The Bootblack Stand: Letters from John Lindsay and J. Edgar Hoover
The Bootblack Stand Dr. George Washington Plunkitt, our prize-winning political analyst, has just completed a penetrating study of the last Congolese election. Published in August, it focuses...
...Lindsay: Before I respond, I first feel compelled to comment on how unfortunate it is that 10,000-12,000 corrupt cops can ruin the reputation of the whole force...
...there have been sick people in government for years...
...Plunkitt: I should like to know if Mr...
...Howard Hughes has ever run for high political office...
...Hoover: It is very good to hear from you...
...Sincerely, The Hon...
...GWP Dear Mr...
...In answer to your question, however, I would call a news conference and point out that the corruption being unearthed happened in the last six years when the city had a Republican mayor...
...He seemed to be building a coalition of rehabilitated alcoholics and mystics...
...Plunkitt: As a former resident of New York, perhaps you could suggest a way that I can handle the police scandal...
...Do not let a few dizzy spells slow you down...
...I think I shall vote for him...
...A bizarre challenge to political norms, this campaign might well be considered in later years to have been slightly ahead of its times...
...It is titled Escape' A New Demand Response System...
...John Vliet Lindsay Dear Mr...
...11, Box 360, Bloomington, Indiana 47401, Continental U.S.A...
...In reply to your note, which mysteriously dissolved the instant I put it on my xerox machine, yes, under various aliases Howard Hughes has run for high political office -- though I am not sure you would consider the presidency a high political office...
...Plunkitt has agreed to advise American statesmen in this time of troubles...
...GWP The A l t e r n a t i v e ; March, 1972 19...
...Address all correspondence to The Bootblack Stand, The Establishment, R.R...
...Published in August, it focuses on the unique position of minority groups in the Congolese electoral process...
...Cordially, J. Edgar Hoover Grand Britannia Hotel Paradise Island, Bahamas Dear Mr...
...it can be purchased in all bookstores...
...I had heard that you were not in the best of health...
...Switching parties last summer, be made a brief campaign for the Democratic nomination under the name "Harold Hughes...
...On no less than five occasions he sought the Republican nomination under the alias "Harold Stassen...
...Dear Mr...
...Now he has started a new campaign, using the name "John Lindsay,"and making eyes at all those Americans who judge incompetence and beauty as the hallmarks of statecraft...
...Now, through this colmnn, the distinguished Dr...
...Senator Kennedy's guff to the contrary, government has always been operated more smoothly by politicians afflicted with arthritis, neuritis, neuralgia and piles than by politicians afflicted with ache and growing pains...
Vol. 5 • March 1972 • No. 6
