Moses and his fiercest early adversary became thirty-year allies until Macy’s deathbed

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And when, after Macy had fought his way to power, Robert Moses, needing his help, made overtures of friendship, Macy accepted them. Although the strength of their personalities often made them clash, the two one-time “amateurs in politics” were for more than thirty years the closest of political allies, allies so close, in fact, that when, in 1962, cancer-ravaged King Macy knew he was about to die, Moses was the only person outside his immediate family whom he wanted to see. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 953

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