John Lindsay
May, 1965
The spokesman in the U.S. House of Representatives for 382,320 people who populate its most famed Congressional district is a handsome, liberal, 43-year-old Republican named John Vliet Lindsay. His bailiwick is Manhattan Island's "Silk Stocking" district, bounded on the south by Greenwich Village, on the north by Spanish Harlem and including, in between, Park Avenue and millionaires' row on the Upper East Side. Elected to a fourth term, despite a Democratic sweep of his state, Lindsay...