Moses mobilized the Legislature’s power brokers against Lindsay’s reform.

Evidence

Everyone in Albany seemed to know what was going on with regard to John Lindsay’s transportation legislation. Everyone but Lindsay’s man in Albany, city legislative representative Rosen. … Moses “came to me personally—and through friends—and said, ‘Look, you don’t want this to happen to me, do you?’ ” Duryea recalls. “And I said, ‘No’—look, you don’t have a Bob Moses come along in a state every day, and you don’t just kick him out. … Christ,” one senator was to say years later, “I still remember that one: that was the first time I ever got a call from Harry Van Arsdale himself. Himself! Not his lobbyist. Harry Van Arsdale! Christ, everyone was calling—the banks, the leaders, you name it. There was enough muscle against that thing to have beaten anything.” — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 4561

Categorization

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