Fear of breaking with La Guardia made reformers vote against their fiscal judgment

Evidence

“We changed because—you know, La Guardia was very intolerant of differences. We knew him well enough to know this would blow things right up. [We] knew that we couldn’t at that early stage have a break with the Mayor—it would have thrown the whole administration into chaos.” — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 2735

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reformers excused Moses’ abuses until he turned them on themselves — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 2839; Fear of the right drove anarchist anti-electoral activists to vote nonetheless — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 545

Broader Connections

• Fear of the right drove anarchist anti-electoral activists to vote nonetheless #corroborates (0.88) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 545