President Nixon offered to illegally wiretap Mayor John Lindsay for Gov. Nelson Rockefeller: report President Nixon offered to illegally wiretap Mayor Lindsay to help Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, according to a new book. WASHINGTON — President Richard Nixon offered to illegally wiretap New York City Mayor John Lindsay on behalf of New York’s governor at the time, Nelson Rockefeller, a new biography reveals. Well, you tell Nelson he’s got all the help in the world, Nixon is quoted in On His Own Terms, the first comprehensive biography of Nelson Rockefeller, who was governor from 1959 to 1973 and served as vice president under Gerald Ford. The book by respected historian Richard Norton Smith relies on much previously undisclosed source material in charting Rockefeller’s life. Many analysts consider Rockefeller’s loss to Barry Goldwater in the 1964 GOP presidential primaries as signaling the national decline of moderate, so-called Rockefeller Republicans. Rockefeller battled often with Lindsay, the Republican mayor who won re-election in 1969 as the Liberal Party candidate after losing the GOP primary. In August 1971 he became a Democrat and failed ignominiously in his own 1972 Presidential bid. The Rockefeller-Lindsay animus included Lindsay’s push for direct state aid or greater taxing authority in 1971, when the city was wracked labor unrest and a huge NYPD corruption [...] newsnyork/president-nixon-offered-to-illegally-wiretap-mayor-john-lindsay-for-gov-nelson-rockefeller-report/
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