WEBVTT 00:01.001 --> 00:02.168 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% - The forgotten families of New York 00:02.168 --> 00:03.937 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% are the low and middle income families 00:03.937 --> 00:05.839 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% caught in the housing squeeze. 00:05.839 --> 00:07.974 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% We must maintain rent control, 00:07.974 --> 00:09.976 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and we must build decent housing 00:09.976 --> 00:11.378 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% that every family can afford. - [Carl] For Buckley, 00:11.378 --> 00:13.847 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% there's nothing worse than a liberal Republican. 00:13.847 --> 00:15.415 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - [John] My name's Lindsay, I'm running for mayor. 00:15.415 --> 00:16.816 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Pleasure to see you. 00:16.816 --> 00:18.084 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Carl] What Buckley would like to do would be 00:18.084 --> 00:20.387 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% to cost Lindsay the election, 00:20.387 --> 00:23.690 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to drain away enough Republican votes 00:23.690 --> 00:25.158 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% to let the Democrat win. 00:26.192 --> 00:28.528 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% So what can he do? 00:29.929 --> 00:33.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% He decides to run for mayor himself. 00:33.600 --> 00:35.969 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% (crowd applauds) 00:35.969 --> 00:37.570 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Reporter] Beame leads on the opinion polls 00:37.570 --> 00:40.507 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% with a comfortable 45% of the vote. 00:40.507 --> 00:43.309 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% John Lindsay has 35%, 00:43.309 --> 00:45.812 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and the other 10%, enough to wreck Lindsay's chances, 00:45.812 --> 00:46.946 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% goes to Buckley. 00:46.946 --> 00:48.681 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - How about Bill Buckley? 00:48.681 --> 00:50.450 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% Do you think there's any possibility that he might sneak in 00:50.450 --> 00:51.718 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% as a dark horse? 00:51.718 --> 00:52.886 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - I think it's a possibility. 00:52.886 --> 00:54.187 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Technically, it's possible, 00:54.187 --> 00:55.655 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% if enough people vote for me, I'll win. 00:57.323 --> 00:58.725 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Geoffrey] Bill Buckley himself said 00:58.725 --> 01:00.794 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% that he ran half in fun, 01:00.794 --> 01:04.664 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% and that made him hugely appealing to the media, especially. 01:04.664 --> 01:07.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [William] Thank you to the Overseas Press Club, 01:07.500 --> 01:09.736 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I sometimes wish all the press were overseas. 01:09.736 --> 01:12.439 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% (audience laughs) 01:12.439 --> 01:14.007 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Christopher] At the opening press conference, 01:14.007 --> 01:15.975 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% when he announced that he was going to run 01:15.975 --> 01:18.678 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% for mayor of New York, he was asked, 01:18.678 --> 01:20.814 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% "What will you do if you win?" 01:20.814 --> 01:24.451 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And his response was, "Demand a recount." 01:24.451 --> 01:27.220 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - The candidate of the old line machine 01:27.220 --> 01:31.624 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% promises not progress, but procrastination, 01:31.624 --> 01:34.994 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% not ideas, but indifference, 01:34.994 --> 01:37.931 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% not energy, but evasiveness. 01:39.399 --> 01:42.535 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - Mr. Lindsay says of Mr. Beame 01:42.535 --> 01:47.507 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that he "promises not progress, but procrastination, 01:48.741 --> 01:51.711 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% "not ideas, but indifference, 01:51.711 --> 01:55.181 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% "not energy, but evasiveness." 01:58.184 --> 02:00.653 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% What is wrong with that sentence? 02:00.653 --> 02:03.523 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% (audience laughs) 02:04.657 --> 02:08.695 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Other than its suicidal search for alliteration. 02:08.695 --> 02:12.732 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% (audience laughs and applauds) 02:12.732 --> 02:15.902 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Richard] We heard that "The New York Times" 02:15.902 --> 02:19.405 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% had to keep switching out reporters on the Buckley beat 02:19.405 --> 02:22.208 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% because they'd come to enjoy him too much. 02:23.409 --> 02:25.478 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - [Sam] The columnist Pete Hamill said, 02:25.478 --> 02:29.916 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% "This is the first person we've ever seen in politics 02:29.916 --> 02:33.353 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% "with a genuinely original mind." 02:33.353 --> 02:36.756 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - New York is the ganglion city, 02:36.756 --> 02:38.258 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and what is about to happen 02:38.258 --> 02:40.760 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% in Los Angeles or Detroit or Cleveland 02:40.760 --> 02:43.763 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% usually has just finished happening in New York. 02:43.763 --> 02:46.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It's always going to be a pressure point.