Moses organized multi-layer pressure campaigns through proxies even in college.

Evidence

“After I had accepted his resignation,” Richards recalls, “he began to put pressure on me to take him back on the team and let him go ahead with his approach to Reid. He managed to work up an amazing amount of pressure. He really was very clever about it. He got the managers [of the other minor sports] to send a delegation to me to talk me out of it. I told them, ‘No, it’s not an honest way to treat Og Reid. He’s always treated us very nicely.’ Then Bob went to the man who was the heart and soul of swimming at Yale—Maxie Swartz. Maxie was really just the janitor at the pool, but he was a good old guy. He took a lot of interest in the swimmers, and he was always around the team. Bob got Maxie to ask me to take him back. He had Maxie tell me, ‘Oh, Reid has plenty of money. He’ll never miss a little of it.’ But I talked it over with a few other guys on the team and they said I was right and I refused Maxie too.” — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 191

Categorization

• XREF: The pattern of using intermediaries and delegations to apply pressure — exactly the technique Moses perfects in New York politics. — connects to: Moses combined soaring idealism with ready deception even in college — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 17
• QUESTION: What was Moses’ actual approach to Reid? Whether Reid was a swindle target of the rising power broker is never made quite explicit here.

Broader Connections

• Moses combined soaring idealism with ready deception even in college #expands (0.85) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 17