Ah, but Harlem is a far cry from what it was in 1960. It is getting semi-gentrified these days, a fancy slum, as it were. I have no doubt that Clinton will be able to find some reasonably nice digs while looking much more socially responsible... Barkley Rosser -----Original Message----- From: Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 10:13 AM Subject: Slick Willie heads uptown
>In the news today is word that a chastened Clinton is abandoning his plans
>for a $650K+/year penthouse office at Carnegie Hall in favor of getting
down
>with the folks at humbler quarters up in Harlem.
>
>Castro, of course, made a similar move for a much better reason 40 years
>ago. From Africana.com:
>
>"Castro's first visit to Harlem was in September 1960, when the Cuban
leader
>attended a UN meeting and chose to stay in Harlem’s Hotel Theresa after the
>management of the Shelburne Hotel in midtown asked the Cuban delegation to
>pay for its stay in advance.
>
>"Speaking in Harlem forty years later, Castro recalled his first visit. 'I
>had to choose between two options: either set up a tent in the patio of the
>UN plaza -- and as guerrillas who had just descended from the mountains
that
>was not impossible -- or, we could go up to Harlem, to one of whose hotels
I
>had been invited,' he said. 'I decided, "I'm going to Harlem, because it is
>there that I will find my best friends."'"
>
>Carl
>
>
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