,” (July 23 – 28, 1967) was one of the deadliest and most destructive riots in American history. Governor George Romney ordered the Michigan Army National Guard into Detroit to help end the disturbance. President Lyndon Johnson sent in CONTINUE READING: The Ultimate Troubling Question: Will you Campaign and Vote for Bloomberg against Trump? (Nose-holding permissable) | Ed In The Apple