"Now, you're a Republican," Mr. Doar said, in his phone call on Christmas Eve. That was true. I had registered as a Republican because I wanted to vote against Barry Goldwater, and for Nelson Rockefeller, in the primary of 1964. In the early days of political correctness, I liked to imagine as well that I was the only Republican reporter, not just on the staff of The New Yorker, but in New York.
