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- The forgotten 
families of New York

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are the low and 
middle income families

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caught in the housing squeeze.

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We must maintain rent control,

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and we must build decent housing

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that every family can afford. 
- [Carl] For Buckley,

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there's nothing worse 
than a liberal Republican.

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- [John] My name's Lindsay, 
I'm running for mayor.

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Pleasure to see you.

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- [Carl] What Buckley 
would like to do would be

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to cost Lindsay the election,

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to drain away enough 
Republican votes

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to let the Democrat win.

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So what can he do?

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He decides to run 
for mayor himself.

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(crowd applauds)

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- [Reporter] Beame leads 
on the opinion polls

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with a comfortable 
45% of the vote.

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John Lindsay has 35%,

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and the other 10%, enough 
to wreck Lindsay's chances,

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goes to Buckley.

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- How about Bill Buckley?

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Do you think there's 
any possibility that 
he might sneak in

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as a dark horse?

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- I think it's a possibility.

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Technically, it's possible,

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if enough people vote 
for me, I'll win.

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- [Geoffrey] Bill 
Buckley himself said

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that he ran half in fun,

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and that made him 
hugely appealing to 
the media, especially.

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- [William] Thank you to 
the Overseas Press Club,

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I sometimes wish all 
the press were overseas.

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(audience laughs)

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- [Christopher] At the 
opening press conference,

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when he announced that 
he was going to run

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for mayor of New 
York, he was asked,

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"What will you do if you win?"

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And his response was, 
"Demand a recount."

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- The candidate of 
the old line machine

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promises not progress, 
but procrastination,

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not ideas, but indifference,

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not energy, but evasiveness.

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- Mr. Lindsay says of Mr. Beame

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that he "promises not 
progress, but procrastination,

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"not ideas, but indifference,

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"not energy, but evasiveness."

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What is wrong with 
that sentence?

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(audience laughs)

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Other than its suicidal 
search for alliteration.

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(audience laughs and applauds)

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- [Richard] We heard 
that "The New York Times"

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had to keep switching out 
reporters on the Buckley beat

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because they'd come 
to enjoy him too much.

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- [Sam] The columnist 
Pete Hamill said,

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"This is the first person 
we've ever seen in politics

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"with a genuinely 
original mind."

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- New York is the ganglion city,

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and what is about to happen

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in Los Angeles or 
Detroit or Cleveland

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usually has just finished 
happening in New York.

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It's always going to 
be a pressure point.