This video is part one of a multi-part series of a two-day symposium "Public Management and the Lindsay Years (1966-1973)", presented by Baruch College School of Public Affairs in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York on September 29 and 30, 2010. Symposium organizer Stan Altman, Professor of School of Public Affairs and Director of American Humanics at Baruch College, makes the opening presentation "Pre-Lindsay Years and the State of the Nation and NYC", joined by Peter Goldmark, Lindsay's Assistant Budget Director & Executive Assistant and Jay Kriegel, Chief of Staff Special Counsel to Mayor Lindsay.