From Wikipedia:
With the outbreak of World War II, John Lindsay completed his studies early and in 1943 joined the United States Navy as a gunnery officer.
He obtained the rank of lieutenant, earning five battle stars through action in the invasion of Sicily and a series of landings in the Pacific theater.
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John Lindsay met his future wife, Mary Anne Harrison, at the wedding of Nancy Bush (daughter of Connecticut’s Senator Prescott Bush and sister of future President George H.W. Bush), where he was an usher and Harrison a bridesmaid.
A resident of Greenwich, Connecticut and a graduate of Vassar College, Harrison was a distant relative of William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison.
They married in 1949.
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Medical bills from his Parkinson’s Disease, heart attacks and stroke, depleted Lindsay’s finances and he found himself without health insurance.
In 1996 Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani appointed the former Mayor to two largely ceremonial posts to make him eligible for municipal health insurance coverage.
He and his wife Mary moved to a retirement community in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina in November 1999, where he died the next year at the age of seventy-nine of complications from pneumonia and Parkinson’s disease.
“In 1996 Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani appointed the former Mayor to two largely ceremonial posts to make him eligible for municipal health insurance coverage.”
Yes, that was a bit of a thing. There was a story in the papers about Lindsay showing up at some public presentation and being rather disoriented, etc.
I’m glad Rudy did that, although I have to ask, wouldn’t he have been eligible for veterans benefits?