Bureau staff deliberately received no credit for reports they largely wrote

Evidence

It was the practice at the time to list at the beginning of such reports the names of all individuals and organizations who had worked on them, but most members of Moses’ staff found that their names were mentioned nowhere. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 468

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Moses erased staff and Bureau credit while keeping their drafts nearly verbatim — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 468; Bureaucrats absorb blame for system-level failures they did not decide. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 1325

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