Destiny’s Tot

The 17th (“Silk Stocking”) Congressional District of New York stretches northward up Manhattan Island from Greenwich Village to the southern fringes of Harlem, encompassing in its sweep the spectacular midtown skyscrapers and the opulent array of luxury apartment houses and fashionable brownstones that constitute New York’s fabled “East Side.” Here—thanks partly to the artful gerrymandering of a solicitous Republican legislature—Republicanism of a sort still has a formidable purchase in the heart of New York City.

“Of a sort,” because the Republican Congressman who for six years has represented this glamorous district in Washington is known to his colleagues, with reason, as “the Golden Boy of the Liberal Establishment.” Conservatives should mark him well, for he plans to become President of the United States.

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Robert G. Smith

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The 17th (“Silk Stocking”) Congressional District of New York stretches northward up Manhattan Island from Greenwich Village to the southern fringes of Harlem, encompassing in its sweep the spectacular midtown skyscrapers and the opulent array of luxury apartment houses and fashionable brownstones that constitute New York’s fabled “East Side.” Here—thanks partly to the artful gerrymandering of a solicitous Republican legislature—Republicanism of a sort still has a formidable purchase in the heart of New York City.

“Of a sort,” because the Republican Congressman who for six years has represented this glamorous district in Washington is known to his colleagues, with reason, as “the Golden Boy of the Liberal Establishment.” Conservatives should mark him well, for he plans to become President of the United States.