Governing-through-friendship requires an equal partner who will not flatter

Evidence

And interrupting and outshouting them, the Governor, the voice of experience in the quartet of reform, refusing to let anyone agree or curry favor with him, hashing out ideas as an equal. And, always, sitting apart, knitting, saying nothing until the Governor turned to her and asked, “What do you think, Mrs. M?” the plump, matronly little woman—a woman whose qualities astonished the capital more each day. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 606

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Refusing patronage positions is what keeps an unpaid adviser independent — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 606; Mutual trust cannot develop in unequal, nonreciprocal power relations — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 477; Antiracist friendship survives only when both parties accept struggle and risk (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Mutual trust cannot develop in unequal, nonreciprocal power relations #corroborates (0.85) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 477