Exactly. I know Lindsay mostly from hearing about him (and from Mayor Linseed on Batman) and I sort of remember Ed Beame, but you NEVER forgot Ed Koch.

That's interesting! Somehow I think of that movie being a little earlier than the Koch administration, but it makes sense.

And of course I meant ABE Beame.(He really was a nonentity though.)

At the time, Lindsay was considered a rising star with national political political potential and "Kennedy-esque" good looks. And now he's barely remembered. :(

I do have Lindsay stories up the Wazoo because my family is VERY political and my father was doing PR for local politicians in the NY area at the time, including the publicity for a gimmick called "Half-fare transit" which was basically cheap subway tickets for senior citizens. My great grandmother, Sadie was made "Half-Fare Transit Queen" and got to go to Gracie Mansion for a crowning and everything. For the rest of her life, her mah-jongh buddies called her "Queenie" and Mayor Lindsay was a bit of a hero in my family.

Unfortunately, he didn't have the cojones to stand up to the unions, especially the garbage workers and they pulled a strike in the middle of a blizzard and the head of the union basically told Lindsay to "shit in his hat." That (and a disastrous democratic primary) pretty much ended his career.

Mayor Bloomberg certainly got it right: http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2013/feb/01/bloomberg-statement-koch/

Actually, it's a picture with President Carter and the late, great Bella Abzug, another great and colorful NY politician of my childhood.

I'm just being Ameri-centric. I wouldn't be able to recognize any Australian president or politician, past or present.