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Editor says, what if the "Jamaica Bay" Hurricane had catapaulted New York Mayor Lindsay to national prominence? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s). This story was published in the July 2012 edition of Changing the Times Magazine.
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In 1983, on this day former US President John V. Lindsay (pictured) was the master of ceremonies at an historic event to welcome the arrival of the Apollo XX spacecraft at the USS Intrepid floating Sea-Air-Space museum moored in New York Harbour.
Legacy
by Ed, Chris Oakley and Eric LippsDuring his two-term Presidency, the former New York Mayor had come under intense pressure from his fellow Liberal Republicans who sought to divert funding towards much needed social programmes. But Lindsay was a strong believer in the value of infrastructure, consistently demonstrating bipartisan leadership from the front. And of course his outlook had been fixed during the painstaking rebuilding of the City that had been necessary after the Jamaica Bay hurricane hit New York in 1960.
Ironically, as events turned out, his promotion of space platforms led to a development of weather prediction capabilities that would prevent another category four hurricane striking an unprepared US City. It was a legacy that he was proud to honour on this remarkable day in the summer of 1983.
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Jamaica Bay Source: Wikipedia Labels: John Lindsay, Mayor, New York, Presidency, White House. Editor says, in authoring this post we expanded an original idea conceived by guest historians Chris Oakley and a reversal of Eric Lipps article President Humphrey welcomes home Apollo 11.
~ A greater legacy would be the prevention of the Republican Party's descent into conservative insanity...
~ Or at least its delay; I'm not sure it would have been avoided by a Lindsay presidency. And I suspect he wouldn't have made it through two terms; hs own party would have shivved him in 1972, especially if anything went wrong for the U.S. during that period.
~ The question is, did they actually make it to the moon? Can an AH be done where they did make it to the moon?
~ When you say that, I HOPE you mean went to the moon and stayed there in the form of scientific research colonies, not tin-foil-hat theories that we never went in the first place....
~ No, I mean exactly that. Did you ever go to the moon? And they are not tinfoil hat theories. The cover storiesappear to be the tinfoil hat theories.
~ Okay, I'm going to get into a pissing contest over who's correct. While I don't trust the American government (and especially the Pentagon) for a minute, this would definately be too big a governmental conspiracy to keep under wraps for more than four years, let alone four decades. And if I admitted to being on the moon, I'd qualify for a tinfoil hat myself!
~ An AH where we made it to the Moon? I can do that.
20 JULY, 1969
On this day Soviet engineers, suspicious that the American Moon landing might be a put-on, pointed dish antennae at Earth's natural satellite to see if that was indeed where the radio and television transmissions were coming from. It was.
~ The social programs were "Danegeld" to calm down the "long hot summers" of urban riots. Did those happen in this TL?
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They were indeed. But then "Tricky Dickie" was a very canny poliitical operator and knew how to buy off problems. if they donn't there are serious political ptoblems, no less in New York itself.
~ Somone in the Politburo decides to get tough. It is made public that the transmissions are coming from a studion on an old airbase 200 miles west of Houlston. But of course a counter-propaganda campaign would be organised............
~ I thought they were supposed to film the thing in Arizona? Anywho, the transmissions came from the Moon. Any amature radio operator could confirm it.
~ I'm sorry there's no evidence of "transmissions" from the moon but a lot of very highly disturbing evidence of a confidence trick.
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