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I came across an interesting quote in the Wiki entry on the NY Liberal Party:

At their founding, the Liberal Party had conceived a plan to become a national party, with former Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie as its national leader and candidate for Mayor of New York City in 1945. However, Willkie's unexpected death later in 1944 left the Liberals without any truly national figures to lead the party.
Is this true, and if Wilkie hadn't died, could the party have become nationally prominent? The Liberal Party has been part of some interesting aberrations in New York electoral history, such as leading John Lindsay to reelection as NYC mayor in 1969 after he lost the Republican primary, and supporting John Anderson in his 1980 presidential bid.
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