Given the charged atmosphere, the attention now being paid to Donald Trump’s early dealings with Roy Cohn, a one-time aide to Senator McCarthy, and a famously connected attorney, isn’t hard to understand.
And the fact that this relationship was forged in Le Club, a swell nightspot of the earlier 70s, takes us to a specific Manhattan nightworld, a nightworld which for deft operators like Cohn and the young Trump could be an extension of the working day.
This was the Manhattan into which I arrived. It’s a time-tunnel moment.